Emerson Unitarian Universalist Services
Usually, our services have the components of our Protestant heritage. We sing, have a meditation and quiet time, a sermon, perhaps a reading or two. The sermon reflects on questions of what it means to be human: love, compassion, suffering, living and dying, the ethics for the in-between. The readings reflect the same concerns and may be from our hymnal, poetry, excepts from novels, stories, narratives, as well as world religion's scriptures and writings.
As our history indicates, we are in an OLD building. Regretfully, that means that it is not handicapped accessible, not even too friendly. We do have special needs parking spaces but there are steps to get into the building and more steps to reach the bathrooms. We look forward to planning our new building so we can be accommodating and welcoming in this regard.
We hold regular Sunday services in the Sanctuary at 10:00 AM throughout the year. These services are followed by coffee and conversation downstairs in Fellowship Hall. Childcare is offered during these times.
During the school year both Adult and Youth Religious Education programs are scheduled from 11:30 – 12:30. Adult Religious Education is held on the second, third and fourth Sundays of each month. Youth Religious Education programs for young people four years old (by September first) through twelfth grade are offered each Sunday from 11:30 to 12:30 from the second Sunday in August through May. Nursery and Toddler Care are offered for children from birth through three years old each Sunday. Check the monthly newsletter and the calendar found on this Web site to learn more about each of these programs as well as a full listing of all activities and meeting times.
Special programming for young people in kindergarten through fifth grade is planned for June and July. Details can be found in the June newsletter.
Dress is casual for our services and meetings.
Our Congregation
We have the religious diversity that makes UUs so interesting and such wonderful travelling companions on the search for truth and meaning! Liberal Christians, Agnostics, Pagans, Atheists, Humanists and believers in a higher power of many kinds, called by many names, all make their home here.