Upcoming events at UUCSB & beyond
Share the Plate! December 2025
Each month, UUCSB chooses an organization to split weekly donations made by congregants during the course of Sunday services. As many of you attend virtually, we are providing an online venue for these donations.
Each month, UUCSB chooses an organization to split weekly donations made by congregants during the course of Sunday services. As many of you attend virtually, we are providing an online venue for these donations.
This month, we ask for donations to be split between UUCSB's general fund and The Hope Squad. From their website, https://hopesquadmaine.org/:
Our Mission
Our mission is to see those that are invisible; to hear those that have no voice, and to reinforce the infinite value and worth of each person we meet by providing a loving, compassionate and consistent presence, needed resources and hope to those living in the shelters and on the streets of Maine through our mobile peer outreach.
This is an interactive calendar. Click on a highlighted square to find out more about what’s going on on that day! Or, below, you can scroll through the list of upcoming events.
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Worship: Janus & Church School
Janus
Worship Leader: Charlie
Worship Associate: TBD
Music: TBD
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: Gird Your Loins for the New Year
Practicing Resistance: Gird Your Loins for the New Year
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori
Worship Associate: Teague
Music: TBD
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: Those Who Came Before
Practicing Resistance: Those Who Came Before
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori
Worship Associate: Sam Rogers
Music: Pick-Up Choir
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: MLK - I Still Have a Dream
Practicing Resistance: MLK - I Still Have A Dream
Worship Leader: Rev. Niki
Worship Associate: Jane P.
Music: TBD
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: Don’t Stay In Your Seat! Civil Disobedience
Practicing Resistance: Don’t Stay In Your Seat! Civil Disobedience
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori
Worship Associate: Charlie
Music: TBD
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: An Intergenerational Imbolc Ritual
Embodying Resilience: Imbolc - An Intergenerational Ritual
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori
Worship Associate:
Music: TBD
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: Celebrating Volunteers
Embodying Resilience: Celebrating Volunteers
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori
Worship Associate: Sam Rogers
Music: Pick-Up Choir
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: Speak Up Even If Your Voice Shakes
Embodying Resilience: Speak Up Even If Your Voice Shakes
Worship Leader: Rev. Niki
Worship Associate: Donna Ravn
Music: TBD
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: Finding Strength in Silence: Our Quaker Forebears
Embodying Resilience: Finding Strength in Silence - Our Quaker Forebears
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori
Worship Associate: Teague
Music: Pick-Up Choir
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Intergenerational Worship: Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve: Intergenerational Service
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori & Rev. Niki
Worship Associate: TBD
Music: The UUCSB Pick-Up Choir – Our choir, directed by Ellie Rolnick, will offer special music and often supports the congregational singing. Make a joyful noise with us!
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: Blue Christmas & Church School
Blue Christmas
Worship Leader: Rev. Niki
Worship Associate: Sarah
Music: TBD
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: The Hannukah Light & Church School
The Hannukah Light
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori
Worship Associate: Hayley
Music: The UUCSB Pick-Up Choir – Our choir, directed by Ellie Rolnick, will offer special music and often supports the congregational singing. Make a joyful noise with us!
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: Advent of Hope & Church School
Advent of Hope
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori
Worship Associate: Kelsey
Music: TBD
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: The Season of Advent - Approaching Joy
The Season of Advent: Approaching Joy!
Next week marks the beginning of advent. We will begin our advent season with the candle of Joy. Join us to start this beautiful season together. I will share the significance of advent and explore Unitarian Universalist response to the season as well are our own. Advent means the arrival of an important person or event. In Christian terms it means the arrival of Christ. In our religious tradition that centers ourselves around LOVE, we will explore what we are seeking in this beautiful season and what is arriving for us.
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori
Worship Associate: TBD
Music: Rev. Niki
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: The Gift of Gratitude- The Gift of Receiving Help & Church School
The Gift of Gratitude - The Gift of Receiving Help
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori & Matt Brown
Worship Associate: Charlie
Music: The UUCSB Pick-Up Choir – Our choir, directed by Ellie Rolnick, will offer special music and often supports the congregational singing. Make a joyful noise with us!
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: Making Gratitude a Habit & Church School
Making Gratitude a Habit
Worship Leader: Rev. Niki
Worship Associate: TBD
Music: TBD
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: Transitions: From Thorns to Thanks
Transitions: From Thorns to Thanks
Worship Leader: Rev. Myra Robinson
Worship Associate: Teague
Music: Myra R.
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: Meditations of Gratitude & Church School
Meditations on Gratitude
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori & Matt Brown
Worship Associate: TBD
Music: The UUCSB Pick-Up Choir – Our choir, directed by Ellie Rolnick, will offer special music and often supports the congregational singing. Make a joyful noise with us!
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Intergenerational Worship: Celebrating Samhain
Intergenerational Worship: Celebrating Samhain
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori
Worship Associate: Donna R.
Music: TBD
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
As this is an intergenerational service, there is no church school on this day.
Worship: Who taught you compassion? & Church School
Who Taught You Compassion?
Worship Leader: Rev. Niki
Worship Associate: Anne D.
Music: TBD
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: From Compassion to Action & Church School
From Compassion to Action
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori
Worship Associate: Sarah
Music: The UUCSB Pick-Up Choir – Our choir, directed by Ellie Rolnick, will offer special music and often supports the congregational singing. Make a joyful noise with us!
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: Cultivating Compassion: What are you addicted to? & Church School
Cultivating Compassion: What are you addicted to?
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori joined by Portland Treatment Center
Music: The UUCSB Pick Up Choir – Our choir, directed by Ellie Rolnick, will offer special music and often supports the congregational singing. Make a joyful noise with us!
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: Building Our Community with Love at Our Center with Rev. Lori & Church School
Building Our Community with Love at Our Center
Worship Leader: Rev. Lori
Worship Associate: Hayley
Music: The UUCSB Pick Up Choir – Our choir, directed by Ellie Rolnick, will offer special music and often supports the congregational singing. Make a joyful noise with us!
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Worship: Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong with Rev. Niki & Church School
Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong
Service Leader: Rev. Niki
Worship Associate: Jane P.
Music: Patrick Freeman
Patrick was born in Fort Kent, Maine in 1948. He lived with foster care from the ages 3 to 18. He had some music lessons when he was young but at about the age of 9 he did not have a piano at the house so had to discontinue the lessons. Around age 20 he had private music lessons for about a year. In his late twenties he moved to Bangor and found employment selling organs, receiving free music lessons from the owner for a year. He continued to play organs and became self-taught. Patrick graduated from UMaine in 1976 with a teaching degree. After several teaching and other jobs he settled in Portland working at Maine Medical Center for 16 years. He continued playing the organ and keyboard during those times. He retired from MMC in 2013 and started playing music in Nursing Homes throughout Southern Maine. He usually plays music from way back in early 1900 to the present day. He has started a music recording studio in his apartment which continues to be a learning process. Patrick says “I enjoy playing music. I have been playing music by ear for many years. I guess that is a God gift.”
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Intergenerational Worship: Water Communion, the Great Commissioning and Building Belonging with Reverends Lori & Niki
Water Communion, the Great Commissioning and Building Belonging
Service Leader: Rev. Lori Whittemore,
Worship Associate: Rev. Niki Norman
Music: The UUCSB Pick Up Choir – Our choir, directed by Ellie Rolnick, will offer special music and often supports the congregational singing. Make a joyful noise with us!
For our Sunday security, we lock the doors at 10:05. Ushers will monitor the doors until 10:15.
Please Note: No Church School on the 14th