News & Events
- Building Beloved Community: Beyond the Binary
We’ve begun planning the Beyond the Binary gathering again this year! Mark your calendars and save the date for Saturday, April 26, 2025 ~ both in-person and streamed on Zoom from First UU of Syracuse. This will be a mask-required & provided event with many HEPA and MERV14 filters running throughout, CO2 monitored, and windows opened ...
- Caring Circle
When our Members and Friends have been in the hospital, or experienced other life transitions they are often eased by the support of community. That’s why we developed an e-mail list we are calling the “caring circle.” This e-mail group has been sharing information about such events – for example, “a member recently was admitted ...
- Unitarian Universalist Church Donates $400 to Support Personal Hygiene Needs at Local Libraries
UUCAS has made a generous donation of $200 each to the Sayre Library and Waverly Free Library to purchase personal hygiene products. This donation aims to ensure that library visitors have access to essential items that help them feel comfortable and confident while using library facilities. The donation follows a congregational discussion at UUCAS on ways ...
- Guest at Your Table – 2024-2025 Season December 1-December 29
This week we highlight Anna-Maria Tesfaye, co-founder of Queer Svit, an organizationoffering resources and companionship to the queer community in Ukraine who havebeen impacted by Russia’s invasion. Hear from Anna-Maria in her own voice:https://vimeo.com/1004141757?share=copy We invite you to help advance community-led change by bringing your contribution toworship on Sunday morning 12/29, at the Christmas Eve service, ...
- Loving Our Own Bones Multi-Congregation Book Discussion
Thursday January 23 and February 13 at 2:30-3:45 Led by Rev. Darcey Laine and Rev. Aileen Fitzke “Loving Our Own Bones invites readers to claim the power and promise of spiritual dissent, and to nourish their own souls through the revolutionary art of radical self-love.” Julia Watts Belser, author of “Loving our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual ...
- Women in Scripture- In person and on zoom
Sunday January 26 and February 2 12:30-1:30 (feel free to bring a bag lunch) Facilitated by Rev. Darcey Laine In both Jewish and Christian Scriptures, men take center stage. It’s easy to get the impression that women and non-binary people are not part of the story.To be whole people, it’s important to have role models of your ...
- Guest at Your Table – 2024-2025 Season December 1-December 29
For fifty years, through the Guest at Your Table program, UUSC has used the metaphor of aglobal table where we come together to learn each other’s stories and share our hopes for afuture in which all may thrive. UUCAS has been a leading support for many years! This week we highlight Konea Ishimura, a young climate ...
- Soul Matters Small Group (Zoom)
Next Meeting December 183rd Wednesdays at 6:30-8:00 PMOctober through MayFacilitated by Rev. Douglas Taylor and Becca Boerger Offered jointly to the Athens, Cortland and Binghamton UU congregations, this will be a chance to connect and share spiritual themes with members of your own congregation, and with your neighbors. Soul Matters groups offer the gift of spiritual connection. ...
- “Loving Our Own Bones” Group Forming
“Loving Our Own Bones invites readers to claim the power and promise of spiritual dissent, and to nourish their own souls through the revolutionary art of radical self-love.” Julia Watts Belser, author of “Loving our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole” was the Ware Lecturer at our 2024 UU General ...
- Pickleball Moves Indoors with New Dates and Times for the Winter!
From December through February, we’ll be playing pickleball indoors at the Waverly Village Hall. Court time may vary depending on availability, as there is only one court. We can reserve up to 2 hours at a time. In December, we have court time reserved on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM. For the most ...