Weekly Sunday Program Schedule
Each Sunday, the Eureka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (EUUF) centers the weekly Sunday Service (11:00 am - Noon) around a guest speaker who shares our 7 principles. Parents are welcome to bring their children to participate in our Children's Program taking place at the same time which is provided by The Woods & Hollow Farm School.
Whoever you are, whatever your skin color, whomever you love, whatever your gifts and abilities and wherever you are on your spiritual journey, we welcome you at our Fellowship. We're located at 17 Elk Street, Eureka Springs, AR.
Here's what's coming up ...
Sunday, November 30, 2025
“Plum Village - Mindful Living”
Former Eurekan, Patrice Gros returns for a short visit from his native France, and brings us insights from his mindful living at the Buddhist monastery of Plum Village.
4th Principle: A free and responsible search for truth and meaning.
Sunday, December 7, 2025
The Farm School Festival of Light & Song
Join our very young people as they explain the significance of our UU chalice and flame, and lead the congregation in a candle lighting ritual.
3rd Principle: Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregation.
Sunday, December 14, 2025
Welcome New Members
Charlene Brisson, EUUF Membership Chair, conducts the new member ceremony, introducing new joiners to our Fellowship.
4th Principle: A free and responsible search for truth and meaning.
Sunday, December 21, 2025
Holiday Carols & Stories
Peggy Kjelgaard leads the Fellowship in a joyful service of familiar music and the anecdotes behind them.
6th Principle: The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all.
Sunday, December 21, 2025
Fellowship at the Fellowship
Join us for our annual get-together to bridge the old and new year with good food and good company.
1st Principle: The inherent worth and dignity of every person.
Past Speakers
Soldiers, Songs & Voices (Sun, Nov 16, 2025)
Members of Soldier Songs & Voices (SSV), Vietnam Veteran Jim Hale and President Veteran Lee Haight shared their experiences and struggles with PTSD and how SSV has helped them connect with other veterans undergoing the same challenges. They gave an emotional performance and opened up about how SSV has provided healing and hope for each of them.
The mission of Soldier Songs & Voices NWA is to foster a creative and supportive community of veterans through music instruction, performance, and outreach. Retired, active duty, and inactive veterans and veterans of war are welcome to participatehttps://www.ssvnwa.org/
1st UU Principle: The inherent worth and dignity of every person.
Children's Program: Students read “Veterans: Heroes in our Neighborhood. and discussed any veterans the students may know or know of. The craft was making tissue paper poppies.
Ethan Avanzino, Authentic Selves (Sun, Oct 26, 2025)
Ethan Avanzino returned to EUUF to update us on the current situation of transgender rights and provided some shocking statistics. Here are a few:
- 850 anti-transgender bills have been filed in 2025 with 122 passed so far. Many targeting healthcare, sports and education. Up from 200ish filed in 2024.
- Nineteen states including Arkansas now ban trans people from using bathrooms that match their gender identity in government owned buildings.
- Corporations are quietly removing trans and LGBTQ+ rights from their employee policies.
You can help. Support these groups: https://safetobe.org/ and Eureka Springs transgender Collective
2nd UU Principle: Justice, equity and compassion in human relations.
Children's Program: Students talked about what it means for everyone to be themselves. They read “Julian Is A Mermaid” by Jessica Love. Students worked together using multi-hued tissue paper to create an ocean.
Gary Milczarek, PHD, Encountering AI (Sun, Oct 19, 2025)
Gary Milczarek, Ph.D., gave us all a dose of reality (or was it?) of artificial intelligence that is. The discussion covered the science and philosophy of AI and how it can help or hurt us. Attendees were surprized and shocked by the "reality" of a character AI ChatGPT voice responding to questions. Dr. Milczarek is a leader at Eureka Springs Carnegie Library.
7th UU Principle: Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. (We may be entering a time when "interdependence" and "existence" might be taking on new considerations.)
Rev. Mark Walz, Free Pulpit - Free Pew (Sun, Oct 12, 2025)
“We believe not what we're told to believe,
Not what we wish to believe,
But what we are compelled to believe
by the active use of our own conscience.”
— quote shared by Rev. Mark Walz
The Rev. Mark Walz, pastor at the UU Village Church in Hot Springs Village AR, joined us in person at our Fellowship to address how our UU Principals and Values can guide us as we deal with today’s news.
1st UU Principle: The inherent worth and dignity of every person. 5th UU Principle: The Right of Conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large.
April Griffith, ES Carnegie Library (Sunday, October 5, 2025)
April Griffith kicked off Banned Books Week 2025, with a compelling "and frightening" presentation on the threat that book banning poses to intellectual freedom, access to information, and the harm it does to libraries, education, and society, as well as censorship’s historic roots in America.
Children's Program: Students discussed the importance of libraries and books. Each student choose a book selected from the Eureka Springs Carnegie Library and and either read it or have it read. They each made a book report art project about their book.
Mark Hughes (Sunday, September 21, 2025)
“The Summer I Raised 300 Monarch Butterflies."
Mark Hughes provided a compelling step-by-step guide for reversing the extinction of the Monarch Butterfly. Since 2015 his home hatchery has nurtured and released thousands of Monarchs into the wild over the summers.
Childrens Program: Students spoke about what it means to care for each other. They read “We Care: A First Conversation About Justice”. Students created a triptych or a comic book to portray a time someone cared for them, a time they cared for someone else, and a time they could work together as community.
Michelle McDonald (Sunday, September 14, 2025)
U2U Chair Michelle McDonald discussed fall plantings focusing on native perennials, especially daffodils and painted ladies. We'd be thrilled to receive your donation of bulbs for the beautification project at the Eureka Springs Cemetery that Michelle is in charge of.
A $70 donation from the monthly Second Sunday Potluck was given to the Flint Street “Back our Kids” Program. Thank you to ALL who contributed.
Children's Program: Students talked about native plants and how they help pollinators like butterflies and bees. They read "Puddle Garden" by Jared Rosenbaum. Using provided school materials, the students also created a native plant for an imaginary landscape. What features does your native plant have? How does it help pollinators like butterflies and bees thrive?
Unitarian Universalist Members - (Sunday, August 17, 2025)
Our Eureka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is a beacon for liberal free-thinkers coming together from a variety of religious backgrounds to explore religious and spiritual growth without regard to creed, race, age, gender, or sexual orientation. What unites us is that we are focused on what really matters - integrity, hope, love, justice. We are engaged in making the world a better place and we show up to answer the call for social justice.
On this Sunday, three Unitarian Universalists members shared their divergent and fascinating spiritual journeys - a methodist, an atheist and a spiritualist. The service played witness to the philosophical and spiritual diversity of the EUUF community and how each embrace the 7 UU principles that uphold our core values.
Whoever you are, whatever your skin color, whomever you love, whatever your gifts and abilities, we welcome you at our Fellowship.
Children's Program: Students discussed the importance of telling the truth. Our story and craft was replaced by students acting out the famous parable, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” and creating their own version.
Crescent Dragonwagon (Sunday, August 10, 2025)
This Era has our Name on it: How do we grow resilience, while resisting?
It was a full house at EUUF as Crescent Dragonwagon, founder of Eureka Springs Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow inspired attendees to take action in these difficult times. She shared her creative, practical and strategic approaches to working (despite anxiety and the daily onslaught of outrageous horribleness), for justice, freedom & democracy’s defense. ESI's Matthew Nagy covered Crescent's presentation. Check it out here "Land in our Hands."
Faith Cleveland (Sunday, August 3, 2025)
Long-time Eureka Springs resident, Faith Cleveland discussed her journey
through grief after the loss of her husband, and the powerful role support groups can play in healing.
Children's Program: Students discussed what it’s like to lose something or someone important. They read “In a Jar” by Deborah Marcano. The craft was filling jars with cool found items inside and outside of UU.
Dawn Groover, Braver Angels (Sunday, July 27, 2025)
Braver Angels is a citizens’ organization uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America. Local coordinator, Dawn Groover discussed ways each of us can help unify America, find common ground, and develop civil conversations. Free monthly workshops are held the 4th Sunday of every month from 2 - 3:30 pm at the Eureka Springs Community Center. Visit BraverAngels.org to learn more.