Lay-led Services

Six to eight Sunday mornings a year, RRUUC features a lay-led worship service. These services emphasize enhancing the worship experience of RRUUC as a congregation while providing particularly valuable and rewarding experiences for those who work on each service.

Anyone interested in exploring a variety of topics that become the thematic material for each service is encouraged to contact the committee chairs. Individuals are free to participate in the planning and/or presentation of as few or as many services as they wish. The atmosphere of the committee is conducive to warm, supportive fellowship and opportunities for personal and spiritual growth abound. Join us!

RRUUC: Lay-Led Services, 2009-2010

Guidelines for Submitting a Proposal

Thanks for your interest in convening a lay-led service at River Road in the upcoming congregational year. Please answer the following questions as specifically as possible.

For those interested in the October and November services, please submit your proposal by August 23. All other proposals are due by September 15.

For further information, email the Co-Chairs of the Lay-Led Worship Group: Carolyn LoBuglio and David Yang at layled@rruuc.org.

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  1. What is your topic?


  2. In what sense is your topic spiritual?


  3. What specific aspects of your general topic will you explore?


  4. How will storytelling be integrated into the service? (We encourage you to create sermons that go beyond traditional exposition.)

  5. How will music or other performing arts be integrated into the service?

  6. How will you structure the service? (We encourage you to experiment with the traditional form of a UU service.)

  7. If your topic is similar to any other lay-led topics of the past four years (see the list below), how will your service differ
    from the related past services? (You can access the texts or videos of past services on RRUUC’s Web site.)

  8. Who will be the conveners? Will you combine experienced and new conveners?

  9. Are you willing to accept the support of two experienced conveners who will comment on your draft presentations and provide notes on your rehearsal?

  10. Which two of the following dates would you most prefer?

October 25, 2009

November 22, 2009

January 24, 2010

February 28, 2010

April 25, 2010

June 13, 2010

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RRUUC: Lay-Led Services of the Past Four Congregational Years

2008 – 2009
June 14, 2009: Reconciling a Violent World: Tales from the Front
Tim Phelps, David Yang, Brock Holmes, Linda Ryden, Barbara Saliunas & Jamie Worthington
May 10, 2009: The Art of Receiving
Dale Hill, Leon Paparella, Marguerite Rhodes and Sau Yang
March 22, 2009: Shining Light on Addiction
Jim Heaney, Christina Schoux and Stephanie Smart
January 25, 2009: Our Transcendentalist Roots
Dianne Rhodes, Maura DeMouy and Doris Brody
November 9, 2008: Technology and the Human Spirit
Elizabeth Buie and Suzyn Smith Webb
October 12, 2008: Hospitality: Practice Makes Perfect
Peter Benjamin, Mimi Mattis, Quincy Northrup and Carl Schmitt

2007 – 2008
June 22, 2008: Coming Home
Jim Heaney, Tim Phelps, David Yang, Linda Bleadingheiser, John Hansman, Lis Handley, Bennett Harman, Dorothy Broadman, Moriah Heaney, Rosie Cohen, David Elfin, Pete Salinger, Dale Hill, Christina Schoux, Doris Brody, Quincy Northrup and Maura DeMouy.
May 4, 2008: Is Salvation Passé?
Elizabeth Buie and Brock Holmes
March 30, 2008: Acceptance: Passivity or Transcendence?
Jim Heaney and David Yang
January 27, 2008: Dogma, Truth and Conscience
Carolyn LoBuglio and Rob Northrup
October 14, 2007: Atonement
Jane Baluss and David Rovner
July 29, 2007: Silence in Our Meditation, Music and Worship
Lis Handley, Aidan Jones and Barbara Saliunas

2006 – 2007
June 10, 2007: Spiritual Journeys and How They Sustain Us
Elizabeth Buie, Matthew Carr, Kevin Kirkwood, Cindy Maka and Helen Popenoe
April 29, 2007: Religious Education: Giving and Getting the Spirit
Cheryl Dodwell, Jim Heaney, Kaki Power and Pete Salinger
January 28, 2007: Finding Hope for our Habitat: Spiritual Responses
Doris Brody, Martin Dieu, Helen Seidler and Helen Sitar
November 12, 2006: Gifts and Challenges of Ministering to One Another
David Yang, Kevin Kirkwood and Quincy Northrup
October 8, 2006: Owning Our Privilege and Prejudice
Nancy Henningsen, Fred Kopatich, Joan Hall, Shirley Caminer and Marjorie Newman

2005 – 2006
June 25, 2006: Dealing with Pain and Loss: Three UU Stories
Dianne Rhodes, Grazia & Marc Narkus-Kramer, and Elizabeth Buie
April 9, 2006: Pathways to Our Spiritual Core
Marc Narkus-Kramer, Jim Lieberman, Quincy Northrup and Jeanne Tifft
March 5, 2006: Gifts of the Ages
Sarah Olson, Marguerite Rhodes, David Wolfe & Christina Schoux
January 29, 2006: Letting Our Lives Speak Our Faith
Mary Rose Curtis, Todd Harrison, Nancy Henningsen and Patty Hill
November 13, 2005: Clutter
Dianne Rhodes, Quincy Northrup and Joyce Rains
August 21, 2005: Spiritual Journeys Refracted through the Gay Prism
Joel Schrag, Kevin Kirkwood, Kay Loveland and Bob Angell