A MONTH OF SERVICES

In-person worship services: Saturdays @ 4:30 pm & Sundays @ 9 & 11 am

Online worship service: Sundays @ 9 am

APRIL 1 & 2

All Music Weekend

Twice each year, services at FUS center around music. Saturday’s service will have a hymn-sing format, so get ready to sing! What is your favorite hymn? We will take requests from the congregation. The theme is “How Sweet the Sound,” and will feature several settings of “Amazing Grace” in honor of that hymn’s 250th anniversary. Sunday’s services will feature Meeting House Chorus and Society Choir, with a small orchestra, and soloists performing excerpts from Vivaldi’s “Gloria” and other works. Come see why FUS’s music program is considered among the best in Madison, and why this long-running tradition is so beloved.

APRIL 7 @ 5 PM*

Good Friday Service

Rev. Kelly Crocker & Rev. Kelly Asprooth-Jackson, Co-Senior Ministers

This special, simple service of commemoration and lament will be held in the Landmark Auditorium.

*There will not be a service offered on Saturday, April 8, due to the special Easter weekend services.

APRIL 9 @ 9 AM

EASTER FAMILY SERVICE

Rev. Kelly Crocker & Rev. Kelly Asprooth-Jackson, Co-Senior Ministers

This Easter service for all ages will be full of stories and music. Join us as we celebrate the power of spring to remind us of new life and the wonder of transformation. FUS’s youngest choirs, Cherub Choir & Choristers, will provide the music, along with solo selections from Heather Thorpe, soprano. Join us after this service for our annual Easter Egg Hunt on the playground.

APRIL 9 @ 11 AM

Easter Service

Rev. Kelly Crocker & Rev. Kelly Asprooth-Jackson, Co-Senior Ministers

This Easter service will offer a Unitarian Universalist perspective on the most important day in the Christian calendar. Join us as we share beloved music and explore stories of resurrection. A brass quintet made up of musicians from the Madison Symphony Orchestra and other fine players will play music representing the past 500 years. Our guest brass quintet will present a mini-concert before the service. Please join us at 10:50 am.

APRIL 15 & 16 NO “SOMETHING” TOO SMALL

Rev. Monica Kling-Garcia

In today’s world, with so many people in need and rising tensions in our news, there are so many causes that people need to do something about. And yet, it can feel overwhelming—even when we want to do something, how do we know what to do? Together, we will explore how the little things that we do in our lives and in our communities can be a part of a better world. Our Linda Warren will play solo harp selections by Francisque, Bach, Renié, and Hindemith.

Rev. Monica Kling-Garcia (they/them) currently serves as the Lead Staff Chaplain at UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital in Madison. As a chaplain, Rev. Monica’s theology is one which emphasizes relationships and storytelling with their patients. When not in the hospital, you can find Rev. Monica enjoying a good movie or video game with their husband Logan and energetic cat Yen.

APRIL 22 & 23 THE ONLY HOME WE HAVE

Rev. Kelly Crocker & Rev. Kelly Asprooth-Jackson, Co-Senior Ministers

The British, Roman Catholic, ecofeminist liberation theologian Mary C. Grey writes, “Knowing the world is knowing ourselves as nature, as survivors with nature, thinking, feeling, celebrating and suffering together, deeply caught up in the longing for mutual flourishing, especially where this is most threatened.” In this service for the weekend of Earth Day, we will lament, reflect on, and celebrate, what it means to know ourselves as nature – to be bound up, part and parcel, with the sacred world we share. FUS’s Meeting House Chorus will sing.

APRIL 29 & 30

Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand

Rev. Kelly Asprooth-Jackson, Co-Senior Minister

Our tradition as Unitarian Universalists intersects with a long history of agitation for change—both in the United States and points beyond. As we conclude our month-long theme of Resistance, join us for a worship service focused on the spiritual gifts of impatience and recalcitrance, as well as the resources that sustain us in the work of challenging the status quo. Our Children’s Religious Exploration teachers will also be recognized and affirmed at this service. On Saturday, concert pianist Jeff Gibbens returns to FUS to play Mendelssohn and Haydn. On Sunday, the FUS Teen Choir will sing.