Join us on Sunday, March 30th, for a joyful celebration of Rev. Joe’s “Ten Years in the Pulpit”!   This special service honors a decade of Rev. Joe’s inspiring leadership, spirited sermons, and heartfelt music. In true UU Saratoga spirit, the Worship Team, Choir, Hospitality Team, and Board of Trustees are coming together to create a joyful and ...

Rev Joe’s sermon preached March 16, 2025, can be found here and below. Moving Forward, Centered in Love Rev. Joe Cleveland March 16, 2026   All that you feel is welcome here.  All that you are is welcome here. Humans have an incredible capacity for feeling a multitude of feelings in any moment. And in this worship service, this moment in ...

Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information 1. Saturday, March 22, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM, UU Saratoga Sanctuary Training in Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Elliot Adams, Meta Peace Teams Volunteer and International Peace Keeper, will be the facilitator. Learn how to risk arrest peacefully and how to be jail support for those risking arrest. $25 donation requested to offset costs. No one will ...

Below, please find two letters: one from the Board of Trustees and one from Rev. Joe, as well as closing remarks.   Dear Members and Friends of the UU Congregation of Saratoga Springs, After thoughtful and heartfelt conversations about the future of our congregation and Rev. Joe Cleveland’s ministerial aspirations, the Board and Rev. Joe have mutually agreed ...

    ACTIONS 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 ...

Cup 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 ...

Contact 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. 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

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Cup 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 ...