July 2025
Join us each Sunday to hear a sermon on our monthly theme.
Sunday Services
9:30 a.m. Service
10:45 a.m. Coffee and treats
11:15 a.m. Forum (starts 30 minutes after service ends)
Welcome to the First Unitarian Church of Des Moines! We’re glad you’ve found us and hope you find a church home with us.
At First Unitarian, we’re brave, curious, and compassionate thinkers and doers. We’re people of many beliefs and backgrounds – people with a religious background and people with none; people who believe in a God and people who don’t, and people who simply let the mystery be. And while we represent a diversity of faith, ethnicity, history and spirituality, we agree that we want to do good work in the world.
So we welcome you – your whole self, with all your truths and your doubts, your worries and your hopes. Let us support you on your faith journey.
9:30 a.m. Service
10:45 a.m. Coffee and treats
11:15 a.m. Forum (starts 30 minutes after service ends)
Morning Zen with Meredith (Zoom)
July 9, 2025 6:00 am - 7:00 am
Zoom Only
Morning Zen with Rev. Meredith Garmon is now offered on Zoom every Tuesday through Saturday morning at 6:00 am.
Detailed information can be found on One Earth Zen. For the chants and sutras, it will be helpful to have the booklet: "One Earth Zen: Sutras, Chants, and Songs." You may also pick up a copy in the church office.
Format:
Opening Chants
25 minutes zazen (silent seated meditation)
6 mins kinhin (walking meditation)
9 min Sutra service (recitations)
10 min dharma discussion
Closing chant
Queer/Trans Action Group
July 9, 2025 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Room 114
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83045131767
Passcode: TAG
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