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  • A young child lights a congregational chalice with a look of wonder and awe, with a UU sanctuary in the background.
    UUs all over are gathering for a new year of faith development and community building. This month’s round-up responds to suggestions from the field, with curated resources to support RE program planning, worship, and shared values learning, and some non-curricular Our Whole Lives resources
    Leader Resource | By Joy Berry | September 1, 2025 | For Multigenerational | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Faith Development, Homecoming / Ingathering, Water Communion
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  • Water Communion at UUF Ligonier Valley. A table with a bowl of water, two pitchers, a vase with plants, a bowl with candles and a bowl of sand in front of rows of chairs.
    September marks the beginning of the church year in Unitarian Universalism. Congregations celebrate this coming back together – this gathering in of people - of its community in different ways. In Good Faith has asked the UUA’s Director of Communications and Public Ministry, Rev. Nancy McDonald...
    Press Release | August 26, 2025 | From In Good Faith
    Tagged as: Community, Unitarian Universalism, Water Communion, Worship
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  • Against a dark flat landscape with the sun low on the horizon, a river winds dramatically into the distance. It stretches across the image from right to left and back again four or five times before disappearing into the horizon.
    In the beginning, the Earth spoke.… And water, ever flowing, taught that life is movement and change.
    Affirmation | By Kimi Floyd Reisch | August 12, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Change, Commitment, Connections, Earth, Justice, Water Communion, Wisdom, Worship
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  • a stainless steel bowl by a window, with colored pencils and a bottle of clear liquid inside
    Fresh Religious Education supplies, volunteer orientations, and a calendar of your congregation’s faith development offerings – it’s the beginning of a new church year! Here’s a curated guide of resources that may be helpful for you over the next couple of months…Empowering Your Leaders:...
    Reference | By Nao Bethea | August 1, 2025 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Faith Development, Homecoming / Ingathering, Water Communion
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  • A clean, empty, brown paper cup photographed against a nondescript grey background.
    During your congregation’s water ceremony, UUs for Justice in the Middle East invite you to place an empty paper cup next to the congregational vessel in solidarity with Palestinians.
    Ritual | By Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME) | August 28, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Freedom, Human Rights, Justice, Oppression, Peace, Solidarity, Trauma, War, Water Communion, Worship
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  • A white person’s hand with its fingers dipping into shallow water, with sand and rocks beneath.
    A water communion liturgy that asks that we listen for God’s voice in the waters.
    Ritual | By M Jade Kaiser | August 28, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Earth, Earth Day, Environment, Interdependence, Nature, Responsibility, Reverence, Water Communion, Worship
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  • An egret takes flight from marshland near still water. The bird’s reflection is visible.
    Give thanks for all the waters that be—for bays and gulfs and shining seas!
    Responsive Reading | By Patricia Montley | August 20, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Earth, Environment, Interdependence, Nature, Water Communion, Worship
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  • a translucent bowl of water, from above, holds a small sunflower blossom
    The water of tears, the water of cleansing and renewal, the water of nourishment, and the water of change.
    Ritual | By Madelyn Campbell | July 1, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Change, Grief, Healing, Nature, Water Communion, Worship
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  • A small droplet of water balanced on the leaf of a plant
    Water sustains, gives, and yields to / Life.
    Reading | By Melissa Jeter | March 24, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Balance, Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Nature, Water Communion, Worship
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  • A rust-colored leaf floats on the surface of a pond, and under the surface of the water there are stones and rocks. The surface of the water reflects the hand that dropped the leaf onto the water.
    Watershed moments are turning points, moments that permanently alter an understanding.
    Opening | By Martina Thompson | August 5, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Earth-Centered, Nature, Unitarian Universalism, Water Communion, Worship
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  • A blue, watery field with the words in slinky cursive, "coming home" and "like rivers to the sea"
    How might Unitarian Universalists acknowledge the sacred sources of people's water, in the annual Water Ceremony, without creating a parade of privilege and/or centering the ritual around an open mic?
    Leader Resource | March 3, 2020 | From WorshipLab
    Tagged as: Water Communion
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  • A pitcher of flowers rests on the windowsill inside a room reseembling a chapel
    This story is great to be acted out by four women (of applicable ages for each direction) around a large bowl/vessel....
    Story | By Katie Sivani Gelfand | January 7, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Generations, Imagination, Listening, Nature, Sacred, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, Water Communion, Women
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  • The Kanuti River winds through banks of golden trees in autumn on the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
    There are so many spiritual lessons from the natural world and—in a season filled with Ingatherings and Water Communions—this is one for me: oxbow lakes as a beautiful combination of resiliency, strength, and flexibility.
    Reflection | By Tim Atkins | September 11, 2019 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Beginnings, Direct Experience, Discernment, Earth, Earth-Centered, Environment, Homecoming / Ingathering, Journey, Nature, Power, Resilience, Strength, Water Communion
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  • From above, a river cuts through an evergreen forest
    Settle your mind upon the strength, the power that is yours. Draw that strength into your heart. Draw it up into your soul. As we gather together the many waters of this community, we need each of your power, each of your resilience, each of your love to make us whole.
    Meditation | By Jamila Batchelder , Molly Housh Gordon | September 4, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Nature, Resilience, Self-Respect, Strength, Water Communion
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  • Rain drops make small ripples on a pool of water contained by mossy rocks.
    Rain falls upon the surface of the earth, and pulled by gravity each drop begins to flow downhill. Drop merges with drop, flowing together, into a trickle, a streamlet, a creek, a mighty river, flowing onward. Some of the water seeps down into the earth itself, as groundwater, or deep aquifers,...
    Time for All Ages | By Molly Housh Gordon, Jamila Batchelder | September 4, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Body, Climate Justice, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Nature, Playfulness, Science, Secular, Water Communion
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  • Fat drops of dew on the emerald leaves of a succulent
    We gather together this morning tenderly—like drops of dew on a leaf of grass hopefully—like gathered raindrops in a cloud gleefully—like water rushing in a stream to the sea deeply—like groundwater pulled up from a well We gather from every direction, for another year of growth and depth,...
    Opening | By Molly Housh Gordon | September 4, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beginnings, Community, Earth, Earth-Centered, Homecoming / Ingathering, Interdependence, Nature, Water Communion
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  • A drop of water bounces off of a vessel of still water, sending out small ripples.
    This was written as a blessing for pouring out the Water Communion waters onto a memorial garden. Like water that swells rivers and fills the ocean, the memories of those we have loved rush through us. Sometimes they are quiet, almost as if we have forgotten—and then suddenly, they flood our...
    Ritual | By Amy Zucker Morgenstern | September 4, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Direct Experience, Generations, Grief, Humanism, Imagination, Interdependence, Nature, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Remembrance Day, Secular, Water Communion
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  • A shower of water falls on seedlings from the spout of a watering can.
    In our water ritual, we bring water from the places we live or the places we may have visited and pour it in one container. All of the water mixes together, and every drop has some of the molecules of water from every place....
    Reading | By Myke Johnson | June 25, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Connections, Direct Experience, Earth, Interdependence, Nature, Secular, Unitarian Universalism, Water Communion
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  • large_greenleaf_many_raindrops
    We gather as many drops, each winding our own path down life’s surfaces and ruts. Here we pool together as a single body, flowing together for a time. Together we are a stream, at times even a river, for with our shared force we can travel toward oceans of meaning and seas of connection.
    Chalice Lighting | By Leslie Takahashi | December 7, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Connections, Earth, Earth-Centered, Meaning, Nature, Playfulness, Unitarian Universalism, Water Communion
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  • It is not by chance that you arrived here today. You have been looking for something larger than yourself. Inside of you there is a yearning, a calling, a hope for more, A desire for a place of belonging and caring. Through your struggles, someone nurtured you into being, Instilling a belief in a...
    Opening | By Kimberlee Anne Tomczak Carlson | September 14, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Abundance, Acceptance, Caring, Coming Out, Commitment, Community, Flower Communion, Home, Homecoming / Ingathering, New Member Ceremony, Unitarian Universalism, Water Communion
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