Congregation News
Beginning on Sunday September 7th, 2025 we will hold Sunday 10:00 am worship services at Caffe Lena, 47 Phila Street in Saratoga Springs NY 12866.
- News from your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM March 7, 2025 March 7, 2025ACTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES YOU CAN DO NOW From your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information 1. UU Common Read is POSTPONED until April The 2024-25 UU Common Read is Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families (Skinner House, 2023). Look for information here and how to register: https://uusaratoga.org/authentic-selves/ 2. Immigration and Sanctuary Spaces Join us for a Coffee ...
- Thank You to the Social Justice Team and Side with Love February 28, 2025Cup of Joe, February 28, 2025 We are all looking for ways we can take action to disrupt the agenda of hatred and bigotry being enacted by the oligarchs and autocrats currently trying to run our country. Every day is a new outrage that somehow outpaces how outraged we were yesterday. The congregation’s Social Justice Team is ...
- ACTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES YOU CAN DO NOW From your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM Feb 28, 2025 February 28, 2025Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information UUA joined a multifaith coalition of twenty-seven religious plaintiffs bringing a lawsuit against the Trump Administration, seeking to keep houses of worship safe from raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Learn how the UUA is protecting immigrant rights. For more info click here UPDATE: A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Immigration ...
- Building Beloved Community Beyond the Binary. February 26, 2025Building Beloved Community Beyond the Binary. Saturday, April 26th, 2025 • 8:30am-5:00pm First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse 109 Waring Road, Syracuse, NY – and virtually! A place to find community with transgender, nonbinary folx and our allies. A conference for us to gather, learn, and grow. Click here for all the info and to register
- Zoom Link for Worship Services February 16, 2025To join our worship services via Zoom, click here. We recommend that you are logged in to your own Zoom account when you attend zoom meetings. You can set up a free Zoom account on their website here.
- Love + Liberation February 14, 2025Cup of Joe, February 14, 2025 Love + Liberation I was reading a prayer, and it ended with the words “Love Will Guide Us.” And that was enough for the hymn in our Singing the Living Tradition hymnal to get stuck in my ear. (You can hear members of the congregation and I singing it here.) I suppose ...
- Local Refugee Shabbats February 14, 2025Feb. 28-March 1: Refugee Shabbat Temple Sinai, 509 Broadway, Saratoga Springs Temple Sinai welcomes all community members to local observance of HIAS’ Seventh Annual Refugee Shabbat, https://hias.org/how/refugee-shabbat/ Friday, Feb. 28: Family Shabbat & Refugee Shabbat Service will begin at 6:00 PM with oneg/refreshments at 5:30 PM. https://www.saratogasinai.org/events/shabbat-refugee-service-819/ Saturday, March 1: Refugee Shabbat Service at 10:30am followed by “Lunch & Learn.” https://www.saratogasinai.org/events/shabbat-refugee-service-2-669/
- News from our Social Justice Team February 14, 2025 February 14, 2025JOIN US FOR THESE IMPORTANT SOCIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVES! Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information 1. Let’s join this nationwide protest! On Monday we will meet in the UU parking lot at 11:15am to carpool. It is advertised from noon until 5pm, but we will only attend from noon until 2pm. (Organizers say it won’t last until 5!) 2. Support the 24 hour “black ...
- Please join us at the Saratoga Springs Public Library for a film screening and discussion of “Journey to Freedom.” February 14, 2025“Journey to Freedom” is an award-winning civil rights documentary series that highlights veterans of the civil rights movement who reside in the capitol region. Join us as we screen an episode and discuss with the panelists from the Journey to Freedom team. Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public. Sunday, February 23, ...
- UUA Sues to Halt Immigration Arrests at Houses of Worship February 13, 2025I am proud to share with you that the Unitarian Universalist Association has joined with a multifaith coalition and the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection to bring a lawsuit challenging Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s (ICE) “sensitive locations policy.” The case, Mennonite Church USA et al. v. United States Department of Homeland Security et al., was ...