This is where you'll find information about our congregation, beliefs, programs, and events. If you have any questions about anything you see or read here, please call us at (914) 271-4283. Additional contact information and directions to the fellowship are available by following the links under General Information.
Two services are held each Sunday from September through mid-June. The first service begins at 9AM and the second at 11AM. Babysitting is available at both services and Sunday school runs concurrently with the second service at 11AM. See the Services schedule for detailed service information.
One of the more common comments we hear from visitors who attend our services is: “I wish I had known about you before now! I think I’ve been a Unitarian Universalist all along and didn’t know it.”
We are an open, inclusive religious Fellowship, striving to build a beloved community that fosters the search for personal truth, social justice and spiritual growth.
We are committed to nurturing the connections that draw us together.
We are committed to a liberal religious education based on the
respectful exchange of ideas.
What makes us different from most other religious faiths is that we are non-creedal, which means that we seek religious truth through personal experience, conscience and reason—not from any book or religious authority that we are told to believe. This doesn’t mean that whatever anyone believes is fine, since some beliefs are good for us and others are not. We regard the highest values to be integrity, caring, compassion, social justice, truth, personal peace and harmony. Advancing these values is a major purpose of our congregation. Instead of being absorbed by salvation for an “afterlife,” we are more concerned about living responsibly and deeply, here and now.
Another way of saying this is that we are primarily concerned with how we should live, individually and collectively, so that we might become better people, partners, parents and citizens. And we are concerned with exploring our spiritual nature, the part of us that is connected to something larger than ourselves.
More information about What We Believe…
Thanks to Susie Dugaw, the Fellowship now has a Native Garden website. There you will find photographs of each native plant in the UUBCO garden, along with information about each plant. There are also links to where to buy the plants and seeds and links to container gardening, composting and native lawns. To access the Native Garden website, please click on UUBCOnativegarden.wikispaces.com.
Posted on: June 29th, 2009
Thanks to Jan Ruotolo, there are plenty of picnic pictures to enjoy. Please click on http://www.uucroton.org/gallery/annual-picnic-2009/ to view or go to gallery.
Posted on: June 26th, 2009
Lay led summer services begin June 28 and are held at 9:30 a.m. Child care will be available. (Please note, there is no Sunday service on June 21.)
The Program Committee is responsible for coordinating the Summer Sunday programs. Summer is different. There is just one service at 9:30 a.m. It is lay led and far more informal than services during the rest of the year. Services usually involve lots of discussion and interaction among the attendees. Size varies, with anywhere from five or six to twenty. If you are a new member you may find this a good way to remain connected during the summer. Baby-sitting/child supervision is provided.
Topics are selected by the leader. Services last one hour. There is no coffee hour afterward, but often some of those attending head for a nearby coffee shop to continue the conversation. The Summer Sunday program list can be viewed under Services. If interested in leading a summer program on one of the open dates, please contact Laird Kelly at i10Q@aol.com or Phyllis Tortora at Apptora@AOL.com .
Posted on: June 16th, 2009
Click on the following link to view our Fellowship Choir Debut on Sunday, March 22, 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-VrL-JboNk
Posted on: April 21st, 2009
On February 1, 2009, the Fellowship had the privilege of meeting Bruce Knotts, Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office. Bruce described the work the UU United Nations Office is doing to promote Human Rights and to end genocide in Darfur.In his talk we heard about the annual Intergenerational Seminar sponsored by the UU UNO on April 15 to 18 and about the program to help AIDS orphans, called “Every Child is Our Child”. Following the second service, Bruce met with our Fellowship youth and provided information about opportunities for youth to become involved with the UU office at the United Nations. Please enjoy the gallery pictures by clicking on Bruce Knotts’ picture.
Posted on: February 4th, 2009
Click on article to read an article (translated in English) that Swaantje Stelling, who stayed with the Lewis family, wrote in a recent issue of a German Unitarian publication.
To view pictures from the German Youth Exchange click on the picture or visit the Gallery.
Posted on: November 19th, 2008
For nearly 20 years, our Fellowship has supported the Cortlandt/Croton Food Bank with weekly collections of food and other items. It started as a Girl Scout Project and has been carried on by SAC ever since.
Thank you for your continued support of this vital community resource. Thank you, Bearni Croft and Bob Hudson
Posted on: September 1st, 2008
Read the entire UUA article: UU Youth Exchange
Posted on: June 18th, 2008
