Join us for this fifth Sunday joint Sunday School. Our music director, AV, and organist, EunJoo, with Bill Bingham, will tell us about the status of our pipe organ, the repair options, and the process. For all of us who love and enjoy organ music in our worship services, this will be a good time to have an open conversation about how we can better care for and appreciate our beloved instrument.

Come to the Chapel during Sunday school hour and join us in a hymn sing led by EunJoo. We'll close out the 2024 year together by singing some of our favorite Christmas hymns.

Families and kiddos are invited to gather together to bring comfort and joy to our community members who live in retirement and care homes! We will gather in the Fellowship Hall after worship to eat pizza and configure our carpools, and then we will depart to visit three care homes in the area to sing Christmas Carols for their residents.

Questions? Contact AV at alicia@uumc.org, Jillian at jillian@uumc.org or Natasha at natasha@uumc.org!

Everyone should sing at Christmas! Our Christmas Eve choir is open to all. If you're a college student returning home or a visitor attending with your family, you only need to attend this ONE rehearsal in order to join the choir on Christmas Eve at 5:30PM and/or 10:30PM. Singers are welcome to join even if they can only sing at ONE of the two services!

Attire for Christmas Eve singers is semi-formal concert blacks (slacks/skirts/blouse/button-ups) with red accents.

Email AV at alicia@uumc.org to sign up and with any questions!

The best way to spread Christmas Cheer is SINGING LOUD for all to hear!

Join us for UUMC's annual Christmas Caroling Party! We will meet at AV, Kenzie, & Laura's place at 6 PM to grab some music packets, then we will carol from house to house around the neighborhood. We'll return to the house after singing and share cider, snacks, s'mores and cookies! Not up to walking around? Feel free to join for fellowship and snacks around 7!

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Join us for our annual Lessons and Carols service! The choir and congregation will join together to sing traditional carols as well as more contemporary compositions, interspersed with the Christmas Story read by congregants and community leaders. Doors will open at 6 pm, at 6:30 pm, we’ll have a special set of prelude music, which will only be performed before the 7 pm service. Let's sing the songs of the season together!

Join us for our annual Lessons and Carols service! The choir and congregation will join together to sing traditional carols as well as more contemporary compositions, interspersed with the Christmas Story read by congregants and community leaders. Let's sing the songs of the season together!

Note: If you can’t join us at 11 am there is a 7 pm Lessons & Carols Service available as well.

We will observe All Saints Sunday on November 3 at 11am in the sanctuary with a special worship service. The Congregational Church of Austin will join us for a worship service including a lighting of candles for All Saints’ Sunday and the Brahms Requiem. We anticipate the service being 90 minutes to 2 hours. Due to the length of the requiem, we will celebrate Communion on November 10.

Under the direction of A. Villareal, the UUMC Sanctuary Choir accompanied by Dr. Eun Joo Fierro, other guest musicians and the Congregational Church of Austin Choir will present the Brahms Requiem. The Brahms’ Requiem is a renowned work, composed by Johannes Brahms during a time of personal grief to provide comfort and peace to others experiencing grief and loss. 

On November 3rd we will present Johannes Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) as an integral part of our All Saints Service. This masterwork of the Romantic era features texts that Brahms himself selected from Luther’s translation of the Bible. The language was chosen for its accessibility to German congregations- deviating meaningfully from the Latin (Catholic) requiems. The opening line- “Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted” can serve as a succinct representation of the intention of the work: to comfort. Brahms began work on the requiem in 1857, a year after his friend Robert Schumann died. His mother Christiane passed away in 1865, and the work was completed in the summer of 1866. Many colleagues and conductors gave him guidance and feedback along this journey, including Clara Schumann.

Throughout the piece we meditate on the fleeting but meaningful qualities of life, the pain of loss in death, and the certainty of God comforting us both when we mourn, and when we die. We pass away, but the word of the Lord remains. And when we rest from our labors, our works follow after us. Together on November 3rd, amidst the lighting of candles and the voicing of names of those we have lost this year, we will have the opportunity to experience the breadth of emotions present in grief, and we will conclude with a reminder that there is great comfort to be found.

Choir: UUMC Sanctuary Choir and the Congregational Church of Austin Choir

Accompanists: Dr. Eun Joo Fierro

Conductor: A. Villarreal

Calling all tenors and basses (lower voiced friends) of any experience level- Let's get rowdy and raucous and let the tenors have the melody!! We'll sing some powerful and playful music just for the lower voices! We’ll perform in worship on Sunday, July 28.

We’ll rehearse on Wednesday, July 24 in the choir room from 7 - 8:30 pm. Afterwards we'll head to Draught House Pub & Brewery and share a pint, and a drinking song??

Questions? Contact AV!

Our Sanctuary service will feature a choir built of our chosen families this Sunday!

We’ll rehearse July 17th from 5:30 - 7 pm in the choir room. Bring your grandparent, kid, roommate, partner, best friend to join in making a joyful noise!

Questions? Contact A. Villarreal!

Calling all sopranos and altos (my higher voiced friends) of any experience level- Let's let the altos live their bass dreams and sing some lush, expressive, and energetic music just for us upper voices! What a treat, what a dream! We’ll perform during 11 am worship on Sunday, June 30.

We’ll rehearse on Wednesday in the Choir Room from 7 - 8:30 pm. Afterwards we'll head to The Tigress Pub and share a cocktail or a snack :)

Bring your grandma, children, roommates, partners, parents or friends and let’s make a joyful noise with our chosen families this week! We’ll rehearse on Wednesday and lead the music during worship on Sunday, June 10!

No experience needed and ALL are welcome!

Questions? Email AV!

The Youth Choir of Belmont UMC in Nashville, Tennessee is going on tour this summer. They’re performing in RMN churches across Austin - including UUMC! Their choir, the Open Door Singers, performs in our Sanctuary on Thursday, May 30 and you’re invited to attend!

Our Wesley choir (1st-12th grade) will sing “Hosanna, Hosanna” by Stan Pethel at the 11 am service on Palm Sunday, March 24th.

Wesley Choir Participants should arrive by 10:30 am.

Email Alicia for questions or to register!

The Wesley Children’s Choir will sing during worship on Children’s Sunday, September 17. They will sing “If You’re Happy Say Amen” by André Thomas.

Rehearsals will be immediately following the 11 am service on the chancel in the Sanctuary.

Parents should contact Alicia by August 13 if their children would like to participate.

The Wesley Children’s Choir will sing during worship on Children’s Sunday, September 17. They will sing “If You’re Happy Say Amen” by André Thomas.

Rehearsals will be immediately following the 11 am service on the chancel in the Sanctuary.

Parents should contact Alicia by August 13 if their children would like to participate.

All students from 1st-12th grade are welcome to sing in Wesley Choir. Younger kids will be assisted by older kids and adult volunteers. We are very much a y'all come choir and hope that all students feel welcomed to come and sing! We will rehearse every Sunday after worship during Lent (2/18-3/17), and sing at the 11 am service on Palm Sunday, March 24th.

Email Alicia for questions or to register!

All students from 1st-12th grade are welcome to sing in Wesley Choir. Younger kids will be assisted by older kids and adult volunteers. We are very much a y'all come choir and hope that all students feel welcomed to come and sing! We will rehearse every Sunday after worship during Lent (2/18-3/17), and sing at the 11 am service on Palm Sunday, March 24th.

Email Alicia for questions or to register!

All students from 1st-12th grade are welcome to sing in Wesley Choir. Younger kids will be assisted by older kids and adult volunteers. We are very much a y'all come choir and hope that all students feel welcomed to come and sing! We will rehearse every Sunday after worship during Lent (2/18-3/17), and sing at the 11 am service on Palm Sunday, March 24th.

Email Alicia for questions or to register!

Hymn writers Hal and Martha Hopson will lead a program about the writing of sacred music in our chapel. Hal Hopson has written many hymns featured at UUMC and this is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about the artists behind the songs!

Join us for worship as we remember members who died during the year.

The Sanctuary Choir will perform "Lux Aeterna" by Morten Lauridsen, a requiem in five movements. Composed in 1997, "Lux Aeterna" is a relatively contemporary requiem. Lauridsen was moved to compose the piece by the death of his mother, for whom he had great love. The piece is often compared to Brahm's "Ein Deutsches Requiem." Both composers took liberty in the selection of their text, rather than pulling from the traditional latin mass, they focused on readings that would comfort and console the living. "Lux Aeterna" features readings that reference various forms of sacred light. May this work and our singers be a light to you on a heavy day, as we remember and lift up all those in our congregation who have passed throughout the year.