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.
And we are committed to reaching out to help build a more just and compassionate world.
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:
CCoA Announces 2010 Photo Show
The Croton Council on the Arts has announced the dates of this year’s Photographers of Northern Westchester Show. The show will open on Sunday, March 28 with a reception from 4:00-6:00 p.m. Co-chairs Maggie Loewenwarter and Steve Jacoby expect that upward of one hundred local photographers will participate in this 28th annual exhibit to be held again this year at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Croton.This year’s raffle prize will be donated by Ossining resident Mark Sadan. It is a large,limited edition chrome-pigment print of a digital image The photograph is titled “Near the Taconic.” It was taken on a private estate in the countryside near Teatown. Mark shot this richly colored nature scene in 2006.
Mark Sadan began his creative career as a stage actor and director, but moved quickly into independent film production. He was one of the first film makers for the television show,Sesame Street, and has won several awards for his documentaries.
But while continuing to produce and direct films, Mark has also followed his passion for still photography and his major work is currently in that medium. He has been featured in most of the leading photo magazines around the world. His work can also be found in many books as well as in museums and private collections.
Raffle tickets will soon be available for purchase at Umami Café, 325 South Riverside Avenue and at Grouchy Gabe’s Deli. During the week-long show they will be available at the Unitarian Fellowship. Tickets cost $2.00 each or six for $10.00. The money will go toward exhibit expenses. The winning raffle tickets will be drawn at the close of the show on April 5.
In addition to the opening reception on March 28, viewing hours are
March 29-April 2, 6-8:00 p.m. and April 3-4, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Posted on: March 8th, 2010
UU Fellowship Youth Exchange
Click on Fellowship Youth Exchange and enjoy the many adventures our Fellowship foreign exchange Youths have experienced over the past year.
Fellowship Youths and Host Families can apply for this year’s upcoming Foreign Youth Exchange Program by clicking on Youth Exchange Application.
Posted on: February 23rd, 2010
Fellowship March 2010 Newsletter
Click on Newsletter to view the Fellowship March 2010 Newsletter.
Posted on: February 1st, 2010
Unitarian Teens set off on Pilgrimage to Europe
Journal News Front Page
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
