by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 8, 2015 | Weekly Message
As the physical work on the Welcome Project nears completion, it’s time to turn our attention to the important work of becoming more welcoming as a Congregation. In last week’s eNews, our Lead Minister Rev. Mark Ward talked about the Ends Statements that the Board has...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 5, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister The voice is a familiar one, like that of relative who surprises us every once in a while with fascinating, chatty phone calls: updating us on the family gossip, relating some slightly scandalous old stories, and puzzling over all that we...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 2, 2015 | Sermons
Rev. Mark Ward, Lead Minister The first place I remember calling home was a ranch-style house built on an acre of bottom land carved out of second-growth forest about 20 minutes from Princeton, New Jersey. Our young family – my parents, my 5-year-old self, and two...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Oct 1, 2015 | Weekly Message
How we focus our work as a religious institution is something that evolves over time as we in this community come to a growing understanding of who we are and what we feel called to do. It can be hard work to figure this out, but one of the benefits of Policy...
