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9185 Monte Vista Avenue
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Monte Vista UU Congregation
invites you to join our hybrid Sunday Service
We invite you to participate in our nourishing weekly Worship in our Sanctuary or online via Zoom.
Our Sunday morning worship is open for you as we value and maintain a connection to all of our Community whether in-person or from our online gathering place that we keep deeply engaged.
Each Sunday at 10:30am, We bring our celebrations & compassions together as one into our shared sacred space.
All are welcome, wherever your life journey is taking you now… Please contact our office for the Link and Password to connect online.
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Post-Pandemic Update:
With both compassion and wisdom for the best care of our Congregation, and in response to directives from the latest Science & Healthcare experts and the UUA, the MVUUC Board and Rev Maggie invite your participation in our In-person and online gatherings for Sunday Worship, Religious Exploration, and Group Meetings.
Our Minister Rev Maggie, our DLRE Robert, our Lay Leaders, and our Music Director Lily Popova will continue to create ways we can stay closely connected and care for the Spirit of Life within us all during this time of re-imagining congregational life.
Brynda Jones, MVUUC Office Administrator is in during regular hours and is available to respond to your calls, and forward your messages.
email: officeadmin @ montevistauu.org
call: 909.626.0520
RevMaggie:
email: minister @ montevistauu.org
text or call: 626.205.4458
Upcoming Sunday Services
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Sun02Jan2022
"Go With the Flow"
Ven. Kusala Bhikshu
Catherine Rowlee, Lay Leader
Lily Popova, Pianist
A key concept in Buddhism is impermanence.
Ven. Kusala will be speaking about the importance of acceptance in an ever-changing world.
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Sun09Jan2022
The sense we need renewal often comes with a longing for wisdom.
In this Service, we’ll welcome the gifts wisdom brings
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Sun16Jan2022
Join Rev Maggie and Lily Popova, Music Director as we continue to explore our theme of Renewal for January!
Let's see the ways that our Unitarian Universalist faith is "A Faith That Refreshes"
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Sun23Jan2022
Catherine Rowlee will be our Lay Leader as we Join our own Dr Erin Questad, Professor at Cal Poly Pomona for this engaging, informative, and timely Service.
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Sun30Jan2022
The harshness of our days leaves us weary and longing for a bit more kindness.
Join Rev Maggie on Our Quest For Kindness,
and bring your compass! We'll be looking for our true north...
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Sun13Feb2022
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Sun27Feb2022
Join Rev Maggie and Lily Popova as we pull on those things pulling at our hearts and find the faith that brings meaning to the mess...
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Sun06Mar2022
International Womens Day
Dr. Gwyn Kirk, Peace Activist, will introduce the 25 year old connection amongst women across the Pacific addressing the impacts of US military bases on their communities.
Julie Steinbach will be our Lay Leader
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Sun13Mar2022
Join Rev Maggie Burbank Yenoki and Lily Popova for this Sunday Service as we celebrate the many ways that our Spiritual Community is "Rooted & Growing."
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Sun20Mar2022
Join our CUUPS (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans) Group for this Celebration of Spring!
Ostara is the Pagan Goddess of Spring and this Holiday marks her arrival with the Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. Ostara is the half-way mark between the Winter and Summer Solstice.
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Sun20Mar2022
Our Community is so very happy to gather for our Installation Celebration of Reverend Maggie Burbank Yenoki as Settled Minister
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Sun27Mar2022
After our Service today we are all invited to engage with our children and build "Bat Houses" that will be hung on our trees to invite bats to come reside on our MVUUC Campus.
How might we also be talking about ways to prepare for human newcomers to find a place of belonging in our Community?
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Sun03Apr2022
In our UU Singing the Journey (STJ) hymnal, we find an Indigenous American chant taught to Environment Educator and Musician Hawk Hurst when he visited the Hoopa Tribe in the Northwest of our beautiful state of California. The song is aptly named "The Earth is Our Mother" as its lyrics remind us of our obligation to care for Mother Earth as she cares for (and nourishes) each of us.
Join Rev Maggie as we celebrate Earth in our Sunday Service this week and open our Worship theme for the month of April.
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Sun10Apr2022
Come celebrate our Partnership Church in the Philippines this Sunday!
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Sun17Apr2022
Easter Sunday will be a good time for exploring the path that is best when we are seeking lives of wholeness.
We will enjoy the MVUUC Choir and sing some of our favorite hymns together (masks still on indoors please!)
Join Rev Maggie and Lily Popova at 10:30am as we continue to embrace our free and responsible search for truth & meaning
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Sun24Apr2022
Join us In-person (masks please when indoors) or Online via Zoom for this Multi-Generational Service. After worship we will plant the Oak Tree that the Children's RE presented to Rev Maggie and the Congregation at our Installation Celebration.
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Sun01May2022
Join Rev Maggie Yenoki and Lily Popova with the MVUUC Choir
as we open up May's theme of "Courage" with this Sunday's Message:
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Sun08May2022
Join us in-person (masks while inside please) or Connect via Zoom for our very special Mother's Day Sunday Service
Catherine Rowlee, Lay Leader
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Sun15May2022
We are fortunate to welcome Michael Eselun for this deeply meaningful Sunday Service.
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Sun22May2022
Join Rev Maggie for a time of worship and wonder as we explore our capacity to laugh in these days that are filled with unprecedented difficulty.
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Sun29May2022
Join Rev Maggie as we mark Memorial Day together exploring our theme of Courage as we honor and remember...
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Sun05Jun2022
Confronting prejudice, fear, and the housing crisis.
Gene Boutilier is an activist resident of Pilgrim Place and on the Board of Housing Claremont. His career included pastoring and organizing in farm labor, anti-poverty, anti-hunger, shelter, sanctuary, refugee and asylum, ecumenical, interfaith, and other justice related projects. He was the founding executive of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
Guest speaker: Gene Boutilier
Lay Leader: Catherine Rowlee
Piano: Matie Scully
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Sun12Jun2022
Join Rev Maggie as we explore our longing to grow as a Congregation of Justice-Seekers. Let's look within together and find meaning in our UU roots as the strength of our well-being and the gifts we offer to the world.
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Sun19Jun2022
Join Delores Burris and Rev Ellen Livingston for a celebration of the truth and meaning within the newest of our National Holidays: Juneteenth
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Sun26Jun2022
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Sun03Jul2022
Join Rev Maggie and Lily Popova with the Choir as we explore the ways we all depend on the well-being of all of life for the well-being of our own.
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Sun10Jul2022
How might we see our gifts to the community in a fresh way? Is holding old patterns tightly the best we have to offer in a world that is changing so quickly? Maybe new ways will open us to truly bring out best! Let's dig in to this idea...
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Sun17Jul2022
A Report on the 2022 UUA General Assembly in Portland. Laura Mulroy will speak of her online experience attending this years GA (General Assembly) in Portland, Oregon as our MVUUC Delegate. It will be good to hear all the updates and learn about events and movements that are happening in our denomination!
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Sun31Jul2022
Using the lens of Rev Tom Owen Towle’s 2004 book “Growing a Beloved Community” Rev Maggie will lead a look at the 12 aspects of a healthy congregation and explore our own beloved identity...
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Sun14Aug2022
In our Service on July 31st, Rev Maggie led us through the first 6 of 12 hallmarks of a healthy congregation explored in the book "Growing Beloved Community" by Rev Tom Owen-Towle. This Sunday we'll finish up with the second 6 and look as the ways we can grow a bit more and the aspects we've mastered...
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Sun21Aug2022
Let's keep celebrating our wonderful community as we gather for worship with
Rev Maggie and Lily Popova on our 70th Birthday Weekend!
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Sun28Aug2022
Even though we know that school's reopened and the figs are ripe,
it's hard to believe that Summer is drawing to its end.
Let's celebrate our coming season together in our annual Ingathering Service!
We will share in a Water Communion during this service too,
with a focus on our drought conditions that continue...
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Sun04Sep2022
Join Ben Williams for this look at today's Unions and how they reflect our UU values.
Catherine Rowlee will be our Lay Leader
Lily Popova provides our Music!
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Sun11Sep2022
Join Reverend Maggie and Lily Popova with the MVUUC Choir for our exploration of the First Unitarian Universalist Principle.
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Sun18Sep2022
Our first Unitarian Universalist principle is filled to the top with new ways to expand our perspective and grow into greater purpose in the world. Join Rev Maggie and Lily Popova as we dig deeper into our embrace of the inherent worth and dignity within us that we too often minimize.
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Sun25Sep2022
Join us for our Autumnal Equinox Celebration with Jeanne Coats and Liquid Moon CUUPS & Friends
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Sun02Oct2022
Join Reverend Maggie as we begin to explore our worship theme for the month of October:
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Sun30Oct2022
Rev Maggie will be back!
and our MVUUC Choir will be presenting fun Halloween Songs
We will be creating an Ofrenda for Day of the Dead
so please bring your items for our altar
Costumes welcomed (and encouraged!)
Following the Service we will enjoy a Spooky Coffee Hour sponsored by our RE Program
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Sun06Nov2022
Join Rev. Maggie & Lily Popova
for our Sunday Service to celebrate the impact of our vote!
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Sun20Nov2022
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Sat24Dec2022
Join us for a delightful Christmas Eve service.
7pm in our sanctuary.
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Sun25Dec2022
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Sun02Jan2022
"Go With the Flow"
Ven. Kusala Bhikshu
Catherine Rowlee, Lay Leader
Lily Popova, PianistA key concept in Buddhism is impermanence.
Ven. Kusala will be speaking about the importance of acceptance in an ever-changing world.
-
Sun09Jan2022
The sense we need renewal often comes with a longing for wisdom.
In this Service, we’ll welcome the gifts wisdom brings -
Sun16Jan2022
Join Rev Maggie and Lily Popova, Music Director as we continue to explore our theme of Renewal for January!
Let's see the ways that our Unitarian Universalist faith is "A Faith That Refreshes" -
Sun23Jan2022
Catherine Rowlee will be our Lay Leader as we Join our own Dr Erin Questad, Professor at Cal Poly Pomona for this engaging, informative, and timely Service.
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Sun30Jan2022
The harshness of our days leaves us weary and longing for a bit more kindness.
Join Rev Maggie on Our Quest For Kindness,
and bring your compass! We'll be looking for our true north... -
Sun13Feb2022
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Sun27Feb2022
Join Rev Maggie and Lily Popova as we pull on those things pulling at our hearts and find the faith that brings meaning to the mess...
-
Sun06Mar2022International Womens Day
Dr. Gwyn Kirk, Peace Activist, will introduce the 25 year old connection amongst women across the Pacific addressing the impacts of US military bases on their communities.
Julie Steinbach will be our Lay Leader
-
Sun13Mar2022
Join Rev Maggie Burbank Yenoki and Lily Popova for this Sunday Service as we celebrate the many ways that our Spiritual Community is "Rooted & Growing."
-
Sun20Mar2022
Join our CUUPS (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans) Group for this Celebration of Spring!
Ostara is the Pagan Goddess of Spring and this Holiday marks her arrival with the Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. Ostara is the half-way mark between the Winter and Summer Solstice. -
Sun20Mar2022
Our Community is so very happy to gather for our Installation Celebration of Reverend Maggie Burbank Yenoki as Settled Minister
-
Sun27Mar2022
After our Service today we are all invited to engage with our children and build "Bat Houses" that will be hung on our trees to invite bats to come reside on our MVUUC Campus.
How might we also be talking about ways to prepare for human newcomers to find a place of belonging in our Community?
-
Sun03Apr2022
In our UU Singing the Journey (STJ) hymnal, we find an Indigenous American chant taught to Environment Educator and Musician Hawk Hurst when he visited the Hoopa Tribe in the Northwest of our beautiful state of California. The song is aptly named "The Earth is Our Mother" as its lyrics remind us of our obligation to care for Mother Earth as she cares for (and nourishes) each of us.
Join Rev Maggie as we celebrate Earth in our Sunday Service this week and open our Worship theme for the month of April.
-
Sun10Apr2022
Come celebrate our Partnership Church in the Philippines this Sunday!
-
Sun17Apr2022
Easter Sunday will be a good time for exploring the path that is best when we are seeking lives of wholeness.
We will enjoy the MVUUC Choir and sing some of our favorite hymns together (masks still on indoors please!)
Join Rev Maggie and Lily Popova at 10:30am as we continue to embrace our free and responsible search for truth & meaning -
Sun24Apr2022
Join us In-person (masks please when indoors) or Online via Zoom for this Multi-Generational Service. After worship we will plant the Oak Tree that the Children's RE presented to Rev Maggie and the Congregation at our Installation Celebration.
-
Sun01May2022
Join Rev Maggie Yenoki and Lily Popova with the MVUUC Choir
as we open up May's theme of "Courage" with this Sunday's Message: -
Sun08May2022
Join us in-person (masks while inside please) or Connect via Zoom for our very special Mother's Day Sunday Service
Catherine Rowlee, Lay Leader -
Sun15May2022
We are fortunate to welcome Michael Eselun for this deeply meaningful Sunday Service.
-
Sun22May2022
Join Rev Maggie for a time of worship and wonder as we explore our capacity to laugh in these days that are filled with unprecedented difficulty.
-
Sun29May2022
Join Rev Maggie as we mark Memorial Day together exploring our theme of Courage as we honor and remember...
-
Sun05Jun2022Confronting prejudice, fear, and the housing crisis.Gene Boutilier is an activist resident of Pilgrim Place and on the Board of Housing Claremont. His career included pastoring and organizing in farm labor, anti-poverty, anti-hunger, shelter, sanctuary, refugee and asylum, ecumenical, interfaith, and other justice related projects. He was the founding executive of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.Guest speaker: Gene Boutilier
Lay Leader: Catherine Rowlee
Piano: Matie Scully -
Sun12Jun2022
Join Rev Maggie as we explore our longing to grow as a Congregation of Justice-Seekers. Let's look within together and find meaning in our UU roots as the strength of our well-being and the gifts we offer to the world.
-
Sun19Jun2022
Join Delores Burris and Rev Ellen Livingston for a celebration of the truth and meaning within the newest of our National Holidays: Juneteenth
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Sun26Jun2022
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Sun03Jul2022
Join Rev Maggie and Lily Popova with the Choir as we explore the ways we all depend on the well-being of all of life for the well-being of our own.
-
Sun10Jul2022
How might we see our gifts to the community in a fresh way? Is holding old patterns tightly the best we have to offer in a world that is changing so quickly? Maybe new ways will open us to truly bring out best! Let's dig in to this idea...
-
Sun17Jul2022
A Report on the 2022 UUA General Assembly in Portland. Laura Mulroy will speak of her online experience attending this years GA (General Assembly) in Portland, Oregon as our MVUUC Delegate. It will be good to hear all the updates and learn about events and movements that are happening in our denomination!
-
Sun31Jul2022
Using the lens of Rev Tom Owen Towle’s 2004 book “Growing a Beloved Community” Rev Maggie will lead a look at the 12 aspects of a healthy congregation and explore our own beloved identity...
-
Sun14Aug2022
In our Service on July 31st, Rev Maggie led us through the first 6 of 12 hallmarks of a healthy congregation explored in the book "Growing Beloved Community" by Rev Tom Owen-Towle. This Sunday we'll finish up with the second 6 and look as the ways we can grow a bit more and the aspects we've mastered...
-
Sun21Aug2022
Let's keep celebrating our wonderful community as we gather for worship with
Rev Maggie and Lily Popova on our 70th Birthday Weekend! -
Sun28Aug2022
Even though we know that school's reopened and the figs are ripe,
it's hard to believe that Summer is drawing to its end.Let's celebrate our coming season together in our annual Ingathering Service!
We will share in a Water Communion during this service too,
with a focus on our drought conditions that continue... -
Sun04Sep2022
Join Ben Williams for this look at today's Unions and how they reflect our UU values.
Catherine Rowlee will be our Lay Leader
Lily Popova provides our Music! -
Sun11Sep2022
Join Reverend Maggie and Lily Popova with the MVUUC Choir for our exploration of the First Unitarian Universalist Principle.
-
Sun18Sep2022
Our first Unitarian Universalist principle is filled to the top with new ways to expand our perspective and grow into greater purpose in the world. Join Rev Maggie and Lily Popova as we dig deeper into our embrace of the inherent worth and dignity within us that we too often minimize.
-
Sun25Sep2022
Join us for our Autumnal Equinox Celebration with Jeanne Coats and Liquid Moon CUUPS & Friends
-
Sun02Oct2022
Join Reverend Maggie as we begin to explore our worship theme for the month of October:
-
Sun30Oct2022
Rev Maggie will be back!
and our MVUUC Choir will be presenting fun Halloween Songs
We will be creating an Ofrenda for Day of the Dead
so please bring your items for our altarCostumes welcomed (and encouraged!)
Following the Service we will enjoy a Spooky Coffee Hour sponsored by our RE Program
-
Sun06Nov2022
Join Rev. Maggie & Lily Popova
for our Sunday Service to celebrate the impact of our vote!
-
Sun20Nov2022
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Sat24Dec2022
Join us for a delightful Christmas Eve service.
7pm in our sanctuary.
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Sun25Dec2022
We look forward to welcoming you and meeting together both in our Sanctuary (masked please) and online via Zoom.
As our journey forward from the pandemic unfolds, we continue to connect by mail, phone, online technology, and in our hearts…