GPS Address: 100 Park Ave. Barneveld, NY. 13304
Mailing Address:  P.O. Box 236 
315-316-1330   www.uubarneveld.org

Religion Without Dogma
We offer a church where there is freedom to develop your own religious philosophy & find fellowship in a caring and thoughtful religious community.

Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson's belief in freedom of thought and freedom of belief are manifest in the many Unitarian principles our founding fathers included in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were important Unitarian philosophers and ministers.

As a member church of the UUA, the Unitarian Church of Barneveld ascribes to the Unitarian Universalist Principles:
 ▪  The inherent worth and dignity of every person.
▪  Justice, equity and compassion in human relations..
▪  Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations.
▪  A free and reasonable search for truth and meaning.
▪  The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and society at large.
▪  The goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all
▪  Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
 
   We are a Welcoming Congregation


 SEE WHATS HAPPENING AT:
                 UNITY HALL                

&

PARK COFFEE HOUSE
Foothills Rural Community Ministry

WELCOME TO OUR CHURCH COMMUNITY
 and to our 200-year-old building---now with wheelchair accessibility.

Summertime Scheduling in effect
Regular weekly Sunday services will resume after Labor Day

Sunday, July 30, 2017 - 10:30 am - in Salisbury Center
    Mohawk Valley UU Cluster Service at First Universalist Society
138 State Rt 29A, Salisbury Center, NY 13454
        [From the flyer]
The First Universalist Church of Salisbury Center
Invites all the other UU churches to join them for the
Annual Mohawk Valley Cluster Service

"Nurturing Your Most Important Sense:
Your Sense of Humor"
The featured speaker will be local performer/comedian and poet,
Mike Cecconi
And Mark Bunce will lead the combined UU choral group.

A potluck fellowship will follow the service.
Salisbury will provide main course dishes,
so please bring side dishes or desserts to share."

We look forward to seeing all our friends & neighbors
from our sister congregations."

Sunday, August 13, 2017 - 10:00 am - in Barneveld
       Rev. Dr. Randolph Becker, speaker
  "Why Emerson was right and I was wrong."
"In 1803 this congregation was gathered and Ralph Waldo Emerson was born. And this happy coincidence lines out for us some happy insights into liberal religion and its deep demands and its lofty rewards."
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JUNE
SUNDAY SERVICES at 10:00 a.m.
Sunday, June 4, 2017 - 10:00 am
Rev. David Blanchard: "Thoreau at 200"
"June 12 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Henry David Thoreau. It's hard to imagine what he would have made of the world we live in today. In this service, Rev. Blanchard will consider the life and legacy of this most original and ornery of thinkers. "

Sunday, June 11, 2017 - 10:00 am
Rev. John Preston: "The Prophetic Character within
Different Institutions"
"Rev. Preston will present some of the highlights of his memoir on the theme of the prophetic character within churches as well as other American institutions. His sermon will claim that the role of prophetic character is a crucial aspect of leadership within all American institutions, especially during the current political climate."

2017 PILGRIMAGE
Sunday, June 18, 2017
10:00 am - Refreshments on the lawn - The Gouse Family
        with Music by Ann Carey & Matt Mielnik's nook 'n' crannie
11:00 am - Worship Service
        Rev. Jeff Frank, speaker: "Pilgrimage Perspectives"                           
               Minister, St. Paul’s Universalist Church in Little Falls
Music by Monk Rowe &
The Mohawk Valley Combined UU Choirs
Mark Bunce, directing
~12:15 pm - LUNCHEON at UNITY HALL
Prepared by members of the Barneveld church
Adults - $8.00; Children under 5 - no charge.
~  2:00 pm - GUIDED VISIT to the Sherman-Moore Family Cemetery

Rev. John Sherman (1772 - 1828) was the Unitarian Church of Barneveld's first minister. He and family members are buried in this beautiful cemetery on the western bank of the West Canada Creek at Trenton Falls.

John Sherman's appreciation and admiration of Trenton Falls including its rocks, its fossils, and its wonderful natural scenery, laid the foundation for the development of Trenton Falls as a world-class geological locality and tourist destination by the mid 1800's.

Summertime Scheduling in effect
Regular weekly Sunday services will resume after Labor Day

Sunday, July 30, 2017 - 10:30 am - in Salisbury Center
    Mohawk Valley UU Cluster Service at First Universalist Society
138 State Rt 29A, Salisbury Center, NY 13454

Sunday, August 13, 2017 - 10:00 am - in Barneveld
    Rev. Dr. Randolph Becker, speaker

Religious Education
for children on Sunday mornings during regular church year.
Please contact us or stop by the church on a Sunday morning
for more information.

         Photo by David Blanchard
       

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