Calendar – Detail
There is a lot going on at UUCPA. Here is a brief listing of upcoming events. For a more comprehensive list, please visit the calendar.
Upcoming Events for Children & Youth
Upcoming Adult Classes
Upcoming Music
Upcoming Newcomer/Visitor Events
Upcoming Group Meetings
Upcoming Justice Projects/Events
Upcoming Special Events
Upcoming Holiday Events
Upcoming Non-UUCPA Events
Upcoming Events for Children & Youth
Children and Youth Religious Education Committee meeting
12/11/2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Oversees and evaluates all children and youth programs; plans and carries out special events; organizes Baby Cafe; supports social justice projects that welcome children and youth; more generally, helps the wider congregation better meet the needs of families, children, and youth. Contact: cyrecommittee@uucpa.org. Chair: Edie Keating. Board Liaison: Rev. Cat Boyle
Sunday School for children and youth preK through grade 8
12/14/2025, 10:30 am - 11:30 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Because we believe in learning by doing, a very important part of our religious education is participation, with all ages, in the first part of regular worship services. Then during Sunday school, young people learn and play with people their age. Feel free to ask Sunday school teachers what they did this week. If you would like to review curriculum materials that are not online, please contact Rev. Cat Boyle.
Sunday School for children and youth preK through grade 8
12/21/2025, 10:30 am - 11:30 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Because we believe in learning by doing, a very important part of our religious education is participation, with all ages, in the first part of regular worship services. Then during Sunday school, young people learn and play with people their age. Feel free to ask Sunday school teachers what they did this week. If you would like to review curriculum materials that are not online, please contact Rev. Cat Boyle.
Sunday School for children and youth preK through grade 8
12/28/2025, 10:30 am - 11:30 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Because we believe in learning by doing, a very important part of our religious education is participation, with all ages, in the first part of regular worship services. Then during Sunday school, young people learn and play with people their age. Feel free to ask Sunday school teachers what they did this week. If you would like to review curriculum materials that are not online, please contact Rev. Cat Boyle.
Sunday School for children and youth preK through grade 8
01/04/2026, 10:30 am - 11:30 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Because we believe in learning by doing, a very important part of our religious education is participation, with all ages, in the first part of regular worship services. Then during Sunday school, young people learn and play with people their age. Feel free to ask Sunday school teachers what they did this week. If you would like to review curriculum materials that are not online, please contact Rev. Cat Boyle.
Children and Youth Religious Education Committee meeting
01/08/2026, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Oversees and evaluates all children and youth programs; plans and carries out special events; organizes Baby Cafe; supports social justice projects that welcome children and youth; more generally, helps the wider congregation better meet the needs of families, children, and youth. Contact: cyrecommittee@uucpa.org. Chair: Edie Keating. Board Liaison: Rev. Cat Boyle
Sunday School for children and youth preK through grade 8
01/11/2026, 10:30 am - 11:30 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Because we believe in learning by doing, a very important part of our religious education is participation, with all ages, in the first part of regular worship services. Then during Sunday school, young people learn and play with people their age. Feel free to ask Sunday school teachers what they did this week. If you would like to review curriculum materials that are not online, please contact Rev. Cat Boyle.
All Ages Game Night
01/17/2026, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Room 4/5 (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Bring your favorite board game and snacks and learn a new one with your family and friends. Everyone welcome!
Questions? Contact Rev. Cat.
Check out more family fun activities here.
Sunday School for children and youth preK through grade 8
01/18/2026, 10:30 am - 11:30 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Because we believe in learning by doing, a very important part of our religious education is participation, with all ages, in the first part of regular worship services. Then during Sunday school, young people learn and play with people their age. Feel free to ask Sunday school teachers what they did this week. If you would like to review curriculum materials that are not online, please contact Rev. Cat Boyle.
Parents Night Out!
01/24/2026, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Room 4/5 (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Parents deserve a break! Let UUCPA take care of dinner and childcare while you go out on the town every fourth Saturday (holidays excluded), usually 5:00-8:00 pm. Age range to participate: 5 and up. Please RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount. (Can’t access the sign up? Email Rev. Cat and she’ll help you sign up and get on the mailing list.)
Do you have a high schooler who would like to be part of our childcare team for this event for community service hours and some change? Email Rev. Cat.
Upcoming Adult Classes
Upcoming Music
Choir Practice
12/11/2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Main Hall (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Singers wanted! We can use singers on all parts. Don’t be shy – give us a try!
The UUCPA choir welcomes singers of all vocal backgrounds. We are looking for people:
- Who love to sing with others and be inspired by the act of making live music
- Who want to learn and perform a variety of musical styles, in many different languages
- Who can join us in weekly rehearsals and Sunday morning worship
You don’t have to sight-read, but you should be able to understand a music score and to learn a part quickly after hearing it. Bruce makes pronunciation recordings to help us learn the text in languages other than English.
Date: Rehearsals – Thursday, 7-9 pm, and Sunday, 9:45 am; Performances – Sunday, 10:15 am, September to mid-Jun
Location: Main Hall
Facilitator: Bruce Olstad, Music Director (music-director@uucpa.org)
Contact: music@uucpa.org
Sacred Harp Shape Note Singing
12/14/2025, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Fireside Room (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Join the democratic and inclusive American song tradition of Sacred Harp music, one of the oldest ongoing music traditions in the United States. Rolling Stone magazine talks about “the soaring magnificence of Sacred Harp.” National Public Radio calls it “full-body singing,” and radio station KALW says it’s a “communal experience.” Come find out for yourself. Beginners are always welcome, and loaner books are available.
Dates: 2nd & 4th Sunday every month
Time: 2-4 pm
Location: The Fireside Room
Facilitator: Palo Alto Sacred Harp singers
Contact: sacredharp@uucpa.org
Registration: Not required
By Your Side Singers
12/17/2025, 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm Hamaker Library (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
You are welcome to sing with the By Your Side Singers, the 1st Wed of the month June – Aug, the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays during the rest of the year.
Choir Practice
12/18/2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Main Hall (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Singers wanted! We can use singers on all parts. Don’t be shy – give us a try!
The UUCPA choir welcomes singers of all vocal backgrounds. We are looking for people:
- Who love to sing with others and be inspired by the act of making live music
- Who want to learn and perform a variety of musical styles, in many different languages
- Who can join us in weekly rehearsals and Sunday morning worship
You don’t have to sight-read, but you should be able to understand a music score and to learn a part quickly after hearing it. Bruce makes pronunciation recordings to help us learn the text in languages other than English.
Date: Rehearsals – Thursday, 7-9 pm, and Sunday, 9:45 am; Performances – Sunday, 10:15 am, September to mid-Jun
Location: Main Hall
Facilitator: Bruce Olstad, Music Director (music-director@uucpa.org)
Contact: music@uucpa.org
Choir Practice
12/25/2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Main Hall (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Singers wanted! We can use singers on all parts. Don’t be shy – give us a try!
The UUCPA choir welcomes singers of all vocal backgrounds. We are looking for people:
- Who love to sing with others and be inspired by the act of making live music
- Who want to learn and perform a variety of musical styles, in many different languages
- Who can join us in weekly rehearsals and Sunday morning worship
You don’t have to sight-read, but you should be able to understand a music score and to learn a part quickly after hearing it. Bruce makes pronunciation recordings to help us learn the text in languages other than English.
Date: Rehearsals – Thursday, 7-9 pm, and Sunday, 9:45 am; Performances – Sunday, 10:15 am, September to mid-Jun
Location: Main Hall
Facilitator: Bruce Olstad, Music Director (music-director@uucpa.org)
Contact: music@uucpa.org
Upcoming Newcomer/Visitor Events
Upcoming Group Meetings/Gatherings
Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-Progress-C. S. Lewis
12/10/2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Facilitators use a light hand, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever’s Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members, who also take turns facilitating, if they want to try that role.
The reading for this session: Wednesday, December 10th
—C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
How to join:
- Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/96865808923, passcode 227385
- Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923
- Join this class by phone: 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923
- Join this class by one-tap on mobile phones: 6699006833,,96865808923# (San Jose)
- Phoning in, but not in the Bay Area? Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT
This is the Zoom link for Wednesdays. For the Zoom link for Saturday, go to Calendar and click on a Saturday session.
Questions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.
*This activity was formerly called “Sacred Text Reading.” That proved misleading–for one thing, more often than not our sources are secular–but it’s worth describing the qualities of a sacred text, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:
- connect to something of supreme importance to us
- feel more connected to other beings or to the universe
- feel more intensely alive
- align our lives with our values,
- perceive or feel more deeply
- be more fully and authentically ourselves.
Saturday Meditation
12/13/2025, 9:00 am - 10:30 am (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
The Saturday morning meditation group welcomes all to join us on Zoom for meditation and conversation. Meditation time begins promptly at 9:10 and lasts for 40 minutes, including several short readings. Next, we share tea and conversation, talking about what is important to us in the moment – perhaps our response to the readings or something that is going on in our lives.
- Dates: Every Saturday
- Time: 9:00 – 10:30 am
- Location: Online
- Facilitator: Leadership is shared and rotates weekly
- Contact: The Zoom link is available from Susan Owicki – email susanowicki@uucpa.org by 9:00 pm on Friday.
Come Meditate with Us!
Resonant Reading (Saturday)-The Eucharist-O’Connor
12/13/2025, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Facilitators use a light hand, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever’s Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members, who also take turns facilitating, if they want to try that role.
The reading for this session: Saturday, December 13th
“I was once, five or six years ago, taken by some friends to have dinner with Mary McCarthy and her husband, Mr. Broadwater.
“Well, toward morning the conversation turned on the Eucharist, which I, being the Catholic, was obviously supposed to defend. Mrs. Broadwater said when she was a child and received the host, she thought of it as the Holy Ghost, He being the most portable person of the Trinity; now she thought of it as a symbol and implied that it was a pretty good one. I then said, in a very shaky voice, Well, if it’s a symbol, to hell with it.
“That was all the defense I was capable of but I realize now that this is all I will ever be able to say about it, outside of a story, except that it is the center of existence for me; all the rest of life is expendable.”
—Flannery O’Connor, letter to her friend Better Hester
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.
—Flannery O’Connor “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction”
How to join:
- Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/91019857324, passcode 227385
- Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324
- Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose), Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324
- Join this class by on-tap on mobile phones: +16699009128,,91019857324# US (San Jose)
- Phoning in, but not in the bay area? Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT
This is the Zoom link for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link, go to the Calendar and click on a Wednesday session.
Questions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.
*This activity was formerly called “Sacred Text Reading.” That proved misleading–for one thing, more often than not our sources are secular–but it’s worth describing the qualities of a sacred text, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:
- connect to something of supreme importance to us
- feel more connected to other beings or to the universe
- feel more intensely alive
- align our lives with our values,
- perceive or feel more deeply
- be more fully and authentically ourselves.
Resonant Reading (Wednesday)
12/17/2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Facilitators use a light hand, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever’s Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members, who also take turns facilitating, if they want to try that role.
The reading for this session:
How to join:
- Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/96865808923, passcode 227385
- Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923
- Join this class by phone: 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923
- Join this class by one-tap on mobile phones: 6699006833,,96865808923# (San Jose)
- Phoning in, but not in the Bay Area? Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT
This is the Zoom link for Wednesdays. For the Zoom link for Saturday, go to Calendar and click on a Saturday session.
Questions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.
*This activity was formerly called “Sacred Text Reading.” That proved misleading–for one thing, more often than not our sources are secular–but it’s worth describing the qualities of a sacred text, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:
- connect to something of supreme importance to us
- feel more connected to other beings or to the universe
- feel more intensely alive
- align our lives with our values,
- perceive or feel more deeply
- be more fully and authentically ourselves.
Sci-Fi / Fantasy Discussion Group
Gateway (1977 novel), by Fredrick Pohl
12/17/2025, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
At the December 17, 2025 meeting, we’ll discuss the novel Gateway (1977), by Fredrick Pohl
A Scifi classic (the first novel in the HeeChee saga)
From Goodreads:
*When prospector Robinette Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Rob Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he has become… in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!
The book is available in some libraries, also via Libby, on Amazon, or on Spotify and Audible
At the end of the meeting, we will choose a book for our February 18th meeting.
The Sci-Fi and Fantasy Discussion Group was meeting via Zoom before it was cool! Lovers of science fiction and fantasy, at UUCPA and beyond, have been getting together online to talk about books, movies, and television episodes chosen by the group, every other month since early 2019. Past books include The Broken Earth Trilogy (N. K. Jemisin), The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert Heinlein), Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler), The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin), Red Moon (Kim Stanley Robinson); past television and movies include Arrival, Blink (Doctor Who), Serenity and The Train Job (Firefly), and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
The meeting method: via Zoom, 7-8:30 p.m.
- Dates: Third Wednesdays, except for December and summer
- Time: 7-8:30 pm
- Location: Online
- Facilitator: Bill Hackenberger (scifi+owner@uucpa.org)
- Registration: Not required
Join the meeting via Zoom: Link
- Meeting ID: 924 4906 7832
- Passcode: 825590
Dial by your location •
- +1 669 444 9171 US
- +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
Find other upcoming dates on the web page.
Saturday Meditation
12/20/2025, 9:00 am - 10:30 am (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
The Saturday morning meditation group welcomes all to join us on Zoom for meditation and conversation. Meditation time begins promptly at 9:10 and lasts for 40 minutes, including several short readings. Next, we share tea and conversation, talking about what is important to us in the moment – perhaps our response to the readings or something that is going on in our lives.
- Dates: Every Saturday
- Time: 9:00 – 10:30 am
- Location: Online
- Facilitator: Leadership is shared and rotates weekly
- Contact: The Zoom link is available from Susan Owicki – email susanowicki@uucpa.org by 9:00 pm on Friday.
Come Meditate with Us!
Resonant Reading (Saturday)
12/20/2025, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Facilitators use a light hand, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever’s Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members, who also take turns facilitating, if they want to try that role.
The reading for this session:
How to join:
- Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/91019857324, passcode 227385
- Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324
- Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose), Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324
- Join this class by on-tap on mobile phones: +16699009128,,91019857324# US (San Jose)
- Phoning in, but not in the bay area? Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT
This is the Zoom link for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link, go to the Calendar and click on a Wednesday session.
Questions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.
*This activity was formerly called “Sacred Text Reading.” That proved misleading–for one thing, more often than not our sources are secular–but it’s worth describing the qualities of a sacred text, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:
- connect to something of supreme importance to us
- feel more connected to other beings or to the universe
- feel more intensely alive
- align our lives with our values,
- perceive or feel more deeply
- be more fully and authentically ourselves.
Spiritual Adventures in Parenting
12/21/2025, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Fireside Room (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
If you are a parent to a child between the ages of birth through high school, we invite you to join UUCPA’s monthly parent group, Spiritual Adventures In Parenting!
We meet on the third Sunday of each month, from 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., following the church service. Childcare is provided, and families can choose to have lunch together afterward if they wish.
Together, we:
- Explore the spiritual dimensions and meaning of our parenting and
- Cultivate deep connections with one another.
The group is facilitated by fellow UUCPA parent Matt Rosin.
To find out more, email spiritualparenting@uucpa.org.
Parent Groups page:
Resonant Reading (Wednesday)
12/24/2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Facilitators use a light hand, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever’s Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members, who also take turns facilitating, if they want to try that role.
The reading for this session:
How to join:
- Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/96865808923, passcode 227385
- Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923
- Join this class by phone: 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923
- Join this class by one-tap on mobile phones: 6699006833,,96865808923# (San Jose)
- Phoning in, but not in the Bay Area? Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT
This is the Zoom link for Wednesdays. For the Zoom link for Saturday, go to Calendar and click on a Saturday session.
Questions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.
*This activity was formerly called “Sacred Text Reading.” That proved misleading–for one thing, more often than not our sources are secular–but it’s worth describing the qualities of a sacred text, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:
- connect to something of supreme importance to us
- feel more connected to other beings or to the universe
- feel more intensely alive
- align our lives with our values,
- perceive or feel more deeply
- be more fully and authentically ourselves.
Saturday Meditation
12/27/2025, 9:00 am - 10:30 am (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
The Saturday morning meditation group welcomes all to join us on Zoom for meditation and conversation. Meditation time begins promptly at 9:10 and lasts for 40 minutes, including several short readings. Next, we share tea and conversation, talking about what is important to us in the moment – perhaps our response to the readings or something that is going on in our lives.
- Dates: Every Saturday
- Time: 9:00 – 10:30 am
- Location: Online
- Facilitator: Leadership is shared and rotates weekly
- Contact: The Zoom link is available from Susan Owicki – email susanowicki@uucpa.org by 9:00 pm on Friday.
Come Meditate with Us!
Upcoming Justice Projects/Events
Upcoming Special Events
Undie Sunday
12/14/2025, 10:30 am - 1:00 pm UUCPA Main Hall (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Undie Sunday, Sunday, December 7th & 14th, Main Hall, 10:30 am. Undie Sunday is the time we ask everyone to bring a new set of underwear and/or a pair of warm gloves, socks, or a hat to give to homeless people. Our gifts will be distributed through LifeMoves.
Coordinators: Kristi Iverson & Chris Cassell
Community Carol Singing
12/14/2025, 11:30 am - 12:00 pm UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Community Carol Singing, Sunday, December 14th, Main Patio, 11:30 am. Come sing Christmas carols in four-part harmony after the service. We’ll provide songbooks with a dozen classic Christmas carols. All ages are welcome. You can bring your own guitar or other instrument and play along, or just come and sing! Coordinator: Rev. Cat Boyle
Holiday Bake Sale
12/14/2025, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm UUCPA Main Hall (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Holiday Bake Sale, Sunday, December 14th, Main Hall Lobby, before & after Sunday Service. You’ll be able to purchase some yummy baked goods. All sales benefit UUCPA. Coordinators: Jeff Cashdollar & Dora Fishman
Harpers Hall Ensemble Holiday Benefit Concert
12/19/2025, 7:45 pm - 9:00 pm UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Harpers Hall Ensemble Holiday Benefit Concert, Friday, December 19th, 7:30 pm, Main Hall. Enjoy the beautiful Celtic harps performing some of your favorite Christmas music. Stay after the concert for a hands-on experience: check out the harps, try one on for size, and ask questions!
This year, the proceeds of the donations will go to Second Harvest Food Bank. Donations ($20 suggested) will be collected at the door. You can also bring an offering of canned goods or other non-perishable staples. Visit harpershall.com for more information about Harpers Hall.
Aurora Singers Holiday Concert
12/20/2025, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UUCPA Main Hall (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Aurora Singers Holiday Concert, Saturday, December 20th, Main Hall, 2:00 pm. Doors Open at 1:30 pm – come early!
Tickets: Suggested donation $10 per ticket, tickets available at the door. The concert is a benefit for UUCPA. Visit aurorasingers.net for more information about Aurora Singers.
Sunday Service – No-Rehearsal Christmas Pageant
12/21/2025, 10:30 am - 11:30 am UUCPA Main Hall & Online (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
12/24/2025, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
12/24/2025, 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Upcoming Holiday Events
Undie Sunday
12/14/2025, 10:30 am - 1:00 pm UUCPA Main Hall (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Undie Sunday, Sunday, December 7th & 14th, Main Hall, 10:30 am. Undie Sunday is the time we ask everyone to bring a new set of underwear and/or a pair of warm gloves, socks, or a hat to give to homeless people. Our gifts will be distributed through LifeMoves.
Coordinators: Kristi Iverson & Chris Cassell
Community Carol Singing
12/14/2025, 11:30 am - 12:00 pm UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Community Carol Singing, Sunday, December 14th, Main Patio, 11:30 am. Come sing Christmas carols in four-part harmony after the service. We’ll provide songbooks with a dozen classic Christmas carols. All ages are welcome. You can bring your own guitar or other instrument and play along, or just come and sing! Coordinator: Rev. Cat Boyle
Holiday Bake Sale
12/14/2025, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm UUCPA Main Hall (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Holiday Bake Sale, Sunday, December 14th, Main Hall Lobby, before & after Sunday Service. You’ll be able to purchase some yummy baked goods. All sales benefit UUCPA. Coordinators: Jeff Cashdollar & Dora Fishman
Harpers Hall Ensemble Holiday Benefit Concert
12/19/2025, 7:45 pm - 9:00 pm UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Harpers Hall Ensemble Holiday Benefit Concert, Friday, December 19th, 7:30 pm, Main Hall. Enjoy the beautiful Celtic harps performing some of your favorite Christmas music. Stay after the concert for a hands-on experience: check out the harps, try one on for size, and ask questions!
This year, the proceeds of the donations will go to Second Harvest Food Bank. Donations ($20 suggested) will be collected at the door. You can also bring an offering of canned goods or other non-perishable staples. Visit harpershall.com for more information about Harpers Hall.
Aurora Singers Holiday Concert
12/20/2025, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UUCPA Main Hall (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Aurora Singers Holiday Concert, Saturday, December 20th, Main Hall, 2:00 pm. Doors Open at 1:30 pm – come early!
Tickets: Suggested donation $10 per ticket, tickets available at the door. The concert is a benefit for UUCPA. Visit aurorasingers.net for more information about Aurora Singers.
Sunday Service – No-Rehearsal Christmas Pageant
12/21/2025, 10:30 am - 11:30 am UUCPA Main Hall & Online (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Winter Solstice Service
12/21/2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Winter Solstice, Sunday, December 21st, Main Hall, 7:00pm. Our simple ceremony lasts under an hour, and is followed by abundant food (cheese, dips, pies, nuts) with hot mulled wine and hot cider. Just come – food provided. Our solstice ceremony includes meditative music, readings, and all of us lighting candles to celebrate the return of light, and finishes outdoors where we burn our yule log in a fire pit. Come join us on this longest night of the year. Children and adults are welcome. Coordinators: Edie Keating, Maricia Scott & Rebecca Shapely
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
12/24/2025, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
12/24/2025, 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)