“Here is a mystery: If sweeping through the door of my heart there moves continually a genuine love for you, it bypasses all your hate and all your indifference and gets through to you at your center. You are powerless to do anything about it. You may keep alive in devious ways the fires of … Continue reading Pastoral Care and Connections
The Unitarian Universalist Association is holding its annual General Assembly in Portland, Oregon, June 22-26, 2022. Please consider joining with thousands of others UU’s either in person or online for worship, workshops, and learning more about our Association. Let these fellow UU’s share why you should consider attending https://vimeo.com/671216186. For more information: https://www.uua.org/gaIf you’re a … Continue reading The Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly
Action Alerts- and correction of Find your Senator or Legislator link In addition to our monthly lobby days, UUJusticePA is encouraging postcarding to lift up UU values. Our senators and representatives need to know that UUs support or oppose legislation they are considering. Go to https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/ to find your PA senator or legislator and their … Continue reading UUJUSTICEPA
On Saturday, February 19, from 10 AM-Noon, Joan Harvey will be at the Church’s Morewood Avenue door collecting donations for the Afghan refugees who have resettled in Pittsburgh. These people come to our city with nothing, and our donations to them through the Jewish Family and Community Services of Pittsburgh help them rebuild their lives. … Continue reading DONATE TO HELP AFGHAN REFUGEES
I’ve heard people refer to February and March as the winter “hump” months as if they have to be endured as we wait for spring. I understand this feeling of having to endure February and March since we’ve lived in western Pennsylvania before. I know how the clouds, snow, ice, and sometimes rain can challenge … Continue reading Pastoral Care and Connections
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson is New York Times Bestseller with over one million copies sold.‘It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to … Continue reading Thursday night book club announces a new book
The Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship (UUCF) is a covenant group of First U of Pittsburgh whose members, in the spirit of our UU principles, are interested in exploring the Christian realm of our diverse faith spectrum. We provide a respectful, stimulating, and supportive forum in which members may rediscover valued aspects of their Christian heritage. … Continue reading The Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship (UUCF)
COVID Policy Updated October 19, 2022 First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh welcomes everyone as we strive to be radically inclusive and keep our most vulnerable safe during a chronic Coronavirus pandemic. The following applies to church activities and therefore does not apply to rentals. 1. Everyone must wear a mask* and be vaccinated and boosted, … Continue reading Updated In-Person Church Activities
We ended the year in a reasonable financial position and slightly better than we budgeted for. This allowed us to incur a smaller-than-expected net operating loss and less reliance on reserve funds than we had planned for. Although the church has begun to reopen, we still suffered losses due to the church being closed for … Continue reading 2021 Treasurer’s Report
The holidays are past and our legislators in Harrisburg have returned to move our state government forward-backward-sideways, depending on your perspective. There are two bills currently in play that UUJusticePA and Fair Districts PA advise us to follow, learn about, and contact our representatives to express our support or opposition. HB 38-a constitutional amendment that … Continue reading UUJusticePA and Fair Districts PA
The Khasi Hills Partnership team would like to share this greeting from our main contacts in India. Nangroi Suting and Barri Mukhim have visited our church on a number of occasions, in person and virtually. We would also like to thank everyone for supporting our school whether via donor outreach, Alternative Gift Market or the … Continue reading Thanks from Khasi Hills School
