September 5 - “It’s About Balance”  -  Susan Morrisson, guest speaker.  Our renowned 19th century Unitarian minister and lecturer, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.” In this season of Earth’s Autumnal equinox, there are worthy lessons to be learned. Like the seasons, we also change and are challenged to maintain our own sustainability. Susan Morrisson earned her Masters of Divinity in 2009 from Seattle University, and had many years of worship planning experience at East Shore Unitarian Church prior to seminary.

September 12 -  "Come As You Are: Ingathering Service" - The Rev. Doug Wadkins, Crystal Neva, Director of Lifelong Learning, and Andy Marshall, Music Director. Today we kick off the official beginning of an extraordinary year in the life of the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship.  The difference will be immediately apparent as you enter the church through our new front entrance on Ellsworth, and are greeted by warmth, light, openness and gracious hospitality.  The service will honor the experiences of the summer and, as is a Unitarian Universalist tradition all over the country, we will have our water communion service.  The simple but meaningful ceremony celebrates the essence of your summer experiences by sharing a bit of water symbolic of those experiences.  It may be water that is truly associated with the experience, or just tap water.  Please bring a small amount of that water with you to the service.  Come celebrate the wonder of summer and the promise of autumn at BUF.

September 19 -  "Finding the Sacred in Uncertainty" -  Doug Wadkins, Andy Marshall and the BUF Choir.   Watching and experiencing the world unfold around us can be a daunting prospect.  This year, the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship will be a community dedicated to addressing the complexities of our time.  Come find out how this community can help you not only survive this time, but find a sense of purpose and meaning.   This service will set some of the themes that will be explored in both worship and programming, so you won’t want to miss it.

September 26 - "Economy & Ecology" - The Rev. Doug Wadkins.  At least one service a month this year will explore what it means to be a community of concern that is charged with questing for justice.  We will begin our exploration with looking at some of the issues raised in our culture’s tension between ecological and economic concerns.   There are many implications for what we might do together as a community, and this service will not only explore them but offer some possibilities for action.