A Church of Open Minds and Open Hearts

This Sunday @ UUFR (11:00 am)

Crossing the Bridge

Join us for our annual Bridging service celebrating our graduating high school seniors and the transition to young adulthood. After the service we will be honoring our teens at their display tables, and then relocating downstairs for our annual congregational meeting.

Bridging Ceremony June 4

Bridging Ceremony June 4

Join us on Sunday, June 4th to celebrate our graduating high school seniors and all teens transitioning into young adulthood at our annual Bridging service. We will hear from students and families about graduates’ faith journeys and accomplishments and formally mark the transition into young adulthood in our Bridging ceremony. This is a uniquely Unitarian Universalist ritual that you won’t want to miss! Please join us to celebrate our young people!

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Annual Meeting June 4!

Annual Meeting June 4!

Please save the date for the annual congregational meeting Sunday, June 4 right after the service. We will recognize our volunteers, vote on 2017-2018 board members and budget and other business, etc. Lunch and childcare will be provided.

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Rev. Osterman to arrive on August 1st!

Rev. Osterman to arrive on August 1st!

Board President Chris Breivogel is delighted to announce that Rev. Dr. Justin Osterman will assume his role as Developmental Minister at UUFR beginning August 1st. Watch for additional information in coming weeks.

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Our Stories. Our Voices.

I first came to UUFR in the summer of 1998. I’d just moved to Raleigh, didn’t know anyone here, except Don, my (now) husband. I was raised in a UU church in NY and, after a hiatus, felt ready to re-engage with a spiritual community. Read the full testimonial.

UUFR is the place where I nurture so much of what’s good in my life: my meditation practice at the Monday night mindfulness group, my desire to serve my community at LEAP and at our monthly Interfaith Food Shuttle project, my writing practice at the Wednesday night writing group, my social activism on the UUFR Acts! Facebook page. And last but not least, it’s in this sanctuary that I am often filled up with the knowledge that life can be hard and beautiful at once, and that I am not alone on this journey. Read the full testimonial.

Being a Unitarian Universalist doesn’t work for everyone. There’s no group-wide theology to hold tightly to, no threat of damnation or promise of heaven, only what UU theologian Rebecca Parker calls “freely chosen and life-sustaining interdependence.” Read the full testimonial.

UUFR is a place where I can raise my children in a faith that affirms the worth and dignity of every person regardless of skin color, religion or sexual orientation.

Read the full testimonial.

The Fellowship, or more accurately the caring people that make it up, have helped me travel from a place of loss, anger and loneliness to a place of happiness and belonging. I am eternally grateful that the Fellowship was there for me when I most needed it. Read the full testimonial.