Welcome to the "Old Cobblestone Church" of Cortland
(See the Calendar for details of church events.)
Services are
Sundays at 10:30am
September - June
EXCEPT - Fourth Sundays!
On the 4th Sunday of each month,
there is No Morning Service. Instead:
3:30-4:30 pm a Meditation or Silent
Meeting will take place in the Social Hall
5-6:30
pm - Dish to Pass Supper, bring
your own table service
Regular morning services are followed by refreshments and fellowship downstairs in the Social Hall...
Children usually attend the first part of
service, then go downstairs for various activities with Religious Education
volunteers for the remainder of the service.
Contact phone: 607-753-0020
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Choir Director: Martha Folley |
Board of Directors:
President 12-13 Marion Lutz
Treasurer 12-13: Jim Pelton
Assistant Treasurer: Ed Triana
Secretary 12-13: Joyce Morgan
Trustees 12-14: Bess Koval, Ed Triana
Trustees 11-13: Kim Allen, Rick Downing
Alternate Trustees 12-13: Julie Ganson, Autumn Pfister, and Wayne Perry
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Our Mission: We, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Cortland, nurture and honor individual and shared searches for spiritual, intellectual, and emotional understanding. We draw upon the 7 Unitarian Universalist Principles and a range of traditions to support individuals, families, our congregation, and larger communities. We embrace diversity and actively address social concerns while creating a caring community of our own.
Highlights from UU Church of Cortland History:
Universalist circuit rider Nathaniel Stacy held regular meetings in the area starting around 1807.
The congregation was established 1813 as a Universalist Church.
The Cobblestone Church was built as a Universalist Church, 1836-1837.
"The congregation of the Unitarian Universalist (U.U.) Church hosted
suffragettes, abolitionists, and other social reformers who traveled the lecture
circuit in the early 1800s. The words of Susan B. Anthony, Henry Ward Beecher,
William Lloyd Garrison, Clara Barton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Lucretia Mott
rang through the sanctuary of the U.U. Cobblestone Church."
<from
the Report of the
Cortland Community Assessment Team, retrieved 1/11/2006>
Nationally, the Unitarians and Universalists merged in 1961 to become the Unitarian Universalist Association. Shortly afterward the Universalist Church of Cortland was renamed the Unitarian Universalist Church of Cortland.
Our Church Building page offers more history.
Welcome to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Cortland. We are part
of an association of liberal churches that are informed and united by what we
value:
- The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
- Justice, equity, and compassion in human relations;
- Acceptance of one another and encouragement of
spiritual growth;
- A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
- The right of conscience and the use of the democratic
processes;
- The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and
justice for all;
- Reverence for the interdependent web of all existence
of which we are a part.
We, the
Unitarian Universalist Church of Cortland, nurture and honor individual and
shared searches for spiritual, intellectual, and emotional understanding. We
draw upon the 7 Unitarian Universalist Principles and a range of traditions to
support individuals, families, our congregation, and larger communities. We
embrace diversity and actively address social concerns while creating a caring
community of our own.
