Knowing there are many paths to the truth, we celebrate a commitment to diversity, tolerance, spirituality and community action.
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Worship & Youth Activities:
Sunday Service: 10:45am
Youth RE and Child care 10:45am
We offer many spiritual, social and community activities throughout the week.
To find out more about our faith and our religious activities, check out our Calendar of Events,
or contact our minister, Rev. Valerie Wills.
Click here to view Upcoming Sunday Service Topics & Speakers.
Ministering to Each Other
(Adult religious education)
Thursdays, Jan. 5, 12, 10. 26 & Feb. 2
7:15 p.m. in the Martin House
A small group of members and friends will join together to share life experiences. Each week Reverend Wills will offer a topic for discussion and group members will share from their personal religious experience in discussing the topics.
Sign up on the bulletin board in the sanctuary foyer or contact the office (phone 301-797-5533 or office@UUhagerstownMD.org) to register.
Annual Service Auction
Planning Meeting, Sunday, Feb. 5
12:15 p.m. in the Martin House
The annual auction, this year on Saturday, March 31 at 6 p.m., is always a lively social event as well as a significant fund-raiser for our church. Auction organizers Robin Chute and Camille Smith rely on a corps of volunteers to ensure that the auction is laugh-filled and lucrative.
How can you help? What talents or treasures can you donate to the auction? What are you good at? What do you like to do?
People are needed the weekend of the auction to set up, prepare food, and clean up. If you’d like to help with the event, come to the meeting on Feb. 5 or contact Robin (717-762-8169 rmchute@embarqmail.com) to volunteer or for more information.
The auction also needs donations of goods or services. Popular items at past auctions have been exotic dinners and festive parties, afghans, quilts, chocolates, cakes, plants, pottery, paintings, handyman and cleaning services, jewelry, musical performances, and classes.
Donation forms will be available in January in the back of the sanctuary, on our church website (www.UUHagerstownMD.org) and from Robin.
Our church is providing the evening meal at the Hagerstown Cold Weather Shelter twice in February. We’ll need people to prepare the food, serve the meal, and clean up afterwards. See Lou Murray after the service to sign up.
We also need monetary contributions for the food costs. Give your donations, clearly marked “for REACH dinners”, to the church treasurer Bill Pfoutz.
For more information about our church social action, go to the Fiath-in-Action page.
Ministry Matters
Retreat open to all on Sunday, February 19, from 1 p.m - 4 p.m.
Following the service and a potluck lunch.
Childcare will be provided if requested in advance.
Please RSVP Camille Smith if childcare needed.
Recognizing that the ministry of our church is more than the work of our professional and elected leadership, the board of trustees invites all members and friends to join them in an afternoon retreat that explores a broader aspect of ministry and governance: bringing our congregational life into alignment with our values.
During the retreat, a UUA DVD poses challenging questions for retreat participants to answer in small groups. What are the essential values of UUsm? Are these values reflected in our congregational life? What is the mission of our church? What is our church’s role in our lives and in the world? What do we expect of other each? How shall we live together in community?
For details on these events and more, see our CALENDAR page.
If you would like to start a new activity or group at church, fill out the
Activities Request Form
and have your request approved by the board, which meets monthly!
Inclement Weather Cancellation:
Anytime there are bad weather conditions from ice or snow, listen to the following radio stations for church
cancellations:
AM Radio: WEMP 1340, WHAG 1410, WJEJ 1240
FM Radio: MIX95 95.1, WKMZ 97.5, WQCM96.7, WWMD 104.7, WYII 95.9
TV: NBC-TV25
