Worship With Us!
Welcome, and thank you for visiting First Unitarian Church online. We celebrate religious diversity and welcome people from all religious or areligious backgrounds. Dress is casual, so please come as you are. Worship begins at 10:30 and typically runs 60-75 minutes. Check out the directions page for parking and handicap access details. The learn tab has information
about our religious education.
We look forward to meeting you!
This Week
Sunday, July 21 at 10:30am in person or online via Youtube
“Music Is the Very Foundation of Humankind”
With Judi Unger, Music Director
Explore the traditional music and customs of Ghana, from Judi Unger, who just returned from three weeks of study at Nunya Academy Summer Institute in Dzodze, Ghana. Unger will share her experience from her cultural and musical adventure in learning about West Africa. She will share about the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its historical significance specifically in Ghana and West Africa, including the slave castles, used to house captives before being forced onto ships for the Middle Passage. Experience a traditional movement activity and learn a traditional Ewe welcome song. Explore how music is not just an entertainment activity, but built into every fiber of our lives, culture, and being.
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​YouTube page for services' livestream:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCg3uthKVVYfWS55zpRTv8LA
​​(then click on the livestream for that day's date)
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Sunday School Info:
Sunday School: This summer, our Elementary Sunday School class (K-5th grade) will be exploring LEGO® ValUUes, a LEGO®-Centered & Experiential Curriculum on Unitarian Universalist Values. They will meet in the classroom for the full hour, beginning at 10:30. [Please note that children of all ages are also always welcome to attend the worship service with their families]. Our Middle/High Sunday School class will take a break from their regularly scheduled Sunday morning classes until Aug 11. They will meet a few times throughout the summer for special activities (dates TBD). Watch your email for more details, or contact dre@firstuuomaha.org if you need to be added to our Mid/High School families contact list.
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The Order of Service may be downloaded on Sunday morning. Worship begins at 10:30am and typically runs 60-75 minutes.
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To submit a Joy or Concern to be shared in worship, click here.
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Visitors are invited to fill out a Visitor Form to get on our e-list.
Our Share the Plate recipient for July is OATS (Open Arms Trans Social Group). OATS welcomes the trans community of all ages, gender identities, and gender expressions, drawing people from well beyond the Omaha area. While OATS centers the trans experience as we lift one another up in the spirit of fellowship and love, we invite our cisgender allies, family members, and partners to attend as well. This group meets at Second Unitarian Church. Click here to donate.
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Land Acknowledgment
It is appropriate to acknowledge that the First Unitarian Church of Omaha occupies the traditional treaty lands of the Omaha and Otoe-Missouria Tribal Nations whose sovereignty existed long before the state of Nebraska. We would also like to express our respect to the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, and over 170 other tribes represented within the Omaha area.