The December Sunday Services and programs for the Pagosa Unitarian Universalist Fellowship follow.
Our schedule includes time for building community, growing spirits and doing good, which we hold as our motto. We invite our Pagosa community to a welcoming space, as we embrace inclusion and all of who you are.
The new year will bring a recommitment and renewal of our Welcoming Congregation status with the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). This process includes holding worship services, days of observance, education component and a service project in support of the LBGTQ+/TGQNB communities. We are a community of open minds and loving hearts as we continue a path of lifelong learning.
• Dec. 7, 10:30 a.m.: Sunday service, “Gratitude and Joy as Resistance.”
Guest speaker Tami Bradshaw, who comes to us from Durango, will share on the theme of gratitude and joy.
Bradshaw believes that cultivating joy, wonder and awe is perhaps the most practical thing any of us can do to serve the world and to serve others. From this place, she will share some insights and practices gleaned from the Spiritual Directors International webinar called “Awakening Joy: Cultivating Presence.”
The three areas of exploration Bradshaw will speak to are activating a deeper sense of relaxed present moment awareness, mine the gold of personal experience to consciously cultivate more elevated states of being, and begin to habituate those states through a simple three- to five-minute practice.
She shares that her most consistent spiritual practice is walking in the woods and talking with the trees, and where she enjoys the company of spiritual companions that include ponderosa pines, wild turkeys, gray tufted squirrels and little black bears. She most often feels the Spirits’ loving presence when she is slowing down and connecting to nature.
Bradshaw is a spiritual director certified through the Stillpoint Center for Christian Spirituality at Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico. For more than 25 years, Bradshaw has facilitated spiritual formation programs for children, youth and adults. She holds a Master of Arts in religion from the Iliff School of Theology, where she learned great respect for all the world’s wisdom traditions. She has served United Methodist churches in the Sky Mountain Conference as program staff, pastor’s spouse and as a volunteer, and is currently a member of Summit Church Durango, a United Methodist church where her husband Jeff Huber is the lead pastor. In her spiritual companioning work, she accompanies individuals and facilitates spiritual direction groups both in person and online.
• Dec. 14, 10:30 a.m. to noon: Going Deeper Sharing Circle.
In this small-group setting, we practice deep listening and sharing from our hearts. The fourth in the series from the “On Being” podcast, we will hear an excerpt with Ocean Vuong. Poet, novelist, essayist and professor of creative writing in the MFA program at New York University, Vuong is “a teacher with words about words,” said Krista Tippet, host of “On Being.” With space for reflection and sharing we practice the art of listening with others. Light refreshments are offered.
• Dec 21: Winter solstice gathering.
Beginning around 10 a.m. with an informal drum circle, we will honor the dark and light of the season. “The Spark Within” will be our theme as we welcome the growing light after the longest night of the year. We’ll begin with an outdoor drum circle for those interested and move in for music, reflection and ritual to honor both the dark and the light. More information to come.
• Dec. 28: a rest Sunday.
We’ll pause our Action Sunday this month for a continued rest from the holiday rush. Join us in January 2026 on the fourth Sunday to continue the UUA Common Read Book Group on “Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection” by Deepa Iyer
We share our fellowship space with various community groups in our hub, a place for groups to gather and grow. The Tara Pagosa Meditation practice meets Sunday evenings from 4:30 to 6 p.m. through the winter months. Also weekly is Qigong practice on Mondays at 1 p.m., and the Wise and Wakeful Circle on the second and fourth Saturdays at 10 a.m.
Find more information at PagosaUU.org, where you will find our current newsletter.
Pagosa Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is located at Greenbriar Plaza, Unit B-15, 301 N. Pagosa Blvd., on the north side facing the Pagosa Peak.
For more information about the fellowship, please see the website and look for our current newsletter.
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