Denominational Connections

Committee Chair: Keitha Whitaker

1^st __ 2^nd ___ 3^rd _X__ Check year of term

Committee Members: Anne Mellen and Keitha Whitaker

Major accomplishments this year.
- Maintained and updated information on UUCC website.
- Regularly wrote articles for the Unigram.
- Encouraged Adult RE to facilitate Common Read.

Please briefly describe any factors that facilitated or impeded your work this year.
- An easy to navigate website facilitated the work.

Any special initiatives continuing into the next program year.
- Need to find a new Chair (or extend current term if no one steps up).

Future dreams or long-range plans for the committee
- Hope we can return to our building sometime in 2021
- Recruit more members so that we can offer courses
- Encourage more participation in Regional, cluster, and state meetings and events.
- Encourage more Folks to attend General Assembly.

Constraints on accomplishing these plans.

Respectfully submitted,

Keitha Whitaker

Chair, Denominational Connections

denomconn@uucolumbia.org

803-605-8625

Dan Cook

Best Church:
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

“A church where skepticism is welcome and adherence to dogma is suspect? A church where all religions are invited but none are beyond introspection? A church that regularly presents nationally touring singer-songwriters? A church where half the congregation might have been at Hunter-Gatherer the night before? Now that’s a church we can support.”

Carita Barr, Member

Carita Barr, Member: Growing up in a Lutheran state-taxed church, I never was very religious. But 40 years ago, I heard about Unitarian Universalism through friends. I found a home here where this diverse religious community really works to better our world. Respect and honor for the “other” is the main ingredient in our cooperative efforts as a movement.

Linda and Richard McLeod, Members

We were looking for a church where we felt accepted both intellectually and spiritually, a place where all people and religions were regarded equally without condemnation. Our search began at UUCC six years ago and we never had to look any further. We found our place here with a community of like-minded people and it became our second home, our second family.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia

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