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Sacred Activism

11/04/2025

(Our Worship Service theme for November and December 2025)

In November and December, our service theme is sacred activism, or the understanding that change in the world comes directly from the change we let happen inside. Where we believe we are separate, we can never bring positive change. Our personal transformation is the experience through which we find our place to contribute to change in the world. In this service series, we’ll explore the ways that community supports and sustains us as we look inward towards the mystery of what is, to build what can be.

See all services with this theme.

Wado to Central Texas Cherokee Township!

10/23/2025

Wado to Central Texas Cherokee Township for our Grow Corn, Grow Communities a Hominy Making Workshop

On Sunday, October 19, 2025, Doug Martin and his son spoke, taught, cooked, and shared stories with our Children and Youth Religious Education (CYRE) class and after church with the congregation and community in the Wildflower Community Room. What powerful (and yummy) indigenous lessons and wisdom corn offers about working together, identity, history, the future, and so much more.

Thank you to Central Texas Cherokee Township for this collaboration and mutual community support of our Three Sisters Garden.

*Wado means thank you in Cherokee

Grow Corn, Grow Communities: a Hominy Making Workshop presented by The CTCT Three Sisters Program

10/12/2025

Join us for an afternoon of transformation: it’s time to prepare and eat our community garden’s corn! 

Sunday, October 19, 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Community Room of Wildflower Church
1314 E Oltorf Street, Austin TX 78702

Doug Martin (Central Texas Cherokee Township Three Sisters Program) will show us how to make hominy and grits from field corn (grown in our Three Sisters Garden) and nixtamalization, and share wisdom about the community garden, food sovereignty, and the importance of growing food as a community, interspersed with Cherokee stories and culture, and indigenous foodways. This is an intergenerational cooking demonstration activity open to all ages. Guests and friends are welcome!

Growing Faith and Wildflowers! Let us know you’re planning to attend! RSVP Here.

There is no charge to attend. This event is our gift to the community.

We welcome donations of any size. Your generosity helps us keep giving. Please donate today: https://wildflowerchurch.org/giving/

In Solidarity

09/04/2025

(Our Worship Service theme for October and September 2025)

One way to live into our UU shared values is by adopting a solidarity mindset. Solidarity emphasizes shared responsibility, a collective sense of belonging, and mutual support within a group, rather than just individual feelings or agreement.

Solidarity is more than just a feeling. Being in solidarity with others requires that we see another person as a neighbor, a fellow human who is equal in dignity. Solidarity means recognizing the responsibilities we have to one another and taking an active role in helping others. Solidarity drives us to action.

Being in solidarity with a person or with a group of people is shifting…

  • from charity and saviorism…to mutual aid and collective action.
  • from listening to respond…to listening to understand
  • from talking at you…to talking with you
  • from individualism…to community-centered care

In solidarity says:

“Nothing about us without us.”

In solidarity says:

“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” – Aboriginal activists group Queensland, 1970s

In solidarity says:

“…solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.” – Samora Machel

During September and October 2025 our worship services explore being “in solidarity.”

Our first corn harvest! Three Sisters Garden update

07/24/2025

Wildflower member Brandy Nichols displays our first harvest of corn this year from our Faith Garden (a community garden shared by Faith Presbyterian Church, Wildflower Church, and our community friends and neighbors).

Brandy Nichols holds a string of corn in the husks in the Wildflower Community Room

The corn is the first crop from our Three Sisters garden plot (which consists of corn, beans, and pumpkins or squash), which was planted in partnership with Central Texas Cherokee Township’s Three Sisters Program.

Gratitude to all the gardeners, including youth and children of Wildflower, who have planted, watered, and tended our crops, together. We are also especially grateful to CTCT’s Doug Martin, for his generosity in sharing gardening knowledge and Cherokee heirloom seeds with our community. 

The corn is currently being dried and will later be ground into flour during a food sovereignty workshop which will be planned at a later date in the fall. 

The Wildflower Library Refresh

Gratitude post for Wildflower youth Tulio for volunteer a few weeks of his summer for a refresh of our library. He spent a few weeks cleaning our community room bookshelves, cataloging books into an online database, moving some of archival materials into storage, and starting to reorganize the collection.

This is such a helpful project, which will help our our staff, worship team, CYRE, ARE, and others find more easily find some of the resources we have. (It’ll also help us to make the collection more accessible to members in the future.)

Our database isn’t complete yet, and we still have some organizing to do, but you can have a sneak peak: https://www.librarycat.org/lib/WildflowerChurch

Thanks, Tulio, for living out our Shared UU Value of generosity. What a great gift of time and talent.

If anyone wants to help continue the good work started, please let us know.