Sometimes difficult experiences in life teach us to be cautious of embracing possibilities. Join us for a powerful service focusing on the work to nurture a trauma-informed community.  If this is a sensitive topic for you, we understand if you prefer not to attend. 

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Forum: QTAG: Truth, Trauma, & Transformation

Join us at 11:00-12:30 for the powerful and thought-provoking presentation by UU minister, Rev. Leslie Takahashi, entitled “Truth, Trauma, & Transformation: Embracing the Cracks & the Gold”, exploring the importance of trauma-informed understanding in how we create community. We’ll also discuss important questions about how we can begin to better engage trauma-informed thinking and practices in our own congregation, too.

The Green Sanctuary Team is highlighted as we celebrate the upcoming Earth Day 2026 and our church’s commitment to environmental action.

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Forum: Currents of Change: Water Quality

The Green Sanctuary Team invites you to learn more about what’s happening to our drinking water in Central Iowa. Bethany Kohoutek from the Iowa Environmental Council will present a video of Iowa scientists discussing the results of the 2025 Central Iowa Source Water Resource Assessment. Also participating in the forum are Jake Deutmeyer, Technical Lead for the Saving Tomorrow’s Agriculture Resources Program, and Ginny Malcolmson from Polk County will explain how you can become a water quality monitor. Action steps from recent materials produced by the Harkin Institute and IEC will be shared.

It takes preparation, stamina, and patience to embrace possibility.  In a world that seems to measure possibility in quarterly earnings, how do we reclaim the perspective to plant trees whose shade we will not be here to enjoy?

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Forum: Review of the Budget

The board will propose a “realistic budget” at the annual meeting based on the pledges in hand. The board will set out the aspirations of the church should we receive additional pledges. What should those aspirations be?

As we begin this month’s theme of “Awakening Curiosity”, we take this Sunday to honor Vesak and the Buddha’s quest to understand suffering in the world. How might the Buddha’s journey help us to become more curious and wiser?

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Forum: Strategic Planning

This Sunday we honor all those who are or have been mothers.  How might the experience of motherhood help us all awaken our curiosity for the world and one another?

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Forum: What is up with Dare to Dream?

This Sunday we honor the 103rd annual ritual first designed by Unitarian minister Norbert Capek.  How might this beloved tradition help us become more curious citizens in an interdependent world?

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Forum: Annual Meeting Packet Review by Board

At the annual meeting on June 7, the annual packet contains decisions the board is recommending. Come hear what the board is thinking and share your thoughts.