Calendar – Detail

UUCPA Summer Sunday School for All Ages

07/20/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

UUCPA Summer Sunday School for All Ages

07/27/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

UUCPA Summer Sunday School for All Ages

08/03/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

Children and Youth Religious Education Committee meeting

08/07/2025, 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

Children and Youth Religious Education Committee meeting

08/07/2025, 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

UUCPA Summer Sunday School for All Ages

08/10/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

UUCPA Summer Sunday School for All Ages

08/17/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

UUCPA Summer Sunday School for All Ages

08/24/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

UUCPA Summer Sunday School for All Ages

08/31/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

Children and Youth Religious Education Committee meeting

09/04/2025, 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

Sacred Harp Shape Note Singing

07/27/2025, 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:         Fireside Room

Facilitator:       Palo Alto Sacred Harp singers

Contact:          sacredharp@uucpa.org

Registration:   Not required

Sacred-Harp Singing

By Your Side Singers

08/06/2025, 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm Room 4/5 (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.

Sacred Harp Shape Note Singing

08/10/2025, 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

Sacred-Harp Singing

Sacred Harp Shape Note Singing

08/24/2025, 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:         Fireside Room

Facilitator:       Palo Alto Sacred Harp singers

Contact:          sacredharp@uucpa.org

Registration:   Not required

Sacred-Harp Singing

By Your Side Singers

09/03/2025, 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm Room 4/5 (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.

Saturday Meditation

07/19/2025, 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)-Destiny

07/19/2025, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

*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)-A Place for You-New Testimment

07/23/2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

Jesus: “My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”
–John 14: 2–4

Jesus: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”
–Matthew 7: 7–8

How to join:

*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

07/26/2025, 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)

07/26/2025, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

*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)

07/30/2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

How to join:

*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.

Campus Workday

08/02/2025, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

• Date:              Usually the 1st Saturday every month
• Time:              9 am-Noon
• Location:        UUCPA Campus
• Contact:        Buildings and Grounds Committee (buildings-and-grounds@uucpa.org)

Consider making things even better by joining others at the monthly workday right here at UUCPA. There will be plenty of fine company. Come for some or all of the time. Projects might include painting some trim and kitchen cabinets, pruning shrubs, organizing closets, plus some jobs you may have in mind.

Saturday Meditation

08/02/2025, 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)

08/02/2025, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

*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.

First Monday Film Discussion Group

08/04/2025, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

We gather via Zoom on the first Monday of the month for an hourlong discussion of a movie we have chosen and each watched ahead of time. Group members add to the list of movies, the only strictures being that they must be available at no cost, for example on library sites such as Kanopy or Hoopla. (You might want to register for Kanopy for ease of future viewing.) Then, each month, the group votes on the next movie.

Email Bruce England with any questions and to receive the Zoom link.

All Church Picnic – Mitchell Park

09/07/2025, 11:30 am - 2:00 pm Mitchell Park, Palo Alto (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

The UUCPA Annual Picnic is September 7th! Lunch will be provided at Mitchell Park after the service. All are welcome, we hope you’ll join us!

Where: At Mitchell Park  (behind UUCPA) – East Meadow Group site

When: Sunday, September 7 after service is out (~11:15/30 am). Walk on over via the pedestrian bridge or drive over.

What: Lunch, socializing, and maybe some games (frisbee? volleyball?).