Sunday, December 10, 2017 10:45am Hope is radical, hope is dangerous. Hope has stopped wars, toppled tyrants and invited justice into the lives of the oppressed. Join us as we explore the power of hope in this season. Rev. Jennifer Gray is our speaker. She currently serves as the transitional minister for the Unitarian Universalist … Continue reading The World is About to Turn
Sunday, December 3, 2017, 10:45 am What are your hopes for TOL? We’re focusing on HOPE for the month of December, and the Board will kick off the month with a service designed to bring us all into closer community through transparency and discuss our vision for the church’s future. Please join us as the … Continue reading What Are Your Hopes for Tree of Life?
Opening for UU Military Ministry Lay Leader I am Roger Baron, the Board President of the Unitarian Universalist Military Ministry Great Lakes (a 501c3 non-profit company separate from the UUA). Ministerial support is provided by Rev. Bret Lortie at the Unitarian Church of Evanston. I’m writing to let you know of an immediate opening (January, … Continue reading Job Opportunity to Grow our Faith
Sunday, November 19, 2017, 7:00pm Join us at the 11th Annual Community Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration hosted by Faithbridge Interfaith Association. The celebration will be held at Blue Lotus Buddhist Temple & Meditation Center – 221 Dean Street, Woodstock, IL 815-337-7378 Come join neighbors, families and friends as we honor the diversity of faith and culture … Continue reading Interfaith Community Thanksgiving Celebration
Saturday, November 18, 2017, 1pm to 4pm Here at Tree of Life UU Congregation $20.00 for every person playing Bingo. Get a 2nd card for $5.00. Kids not playing Bingo, $5.00. Tons of Turkeys! Silent Auction! Door Prizes! Live Music by NW Highway! Lunch and Beverages! Face Painting! All proceeds benefit JailBrakers. Jail Brakers is … Continue reading Turkey Bingo!
Sunday November 26, 2017 10:45am Carol Alfus, worship leader “Imagine a morning in late November. A coming of winter morning more than twenty years ago…” Thus begins Truman Capote’s 1956 short story “A Christmas Memory.” Take a break from the hustle and bustle of the holiday season to enjoy this sweet and heartfelt story of … Continue reading A Christmas Memory
Friday November 10, 7:00 pm The Tree of Life UU Congregation’s Word Players readers’ theater troupe presents the acclaimed docudrama Chatting with the Tea Party by Rich Orloff. Chatting With the Tea Party is about one person’s journey across America exploring the question, “Who are these people?” It’s a documentary style play about a New … Continue reading Chatting with the Tea Party this Friday
Sunday, November 19, 2017, 10:45 am Join us for Worship Art’s inaugural program for creating a worship experience through music. Jessie Lyons, soprano, and Jordan Mandela, classical guitar, are both graduates of Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. As husband and wife duo, they are also members of Forrest’s newly formed AMP group. … Continue reading Celebrating Life and Community Through Music: Spain and Latin America
Sunday, November 12, 2017, 10:45 am M.E. Tanabe A sense of abundance often appears when we just take time to appreciate what is already available to us and finding abundance easily morphs into a state of joyful gratitude. From our sense of abundance and its accompanying gratitude, there is a thread that connects us to … Continue reading Being a Community of Abundance
Soul Matters at Tree of Life: Being a Community of Abundance Almost always the way we think about our abundance is colored by our perceived circumstances contrasted with our perceived needs. This month’s Soul Matters packet encourages us to look for what we appreciate in our lives in or order to give some “weight” to … Continue reading Being a Community of Abundance
