Each Year at the Treats and Talents Acution, Eva offers a sermon based on a book of the winning bidder’s choice. The lucky winner at the 2008 acution was Russ Campbell. Russ chose the book entitled Excluded by Robert Cummins The book tells the story of the Council of Churches and their decision to exclude [...]
Christan Churches celebrate All Souls Day, and in Mexico ancient traditions mix with the holiday to creat a poignant time of stories and remembering, on this day the congregation joined together to share stories of loved ones who had departed. To listen to the Opening Words, Chalice lighting, The Committee on Ministry’s Thank UU [...]
Rev Eva Cameron ask’s us to pause before we enter the month of “thanksgiving and pilgrims” to honor a man “Chief Black Hawk” whose story is not so well know to us as that of the “founding fathers”. Rev. Eva shared with us some history about the man for whom Black Hawk County is named [...]
Every summer as Eva travels, there are things she gets so close to, and yet misses. This year, it was Lincoln’s cabin. This got her to thinking about the nature of life, choices, and what we give up as we go along life’s journey. To listen to this service click here.
On this Sunday we joned with UUs all over the country to celebrate our common movement and to raise money to help fund the growth of Unitarian Universalism. In fact, some of the money raised has helped us join with our churches in Iowa to create sponsored spots about UUism on IPR. To listen to [...]
This podcast begins with the Chalice Lighting by Judy Harrington. The Rev. Eva Cameron sermon is about recognizing the power of realizing the blessings you have in your life, choosing to listen for love. The web of life that surrounds us speaks to us everyday. This was also a journal Sunday. [...]
The service for all ages team, Karen Impola and the Rev. Eva Cameron put together a service to celebrate the autumn and the lessons it offers us on our Spiritual journey with song, drama, poetry and joy. To listen to the Introduction, the Apple Tree Skit, the Meditation, a poem by Mary Oliver and conclusion [...]
Together UU’s from all over the country are working toward Standing on the Side of Love. Today Rev. Eva Cameron helps us explore the Spiritual Theme for the coming year. To listen to the Opening Words,Chalice Lighting and the Meditation click here.
To listen to the sermon click here.
During this annual event the Rev. Eva Cameron answers questions from the “Question Box” where we have have been leaving our “Questions” for her to respond to for the last several weeks. In a religion where we like to say “Even to question truly is an answer” it’s fun to pause and think about what [...]
A Chapel Service in honor of those who have died in service of our Country. Those who have experinced a personal loss were invited to bring an item or photo to place on the altar. To listen to the service click here.
Rev Eva Cameron and Kathy Klink-Zeitz , our Director or Religious Education, joined together to acknowledge and celebrate the power of religious education. Knowledge is power and our children and adults go forth from our doors with strength from the many lessons they learn here together. To listen to the RE honors part of the [...]
On this Mother’s Day we honored the marvelous human potential to find hope, even when times are difficult. Everyone was asked to bring a flower to share with someone. New Members were welcomed in a New Member Ceremoney.
To listen to this service click here.
To listen to the New Member Ceremony click here.
Lichen are those small grayish green things that grow on rocks ( mostly). They just kind of sit there, minding their own business. We mostly ignore them. They offer us a unique spiritual message.
To listen to the Opening Words, Chalice Lighting and Choir click here.
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Rev Eva Cameron, the Service For All Ages Team helped with this celebration of Earth Day with story, song and play. To listen to this service click here.
For some of us, this powerful story of resurrection gives us hope, and for others of us, we all find hope in life restored, in goodness and joy restored. What “Easter Angels: have been in our lives, coaching us, encouraging us to indeed see the moment for what it is – a moment of great [...]
Each year the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is featured at a Sunday service.
To listen to the opening song by the Theoretical String Band, Opening Words, the Chalice Lighting, The Children’s Story read by Al Hays and the Meditation led by the Rev. Eva Cameron click here.
To listen to the Rev Eva Cameron’s sermon on Justice [...]
This early spring service is an opportunity to celebrate Spring with music and drama. We also dedicate children who are new to our UU faith. In the first podcast you can listen to the Children’s Choir sing the Garden Song, hear the Chalice lighting and the Children’t Dedication. To listen click here.
In the second podcast [...]
The Stewardship Team and Rev Eva Cameron explore the deeper meaning of giving during this service. The first podcast includes the opening music, the opening words, chalice lighting and the children’s story. To hear this section of the service click here.
The second podcast includes the Stewardship moment, Offering, The Sermon by Mike Knapp [...]
The Rev. Eva and the Service For All Ages Team used music, drama and poetry to share with the congregation about all the many ways that love touches our lives.
This podcast of the service is divided into 3 separate podcasts.
To listen to part 1, which includes the Children’s Choir, the Opening words, the Global Chalice [...]
We have a special love of the relationship of science and religion.
For some, Darwin’s evolution has become their religious myth as
well as a scientific theory. Let’s celebrate the man, his ideas and
how they have rocked our religious world!
To listen to the Theoretical String Band play “Hey Charley”, The Rev. Eva Cameron’s opening words and Laura [...]
The Artistic Youth Ensemble of Minnesota joined us on this special Sunday to bring some special music to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. To hear this special music and Rev. Eva Cameron’s special words about his dreams and ours, click here.
If you would like to learn more about the [...]
Hale once said, “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do
everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do
everything I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” The
Rev. Eva Cameron is preaching joined by Worship Associate Al Hays. To listen to this service click here.
Once Universalist congregations spread across the Midwest with giant revival meetings. What message did they offer the spirit-weary of the plains? Strong enough to leave Iowa with over one hundred congregations at the turn of the last century! What can we learn from this past? To listen to this service click here.
Every January we celebrate the Aniversary of the Universalist Church in Waterloo by having communion with the orginal communion service used by the Universalists. To listen to the Communion story told to the children and the congregation by the Rev Eva Cameron click here.
Does the ‘holiday season’ get your blood pressure up as you
think of all the things that need to get done before the 25th?! Just as
the one approach to this holiday asks us to rush about at break-neck
speed, there is another side that asks us to slow down, to reflect, to
listen, to anticipate. The Rev. Eva, [...]
A service to celebrate the richness of life and all that we have for which to be thankful. The choir and worship associate Karen Impola assisted with this service. To listen to this service click here.
What does it take to grow our Church? Is growth really necessary. Lara Martinsen-Burrell joins Rev Eva Cameron with the service and the New Member Ceremony. To listen to this service click here.
This service explores the idea of Covenant, and just what it can mean for us UUs. The band helps out with a theme song. To listen to the and the Meditation Click here. To listen to this Sermon click here.
This Service was a Treats and Talents Sermon purchased by Jan Gallagher. Jan selected the Book, Prophetic Sisterhood, about the sisterhood of Unitarian women who build churches in Iowa over one hundred twenty years ago. Rev Eva Cameron, Jan Gallagher and Worship Associate Karen Impola put together hymns, a childrens story and a sermon from [...]
This Association Sunday Service is a celebration of our connection with the larger Unitarian Universalist movement around the country. To listen to the Intro and Meditation click here. To listen to the Children’s Story click here. To listen to Del Carpenter, Rev. Eva Carpenter and Jeff Heiden speak about our connections to the UUA click [...]
This service honors the Birthday of Gandhi and his committment to effecting large changes in governments and in societies using the tools of ahimsa. To listen to this service click here.
Crisp fall leaves, brilliant blue sky, harvesting crops and fruits while the squirrels harvest their nuts. All these and many other images fill our heads as we dream of fall. Autumn offers a special message inviting us to grow ourselves spiritually as well, if we only pause to read the scripture written on the turning [...]
This summer, Unitarian Universalist hearts joined ours in lurching as we heard the news that the Knoxville UU Church had suffered critical losses due to a man entering the sanctuary with a gun and firing it. It is important to pause, and hold closely all those peole, memories, places and ideas we hold sacred, special, [...]
Rev Eva Cameron explores with us some of the directions this year’s theme can take us as a community and as individuals. To listen to this service click here.
A short Chapel Service is followed by an All – Church clean up and a picnic lunch.
Our Annual Service for All Ages Service where we bring small vials of water from our summer travels and mingle them together in a bowl in the front of the sanctuary to symbolize our coming together as a community at this Service For All Ages
May 4th International Sunday: Transylvanian Unitarians (or “Wait, I didn’t know we were related to VAMPIRES ! “) You can listen to the Rev. Eva Cameron and be inspired by the deep history of our Transylvanian Unitarian ‘cousins’ by clicking here.
This April 27th service had the Rev Eva Cameron and member Jim Paprocki exchanging views and responding to questions about what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist and a Christian. To listen to this service click here.
Silent Thunder ~~ Rev. Eva Cameron, Julie Fischer to hear this presentation about inspiration and science based on the book Silent Thunder click here.
Rev. Eva Cameron shares her experiences growing up as a “minority” in the community, and her views on liberation theology and the Rev. Wright’s sermons. This timely service looks at more then the “sound bites” which have been in the news about the Rev Wright and to the historical context of liberation [...]
We say we celebrate the inherent goodness in each person, but sometimes, when it comes right down to it, many of our interactions here at church have to do with business. What can we do to take the time to really sow our interest and care? To listen to this service click here.
During what has become annual event, members of the congregation had the opportunity to put questions for the Minister in a “Question Box” located in the fellowship hall for several weeks. During this service the Rev. Eva Cameron answered as many as she could. To listen to this service click here.
Drawing on the rich legacy of African American spiritual and gospel music, we explore the role that music played during the civil rights movement and how music can give us courage to continue our quest for social justice today.To listen to this service click here. Celeste Bembry and members of the UNI George Walker [...]
This celebration of our anniversary in the Cedar Valley begins with an original piano piece by one of our members. This celebration recalls Jan. 5, 1875 when the Universalist Church was established in Waterloo. Del Carpenter and Eva revisit an old Universalist sermon, old hymns and share a communion with the congregation using [...]
The Rev. Eva Cameron and Worship Associate John Miller lead the congregation in a service of carols, scripture and a modern tale. To listen to this sevice click here
The darker side of the season, the things we or our children think we “want” for Christmas. Does our vision of the ‘perfect’ Christmas never turn out exactly as we dreamed – this side of longing. To listen to this service click here.
The Rev. Eva Cameron each year at the Treats and Talents Auction offers a sermon based on a book. To listen to this years sermon on”The Life of Pi” Click here.
At this special Sunday Service 3 persons were commissioned as Lay Ministers. The Rev. Eva Cameron discusses the different titles used for the leader of a religious congregation and each of the new Lay Ministers takes an opportunity to share with the congregation. To listen to this service click here.
We set aside this day to join with each other in honoring our larger movement. The theme is “Now is the Time”. Now is the time for growing our faith. Now is the time to reach out, with our unique message of how precious each and every body, each and every culture, [...]
Gandhi’s vision of creating change – large institutional, political change – altered the world. Not just in his lown life’s work, but in the vision he gave to the whole world. To listen to this celebration of Gandhi’s life click here. Hari Shankar also shares his story of his childhood in India [...]
Judy Harrington and the Rev. Eva Cameron shared with us some of the Jewish thoughts and practices about Yom Kippur this special Day of Atonement. To listen to this service click here.
A line by E.B. White caught Eva’s eye, and made her think about the many times we are trapped between our many goals and dreams for life. To listen to this sedrvice about the exploration about seeking balance in our desire to save the world and to savor the world click here.
This Labor Day Service by Rev. Eva Cameron and Worship Associate Del Carpenter honors those who labor on our behalf. This was a chapel service followed by the singing of some traditional labor songs. Our annual work party and pot luck picnic followed the service. To listen to the service click here.
An end of summer service where attendees bring a vial of water that represents some thing or some place meaningful to them from the summer. To listen to this service click here.
Thoughts on this year’s Spiritual Theme. The Rev. Eva Cameron shares thoughts about this years theme which is based on the ancient Hindu story of the blind man and the elephant. To listen to this service click here.
Religion often speaks in terms of ‘refuge’, From Wildlife Refuges to taking Refuge in the Buddha, Eva will explore the significance of this concept in her life. To listen to this service click here.
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Sue Wilson bid on a sermon preached from a book of her choice at the Treats & Talents action. She won a sermon, and picked the book “The Pickwick Papers” because she feels a strong resonance with the themes of the book in connecting with the world today. Come and hear Eva give her thoughts [...]
After the UU Children present a Chinese New Year play, the Rev. Eva Cameron shared stories about New Year’s celebrations in China. To listen to this service click here.
The Rev. Eva Cameron shares what it means to be “called” to the ministry. To listen to this service click here.
What messages and values are our children learning in this time? Is humankind progressing, or are we “going to hell in a hand-basket”? What might the future hold and what does that mean to us? To listen to this sermon click here.
An exploration of the connection/blending between a belief in God and a belief in technology. To listen to this service click here.
Rev. Eva Cameron shares her thoughts about the song “In Brokenness You Shine”. To listen to this service click here.
The Rev Eva Cameron takes us back over 100 years ago when the Rev Effie Jones was a Universalist Minister in Waterloo.
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A Christmas Eve service with the Rev Eva Cameron and John Miller. To listen to this service click here.
A service of music, with musical guests Bittersweet Christmas Band and the Cedar Valley Singers. To listen to this service click here.
Sermon preached by Rev. Eva Cameron, with contribution by Del Carpenter, Worship Associate
Story for all Ages preceding Sermon
Many years ago, when I was a minister at another church, a kid asked me a question that I have always remembered. We were standing at Coffee Hour, and around us people were all munching on the [...]
by Rev. Eva Cameron and Jim Paprocki, Worship Associate
The whole idea of preaching this sermon started last summer, when I visited my old childhood home of Yellow Springs, Ohio. Some of you may have heard of Yellow Springs; it’s the home of Antioch College, which is a pretty radical campus. I lived there from 1967 [...]
The Rev Eva Cameron answers questions placed
in the question box.
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A sermon about Harold Kushner’s book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People. To listen to this service click here.
The text of the sermon begins here..
Today I will speak to you about Harold Kushner’s book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Kushner’s motivation in writing this book was the spiritual journey that he [...]
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To listen to this service click here
Albert Einstein said: “A hundred times every day, I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
Exploring the relationship between repentance and preventation. To listen to this service click here
Sermon in Conversation Form by Rev. Eva Cameron and Del Carpenter, Worship Associate
Eva: Today’s sermon title comes from a sign I saw on a church one time. It read “Repentance is Good, but Prevention is Better.” This really got me to thinking: [...]
The Rev Eva Cameron reflects on the Gospel song, I’m Still Here.
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I love listening to the smooth sound of the gospel song I’m Still Here. The lyrics remind that even if we still are in the middle of something we’d rather not be in, there is a reason to [...]
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I want to read a very special prayer for you today. This prayer is usually called the Prayer of St. Francis. St. Francis didn’t actually write this prayer, but it was often printed on a bookmark with a picture of St. Francis on the other side, so people got [...]
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I begin with these words of Victor Frankl, who says: “The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
To me, the term Radical Acceptance invites us to explore this ‘last of the human freedoms.’ It invites us to think about what [...]
Living lightly, an exploration with the Rev Eva Cameron
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An Easter service about moments of grace and glory in our lives.
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Prophets of old had it lucky, if you could call it that. God talked to them in dramatic ways, you can almost read all the exclamation points—burning bushes, stone tablets, visitation by angels—
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I have to CONFESS: before I said I’d preach this sermon, I really didn’t know that much about the topic of Confession. I got interested in it when I was visiting the Unitarians in the Khasi Hills of India, and I noticed that in their weekly Wednesday evening [...]
I had no idea that when I selected this topic to preach on, last fall, I’d be stepping into the middle of a media controversy regarding a recently launched TV show. Never having been all that trendy, I’m not entirely sure what to do with this sudden rush of trendiness!
Members of the congregation join the Rev. Eva Cameron in telling about their experiences with the Civil Rights struggles. To listen to this service click here.
To listen to this service click here
[The Minister sings twice:] “Where do we come from, who are we, where are we going to?” [Then slowly, descending & ascending]: “Where do we come from?”
On the 131st year of our presence in this community, it’s a great question to ask. Sometimes we get so busy hurrying along, [...]
My introductory words come from the Maccabees, verses 7-13:
1. “Alas! Why was I born to see this, the ruin of my people, the ruin
of the holy city, and to live there when it was given over to the
enemy, the sanctuary given over to aliens?”
To listen to this service click here
To listen to this service click here.
I want to read a very special prayer for you today. This prayer is usually called the Prayer of St. Francis. St. Francis didn’t actually write this prayer, but it was often printed on a bookmark with a picture of St. Francis on the other side, so people got [...]
(Opening Words, #633 in our Hymnal)
This past week, we entered the holy month of Ramadan, for those who follow Islam. It is hard for many of us to understand why anyone would want to fast for a month, and just exactly why someone would do this
Rev Eva Cameron and her family lived for awhile with the Unitarians in the Kashi Hills. In this service they share their experiences.
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On the occasion of the Dedication of our New Building Entry, I want to tell you 3 short stories. First, I must say, it’s great to go through the fun of a dedication without the difficulty of having to raise the money, talk with the architects, or hassle with the contractors.
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