Wildflower Church
1314 E Oltorf St, Austin, TX 78704 | Sundays @ 11:45amGrowing spiritually together, spreading love, justice, and joy!
Wildflower Church has adopted the 8th Principle!
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❗We meet in person and on Zoom every Sunday except the second Sunday of the month. On the second Sunday of each month, we have a Zoom-only service.❗
Please note the new start time of our worship services is 11:45 a.m.
Our services last 60 to 75 minutes.
To attend a worship service via Zoom, click here.
Our theme for October is What Does it Mean to be a Unitarian Universalist?
Next Service
From Eve to Us
October 20, 2024
The year was 2016, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were running for president, and Erin Walter was serving as Wildflower's intern minister. During that time, the now Rev. Walter wrote and delivered a sermon titled "From Eve to Hillary," examining sexism and misogyny in religion, politics, and even ourselves and our own congregation. That sermon went on to win the Sermon Award from the UU Women's Federation and be featured at 2017 UUA General Assembly in New Orleans. This Sunday, with another intense election season upon us (and a female candidate who is "not aspiring to be humble"), Rev. Walter returns with an updated version of this award-winning sermon, now titled "From Eve to Us." Join us in welcoming back our former intern and community minister and honoring a piece of Wildflower history. (Rev. Erin and her bandmate Andrew Solin from Parker Woodland will also provide music for the service and stay to sign copies of their new album in coffee hour.
Children and youth in grades pre-k through 12th will be meeting in person in their classes after being present in the sanctuary for the first part of the service. The nursery is available for babies and children from 6 weeks to 5 years old during the entire service period. You may choose either option for your child if they are 5 years old.
To attend a worship service via Zoom, click here.
Masks are optional in the sanctuary.
Wildflower Church is a deliberately inclusive, lay-led, open-minded religious community in the Unitarian Universalist tradition, growing spiritually together, spreading love, justice, and joy! We create our community by covenanting one to another, using our Covenant for Beloved Community. We meet in South Austin, at our shared campus.
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Upcoming Events
Ideas Worth Contemplating is an ongoing class that offers opportunities for spirited and stimulating conversation around inspiring and thought-provoking TED Talks. Join us to explore a variety of topics that touch our lives, spur the deepening of our spirituality, and guide us in how we want to show up in the world. Held 1st and 3rd Sundays at 9:30 am Ideas Worth Contemplating is an ongoing class that offers opportunities for spirited and stimulating conversation around inspiring and thought-provoking TED Talks. Join us to explore a variety of topics that touch our lives, spur the deepening of our spirituality, and guide us in how we want to show up in the world. Held 1st and 3rd Sundays at 9:30 am events, such as introduction, general meeting, art workshop, or training. 2pm – 5pm. We meet to study climate change basics, intersections with equity and justice, impacts on particular aspects of life on earth, current events, pathways for change, or ideas about how to influence policy or opinion. Each class includes ample discussion time. Zoom link is in the Weekly News. Ideas Worth Contemplating is an ongoing class that offers opportunities for spirited and stimulating conversation around inspiring and thought-provoking TED Talks. Join us to explore a variety of topics that touch our lives, spur the deepening of our spirituality, and guide us in how we want to show up in the world. Held 1st and 3rd Sundays at 9:30 amOctober 2024
Sunday 10/20
Zoom link in weekly newsletterNovember 2024
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chg date to 2nd sunday per 02/178 req from SLSunday 11/17
Zoom link in weekly newsletter
Children & Youth Programs
Our religious education program serves babies and children through 18 years.
Adult Religious Education
We provide many different groups and courses for adults, occuring throughout the week.
Teams
Teams do much of the work of the church with our mission as guide. No task is too small to contribute meaningfully to our community.
Service Times
Join us this Sunday at 11:45 am in the Sanctuary at our shared campus. Extra parking is available across Oltorf at Travis High School.
Wildflower Covenant for Beloved Community
The spirit in me welcomes the spirit in you, in all our wholeness and imperfection.
We celebrate our connections and our differences.
We actively seek to create equity as we build relationships with one another.
We care for one another and for ourselves.
We listen to others with respect and open hearts, intending to understand.
We speak to others with respect and kindness, intending to be understood.
We make every effort to settle differences directly and openly.
This beloved community is our spiritual home: we all share our gifts to build it.
We commit to be in covenant and to be called back into covenant.