Posts about recent or ongoing activities within the church community
Are you interested in becoming a member of UUCSS? Our next Pathways to Membership class will be from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm on Saturday, October 26 in the Dolan Lounge in the Admin building at the church. Reverend Cox will be joining us. The Pathways class provides an opportunity to learn more about the history and principles of…
UUCSS will be CLOSED on Sunday, August 18, as we travel to our neighbors at the Cedar Lane UU Church for Friendship Day. Cedar Lane UU Church is located at 9601 Cedar Lane Bethesda, MD 20814. Friendship Day is a multigenerational service celebrating creativity and collaboration. Worship at Cedar Lane UU Church in the summer…
Carol Hamilton has identified as a Unitarian-Universalist all her life. She came to UUCSS in 1996 in search of religious education for her eight-year-old daughter. Yassi Davoodi. She became involved in UUCSS and she and Yassi enjoyed going to UUCSS’s annual retreat at Catoctin, but as a single mother, she said no to frequent requests…
All members of UUCSS are encouraged to attend the annual congregational meeting on Sunday, June 2, 2019, after the worship service. Light refreshments will be served. We will be celebrating our year and voting to approve the budget and the new slate of board members for the coming year.
Jim Street is the Volunteer of the Month for May. Jim and his wife Emily Tien came to UUCSS in the early 2000s, looking for a place to build a community with their young kids. Although they visited a number of churches, UUCSS appealed because of its Religious Education Program and the strength of Rev.…
The Social Justice Players, sponsored by The Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Program, and in coordination with the Chalice Theatre at the UU Church of Arlington (UUCA) and the UU Church of Silver Spring (UUCSS), will be presenting the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play, SWEAT, by Lynn Nottage, to be directed by Bruce McConachie. There will be six staged-readings…
Sharon Snyder is the Volunteer of the Month for April. In 1997, a good friend’s mother told Sharon she needed to join a UU church or a synagogue because she needed a community. At that time UUCSS was advertising its services in the Washington Post. Sharon saw that Rev. Jim Bank was preaching a sermon…
This year’s Annual Budget Drive is officially launched! All Members and Friends of UUCSS are invited to sign up for an ABD cottage meeting! Sign-ups are now open, and cottage meetings begin March 17. Light refreshments will be served at all cottage meetings, and some are noted to be children-friendly. We encourage all to join…
Steve Wilmarth first came to UUCSS with his former wife, Jenny Kelley, in search of a good religious education program for their kids Bryan and Ellie. At his first service he read the Seven Principles on the back of the Order of Service and was amazed, as he had never seen anything like it before. …
Catherine Buckler is the Volunteer of the Month for February. Catherine attended the UU Congregation of Rockville as a young child. From then on she considered herself a UU but did not have a church. When her daughter Sophia was born, she and husband Bob Geiger had heard good things about UUCSS and it was…