December 2025 Board Meeting Highlights
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Monica board of directors met via Zoom on December 9, 2025 to discuss church issues, activities, and more.
MORE...January 2026 Generous Congregation supports the ACLU Foundation
This month, half of our Sunday Offering will go to the ACLU Foundation. The Foundation supports the ACLU in courts and communities across the country to protect everyone’s civil liberties.
MORE...January & February Art Wall: The Professional Photographers of Los Angeles County
The January-February Art Wall features works by members of the Professional Photographers of Los Angeles County. Please join us for a reception in Forbes Hall on January 4th, after the service.
MORE...Dining for Dollars Launch Party Is Saturday, February 21st
Mark Your Calendar! Dining for Dollars 2026 will launch early next year — on Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 6:00 – 9:00 PM in Forbes Hall with an All-Church Celebration!
MORE...January 2026 Lifelong Learning
Come, come, whoever you are! Welcome to an exciting journey of questioning, challenging, and celebrating life’s mysteries and wonders.
MORE...January 2026 Worship Services
January Ministry theme: Practicing Resistance. 1/4 Pale Blue Dot; 1/11 Making a Way Out of No Way (MLK Jr. Sun.); 1/18 Antidotes to White Supremacy Culture; 1/25 Our Divine Names.
MORE...Our 2025-26 Winter Clothing Drive for the Annenberg Access Center
Once again this winter, from December 14 through January 25, your Lunches for Bunches team will coordinate a clothing drive for our unhoused neighbors who receive services at the Annenberg Access Center.
MORE...From Our Minister: Choosing Hope
The Season of Lights invites us into the dazzling darkness of the winter and its summons to move inward, rest, and be nourished by the long nights.
MORE...November 2025 Board Meeting Highlights
The November 11 meeting of the UUSM Board of Directors included updates on our ministerial transition process, office staffing, and other committee and staff reports.
MORE...December 2025 Generous Congregation Supports UNICEF
This month, half of our Sunday offerings will go to UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund. Your donations will help UNICEF fight for the rights of every child seeking safe shelter, nutrition, protection from disaster and conflicts, and equality.
MORE...From Our President: December Reflections
We are now fully in the holiday season. Still, the holidays do not take away from the important work of our church community. Despite so much going on around us, I hope that you take time to care for yourself.
MORE...Report on the Summer Communications Potluck Discussions
Almost four months ago, more than two dozen congregants enjoyed a potluck lunch and generated a long list of thoughts, questions, hopes, and dreams about communications at UUSM.
MORE...December 2025 Worship Services
December Ministry theme: Choosing Hope. Sun. 12/7 Hope Full; 12/14 Holy Spirit; 12/21 It’s Cold and Dark; Wed. 12/24 @6 pm Candlelight Service; Sun. 12/28 Ragged Edges.
MORE...Dining for Dollars will launch early in 2026
Mark Your Calendar! Dining for Dollars 2026 will launch early next year — on Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 6:00 – 9:00 PM in Forbes Hall with an All-Church Celebration!
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