UUCL Press Releases
UUCL Hosts Earth & Spirit Songfest with Jim Scott - October 2011
UUCL Welcomes New Ministers - September 2011
OCTOBER, 2011
Unitarian Universalist Church of Loudoun to Host Earth & Spirit Songfest with Jim Scott
LEESBURG, VA. – On Saturday, Nov. 19 the Unitarian Universalist Church of Loudoun will host a Earth and Spirit Songfest with Jim Scott at 4 p.m. followed by a Pot Luck Supper at 5:30 located in the UUCL Santuary located at 20460 Gleedsville Road.
The community is invited to come lend your voice to an extemporaneous vocal celebration of earth and peace. Renew your spirit and celebrate our ideals in song. Drawing on his own music and other songs of ecology, diversity, community and peace from classical to jazz to world folk music, Jim turns the audience into a choir, taught by ear and with an invitation to all to join in. The joyful music of all sorts will inspire and educate. It's a great demonstration of music that can be used in our spiritual gatherings and in the greater movement for social change. Come listen or participate. No experience necessary
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Composer, guitarist and singer Jim Scott brings a warmth and humor with his well-crafted jazz and world music influenced songs. He uses well a prodigious guitar mastery and clear voice, to encourage all to get involved with the messages and ideals of peace, justice and the earth that he raises.
SEPTEMBER, 2011
Unitarian Universalist Church of Loudoun Welcomes New Ministers
LEESBURG, VA. – September 11, 2011 – The Unitarian Universalist Church of Loudoun (UUCL) welcomed Reverends John Manwell and Phyllis Hubbell during their first sermon today.
Revs. Manwell and Hubbell delivered a sermon titled, “Sharing Our Stories, Quenching Our Thirst” as part of the Water Communion Sunday service. They will continue to be in the pulpit twice a month as UUCL’s new consulting ministers.
Tamar Datan, president of UUCL, shares the congregation’s excitement to learn more from the husband and wife team. “We are thrilled to welcome two exceptional people as our new Co-Ministers. John and Phyllis bring depth of experience, clarity of purpose, and an abundance of compassion to their ministry. I can't wait to learn and grow with them,” said Datan. “UUCL is extremely fortunate to have such accomplished and inspiring spiritual leaders!”
Rev. Hubbell strives to provide sermons that speak to all people. She has heard some people say every preacher has just one basic sermon offered in different words over the years. If that is true, she added, “My one sermon is ‘We Are One --- One with Democrats, Republicans, Tea Party and Green Party members; one with Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Pagans, and atheists; one with the poor and the rich, one with people of all sexual orientations and identities; one with the high school drop out and the PhD; one with this great, beautiful and endangered planet.” According to Rev. Hubbell, “That is my sermon; that is my ministry.”
Reverend Manwell stated he and his wife are both lovers of people and they are committed to sustaining a strong sense of community within the congregation, and serving the larger community around them. “We are all children of the same God, members of the same human family. But we don’t ask you to express your beliefs in the same way, not even to speak of God. We think that how we live is more important than what we say we believe,” said Rev. Manwell.
UUCL holds service at 10 a.m. each Sunday. For more information regarding UUCL go to: http://www.uuloudoun.org/index.html or visit our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/UULoudoun
