May 4th is our Installation ceremony for Pastor Isabel Call. Please go to uufm.net/installation for information and to RSVP.
Searching for the Future Workshop Results
The Executive Board invited Barry Finklestein to run the “Searching for the Future” Workshop in order to develop our new Mission and Vision Statements. The workshop was held at UUFM December 14 and was well attended by 53 congregants, almost … read more.
We are dedicated to challenging ourselves and society into wholeness.
A vibrant, inclusive congregation, UUFM is widely known as a safe haven and a force for social justice.
These words came together to describe our mission and vision after participation from almost half … read more.
This year, our oldest youth have been visiting other religious communities and talking with individuals of many faiths. We use the UU seven principles, UUFM Vision Statement, and virtue ethics we studied last year to articulate what we have learned so far. Through this … read more.
Strategic. Planning. Committee.
Three words that people may find it hard to get excited about. Yet they’re very important to our future. We have an outstanding group of people looking at where we’ve been, where we are, and how we need to move to become the … read more.
“An authentically anti-opressice, anti racist Unitarian Universalist faith will be equitable, pro-acitve, soul-transforming, phrophetic force for justice within our congregations and communities. This faith will be effective and accountable, both to itself and to oour communities, through transformative spirituality, justice seeking, witness, and action.” This … read more.
Grasshoppers are a real problem for the country gardener. Munch, munch, munch they eat eight times as fast in proportion to their weight as cattle do in the Flint Hills. And a bazillion of them chomp down on the corn, chard, kale, eggplant, beans. Fall … read more.
UUFM Vision and Mission Statements
UUFM Vision Statement, adopted April 2020
UUFM Mission Statement, adopted October 2020
Next Steps Weekend Report, September 20-22, 2019
UUFM History
The Gift of Welcome
Wherever you have come from, whoever you are, whomever you love, whatever your journey has been, it has led you here. Welcome.
Thus speaketh every Convener on Sunday mornings at UUFM, in their own language. But what do we really mean by welcome?
According … read more.
photo by Rachel Shivers
Why do we have to denounce something as clearly horrible as Nazism and white supremacy? It ought to be clear. Every person of conscience knows that the ideas they endorse are anathema.
As many of you know, Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice … read more.
I hesitate to join the moaning and groaning over the Presidential campaign. However, the trends concern me deeply. Like Pope Francis, I won’t name names as I critique the tone and content of some of the Presidential candidates’ statements and the news coverage.
I wonder what … read more.
