Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Join us for a two-part Animal Blessing Sunday at UUAA, intentionally designed to be inclusive of our congregation’s animal family members.
Part One: At 10:30am, UUAA will have its regular Sunday service in the Sanctuary, reflecting on our human relationship with animals. Congregants are invited to bring a photograph or memento of any beloved animals/pets that they wish to hold in memory during our creation of a memory altar honoring deceased animals. While we are not blessing animals in the Sanctuary this year, congregants may bring their animal family members to this service.
Part Two: At 12:15pm, animals/pets and their human family members are warmly invited to join us in the church yard (immediately behind the social hall), for an outdoor individual blessing of pets and animals. All kinds of pets/animals (including stuffed animals!) are warmly welcome to the 12:15pm blessing, and may travel to the church yard for the blessing ceremony via the paths behind the SGD wing or directly through the building.
Support UUAA! Text "uuaa" to 73256 and select "weekly offering" for the fund or go to uuaa.org/Giving
Please find the Order of Service here:
UUAA.org/oos
Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti, Senior Minister
rev. theresa rohlck, Minister of Pastoral Care
Dusty Francis, Director of Music Ministries
Allison Halerz, Pianist-in-Residence
Stella Gorlin, Director of Spiritual Growth & Development
Are you joining us for the first or second time? Fill out our newcomer's survey and learn more about how to get connected! uuaa.org/NewcomerSurvey
Join us for a two-part Animal Blessing Sunday at UUAA, intentionally designed to be inclusive of our congregation’s animal family members.
Part One: At 10:30am, UUAA will have its regular Sunday service in the Sanctuary, reflecting on our human relationship with animals. Congregants are invited to bring a photograph or memento of any beloved animals/pets that they wish to hold in memory during our creation of a memory altar honoring deceased animals. While we are not blessing animals in the Sanctuary this year, congregants may bring their animal family members to this service.
Part Two: At 12:15pm, animals/pets and their human family members are warmly invited to join us in the church yard (immediately behind the social hall), for an outdoor individual blessing of pets and animals. All kinds of pets/animals (including stuffed animals!) are warmly welcome to the 12:15pm blessing, and may travel to the church yard for the blessing ceremony via the paths behind the SGD wing or directly through the building.
Support UUAA! Text "uuaa" to 73256 and select "weekly offering" for the fund or go to uuaa.org/Giving
Please find the Order of Service here:
UUAA.org/oos
Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti, Senior Minister
rev. theresa rohlck, Minister of Pastoral Care
Dusty Francis, Director of Music Ministries
Allison Halerz, Pianist-in-Residence
Stella Gorlin, Director of Spiritual Growth & Development
Are you joining us for the first or second time? Fill out our newcomer's survey and learn more about how to get connected! uuaa.org/NewcomerSurvey
