Membership Matters!
You’re invited! When you join our congregation, you become part of our caring community, available to celebrate, encourage, and support you through life’s journey and your spiritual growth. You join your voice and hands with others to have a stronger presence in making our local community and larger world a place of welcome and blessing for all. You may develop leadership skills, your creativity, and share in group processes to determine future direction of our congregation. You become part of a progressive faith tradition spanning hundreds of years that has stood for human dignity, religious freedom, and spiritual expansion as well as justice and compassion. Your presence and participation strengthen this spiritual home and its ability to carry on this important tradition. We are glad to have you join us.
Before you join, we think it is important that you
- Feel in harmony with our Unitarian Universalist Principles and Living Tradition and this congregation’s mission/covenant statement.
- Have attended enough Sunday services to be well acquainted with our particular ways of worship, the variety and scope of our spiritual perspectives, and our religious values.
- Have a basic understanding of our Unitarian Universalist history, guiding tenets and organizational structure by: attending one of our “Introduction To Our Faith and Congregation” sessions; or by reading our brochures, UU Pocket Guide, A Chosen Faith, or Welcome: A Unitarian Universalist Primer.
- Have a willingness to make a commitment of time, energy, and financial resources to support this congregation, the wider UU movement and our work.
- Make a financial pledge in any amount to our congregation by filling out a pledge form for the remainder of the congregational year and giving it and your first pledge payment to our Treasurer, a member of our Stewardship Committee, or minister.
To join: Speak to an Executive Board member or our minister, and tell us you would like to become a member. Then sign our Membership Book in the presence of a Board member and, if you have not already done so, make a financial contribution (contribution of record). You become eligible to vote in congregational matters 90 days after signing and contributing. Welcome!
To learn more, read the Membership Matters! document.
From the Bylaws
Any person, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, spiritual background or economic status, may become a member of this congregation who is in sympathy with its purpose and programme, who has signed the membership book in the presence of a Board member and who makes an annual financial contribution of record.
To be eligible to vote, make motions, nominate candidates and hold office at any Business Meetings of this congregation, a person must be eighteen years of age or older, and a recorded member for at least ninety days.
For more information, select the Governance tab above and read the Bylaws.