2824 E. 18th Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99508
Tel: 907-248-3737
March Sunday Services:
Sunday Worship Service and The Forum
See our calendar to stay updated. Subject to change.
Find Zoom links here Sunday @Zoom.
The Forum IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, March 2, 2025
Suzanne LaFrance
Mayor of Anchorage
Suzanne LaFrance was elected as the mayor of Anchorage in 2024. Before becoming mayor, she represented South Anchorage on the Anchorage Assembly from 2017 to 2023. She served as Assembly Chair from 2021 to 2023, and was Chair of the Assembly’s Budget and Finance Committee and Co-Chair of its Health Policy Committee. She also served on the board of the Alaska Municipal League. She is a 25-year Anchorage resident and brings 25 years of private sector experience, managing budgets projects and people. LaFrance grew up in Palmer, and is a proud graduate of Alaska’s public schools. After graduating from Palmer High School, she earned her bachelor’s degree from University of Portland and her master’s from Purdue University. LaFrance has also been an active volunteer with Great Alaska Schools Anchorage, and the Rabbit Creek Elementary PTA, led local scout troops. She and her husband, David Hemstreet, have three children, all students in the Anchorage School District. They enjoy outdoor activities and sports.
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Sunday Worship Service IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
11:00 am Sunday, March 2, 2025
The Forum IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, March 9, 2025
Obesity and Health in Our Community: Can AUUF Help?
Dr. Molly Southworth
Molly Southworth is an endocrinologist, retired from the Alaska Tribal Health System, a Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Washington School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Medical Education at the University of Alaska Anchorage / WWAMI. She is also Past Regent of the American College of Physicians. Molly graduated from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, and as an undergraduate, she studied music and chemistry at Oberlin College. She served as principal harpist for the Anchorage Symphony for 11 years. Molly is married to Bret Haering, and they have three adult children, Russell, Don, and Celia who grew up in the AUUF RE Program.
Sunday Worship Service IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
11:00 am Sunday, March 9, 2025
A Partnership in Trust
Rev. Lise Sherry, Renee Frost
Ministers, or priests, and their congregations have had a variety of relationships through the ages. There have been dictatorships, benevolent dictatorships, leaders and followers (and the minister wasn't always the leader), communities of shared ministry and co-conspirators. In divinity school we read a book called "As One Without Authority" which uniquely discussed Unitarian Universalist models of ministry. As we prepare for my sabbatical leave, a time for me to learn and refresh without congregational responsibilities, I thought it would be interesting to look at this relationship and how we live it at AUUF.
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The Forum IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, March 16, 2025
Facing New Challenges on All Fronts
Dr. Jack Hickel, Alaska Health Project South Sudan
Dr. Jack Hickel is the Board President of the Alaska Health Project South Sudan. Jack was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. He has an MD degree and is board certified with the American Board of Family Medicine. Jack has a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Republic of South Africa. He worked in Eswatini, Africa, for the most part of 16 years,1982 to 1997. While there he was the Chief Medical Officer of a large urban hospital and a small rural hospital and, at various times, was also the medical director of 16 rural clinics. Dr. Hickel worked with Alaska Natives from 2000 to 2024. In 2008 he co-founded the Alaska Sudan Medical Project, now called the Alaska Health Project South Sudan, which delivers hope and health to Old Fangak and other desperate villages along the Nile River, and helps to save countless lives by building a new health center, a tuberculosis clinic, providing clean water, and establishing small farms.
Sunday Worship Service IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
11:00 am Sunday, March 16, 2025
To Thine Own Self Be True
Rev. Lise Sherry, Michele Champion
The Forum IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, March 23, 2025
Sunday Worship Service IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
11:00 am Sunday, March 23, 2025
The Forum IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, March 30, 2025
Sunday Worship Service IN PERSON at AUUF & on Zoom
11:00 am Sunday, March 30, 2025