Sunday Worship

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

After service, please join us for a potluck lunch.

You are Invited to the Installation of

Reverend Denise Gyauch

as the settled minister of

Greater Nashville Unitarian Universalist Congregation.

Saturday, September 26, 2 PM.

Reception to Follow.

An installation is the congregational act of formally entering into shared ministry with their professional minister. Offering and accepting a call to parish ministry is a life-changing event that gives us the opportunity to embody our Unitarian Universalist history and theology in a meaningful way. 

Rev. Denise Gyauch joined Greater Nashville Unitarian Universalist Congregation as a contracted minister in the Fall of 2021 as we started to meet again in person after the pandemic. During these years together, our congregation has grown and become more grounded. Earlier this year, our congregation held a vote to call Rev. Denise as our settled minister.  

We invite everyone to participate in the preparation of the installation service and join us that day as we celebrate this important milestone for GNUUC, our third permanently called minister in our 34 year history.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

After service, please join us for a potluck lunch.

The Worship Team meetings are in-person/hybrid on the 2nd Sunday of the month at 1 PM in the Sanctuary.

Please join us if you are interested in the Sunday Worship Service content, volunteering as a Service Leader or Service Designer, volunteering to play music or sing, or joining the Tech Team. We would love to have you!

If interested in joining on Zoom, the link is in Slack at the top of the Worship channel reach out to revdenise@gnuuc.org to join this channel.

Join us as we introduce the monthly Woven Faith theme of “Interdependence.”

What does it mean to belong to one another over time — showing up as our whole selves with people we trust, caring for each other reciprocally, and honoring both our needs and our limits along the way? Bring your whole self and join us in exploring what it means to truly belong.

This service uses a new format: a collaborative art service. Everyone will add words, drawings, and reflections to a ribbon, and after the service we'll tie all of them onto a crocheted mandala over lunch. If you're joining on Zoom, share your words or artwork in the chat and we'll add your ribbon to the piece alongside everyone else's.

An interactive, multi-generational service. All ages are welcome!

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation, as well as on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

After the service, join us for a potluck lunch.

In July and August, we host a Summer Song series of Worship services lay-led by members of our congregation. Summer Song services are a great way to learn more about a topic of interest from a member of our community.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children’s Programming

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming or the Wiggle Room after the Time for All Sages.

Curious about Children's RE or the schedule for a specific summer Sunday? Contact Kristin R. at kristin.reveal@gnuuc.org.

Join Us for Potluck Lunch

After the service, join us for a potluck lunch.

Rev. Denise's Installation Service is Saturday, September 26, 2–4 PM — and we need your help to make it happen! It takes a village to put together an event like this; and we excel at being a village of support to each other and stepping up.

Join the Installation Service Planning Meeting on Sunday, August 30, 1–2 PM in the Sanctuary to sign up and help shape this celebration of our church community and its minister.

A catered reception from 615 Chutney follows the service in the Fellowship Hall.

Many roles are already filled — marshal, service leader, Zoom host, buffet coordinator, order of service, childcare, flowers for the podium.

Volunteer roles we need filled:

2 Greeters — welcome guests, have them sign in and get a name tag, and hand out the Order of Service

2 Ushers — direct guests to seating and families with children to the wiggle room

1 Person to Bring Flower/Centerpieces for the buffet table

2 Offering Volunteers — ideally people already trained in collecting, logging, and depositing the offering

2 People to Organize the Fellowship Hall on Sunday, September 20, and set out tablecloths. Note: several people in the congregation will be at the TN Solidarity Summit in Memphis that Sunday. If you'll be here, we would appreciate your help!

2–3 Buffet Support — help Susan plan the buffet, put out and refresh buffet items, and clean up the kitchen

3–4 Cleanup — return the Fellowship Hall and Sanctuary to their normal Sunday morning state

If you are able to help us put together this special Installation celebration service and reception, please come to the meeting. If there is a specific role you would like, you can reach out to one of us on the planning team: Rev. Denise, Kristin R., or Jesse S-S.

See Installation Service Planning Meeting for more details.

In July and August, we host a Summer Song series of Worship services lay-led by members of our congregation. Summer Song services are a great way to learn more about a topic of interest from a member of our community.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children’s Programming

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming or the Wiggle Room after the Time for All Sages.

Curious about Children's RE or the schedule for a specific summer Sunday? Contact Kristin R. at kristin.reveal@gnuuc.org.

Join Us for Potluck Lunch

After the service, join us for a potluck lunch.

In July and August, we host a Summer Song series of Worship services lay-led by members of our congregation. Summer Song services are a great way to learn more about a topic of interest from a member of our community.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children’s Programming

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

Curious about Children's RE or the schedule for a specific summer Sunday? Contact Kristin R. at kristin.reveal@gnuuc.org.

Join Us for Potluck Lunch

After the service, join us for a potluck lunch.

In July and August, we host a Summer Song series of Worship services lay-led by members of our congregation. Summer Song services are a great way to learn more about a topic of interest from a member of our community.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children’s Programming

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

Curious about Children's RE or the schedule for a specific summer Sunday? Contact Kristin R. at kristin.reveal@gnuuc.org.

Join Us for Potluck Lunch

After the service, join us for a potluck lunch.

The Worship Team meetings are in-person/hybrid on the 2nd Sunday of the month at 1 PM in the Sanctuary.

Please join us if you are interested in the Sunday Worship Service content, volunteering as a Service Leader or Service Designer, volunteering to play music or sing, or joining the Tech Team. We would love to have you!

If interested in joining on Zoom, the link is in Slack at the top of the Worship channel reach out to revdenise@gnuuc.org to join this channel.

In July and August, we host a Summer Song series of Worship services lay-led by members of our congregation. Summer Song services are a great way to learn more about a topic of interest from a member of our community.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children’s Programming

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

During the summer months, we shift into a more relaxed summer rhythm. Each Sunday will bring something a little different — wiggle-room play, time on the playground, arts and crafts, or games — shaped week to week by the volunteers who share their time and creativity. On Sundays when our volunteers are away, the Wiggle Room will be open with parent supervision, so families always have a welcoming space.

Curious about Children's RE or the schedule for a specific summer Sunday? Contact Kristin R. at kristin.reveal@gnuuc.org.

Join Us for Potluck Lunch

After the service, join us for a potluck lunch.

Denise will ask us to think about different kinds of fun and why fun is important.  C.S. Lewis tells us, "Have fun, even if it's not the same kind of fun everyone else is having."

In July and August, we host a Summer Song series of Worship services lay-led by members of our congregation. Summer Song services are a great way to learn more about a topic of interest from a member of our community.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children’s Programming

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

During the summer months, we shift into a more relaxed summer rhythm. Each Sunday will bring something a little different — wiggle-room play, time on the playground, arts and crafts, or games — shaped week to week by the volunteers who share their time and creativity. On Sundays when our volunteers are away, the Wiggle Room will be open with parent supervision, so families always have a welcoming space.

Curious about Children's RE or the schedule for a specific summer Sunday? Contact Kristin R. at kristin.reveal@gnuuc.org.

Join Us for Potluck Lunch

After the service, join us for a potluck lunch.

The tale of a girl's Colonial British Education in Darkest Africa and how it gave her a wide-eyed wonder.

In July and August, we host a Summer Song series of Worship services lay-led by members of our congregation. Summer Song services are a great way to learn more about a topic of interest from a member of our community.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children’s Programming

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

During the summer months, we shift into a more relaxed summer rhythm. Each Sunday will bring something a little different — wiggle-room play, time on the playground, arts and crafts, or games — shaped week to week by the volunteers who share their time and creativity. On Sundays when our volunteers are away, the Wiggle Room will be open with parent supervision, so families always have a welcoming space.

Curious about Children's RE or the schedule for a specific summer Sunday? Contact Kristin R. at kristin.reveal@gnuuc.org.

Join Us for Potluck Lunch

After the service, join us for a potluck lunch.

This homily was inspired by a Pickles cartoon by Brian Crane in which a grandfather tells his small grandson, “There’s an African Proverb that says 'When an old person dies, it’s as if a library burns down.’ That’s why I try to pass on to you some of the wisdom I’ve gained over the years.” All of us have stories to tell and this homily is an encouragement to share your stories.

In July and August, we host a Summer Song series of Worship services lay-led by members of our congregation. Summer Song services are a great way to learn more about a topic of interest from a member of our community.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children’s Programming

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

During the summer months, we shift into a more relaxed summer rhythm. Each Sunday will bring something a little different — wiggle-room play, time on the playground, arts and crafts, or games — shaped week to week by the volunteers who share their time and creativity. On Sundays when our volunteers are away, the Wiggle Room will be open with parent supervision, so families always have a welcoming space.

Curious about Children's RE or the schedule for a specific summer Sunday? Contact Kristin R. at kristin.reveal@gnuuc.org.

Join Us for Potluck Lunch

After the service, join us for a potluck lunch.

In July and August, we host a Summer Song series of Worship services lay-led by members of our congregation. Summer Song services are a great way to learn more about a topic of interest from a member of our community.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children’s Programming

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

During the summer months, we shift into a more relaxed summer rhythm. Each Sunday will bring something a little different — wiggle-room play, time on the playground, arts and crafts, or games — shaped week to week by the volunteers who share their time and creativity. On Sundays when our volunteers are away, the Wiggle Room will be open with parent supervision, so families always have a welcoming space.

Curious about Children's RE or the schedule for a specific summer Sunday? Contact Kristin R. at kristin.reveal@gnuuc.org.

Join Us for Potluck Lunch

After the service, join us for a potluck lunch.

In July and August, we host a Summer Song series of Worship services lay-led by members of our congregation. Summer Song services are a great way to learn more about a topic of interest from a member of our community.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children’s Programming

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

During the summer months, we shift into a more relaxed summer rhythm. Each Sunday will bring something a little different — wiggle-room play, time on the playground, arts and crafts, or games — shaped week to week by the volunteers who share their time and creativity. On Sundays when our volunteers are away, the Wiggle Room will be open with parent supervision, so families always have a welcoming space.

Curious about Children's RE or the schedule for a specific summer Sunday? Contact Kristin R. at kristin.reveal@gnuuc.org.

Join Us for Potluck Lunch

After the service, join us for a potluck lunch.

Sun., June 28, 2026: Sunday Service
Hybrid: Sanctuary / Zoom
Topic: Celebrating Proud Families

This Sunday, June 28, join us for a special service in celebration of Pride. On the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, we gather to honor LGBTQIA+ lives and the many shapes love and family take — the families we’re born into and the ones we build by choice.

In place of a sermon, members of our own congregation will form a panel, sharing how this faith helps them move through the world and how their families, born and chosen, hold them up. Together we’ll light our chalice with words for our siblings of the rainbow, read the story of the Progress Pride flag, and sing Fred Small’s “Everything Possible” — a parent’s promise to a child that they can love whomever they love and become whoever they are. Our Share the Plate offering will support Just Us, the Oasis Center’s program for LGBTQ+ youth in Nashville.

It promises to be a joyful and tender morning, and a reminder that here, our faith stays wide — wide enough to welcome every one of us, exactly as we are. Whether you join us in the sanctuary or on Zoom, you belong here. Service begins at 11:00 a.m.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC. This service will not be recorded.

9:30 AM: Community Sing

Prepare for Sunday Worship with a curated selection of Unitarian Universalist music and video offerings. This pre-service gathering creates space for reflection, inspiration, and connection as we come together from across our communities before worship begins.

10:00 AM: Sunday Service, Live Streaming of General Assembly Sunday Worship

Embrace the electrifying spirit of the year's largest UU gathering, where we come together in unity for an awe-inspiring Sunday worship celebration like no other! It's a vibrant, communal worship experience that promises to uplift your soul and ignite your passion. Don't miss out on this extraordinary gathering of hearts and minds!

We are delighted to share that Rev. Jen Youngsun Ryu will lead Sunday Morning Worship at GA 2026.

The Rev. Jen Youngsun Ryu (she/her) serves the Unitarian Universalist Church in Eugene, arriving in 2021 while the building was still closed and the congregation was finding its way back to one another. Born in Seoul and raised in Ohio, she found Unitarian Universalism as a young adult in Baltimore and was drawn to a faith that honors both the tough mind and the tender heart.

After years of lay leadership, she entered seminary in 2002, then spent nearly a decade in parish ministry with the Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists, alongside service at the district level and on the UUMA Board. Her vocational path later led her into healthcare chaplaincy, where she specialized in oncology care and earned board certification. Working as a staff chaplain in Charleston deepened her pastoral skills and broadened her interest in spiritual care research.

In the wake of the pandemic, Rev. Ryu felt called back to the parish and to the rhythms of a multigenerational community. This year, she celebrates the 20th anniversary of her ordination with a steady conviction that our liberal faith, practiced with honesty and love, changes lives for the good.

We look forward to welcoming Rev. Jen to the GA 2026 Sunday Morning Worship experience.

11:30 AM: Potluck Lunch

After Service, join us for a potluck lunch.

The Worship Team meetings are in-person/hybrid on the 2nd Sunday of the month at 1 PM in the Sanctuary.

Please join us if you are interested in the Sunday Worship Service content, volunteering as a Service Leader or Service Designer, volunteering to play music or sing, or joining the Tech Team. We would love to have you!

If interested in joining on Zoom, the link is in Slack at the top of the Worship channel reach out to revdenise@gnuuc.org to join this channel.

We will collect questions from the congregation for Rev Denise to answer.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

After service, please join us for a potluck lunch.

On Sunday, June 7, we'll gather for a special intergenerational service celebrating this month's theme, Flourishing Together—and looking back with gratitude on everything we've shared this past year.

Please send photos!
As part of the morning, we'll watch a slideshow of our year together: Flourishing Together at Greater Nashville UU. And we need your photos to make it shine! If you've captured a moment of GNUUC life this year—a potluck, a game night, a workday or service project, a new face, a quiet Sunday morning, a shared laugh—we'd love to include it. The more faces and moments, the truer the picture of who we are.

To submit: send your photos to kristin.reveal@gnuuc.org

Think Ahead About Your Favorite Memories
During the service we’ll ask you to share a story:

What's your favorite memory from this year?

When were you thankful for another member's support?

When did someone's kindness surprise you?

We are looking forward to seeing you and spending this time together!

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This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation, as well as on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

After the service, join us for a potluck lunch.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

After service, please join us for a potluck lunch.

In this Unitarian Universalist Memorial Day sermon, Rev. T. J. Fitzgerald reflects on the legacy of faith, resistance, and sacrifice.

Drawing on the stories of Michael Servetus and John Calvin, and the painful truths of war, from the Civil War to World War I to modern-day Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan, this sermon challenges us to honor the fallen not just with memory, but with action, courage, and hope.

Rev. Fitzgerald offers five principles of resistance as spiritual tools for navigating a world fractured by fanaticism, injustice, and authoritarian power. Grounded in Unitarian Universalist theology, this message uplifts the enduring values of truth, justice, and love as forces more powerful than hate or tyranny.

With references to religious history, personal testimony, and contemporary moral voices like Rev. William Barber III, Rhiannon Giddens, Nick Cave, and Mary Oliver, this sermon calls us to embody resistance in art, community, well-being, solidarity, and fierce hope.

Rev. T. J. Fitzgerald is minister at First Unitarian Church of Dallas.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

After service, please join us for a potluck lunch.

Theme: Join us as we introduce the May Soul Matters theme of “Awakening Curiosity.” An interactive, multi-generational service. All ages are welcome!

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation, as well as on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

After the service, join us for a potluck lunch.

The Worship Team meetings are in-person/hybrid on the 2nd Sunday of the month at 1 PM in the Sanctuary.

Please join us if you are interested in the Sunday Worship Service content, volunteering as a Service Leader or Service Designer, volunteering to play music or sing, or joining the Tech Team. We would love to have you!

If interested in joining on Zoom, the link is in Slack at the top of the Worship channel reach out to revdenise@gnuuc.org to join this channel.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

We invite each person to bring a flower to share, if you can. We’ll also have extra flowers for those who need them.

Children and youth are welcome to participate in this service or play in the Wiggle Room.

After service, please join us for a potluck lunch.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

The children and youth will be dismissed programming after the Time for All Sages.

After service, please join us for a potluck lunch.

Our UU faith calls us to honor the inherent worth of every person and the interdependent web of all existence — and there may be no place where those commitments come alive more urgently than in the work of climate justice. This service explores what it looks like to live our values by confronting the reality that environmental harm falls hardest on those already marginalized by systems of inequity. When we show up in solidarity, center the voices of frontline communities, and refuse to accept that anyone is expendable, we aren't just doing environmental work — we're living into the fullest meaning of our UU faith.

If you are able, also plan to participate in the UU Climate Justice Workshop at GNUUC the previous Saturday, April 25.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation, as well as on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

The Wiggle Room is available off the sanctuary for children.

After service, please join us for a potluck lunch.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

After service, please join us for a potluck lunch.

The Worship Team meetings are in-person/hybrid on the 2nd Sunday of the month at 1 PM in the Sanctuary.

Please join us if you are interested in the Sunday Worship Service content, volunteering as a Service Leader or Service Designer, volunteering to play music or sing, or joining the Tech Team. We would love to have you!

If interested in joining on Zoom, the link is in Slack at the top of the Worship channel reach out to revdenise@gnuuc.org to join this channel.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation and on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

Children and youth will be dismissed to programming after the Time for All Sages.

After service, please join us for a potluck lunch.

This Sunday we gather for our First Sunday interactive, multi-generational service as we explore the Soul Matters theme of Embracing Possibility — joining more than 140 UU congregations across the country in asking: "What feels possible for you — or for us — that didn't feel possible a year ago?"

April is a month that knows something about possibility. The crocus pushes through the last of the cold. Something that looked finished turns out to be just resting. Our Christian friends celebrate Easter this morning — and whatever your relationship to that story, its heartbeat is one we recognize: that endings are not always the end.

This Sunday we'll also launch our annual Pledge Drive for the 2026-27 fiscal year. Come ready to reflect, share, and invest in the community that holds your roots.

We hope to see you Sunday — in person or online.

This hybrid service will be in the Sanctuary at Greater Nashville UU Congregation, as well as on Zoom. See How to Join a Virtual Service at GNUUC.

After the service, join us for a potluck lunch.