Fellowship August 2010 Newsletter
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Posted on: August 10th, 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:
Summer Lay-Led Services Begin at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 27.
Posted on: June 10th, 2010
Join the Fellowship on Facebook
Posted on: December 14th, 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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Our Covenant
We, the members of the UUBCO, commit to these mutual promises to nurture and enhance our spiritual growth and define how we will interact respectfully in order to strengthen the bonds of our beloved community.
We affirm and covenant to:
- listen actively and respectfully.
- be accepting of all voices.
- seek full and equitable participation.
- use language of kindness.
- assume positive intent.
- approach conflict directly, working toward a mutually acceptable resolution through honest interaction and compromise.
- express gratitude for the efforts of others.
- honor each other's personal journeys.
To create an atmosphere of trust and safety, we agree to call each other back into covenant and to forgive ourselves and others.
This covenant is a living document which can be reviewed by the congregation at any time and adapted as needed.