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! For more information, click here.
❗We have returned to in-person, multi-platform services! On the second Sunday of each month, we will have a Zoom only service. Click here for more information.❗
Please note the new start time of our worship services is 11:45 a.m.!
To attend a worship service via Zoom, click here.
Our theme for the month of December is Renewal, with the sub-themes of Retreating (12/4), Restoring (12/11), and Spiritual Growth (12/18). We will not have a service on Christmas Day.
Next Service
ZOOM ONLY: Have Faith in Nights: Joy through the struggle, rest in the resistance
December 11, 2022
Beloved ancestor Maya Angelou declared "Surviving is necessary. Thriving is elegant." Grounded in the belief that all people have inherent power and dignity, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) partners with with frontline grassroots movements across the world for our collective survival and the hope of thrival. Join us in a service of joy through the struggle, rest in the resistance with the Rev. Deanna Vandiver, Director of Justice Education with the UUSC and an affiliated community minister of love and liberation with the Church of the Larger Fellowship UU.
Deanna Vandiver lives with her partner on the land of the Coastal Salish people known as the Suquamish, “the people of the clear salt water" and is an auntie to many beloveds across an ever-increasing span of generations. Deeply grateful to the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (pisab.org) for shaping their core understandings of how systemic racism dehumanizes all of us, Deanna finds sustaining joy by the water and magical possibilities in every glue stick, garden, and collaboration.
Children and Youth Religious Education classes will not be held this Sunday.
To attend a worship service via Zoom, click here.
It is no longer necessary to register in advance before attending a service in person.
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
Zoom link in weekly newsletter Zoom link in weekly newsletter Zoom link in weekly newsletter 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.December 2022
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Sunday 12/18
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Sunday 12/25
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.