Welcome Members

Welcome to the "Members" section of this website. Here is where you can learn more about going deeper into your spiritual journey along with others who make up the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship

You can find out about joining the UUCF, online or via mail, renew your membership, and make donations to support and sustain the work of the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship. As members, you can connect with others in local groups, find out about what major events the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship is sponsoring, and connect with UUCF leaders to work together on our ministry teams.

The UUCF movement is supported by a non-profit religious organization whose members elect a Board of Directors to govern the organization. This is a working Board whose members also are part of leading various team ministries through the UUCF. We exist thanks to the support of people like you, people from all over the world, who are sharing with one another their walk with Jesus in freedom.

From the President

You, the members of the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship, have asked me to serve as president of this unique organization for the next three years. This is an honor I both willingly and humbly accept.

The Christian Fellowship has certainly changed since its inception as the Unitarian Christian Fellowship in 1945. When it was founded, Unitarians were still primarily Christians. Several decades later, when the Unitarians merged with the Universalists to form the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), the Christian Fellowship's mission was to witness to a Christian presence in what was then a Humanist faith. Since that time until recently, the Fellowship was formally an independent affiliate of the UUA with a clear charter to address the needs of Christians within the UUA.

Two years ago, the UUA revoked the independent affiliate status of nearly all such organizations, including the Christian Fellowship. Some organizations thus affected could not adjust and became inactive. The Christian Fellowship, however, survived. Through the efforts and vision of many, including my predecessor Reverend Kathleen Rolenz and our Executive Director Reverend Ron Robinson, our Fellowship began the transformation from an institution into a movement.

What differentiates a movement from an institution? A movement is a community and not just a body of members. A movement has a purpose and mission beyond itself, giving time and talent to further a purpose greater than the needs of its members. And a movement aspires to realize a vision and not just meet a goal.

The first step in our transformation is for all of us, together, to build community. We have already begun this process. We have redefined our mission to also include all those who are "too Unitarian Universalist to be Christian and too Christian to be Unitarian Universalist." We have marshaled our limited resources to expand our presence in Cyberspace with our revamped website UUChristian.org and our creation of a virtual office. We have consistently enriched the Revival experience, with this year's Revival in Texas on track to be the most memorable one yet. We have intentionally expanded our scope beyond the more Christian churches in New England to better represent liberal Christianity throughout North America.

There is work enough for all in building a community that will restore the true Good News of Jesus to a world that seems to have forgotten that the one God loves us all. The Way to this community according to Jesus is recorded in the Book of John: "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." We all have a role to play: may we all be an active part of that community.