De Los Muertos – A Celebration of our Ancestors at 10:20 AM
10:20 am Pastor Jacqueline Duhart, Rev. Sheri Prud'homme, Worship Associate Kem Tetlow
Rev. Sheri, Pastor Jacqueline, and Worship Associate Kem Tetlow will lead our community through a celebration of Day of the Dead. Our children and youth are with us for the entire worship service. We will honor some of the ancestors of our congregation as well as our families. You are invited to bring your pictures of loved ones who have died and mementos to add to our community altar. Music will be offered by Geoff Ullerich. Bring your neighbor and join in celebrating those who are now our ancestors. Tara Miller and her children will offer a stewardship testimonial.

First Sundays for Anti-racism and Anti-Oppression

Racial Identity Caucusing & Potluck

First Sunday of Every Month | 12:00 to 2:00 pm

Starr King Room

All are welcome. Potluck begins as soon as possible after worship service.
No need to bring food to participate. Childcare available upon request.

Racial identity is not shaped in a neutral environment. Caucusing provides supportive space where:

· Self-identified people of color explore how their identity forms in response to racial oppression.

· People who identify as white explore how their identity forms in response to white supremacy.

· People who identify as multiracial with white European ancestry may participate with the caucus of their choice or create another.

As people of faith on a spiritual journey toward wholeness, we gather to understand the dynamics of racial identity and to overcome barriers and oppression created by an individual, institutional, and cultural racism.

We warmly invite you to join us!

Sponsored by Journey Toward Wholeness Transformation Team. For more info contact jtw@uuoakland.org.

Meeting on the third floor around the board table in the OYC space.

“Building Community through the Power of Music/Celebration Sunday”
10:20 am Crescendo Choir, Michael Morgan
Music has the power to soothe, excite, heal, motivate, inspire, and to bring us together across all that can divide us. Our guest speaker Conductor Michael Morgan, Musical Director Oakland East Bay Symphony, will share with us how music has the power to bring us together across all that can divide us. As a spiritually alive, radically inclusive, and justice-centered religious community, we will come together on this Stewardship Celebration Sunday and commit our annual pledges to the ongoing sacred project of nurturing a world where all people, regardless of anything, shall be together and know freedom and dignity. Laila Ibrahim will offer a story for all ages that acknowledges our Veterans. Charlotte Dickson will provide her stewardship testimony and we will be blessed by the presence of our children and youth. Crescendo Choir will weave holy rhythms that will hold all of our experiences. Come, come, whomever you are. Let us worship together.

Michael Morgan was born in Washington, DC, where he attended public schools and began conducting at the age of 12. While a student at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, he spent a summer at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, studying with Gunther Schuller and Seiji Ozawa. He first worked with Leonard Bernstein during that same summer.

His operatic debut was in 1982 at the Vienna State Opera, conducting Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio. In 1986, Sir Georg Solti chose him to become the Assistant Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a position he held for seven years under both Solti and Daniel Barenboim. In 1986, he was invited by Leonard Bernstein to make his debut with the New York Philharmonic. As a guest conductor, Morgan has appeared with most of America’s major orchestras, as well as the New York City Opera, St. Louis Opera Theater and Washington National Opera.

In addition to his duties with the Symphony since 1991, Maestro Morgan serves as Artistic Director of the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, Music Director at Bear Valley Music Festival, and Music Director of Gateways Music Festival. He is Music Director Emeritus of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera and is on the boards of Oaktown Jazz Workshops, the Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.

In the summer of 2018, he led a national youth orchestra of students from El Sistema programs organized by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, sharing the concert with Gustavo Dudamel.

The First Unitarian meditation sangha welcomes meditators of all backgrounds and experience levels. Silent meditation begins at 7:15 PM for 40 minutes, followed by check-ins and tea. 

BART accessible in Oakland’s Rockridge community.

For location and accessibility questions, contact Carol Emert.