Fellowship February 2010 Newsletter
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Posted on: February 1st, 2010
Welcome!
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 9 a.m. and the second at 11 a.m. Sunday school runs concurrently with the second service at 11 a.m. Babysitting is only available at the 11 a.m. service. See the Services schedule for detailed service information.
Who Are We?
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.”
Our Mission
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…
Currently at UUBCO:
Fundraising Committee Presents: Music for You at the UU!
Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Featuring chamber music, jazz, Spirits in Harmony and more!
Musicians will include the Chamber Players of Croton comprised of our own Greg Kullberg and Erika Schenker, as well as other Croton locals, who together with a variety of instruments, will produce lively and engaging chamber music, both classical and jazz. Keith Harris will be performing two solos.
Spirits in Harmony will debut an original piece composed by Roberta Kosse, Choral Director of Spirits in Harmony. Roberta’s piece, written for women’s chorus, is set to a Robert Frost poem and will be accompanied by piano, flute, clarinet and oboe. More songs by Spirits as well.
The concert will be followed by wine and special dessert reception including raffle and live auction.
Tickets available January 30, 2010 thru February 21, 2010 after both services during coffee hour.
$30/$25 for Seniors (65 yrs.) and students.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THIS SPECIAL CONCERT!
Please note that the Fellowship Sanctuary is reserved on the following dates for rehearsal:
Saturday, February 13, from 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 17, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Saturday, February 27, from 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m.
Posted on: January 31st, 2010
Second Collection Benefited Teach for America
Marty Fried, son of Fellowship members Claire and Eddy Fried, is involved with Teach for America in Bridgeport, Connecticut, teaching 7th and 8th grade science at the Barnum School to inner city kids who lead a very tough life with virtually no other exposure to college education.
Last year, Marty worked with another teacher to take all the 8th graders to Washington DC. He helped with the fund raising. This year it is all on him to raise $14,000 for this trip. This past Sunday, January 24, a collection took place at the Fellowship to benefit a Barnum student. If you would like to donate, please Click here to read the letter that outlines the trip as well as the need and information where to send a donation. Thank you.
Posted on: January 18th, 2010
UUA/UUSC Relief Fund for Haiti
Dear Members and Friends,
The UUA and the UU Service Committee are launching a joint relief effort for Haiti. There are many sources through which we can contribute to the emergency relief efforts, however, the UUA/UUSC can certainly be trusted to use the money for relief to those who need it the most.
If you would like to donate, please either forward your donation to Fellowship Treasurer, Greg Kullberg, or check the following web-site for more information. If you would like to contribute via the web-site, scroll down to the link ”please support our efforts to help them” where you can make your pledge.
http://www.uusc.org/content/major_earthquake_devastates_haiti_uusc_uua_launch_relief_fund
Thank you, Jim Covington
Posted on: January 17th, 2010
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Posted on: December 14th, 2009
Unitarian Teens set off on Pilgrimage to Europe
August 1, 2009 Youth Exchange Article
Posted on: August 14th, 2009
International UU Youth Exchange 2009
The Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Briarcliff-Croton-Ossining, Inc. (UUBCO), in Croton on Hudson, New York and the First Unitarian Society of Westchester in Hastings on Hudson, New York are connecting their youth and families with Unitarian and Freireligioese (free religion group) youth and families in France, Germany and Holland this summer through an international exchange program. Click on http://uuasocialjustice.blogspot.com/2009/07/international-uu-youth-exchange-2009.html to read more.
Posted on: July 21st, 2009
UUBCO Native Garden Website
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
Cortlandt/Croton Food Bank Support
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
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UPCOMING
MEETINGS
- B&G Committee Meeting Tuesday, February 9, at 7 p.m. in the Fellowship Office.
- Fellowship Board Meeting Wednesday, February 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Fellowship.
- RE Committee Meeting Saturday, February 20 from 9 to 10:30 a.m.
- Men’s Community Circle meeting Tuesday, February 23, at 6:45 p.m. at the Fellowship.
- Music Committee Meeting Wednesday, March 3, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Fellowship office.