This is a list of our upcoming events. If you click on the Title of the event it will take you to the event details. Click on the meeting type and it will take you to all upcoming events that are of the same meeting type.


December 11, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Earth Day Planning Meeting

Earth Day Festival planning committee meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 5:30 at the church. We have started planning for the 18th Annual Texoma Earth Day Festival, which will be held on April 18, 2026. The theme will be Planet vs Plastic.

This meeting is open to all members, friends, outside groups, and individuals who would like to help create the next festival.



December 14, 2025 @ 11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Holidays of Light and Hope

Join us for a joyful and reflective service honoring the many holidays that illuminate December—Advent, Chanukah, Yule, Christmas, and Kwanzaa. Together we’ll explore the shared themes of light, renewal, community, and hope that weave through these traditions. Through readings, music, and celebration, we’ll embrace the rich diversity and spiritual resonance of this season of many stories.



December 14, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Rainbow Team Monthly Meeting

The Rainbow Team will continue to meet every 2nd Sunday around 1 pm after conversations and calories.

All voices welcome.



December 14, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Adult Forum not meeting in December

With all the holiday interruptions Adult Form will not meet in December and will start back up on January 4th, 2026 with:

Emerson, Thoreau, & the Transcendentalist Movement – A Great Courses Series



December 15, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Weekly Meeting of Overeaters Anonymous (OA)

Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a community of people who support each other in order to recover from compulsive eating and food behaviors. We welcome everyone who feels they have a problem with food.



December 20, 2025 @ 10:00 pm

Submit Articles for Monthly Newsletter Deadline

As always, send your submissions to news@redriveruu.org no later the deadline window.



December 21, 2025 @ 11:15 am - 12:15 pm

The Light of Our Chalice

On this day with the most darkness of the year, let us reflect on the rich meaning of the chalice in our Unitarian Universalist tradition and challenge ourselves to bring “the light of reason, the warmth of community, and the flame of hope” into a broken world.



December 21, 2025 @ 12:45 pm - 2:30 pm

Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting

The Board of Trustees meets on the 3rd Sunday each month around 12:45pm following conversations and calories.

All are welcome.



December 21, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Adult Forum not meeting in December

With all the holiday interruptions Adult Form will not meet in December and will start back up on January 4th, 2026 with:

Emerson, Thoreau, & the Transcendentalist Movement – A Great Courses Series



December 22, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Weekly Meeting of Overeaters Anonymous (OA)

Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a community of people who support each other in order to recover from compulsive eating and food behaviors. We welcome everyone who feels they have a problem with food.



December 28, 2025 @ 12:00 am

Beginnings and/or Endings

For this service, we invite you to bring something meaningful to share—stories, poems, songs, dances, or any expression that speaks to beginnings, endings, or the space in between. If you have a short YouTube video you’d like included as your sharing, please send the link to Marla by December 23. Let’s create a rich and reflective experience together through the many ways we express transition and transformation.



December 28, 2025 @ 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm

Committee on Ministry Meeting

The Committee on Ministry meets every 4th Sunday after service.  Members are welcome to join us to discuss any aspect of church operations or concerns with those operations or with other members.



December 28, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Adult Forum not meeting in December

With all the holiday interruptions Adult Form will not meet in December and will start back up on January 4th, 2026 with:

Emerson, Thoreau, & the Transcendentalist Movement – A Great Courses Series



December 29, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Weekly Meeting of Overeaters Anonymous (OA)

Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a community of people who support each other in order to recover from compulsive eating and food behaviors. We welcome everyone who feels they have a problem with food.



January 4, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Adult Forum – Emerson, Thoreau, & the Transcendentalist Movement – A Great Courses Series

Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendental MovementWithout Emerson and Thoreau (both were Unitarians) the United States would not have developed into the nation it has become. We would not believe in the power of the individual to the extent that we do, nor would we see nature at the center of one view of the American psyche.

If Emerson gave us a new view of America and American thinking, Thoreau gave us a new way of living and a new vision of each individual.

This course has 4 DVDs with a total of 24 talks. We will start this series of classes on January 4th 2026.

This course, taught by Professor Ashton Nichols Ph.D. of the University of Virginia, explores the philosophical and literary movement of American Transcendentalism through the lives and ideas of its two central figures, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. 
The course covers:
  • An introduction to the lives and ideas of Emerson and Thoreau.
  • The roots of American Transcendentalism, drawing on European and non-Western thought.
  • Emerson’s role as the intellectual “father” of the movement and his influence on American thought, education, and politics.
  • Thoreau as “an American original,” including his time at Walden Pond and his political views.
  • Other key figures in the movement, such as William Ellery Channing, Theodore Parker, Amos Bronson Alcott, and Louisa May Alcott.
  • How Transcendentalism emphasized the individual, intuition, the divine in nature, and a unique American spirituality.



January 5, 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Weekly Meeting of Overeaters Anonymous (OA)

Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a community of people who support each other in order to recover from compulsive eating and food behaviors. We welcome everyone who feels they have a problem with food.



January 8, 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Earth Day Planning Meeting

Earth Day Festival planning committee meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 5:30 at the church. We have started planning for the 18th Annual Texoma Earth Day Festival, which will be held on April 18, 2026. The theme will be Planet vs Plastic.

This meeting is open to all members, friends, outside groups, and individuals who would like to help create the next festival.



January 11, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Adult Forum – Emerson, Thoreau, & the Transcendentalist Movement – A Great Courses Series

Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendental MovementWithout Emerson and Thoreau (both were Unitarians) the United States would not have developed into the nation it has become. We would not believe in the power of the individual to the extent that we do, nor would we see nature at the center of one view of the American psyche.

If Emerson gave us a new view of America and American thinking, Thoreau gave us a new way of living and a new vision of each individual.

This course has 4 DVDs with a total of 24 talks. We will start this series of classes on January 4th 2026.

This course, taught by Professor Ashton Nichols Ph.D. of the University of Virginia, explores the philosophical and literary movement of American Transcendentalism through the lives and ideas of its two central figures, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. 
The course covers:
  • An introduction to the lives and ideas of Emerson and Thoreau.
  • The roots of American Transcendentalism, drawing on European and non-Western thought.
  • Emerson’s role as the intellectual “father” of the movement and his influence on American thought, education, and politics.
  • Thoreau as “an American original,” including his time at Walden Pond and his political views.
  • Other key figures in the movement, such as William Ellery Channing, Theodore Parker, Amos Bronson Alcott, and Louisa May Alcott.
  • How Transcendentalism emphasized the individual, intuition, the divine in nature, and a unique American spirituality.



January 11, 2026 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Rainbow Team Monthly Meeting

The Rainbow Team will continue to meet every 2nd Sunday around 1 pm after conversations and calories.

All voices welcome.



January 12, 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Weekly Meeting of Overeaters Anonymous (OA)

Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a community of people who support each other in order to recover from compulsive eating and food behaviors. We welcome everyone who feels they have a problem with food.