Dear Fellow UUCGF Congregants and Friends,
We are very pleased to share the following information with you. As Covid 19 cases have dropped significantly in the region, our Reopening Task Force has recommended that our congregation return to hybrid services every week beginning on April 3, … read more.
An important message from Rev. Barbara:
Recently, members of UU Glens Falls received an email claiming to be from me (Rev. Barbara), stating that there was some vague emergency and asking recipients to purchase store cards to send to me with a promise that I would … read more.
Recently Jean Grant spoke to us about helping seniors organize their personal documents and health information. She and Dave Legg have created a handy document to help with this process. You can download it by clicking here! The file will also remain available on … read more.
Hello Congregation!
Our Board met right after the first snowfall, a beautiful sight to see with its pure, bright, whiteness and indicator of the change of season. The Board made some decisions, and acted on a couple of our retreat goals. The key goals included updating … read more.
A poem, written by retired UU minister the Rev. Mary Wellemeyer, called ‘Late November’:
One day it happens –
often it comes after rain.
Suddenly the leaves are gone
from the trees of the hillsides;
only some oak and beech trees
cling to curled brown souvenirs of summer.
Now comes a special … read more.
Balance. I’ve been thinking a lot about balance over the past week or two. This particular assessment of finding balance happens for me every year about this time, through most of October and early November, and then again through April and into May. Assessing balance … read more.
By the Rev. Barbara Threet
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what has deep personal meaning, and why. My ruminations have been sparked by my mother’s death, as my family begins the process of dismantling her household. Our family moved there almost 60 years ago, … read more.
by the Rev. Barbara Threet
Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love,
time is eternity. (or ‘time is not’, in another version).
These words, which may well be … read more.
by the Rev. Barbara Threet
Now that the 2021-22 UU church year is drawing to a close, I’m thinking about next year’s adult education Zoom classes. This year’s classes (“Transcendentalism: Beyond Emerson,” “The Bible Says…” and “Who Me? An Elder?”) were well received, and all three … read more.
by the Rev. Barbara Threet
The days, so filled with budding green and flowering trees, bursting lilacs and not-yet-faded daffodils – and so filled, also, with surging Covid numbers, angst at what SCOTUS could hand down, fears of drought and fire, and terror in Ukraine and … read more.
On Sunday, May 1, members of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Glens Falls will meet online for our Annual Meeting to reflect on the past year and to consider our future. Friends of UUCGF are welcome to attend as well. This year we will be considering and electing … read more.
