First Unitarian Society
Membership

Membership & Outreach Coordinator: Teresa West
900 Mount Curve Avenue; Minneapolis, MN 55403
Phone 612.377.6608, ext. 104; Fax 612.377.2151

You're all Invited!!

We offer a two-part Orientation Series in the fall, winter and spring each year. 

Orientation Series

Winter 2008, Two-Part Session, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 27, Part 1
Sunday, February 10, Part 2

- Followed by New Member Sunday: February 24

Spring 2008, Two-Part Session, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 4, Part 1
Sunday, May 18, Part 2

- Followed by New Member Sunday: June 1

These sessions will provide newly-interested persons an opportunity to learn more about our Society, our religion, our history, our philosophy and purpose and how we function. You will have a chance to meet and hear from staff and long-time members and leaders in the congregation. You'll also meet others who are engaged in the same search you are. And you don't have to be a newcomer! Everyone is welcome! We hope to see you here!

If you would like to attend and/or you have questions, please contact Teresa West, Membership and Outreach Coordinator. or Rev. Kendyl Gibbons at the Society office, 612-377-6608.

New Member Sunday

Following each orientation series, we celebrate New Member Recognition Sunday.

Remember to mark your calendar. New Member Recognition Sunday welcomes and honors those who have joined the Society in recent months. Also on Recognition Sundays, the congregation honors 10-year members of F.U.S. These are always special Sundays! We hope you'll all plan to be here. 


"If there is no personality governing the universe and promising us love, justice and meaning on some ontological bottom line, then it is all the more necessary for us, flawed and finite as we are, to give love, to enact justice, and to build meaning here and now....To me, the impersonal universe is sustaining, holy, rich in wisdom and courage. And that, it seems to me, is enough....And something about (this) reality calls us, allures us, demands of us that we grow into all the wisdom and justice and love of which we are capable, because that is the fulfillment of the deepest reality of what we are....Women and men hunger for the meaning in life, and find it, not in a god, but in the ardent sod, the warmth of sun and breath of air; in the miracle of bread, in the setting sun and the altar of the ocean; in the struggle of now, salted with wishes and dreams, in human love and understanding...and every breath we take says that unfathomable "Yes" to the life that is all we have, that is all we know, that is our hunger and our fullness and is, beyond all that we need, enough."


Rev. Dr. Kendyl Gibbons.
Religious Humanism, Vol. XXX, Nos. 1 and 2, "If Not God What?"

"When we say that ours is a creedless church, what do we mean? From the Protestant Reformation we have inherited the right of personal judgment in religion. From the Enlightenment we have inherited the universal idea that the individual has the right to create a new spiritual orientation out of religious sources other then Christianity (e.g. ethics)."

- Khoren Arisian, Minister Emeritus.


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