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Soulful Home RE Newsletter - Week 2 Dec. 2025
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Admin SGUUF
2 days ago1 min read


Service of Light - All Ages Service by Candice White and Mel Maas
Please join us for a special all ages service on December 21 A time to look at the Winter Holidays and how we can celebrate together with our siblings in a time of joy and light. We invite all to join us, especially those with children.

Admin SGUUF
2 days ago1 min read


Soulful Home - Finding the Sacred in Everyday Spaces
I put together a newsletter with the weekly resources with Soulful Home, and we are planning to start a group for families and parents to stay connected with each other and our RE team. Choosing hope, Candice White Director of Religious Education she/her PDF version available here:
Admin - SGUUF Tech
Dec 111 min read


The Path to Wise Elderhood by Eric Hepburn
As I reach the midway point of my Doctor of Ministry in Social Justice program at Meadville Lombard — our UU seminary in Chicago — I want to share the heart of what has been unfolding. Stephen Jenkinson has said that we live in a time with more old folks and fewer wise elders than ever before. In this reflection, I’ll explore what it might mean to rescue wise elderhood from western history’s dustbin — to draw a clear, compassionate distinction between wise elders and old adol
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Dec 91 min read


Choosing Hope (Soul Matters) by Eric Hepburn
On the first Sunday of each month, we explore our Soul Matters theme. For this month, that's Choosing Hope.
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Dec 21 min read


When Religion Forgets Spirit by Eric Hepburn
When religion forgets its spirit, it becomes a shell — beautiful, perhaps, but hollow. Inspired by Christopher Wallis’s Near Enemies of the Truth, this service explores how both religion and spirituality can lose their way, mistaking form for life or freedom for meaning. Together we’ll remember what religion once promised: to bind us not in dogma, but in wonder — to help us remember the sacred light that first called us to belong. Livestream Available: https://www.youtube.co
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Nov 241 min read


Thanksgiving Potluck - Sunday Nov 23
THANKSGIVING POTLUCK GUIDELINES (PLEASE READ): Eating together is a time-tested way to strengthen the bonds of community, so please bring a dish to share if you are willing and able. All are welcome at table, regardless. There are some parameters for the potluck below, please read them! We will have buffet style tables setup in Mark's Place prior to service. You may bring your dishes in when you arrive at church. We will have a time after service to setup tables and put foo
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Nov 191 min read


Sticks and Stones by Eric Hepburn
You remember the children's rhyme, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Sometimes this landed as good and helpful advice, not to take on the harm that others wanted to inflict on us with their words. Other times, it just feels deeply untrue. For many of us some of the most painful hurts we've ever received have been delivered mostly through words. So, we'll spend some time with this worthy paradox - and hopefully leave with a deepened sense of
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Nov 181 min read


Beyond A Choice by Emily Hunter and Courtney Clark
From pre pregnancy through postpartum and beyond. Stories of women impacted by restrictive laws and hope of those working to change it. Watch the Full Video of Service Here:
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Nov 111 min read


What It Cost$ to Give
What It Cost$ to Give At the request of a number of our members, we have recently added Venmo as a method of giving money to the Fellowship. A number of you have been taking advantage of this new payment method. However, while convenient, you should be aware that Venmo extracts a fee for every transaction because Venmo considers us a business, regardless of our being a church and 501c3 charitable organization. Venmo’s fee is 1.9% + $0.10 for each transaction. Here ar
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Nov 42 min read


Final Report Letter for The Legacy Fund Campaign
November 4, 2025 To the Congregation of San Gabriel UU Fellowship, This past Sunday our congregation celebrated the conclusion of our Legacy Fund Capital Campaign with a party. As I reported at this celebration, our congregation has generously pledged $243,000 over the next three years. This amazing support from our membership surpasses by 35% the $180,000 goal the Board set for this capital campaign to replace our aging roofs, to pay off the remaining mortgage, and make
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Nov 42 min read


The Robots Made Me Cry by Pulpiteer Eric Hepburn
What if AI isn't our impending digital overlord, what if it is the catalyst we've been waiting for? A helper as we work to collect, integrate, and practice human wisdom? My journey down this path started at the Peace Summit at Southwestern University a few weeks back, I look forward to sharing some of the early fruit. Listen to the Sermon Here: Or listen here: https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/FOf7O0PNbYb Watch the Full Video of Service Here:
Admin - SGUUF Tech
Nov 41 min read


Ofrenda with Eric Hepburn
We honor our ancestors on Dia de los Muertos with the beautiful Ancestor Altar our community has put together this month. This is such a special time of year and such a special honor for us all to love and remember our departed together as a beloved community. Podcast of the Sermon Available on Youtube
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Oct 281 min read


Nurturing Gratitude (Soul Matters) with Eric Hepburn
On (or around) the first Sunday of each month, we explore our Soul Matters theme. For the month of November, that's Nurturing Gratitude. Full Video of Service Available on Youtube : Podcast of the Sermon Available on Youtube and Spotify : Youtube:
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Oct 211 min read


Join the Celebration!
Of the Completion of the Legacy Fund Campaign Sunday, November 2nd A Catered Luncheon Will Be Provided Immediately After the Service with Special Live Entertainment The Capital Campaign Committee and the Board of SGUUF are hosting a congregational party to celebrate the overwhelming generosity of our congregation in surpassing the $180,000 Legacy Fund campaign goal. All members and friends of our congregation are invited to attend this luncheon to hear the results of our cap
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Oct 211 min read


As Part of Nation Wide NO KINGS Protests
As part of the nationwide No Kings protests scheduled for this Saturday, October 18th, there are now several scheduled for our area . Here are the protests that are the closest geographically to San Gabriel Unitarian Universalist Church: Round Rock - on the sidewalks at Koughan Memorial Water Park Tower from 1:00 - 3:00 pm. The safety team will be wearing yellow vests. Note there is fencing erected in the area due to construction. Pflugerville - 3201 Kelly Lane, 10am star
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Oct 171 min read


Beyond Bars, Beyond Borders by Zach Hunter
Applying lessons from the prison abolition movement to unbuild walls and imagine the future of a more just and human-centered immigration system. Full Video of Service Available on Youtube :
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Oct 141 min read


An Invitation to Compassion & Gratitude
So much of the news we watch is about what's going wrong, take an hour out this week to watch these stories of compassion and gratitude...
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Oct 81 min read


SHOWERS OF GRATITUDE!
"Have you ever had a conversation with an unhoused person?" On the last Sunday of September, some members of the SGUUF Social Justice Team opened the doors of the Fellowship House and greeted our unhoused neighbors, who were arriving to enjoy a shower and a hot meal. Keith Rogas, new to our SJ Team, shares his experience by starting with a question, "Have you ever had a conversation with an unhoused person?" He continues: "I hadn’t done so until a couple of weeks ago, when
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Oct 83 min read


Compassionate Generosity (Soul Matters) by Pulpiteer Eric Hepburn
This Sunday we'll ask how our Soul Matters theme, of Cultivating Compassion, intersects with our call to Generosity, Generosity of spirit. Generosity with our time, energy, talent and treasure. Podcast of the Sermon Available on Youtube and Spotify : Youtube: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1rPFerU2tkkVohiVPZ3ygj?si=fhmDuQ2-Rj6EmGJ20HTEUQ
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Oct 71 min read
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