Services
Upcoming services
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Sunday, January 25
- Coffeehouse Service – 9:00 am Central Time: in-person informal, conversation-based style
- Middle Hour – 10:10 am Central Time: Click here for details
- Traditional Service – 11:00 am Central Time: in-person & livestream, with a sermon
⇒ 11:00 am Online link HERE ⇐
Call In: Dial 312-626-6799, enter 947 7776 4420, followed by 005890
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January Focus: Forging Freedom
Earth Teacher: Lava
Deep in the earth, a fire is burning.
Deep in the earth, everything that once seemed solid is now chaotic, liquid, and infinitely possible.
Deep in our hearts, we’re forging a new way.
We’re forging freedom – taking all of the scraps and leftovers and ways we’ve always done it and melting them down with the fires of love.
We’re forging freedom – shaping what was into what could be, together.
We’re lighting fires in our hearts strong enough to melt every cage that’s stealing our humanity.
We’re forging freedom, together.
January 25
Now What? – Skills for Creating Liberation, Together
by Rev. Hannah Roberts Villnave
Sunday Services at the Fellowship
(September 14, 2025 through May 17, 2026)
9:00 am – Sunday Coffeehouse Service & Childcare – People of all ages are welcome to attend the Sunday Coffeehouse Service, a relaxed, conversation-based service without a full sermon. This service takes place in the Fellowship Hall around tables with coffee and bagels. If kids prefer to attend childcare during the 9:00 am service, they’re welcome to do so.
10:10 am – Middle Hour and Fun & Friends – Stay after the first service or come early to the second service, to enjoy opportunities for learning and connection with other Fellowship adults. Kids will enjoy Fun & Friends time in the Religious Exploration wing for play and building community.
11:00 am – Traditional Service & Religious Exploration – Everyone starts in the sanctuary for the traditional service, and children are “sung out” to Religious Exploration classes after the Wonder Box about 15 minutes into the service. This service includes traditional elements like hymns, ritual, and a sermon.
Rooted in Love: Our 2025-26 Guiding Theme
This program year, we are learning from the natural world and those spiritualities that tune in to the sacred cycles of our earth. Each month we will honor a different “Earth Teacher” to help us explore our monthly themes. Our overall 2025-26 Earth Teacher for “Rooted in Love” is, of course, tree roots.
We are settling in as a community, finding our strength deep down in our roots, drawing sustenance from the earth, from those who came before us, and those who surround us. We are firm in our foundation even as the winds of the world batter around us. Guided by our shared values, we seek to grow our interdependence, generosity, justice, pluralism, equity, and transformation, but we remain rooted in love, together.
2025-2026 Guiding Themes
Annual theme: Rooted in Love (Earth Teacher: Roots)
- September: Carried Home (Earth Teacher: Watershed)
- October: Digging Deep (Earth Teacher: Soil)
- November: It’s Just a Phase (Earth Teacher: Moon)
- December: Claimed by Hope (Earth Teacher: Sun)
- January: Forging Freedom (Earth Teacher: Lava)
- February: Living on the Ebb (Earth Teacher: Tide Pools)
- March: Seen & Unseen (Earth Teacher: Mycelium)
- April: “…But what if we did?” (Earth Teacher: Canada Geese)
- May: Community in Bloom (Earth Teacher: Sunflowers)
This 3-minute video explains the gist of our Sunday mornings, including our different services, our schedule, what children do, and a little bit about Middle Hour.
This 5-minute video has more details about our Sunday services at the Fellowship, including what to expect in each of our different formats, to help you feel more comfortable when you visit.
Sunday Services at the Fellowship – Summer 2026
(May 24 through September 6 )
9:00 am – Coffee and Conversation – For those folks who appreciate the informal “Sunday Coffeehouse Service,” we’ll be offering a 9:00 am Coffee and Conversation opportunity, led by volunteer facilitators, which will include prompts given by the ministers to help guide the conversation and tie in with the focus of the 10:00 am service.
10:00 am – Traditional Service & Religious Exploration – This service includes traditional elements like hymns, ritual, and a sermon. Religious Exploration is offered for children ages 4K-5th grade and kids are released to RE after the Wonder Box. Nursery care for ages 6 months to 4 years is available.