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Worship This Sunday
September 21: “The Inconvenience of Grace”
Service Leader: Rev. Kenneth Nixon
Worship Associate: Bob Anthony
Location: All services are held in the church sanctuary and streamed live on Zoom.
About the Service: This sermon explores how grace becomes inconvenient precisely when it becomes incarnate—moving from the safety of charitable giving to the vulnerability of genuine community. Drawing from both Christian and Universalist traditions that affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person, we'll examine how our discomfort with proximity reveals the places where our theology meets the limits of our hospitality, and why embracing this inconvenience might be the very pathway through which divine love transforms both our neighborhoods and our souls.
About our Guest Minister: Rev. Kenneth Nixon Jr. is a Baptist minister, community organizer, and mental health advocate serving as Social Justice and Outreach Pastor at First Baptist Church of Manassas and Senior Organizer for VOICE (Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement). Born in Arlington in 1987 to a mother with severe mental illness, his traumatic childhood fueled his commitment to mental health reform and social justice advocacy. Through his organizing work with VOICE, Kenneth helped to secure over $100 million in state funding for crisis receiving centers and mental health services. His award-winning 2023 memoir Born Into Crisis chronicles his personal journey while advocating for systemic change. Through VOICE's 50-member institutions representing 200,000+ residents, Nixon has successfully championed Virginia's first state-of-the-art crisis receiving center, comprehensive eviction moratoriums, public defender services, and criminal justice reforms—transforming personal trauma into powerful community organizing that creates lasting systemic change. He is also the lucky husband of Amanda for 14 years and the proud parent of two sons, Elijah and Emmanuel.
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JOIN US FOR COFFEE HOUR AFTER WORSHIP - IN THE SANCTUARY AND VIRTUALLY ON ZOOM!
Those attending in person are invited to a coffee hour on the deck. Congregants attending online are invited to enjoy a virtual coffee hour and fellowship with other congregants on Zoom.
Click here to join the after-service virtual "Greet your Neighbor" coffee hour on Zoom. Meeting ID: 943 2670 1617 Password: 939725 Dial-In: 301-715-8592
The Unitarian Universalist Church in Reston is a Welcoming Congregation; our church embraces people of any age, sex, race, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, class, ability, language, or cultural background. We extend a warm welcome to all who are interested in learning more about our church and our denomination.
Upcoming Worship Services
September 28: “How to Belong in Community”
Service Leader: Rev. Aileen Fitzke
About the Service: A church community is a place of belonging. And belonging takes not just showing up but contributing to the community in ways that are life giving. Each of us has a place in the life of this community. Rev. Aileen considers how we foster belonging through service to the community in this interaction intergenerational service.