Rev. Jennifer Alviar will lead the service. Music by Camille Watson, soprano, and Dwight Beckmeyer, piano.

Sermon title: “Planting Seeds of Possibility”

What can gardens teach us about caring for the Earth and caring for our souls through nature-based spiritual practices? Join us for an inspiring, community-building, seed-planting ritual service guided by these poetic words: "You are the gardener of your life, tend to what you wish to grow, bloom and fruit. Water it with your time, feed it with your love and warm it with your heart." ~ Brigit Anna McNeill

Rev. Jennifer Alviar is an ordained, Unitarian Universalist community minister engaged in a yearlong theological incubator cohort program with 16 UU spiritual innovators. It is called the UU Cultivators Collaborative — an initiative sponsored by the UUA’s Commission on Institutional Change reflecting the 2020 report, Widening the Circle of Concern. Its purpose is to model a collaborative leadership approach toward designing sacred spaces of healing and liberation for underserved, underrepresented people within the BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and disability communities. As a disabled minister, Rev. Jennifer brings her own lived experience of neurodiversity as a brain injury survivor from a childhood illness.

Order of Service

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