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JUNE 13-19, 2026
10 Lyons Plains Road Westport, CT 06880 ~ 203.227.7205 ~ uuwestport.org
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Starting next week, SOUNDINGS will be going on its summer schedule of coming to you every-other-week. The first SOUNDINGS: SUMMER EDITION of 2026 will cover June 20-July 3, 2026. If you have a blurb you need in SOUNDINGS within those dates, send to soundings@uuwestport.org by June 17, 2025 by 5:30 PM.
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WORSHIP SERVICE: JUNE 14 ~ 10:00 AM
THE WORLD WE BUILD TOGETHER - MICAH KRAJCA
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Join us for our Spring Offering and final choir Sunday of the congregational year, “The World We Build Together,” a music-centered service exploring how love, compassion, justice, and human connection shape the communities we build. Through music reflecting on social change, care for the earth, belonging, and our responsibility to one another, the choir will invite us into a hopeful vision of a world rooted in empathy and shared humanity. Featuring music by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Highwomen, Lenny Kravitz, and Stephen Sondheim, this service celebrates the power of music to inspire reflection, connection, and collective hope.
Click HERE to join the service on LiveStream.
Click HERE for the Order of Service.
We deeply appreciate your support!
You can give via VENMO (@UUWestport-10),
online at vop.tucw.org, or by mailing cash or check.
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UUWESTPORT'S ANNUAL MEETING
JUNE 14TH ~ 11:30 AM ~ SANCTUARY
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Please plan to attend our Annual Meeting. At this meeting we will:
- Celebrate the Very Fine Lifetime Volunteer Service Award
- Recap our many accomplishments during the past fiscal year
- Vote on two proposed constitutional amendments
- Ratify our FY 26-27 proposed budget
- Elect Board of Trustees, Endowment, Committee on Ministries and Nominating committee members
Find the full agenda HERE
Find the proposed budget HERE
Notify secretary@uuwestport.org by June 7 for virtual participation or childcare needs.
| | SAVE THE DATE: JUNE 12 ~ 6:00 PM AT EARTH PLACE | | |
Save the Date: Summer Picnic Potluck at Earth Place! June 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM.
Meet at the picnic tables and playground. All are welcome! Organized by Faith Formation Committee.
Email Angi with questions.
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Please click HERE to find out more about our Faith Formation programs.
All are always welcome to be with us.
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• All Ages: 10:00 AM in the sanctuary, then move to the Children’s Chapel/Outdoors
• Nursery: Chalice lighting and play time with Marcus and Joanna
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Sneak Peek into Summer Faith Formation Program| June 21 – September 30: Summer Sunday Services bring a more relaxed approach to Faith Formation — think fresh air, creativity, and community. Children of all ages are welcome to join us on the grass outside the nursery each week before service begins... Please contact Angi by the Saturday before each Sunday service if your child will be attending so she can prepare.
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Thank you to all the children and youth who participated
in the June 7th Faith Formation service.
Here are some lovely photos of UU Westport's youth
celebrating the Bridgers and connecting in the courtyard
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Reed, Kai, Julian, Dylan, Tyler,
Nathan, Esa, Avery, and Kat
June 7, 2026
| | Bridgers: Esa, Avery, Julian, and Kat: June 7, 2026 | | |
LIVING WITH INTENTION: A 5-WEEK COURSE
ON ETHICS, INTEGRITY, AND WELL-BEING
MONDAYS - 6:00-7:00 PM - JUNE 15
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How can the way we live—our choices, words, and actions—become a foundation for greater well-being? Living with Intention: Ethics, Integrity & Well-Being is a five-part experiential course offered by Nina Nagy and Devyani Sadh, exploring how timeless ethical principles can support a more grounded, clear, and compassionate life. Participants learn to notice patterns of reactivity and disconnection, and to cultivate alignment between values and actions. Each session combines brief teachings, guided meditation with clear instruction, and reflective exercises designed to bring these insights into everyday life. Sessions move from cultivating non-harming and truthfulness to practicing contentment, wise relationships, and clarity of mind. Open to all levels, this course offers practical tools to support integrity, resilience, and genuine well-being. LEARN MORE about the course or CLICK HERE to register.
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DISCUSSION GROUP: GOD, UU, AND YOU.
JUNE 15 ~ 7:00 PM, MEETING HOUSE
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Rev. Carlton will offer a brief talk about our faith tradition and how its theology evolved over the generations. It’s a chance for each person attending to reflect upon their own religious/spiritual journey, and where God, Jesus, and other ideas and ideals belong in their understanding of themselves and of life itself. Please RSVP to Rev. Carlton HERE by June 10.
| | UUWRITERS: THURSDAY, JUNE 18 ~ 7:00 PM | | |
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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Please join us on Thursday, June 18, 7:00 PM on ZOOM. Our next theme is Flourishing Together. All are welcome to kickstart your writing. Prompts will be emailed to you in a packet, including poems and songs for inspiration. Contact Sari.
| | UU MOVIE GROUP ~ FRIDAY, JUNE 26 ~ 7:30 PM ~ ZOOM | | |
Do you love movies?
Do you enjoy discussing them?
Each month we pick 3 movies to watch, then meet to discuss them on ZOOM.
On June 26 we will discuss: “Tuner,” “Disclosure Day” (in theaters) and The Christophers (Amazon)
If you see any of these films, please join our discussion!
For the ZOOM link, email Dorothy.
| | AWAKENING THE HEART ~ JULY 14 ~ 6:30-8:00 PM ~ MEETING HOUSE | | |
Float in a blissful immersion of musical chanting led by monk Brian Lottman, Tuesday, July 14th at 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM at the Meeting House.
Brian, a wondering monk, has held hundreds of these “satsangs” at yoga studios, churches and spiritual centers all over the US and Canada. Satsang is an immersion into profound states of consciousness through energy healing, mystical mantra, sweet harmonium music and guided meditation.
Donations welcome. For more information contact Nina Nagy.
Click HERE for flyer.
| | THE TAG SALE IS NEAR! AUGUST 15 | | |
Did you miss out on donating to the Auction? Never fear, the TAG SALE is near! August 15, so save your stuff until it can be brought to UU in mid August.
More to come, but in the meantime, know that “If it’s in your house, it can easily be in someone else’s!”. (but not the furniture). Contact Linda Hudson.
| | GREAT TO HAVE REV TERRI WITH US LAST SUNDAY | | |
We were delighted that our incoming minister, Rev. Terri Dennehy, was able to join us this past Sunday.
How special that Angi and the Faith Formation team were able to incorporate her into our time together - and that the congregation had a chance to hear a bit more from her before our budget review meeting began. We look forward to seeing Rev. Terri here on August 15, when we begin our shared ministry together.
And if you'd like to help out with her welcoming/onboarding team, please let a Board member know!
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Earlier this year we received a generous bequest of just over $800,000 from Nancy Treadwell, whose parents, Thomas and Mildred Treadwell, were founding members. Nancy split the gift between the Chworowsky Library and what was formerly known as the ‘church school.’ The Board formed the Treadwell Committee, and we’ve begun meeting, gathering background, examining our legal obligations, and considering Nancy’s intent. You’ll receive updates and we look forward to including you in the conversation as the process moves forward. If you have information about the Library’s history, please email treadwell@uuwestport.org.
Randy Burnham, Sean Feuer, Diane Melish,
Sharon Poole, Cindy Potter, Joyce Thomas, Bob Welsh
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INTRODUCING . . . THE REV. FRANK A. HALL
PRESERVATION FUND
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We know from the stories we’ve heard from Rev. Frank’s family and friends how much UUWestport as a place meant to him. He is remembered as having said “This is where I belong” when he entered the Sanctuary for the first time in 1984.
At its April meeting, the Board of Trustees voted to establish the Rev. Frank A. Hall Preservation Fund to support the preservation of the campus and its buildings. As mentioned during the May 3 Sunday morning service, this fund is established with a generous donation from Rev. Frank’s family. If you would like to remember him by contributing to this fund, you may do so through your Realm account, or through Venmo or the Virtual Offering Plate, indicating "The Rev. Frank Fund” in the memo section.
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NOMINATIONS FOR SHARE THE PLATE ARE IN!
WHAT ARE YOUR TOP TEN?
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Check out the preview ballot information for SHARE the PLATE and “Vote your Values” this Sunday, June 14, at our Annual meeting
Can’t be with us in person? Contact Leslie Cenci for info on absentee voting. Deadline for entries is 5:00 PM on the 14th
Please read about “Share the Plate” HERE
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BLM TEAM REPRESENTS UUWESTPORT AT
#100GIRLSLEADING SUMMIT
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The Black Lives Matter team joined dozens of other community partners and mentors at the #100GirlsLeading annual summit in Bridgeport last Saturday. #100GirlsLeading, a youth mentorship organization, was founded by Bobbi Brown, who also serves as President of the Greater Bridgeport NAACP. Over 300 girls ages 5-18 enjoyed an inspirational day of speakers, entertainment and hand-on activities. Our team led an activity focused on the power of affirmations to change how one feels about herself and her future. A special thank you to Kathy Roberts for joining us!
| | VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES WITH OUR WOVEN COMMUNITY | | |
Our Woven Community (OWC) is a Burroughs Community Center program in Bridgeport that provides local resettled refugee women the opportunity to become self-sufficient leaders and become empowered with entrepreneurial skills and economic opportunity. Participants of the program learn to use sewing machines to create beautiful handbags, scarves and other items. Each December we invite OWC to UUWestport to sell their unique hand-made articles. People often ask us what they can do to help our refugee community. Here are some areas where volunteers are needed: assistance in the workshop, staff booths for sales of items, food delivery, ESL classes, and caring for the community garden. Please click HERE for more detailed information including days and times volunteers are needed or contact Kathy Roberts.
| | Last Friday Rev. Carlton attended the Shawl Ministry meeting so we could thank him for his service over the past year and wish him well as he retires and begins a new life. He was presented by a shawl designed for him and crafted by the members of our group. | | |
Our next POTLUCK will be on Friday night, June 19 at 6:30 PM at the home of Linda H. in Westport. To RSVP and receive the address contact Eileen. Bring something to eat or drink and meet new friends and old.
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Wednesdays:
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6-7:30 PM via ZOOM Buddhist Practice Group - Nina Nagy Let Nina know you are attending. Teachings offered on a donation basis.
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7-9 PM Mysticism: Where Science, Art, and Spirituality Meet - Bart Stuck
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Fridays:
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Third Fridays 6:30 PM Women's Potluck. Location moves monthly.- Eileen Belmont.
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Last Fridays: 7:30 PM UU Movie Group. ZOOM - Dorothy Rich
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Every other Friday 12:30- 2:00 PM Shawl Ministry Meeting House - Jan Braunle
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Saturdays:
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Anytime: John Street Lunch Drop Off. Bins outside Main Office - Teryl Eisenberg.
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PAST SERVICES
Our services are archived on the website HERE.
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Faith Formation Sunday
June 7, 2026
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Sunday, June 21, 2026 ~ 10:00 AM
UUA General Assembly Theme: Meet the Moment:
Together Everywhere – Rev. Jen Youngsun Ryu
| | UUWestport SUPPORTIVE RESOURCES | | |
PASTORAL CARE
If you are going through a challenging time or know somebody in the congregation who needs support from our Pastoral Care Chaplains, call to leave a confidential message in the PCA voice mailbox 203-227-7205 ext. 19
or email Pastoral Care.
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UUWestport Caregiving Support
Our support network is available to provide tangible help or a supportive gift of connection for friends in need: meal delivery, pharmacy runs, grocery shopping or a small little gift, flowers, or a yummy food treat. Contact a minister or coordinator Beth Cliff
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The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport is a diverse and welcoming religious community,
free of creed and dogma, and open to people of all backgrounds and beliefs.
WE INSPIRE and support individual spiritual growth.
WE CONNECT through worship, music, learning, and caring ministries.
WE ACT in the service of peace and justice.
| | | The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport | 10 Lyons Plains Road | Westport, CT 06880 US | | | | |
