Whoever you are, whomever you love, whatever your heritage, culture, skin color, or identity; whatever your ability or the size and shape of your body, you are welcome at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia.
As Unitarian Universalists we strive to embody love in our daily actions ❤️ and believe in the power of centering our values ✨. We are a spiritual community with a strong call to love and justice, without a central creed or doctrine.
In our congregation you will likely meet as many agnostics, atheists, Pagans, Humanists, etc. as you will people with Christian and Jewish backgrounds. And while our faith does have Christian roots, most Unitarian Universalists would likely say that Jesus was a human with good ideas.
We recognize that unearthing and co-creating the Beloved Community envisioned by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is up to all of us, that “all of us need all of us to make it“, to use words from Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto. And, that wherever else it may be, salvation is most readily experienced among friends and in community.
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Our Mission
In Unitarian Universalism, a mission statement expresses who we strive to be in life and what we value.
The following mission statement was voted on by our congregation and adopted at our 2023 Annual Meeting. Visit the Values, Mission, Ends page to learn about the congregational engagement process.
Our Congregational Covenant
As Unitarian Universalists we accept that as humans, we are part of an interconnected and interdependent web of life 🕸️, along with all sentient beings. We believe in the power of friendship and community and center it over the rampant individualism and resulting loneliness and isolation found in Capitalism and Western culture.
We are a faith that has a long history of centering covenant as a way to frame how we promise to be and work with one another. Covenants are created and agreed upon by congregants. Small groups may choose to make their own covenants and congregations often adopt a congregational covenant.
At the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia, we have the following congregational covenant, which we read aloud together each Sunday during the 10AM worship service:
Strengthened by our common humanity and inspired by our seven principles, we promise:
to be a safe and welcoming community;
to nurture each other’s hearts and spirits;
to delight in the beauty of our diversity;
to struggle together on our spiritual journeys;
and to challenge each other to live our values.
Thus, we pledge our time and vigor to the continuing celebration of spirit, of the world, and of humankind.
