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Join Us This Sunday
In-person worship services are held in the Sanctuary at 9:30 and 11:15 a.m. (except during Summer). The 9:30 service is also available via Zoom. All are welcome. Click here to learn more about attending Sunday Services.
- Social Justice Sunday UUJustice PA is a statewide organization of UU congregations that brings our values to the state capital in Harrisburg. At the service on Sunday, April 28, Rev Joan Sabatino, director of UUJusticePA, will address the mission of UUJustice and how we are changing the world when we speak from a place of our religious witness, living our UU faith. Coffee will be served between services.The first service is always recorded by our Audio-Visual Team and posted on the UUCDC website.
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Connections
- Fund Drive Drawing to a Close With our Fund Drive ending this weekend, please submit your pledges (for the next church year, starting July 1) by Monday, April 15. Thanks to ...
- Journey With Us: Starting Point Starting Point is a unique program designed to provide newcomers and long-timers, visitors and friends with the opportunity to experience Unitarian Universalism rather than just ...
- Building and Grounds Workday Thanks to the more than twenty volunteers who participated in our UUCDC Building and Grounds workday on Saturday, April 6. We accomplished so much, while ...
- Climate Action Team To combat climate change, it is imperative that Wall Street stop financing destructive fossil fuel projects. Stop the Money Pipeline is an organization that is ...
- UUJusticePA Virtual Annual Meeting Democracy, Not Autocracy — We Vote, We Win! That’s the theme of the online UUJusticePA Annual Meeting, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm on Saturday, April ...
Words of Wisdom
- My Principles “I have a total of 29 principles. I want to share some of them with you: 1. Be grateful as often as possible and as deeply as possible for as many things as possible. 2. Act responsibly even when other people act irresponsibly. 3. Create win-win solutions. 4. Always take full responsibility for your words, actions, and reactions. 5. Be kind to everyone for each person carries a hidden burden. 6. Focus on facts rather than assumptions, imagination, fantasy, or emotionally driven thinking. 7. Be present, empathetic, and responsive to, but not responsible for, others.” —Rev. Ed Brock, January 21, 2024
Share the Plate
- Worthy Now Prison Ministry Network The Share the Plate recipient for April is the Worthy Now Prison Ministry Network. Worthy Now is a ministry of the Church of the Larger ...
Anti-Racism Activity
- Sign Up for Microaggressions WorkshopThe First Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County is hosting a workshop entitled “Exploring Subtle Acts of Exclusion; How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions,” on Sunday, April 21, from 12:15 to 3:15 p.m. Child care will be provided. For more information and to register by April 19, contact Pat ...
Religious Education
- Religious Education Volunteers Needed! Each Sunday morning our RE teachers, assistants, and youth leaders get the opportunity to teach, explore with, laugh with, and learn from our children and ...
- Social Justice Service Come join the 9:30 service in person and on zoom. Classes will be held for Preschool to 8th Grade. There will be a coffee hour ...
- Ridley Creek State Park Campout Come together for a Spring campout at Ridley Creek State Park from Saturday, 27 to Sunday April 28. All ages welcome. BYO gear, food, drink, ...
Weekly Musical Inspiration
- Into the River Into the River by Starling Arrow and Chloe Smith is a joyous homage to laying one’s tired body down in the water, and for rain finding the rivers, voices finding one another for this sweet collaboration and merging into one. (https://youtu.be/mLViKfcBlZI?si=txFxotn-d88iLX67)