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Worship Services

Our worship services occur every Sunday beginning at 11:45 a.m. and last for about an hour. On the second Sunday of each month, our service is on Zoom only. To attend a worship service on Zoom, click here. All other Sundays we meet in person in the sanctuary at Faith Presbyterian Church, and we simultaneously stream the service on Zoom.

The links below include descriptions of past services without videos. If you are a church member and would like to see a video of a particular past service that is not available at the link above, contact the Worship Team at worship@wildflowerchurch.org.

Interested in seeing or hearing something in Worship? Let the worship team know.

 

Upcoming Service

Living into Our Shared Values: Justice

August 24, 2025

During this intergenerational worship service, we reflect on our UU shared value of Justice. This means that we work to be diverse multicultural Beloved Communities where all feel welcome and can thrive.

Parker Woodland

photo credit: Eryn Brooke

We have invited our friends, Erin Walter and Andrew Solin of ‘Parker Woodland’ as guest musicians for this service to help us reflect on this value of Justice. Activist power trio Parker Woodland plays dynamic, emotional rock-n-roll for finding joy in a world on fire and is hitting the road on their first multistage tour in September 2025. There's No Such Thing as Time, their debut full-length album, hit #24 on the Submodern album chart and includes summer bops "Ladder at Your Window" and "The World's on Fire (and We Still Fall in Love)." The female-majority band also addresses grief ("Stranger"), LGBTQIA+ rights ("Makeup") and climate chaos ("The Reckoning") in their songs while keeping hope alive with "major Go-Gos energy" (KUTX).

Parker Woodland will play a rare acoustic duo set, before the full band heads out on its first multistage tour in September. They will have t-shirts and records to sell to help put gas in the van, and would also like to invite Wildflower members to keep two upcoming LGBTQIA+ benefit shows they are playing: Aug. 31 at 29th St Ballroom (Louder Than Hate fest benefiting Equality Texas) and Sept. 6 at Empire Control Room (benefiting Queer Liberation Network) on their radars.

Each week, from June 1st through August 31st, the theme of our stories and music-filled services will reflect one of our UU Shared Values: Interdependence, Pluralism, Justice, Transformation, Generosity, Equity, with Love at the center of them all. Our summer services have a noticeably different intergenerational feel, with moments for journaling and self-reflection, inspired by and guided by our Time for All Ages story and special music meant to deepen our connection with the shared value of the day. (TFAA and music are our summer sermons.).

Our Opening Song for the month of August is Put a Little Love in Your Heart by Jackie DeShannon, Jimmy Holiday, and Randy Myers. Our summer-long Closing Hymn is #1008 When Our Heart is in a Holy Place.

Children and youth in kindergarten through 12th grade will not be meeting in their classes this Sunday as it is an intergenerational service. This means they too will be present to enjoy our special music by Parker Woodland! The nursery is available for babies and children from 6 weeks to 5 years old during the service.

To attend a worship service via Zoom, click here.

Masks are optional in the sanctuary.

Written Descriptions of Past Services

Hope in Renewal

03/06/2022
According to important myth, our Universalist ancestor John Murray famously said, "Give them not hell, but hope and courage." But, hope for what, exactly? During these times, it is critical…

Love That Lets Go

02/27/2022
There is so much going on in the big and little picture of our lives. We do not know how it all turns out. Many things are very hard and…
Practicing love and compassion in this world begins at home — with our own self-care and spiritual practice. Whether we are activists seeking balance or seekers distressed by the imbalances…
Sheila Rae and others will bravely take us into one of the most challenging, mystifying, tragic, glorious, and—yes—spiritual themes we could ever explore—Romantic Love!  Young Love, committed Love, lost love,…
  Children and Youth Religious Education: Classes will be held this Sunday, Feb. 6, on Zoom from 10:30 – 11:25 am. Please write to dre@wildflowerchurch.org for more information and for…
We’re on an endless journey to build the Beloved Community. Given the imperfections of humans, we’ll lose our way from time to time. There will be waystations on this journey…
From trans rights to reproductive justice, voting rights to the environment, this is a crucial time in Texans' fight for justice. Rev. Erin Walter, Wildflower's community minister and the Acting…
The journey towards healing, racial justice and building Beloved Community is long and full of challenges. It is important to pause and celebrate our milestones such as Wildflower’s recent adoption…

Love Is Not Enough

01/09/2022
Our Unitarian Universalist faith calls us to love, but what does that look like as we begin another new year in the midst of a pandemic? Is it enough to…
As people of faith and conscience, we are called to disobey all that stands in the way of peace, life, and love. But although the popular understanding of "civil disobedience"—public…
The winter holiday season is winding down and we look toward a new year. It is a liminal time in which we hover between the year just finished and the…
How fortunate we are that we can gather in community—both in- person and on Zoom--as we approach the longest night of the year.  The Winter Solstice offers us the opportunity…

Being Family

12/12/2021
We are born with family and many of us also choose who we will understand to be our family — and we are all born into an entire ecosystem around…

Joy as Resistance

12/05/2021
There is so much anxiety, fear, and worry living inside and around us. Creating intentional joy through resistance is a way to help increase our resiliency and possibly secure sustainability…
Using the song of Violeta Parra “Gracias a la vida” as inspiration, Rev. Tania Márquez touches on the topic of gratitude and shares how this ordinary, but not always easy,…
In this lively sermon, QuianaDenae will explore what is possible when communities adopt the 8th principle; calling us to think of what we are growing for ourselves and our greater…
Please join us -- at home or in person! -- for Wildflower Church's long-awaited return to our sanctuary at 1314 E. Oltorf, Austin, TX 78704! For the first time in 20 months, Music…
Join Wildflower youth and children for a service about the 8th Principle, a proposed addition to the current 7 Principles that affirms our commitment as UUs to work against racism…

A House for Haunts

10/31/2021
What ghosts inhabit your halls? What monsters lurk under your bed? On this sacred day of frights, let's explore what goes bump in the night...and how to spy the future…
Join us for this music-filled worship service celebrating the 110th birthday of Mahalia Jackson, legendary gospel singer and powerful champion of Black love, justice, and joy.  Her wholehearted faith and…