We are an Open Spiritual Community in the North Georgia Mountains
Where Each Positive Progressive Week Begins Sunday At 11:00 AM
SEPTEMBER SUNDAYS
September 5 – Appalachian storyteller and playwright Gary Carden spins a tale based on his childhood in Sylva, NC. Carden’s plays and books about Appalachian folklore have won many awards, Carden taught in his younger years and has recently been awarded an honorary doctorate from WCU, where he earned his bachelor’s degree.
September 12 – "We've Known Rivers.” The Unitarian Universalist Water Communion is a traditional ritual in which members and friends recognize the life-sustaining properties of water and the journeys of body and spirit that water represents. Members and friends are invited to bring a sample of water collected during summer travels and to pour it into a common vessel to signify coming together again.
September 19 - "The Wisdom of Hebrew Holidays: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkoth" - The Reverend Barry Whittemore. A look at these holidays with reflections on the spiritual wisdom of the manner in which our religious ancestors celebrated them, emphasizing the lessons we need to learn.
September 26 – "Blessing of the Animals." When pets and people live in interdependence and harmony, all of life is enriched. That’s the core meaning of “the Bond,” a term coined to describe this special connection and to bring attention to the joys and rewards of human-animal relationships. This Sunday we will celebrate this bond with our Annual Animal Blessing. Bring your pets to be blessed at this unique Sunday service. Children and adults are welcomed to participate in this service using animal hand puppets that will be supplied.
Are you seeking a church:
 That keeps an open mind to the religious questions you have struggled with in all times and places?
Where personal experience, conscience and reason are believed to be the final authorities in religion, and that in the end religious authority lies not in a book or person or institution, but in yourself?
Where no one is required to subscribe to a creed?
Where everyone is welcomed in a safe, accepting community with open hearts and minds?
Where
people nurtue one another in spiritual growth and the expression of
personal values through service to people and the planet?
Where the congregation is self-governing. Authority and responsibility are vested in the membership?
Georgia Mountains Unitarian Universalist Church may be for you.
Come and visit. Service is held every Sunday at 11:00 am.
Dress is Casual. Children's Religious Education meets concurrently
Our mission is to be a safe,
accepting community
of diverse people with
open hearts and open minds
who nurture one another
in spiritual growth
and the expression
of personal values
in service to
people and our planet.
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