This morning we will celebrate our Religious Education Program with an “RE Extravaganza.” Again this year RE Committee members and supporters will harness their acting abilities and present a little play with and important message about religious education. We will also recognize all our teachers and RE volunteers and thank them for their service.  Rev. Tom Rosiello will preach a sermon on "What Makes Our Religious Education Program Different and Why That Is So Important."  The "Extravaganza" will continue at the coffee hour following both services. This will be a fun Sunday morning with an important message.

Join us for an uplifting service that will focus on what the Easter message can mean in our lives today. The sermon by our minister Tom Rosiello will help us to examine those places in our lives where we feel like we are stuck in a cold tomb and how there is an "Easter Experience" waiting for us if we can roll back the stone. We will look at the ancient resurrection story in a way that focuses on what it might mean in our lives today and within the context of our varied theological tradition. After a special Easter message, our children will leave for the "Great Easter Egg Hunt."  Both services will be filled with "Hallelujahs" and other great Easter music. We will conclude both services with an invitation to join the choir in singing the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah.  It will be a wonderful morning. Treat yourself to the experience and bring a friend.

This is Palm Sunday on the Christian calendar, a day when many churches focus on the meaning of Jesus' life. Emerson once said of Jesus, "What a distortion (does) his doctrine and memory suffer." This morning we will look beyond the distortion and focus on the man, Jesus, the Jewish teacher, zealot, prophet, and reformer. We will look at how the lessons Jesus taught and the way he lived his life are an important part of our present day UU principles and faith tradition. We will ask the question, "If Jesus were alive today, would he be a Unitarian Universalist?"

God is a very controversial topic. For some, the mere mention of the word raises their blood pressure, while for others it brings serenity and peace.  Some take great comfort in a loving father image while others have rejected the idea of an old man with a white beard controlling every move we make like pawns on a chess board.  Has the "concept of God" outgrown its usefulness or is worth holding onto? Throughout the centuries the definition of God has always reflected the society of that time's understanding of the world.  Are there other ways to view this theological concept that fit within our natural-scientific view of the world?  Rather than ask the dead-end question, "Do you believe in God?" we will invite you to explore how you might define the god you do believe in. Our worship will be led by Rev. Tom Rosiello and will include a wonderful children's story called, "What is God?"