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Welcome to the
Unitarian Universalist Society of Mill Creek (UUSMC) Web Site. We hope that this site will help
you to get to know us and our values.

Located in Delaware's Pike Creek Valley near the border of Hockessin and
Newark, the UUSMC offers a liberal religious experience that encourages
spiritual growth through the exploration and discovery of the world around us.
Our membership is strong and growing and we are a welcoming congregation. We
care deeply about giving back to the community through our
Social Action committee; our
Religious Education department teaches our
youth to be independent thinkers; and our minister invites us to respond back to
her sermons.
Please visit us in person and see if Unitarian Universalism is right for you.
Our
Mission
We are a liberal religious community which explores and celebrates life
through the spiritual, rational, and emotional in ourselves, each other,
and the wider world.
We are committed to living the Unitarian Universalist
Principles in all
our relationships and welcome everyone to join us in celebration and
service.
Contact Information
- Telephone
- 302 369-2712
- Address (Get
Map |
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Directions)
- Unitarian Universalist Society of Mill Creek
- 579 Polly Drummond
Hill Rd
- Pike Creek Valley
- Newark, DE 19711
- Electronic mail
- General Information:
UUSMC Info
- Minister:
The Rev.
Nancy D. Dean
- Director of Religious Education:
Stefanie
Anderson
- Music Director:
Kristen Tosh-Morelli
- UUSMC Board President:
Jay Gibson
The UUSMC Board:
board@uusmc.org
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- Fundraising:
fundraising@uusmc.org
Pledges:
pledge@uusmc.org
Volunteers:
volunteer@uusmc.org
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- Directory Updates:
directory@uusmc.org
- Calendar Updates:
calendar@uusmc.org
- Grist Updates:
grist@uusmc.org
- Order of Service Announcements:
oos@uusmc.org
Weekly Services
- Time & Place
- Services begin each Sunday at 10:30AM at the our new building on Polly
Drummond Hill Road. Everyone is welcome to our services and invited to stay for
refreshments and conversation following the program.
- Order of Service
- Each week we publish an Order of Service outlining the service and listing
weekly announcements. An example Order
of Service is included here.
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302.369.2712
administrator@uusmc.org
Debra Damiani (Monday - Thursday, 9am-2pm)
For information about UUSMC's programs during
inclement weather click www.wdel.com
All UUSMC Members are requested to participate in a
10 question UUSMC, Sunday Services and Music Survey
Notices:
Carrie
Newcomer Live Benefit Concert Saturday, October 4, 2008, 7 p.m. (doors open 6:30
pm). Advance ticket sales only, $25 each. Call Kim Anderson at 610-274-0801.
(Hear her music at www.carrienewcomer.com)
The UUSMC Membership Directory has been updated as of June
2008. See the
member's only page.
Click here for
a discussion of the spiritual, official and practical aspects of becoming a
UUSMC member.
Has your email address or phone number changed? Please send any updates
to
directory@uusmc.org
View the
October 2008 Grist -- our monthly newsletter.
Check out Chalice Circles!
Upcoming Services
Members can view the entire Schedule of Services on the
Members Only page.
The texts of prior sermons are available in the
Archives.
Please Note: Services begin at 10:30 AM
Oct. 5 “AA: The Value of a Higher Power”
The great challenges of addictions call on our human ability
to stay with discomfort, pain, sorrow, cravings. Without doubt the twelve step
Alcoholics Anonymous organization has been a great blessing to many people
struggling with the grave challenges of alcoholism. (Matt Nolan’s Auction
Sermon)
Oct. 12 “Real and Emotional Discovery”
Archeology suggest that Columbus didn’t discover America,
rather Viking Leif Erickson did, but the Columbus effect was the one that
counted. What causes and effects do we unwittingly setting in motion?
Oct. 19 “Bogeys and Boogeymen: Real and Otherwise”
Halloween is about confronting fears which has a deep
spiritual purpose we often are not able to appreciate.
Oct. 26 Lay Led Sunday- Phil Lowe
Nov. 2 “Voting Your Life, Voting for Life”
Regardless of your party affiliation, voting is a gift bought
with the blood of our forbears, and nurtured by our attention to keeping our
nation a democracy of, for, and by the people.
Nov. 9 “Soul Drought or Know-it-alls Know Nothing”
Some people are so sure they know what’s best for everybody or
every situation. They have such a strong need for control that they can’t hear
others, or understand the role of discussion, or changing positions after
serious thought, or how difference is really a blessing.
(Nov. 11th veteran’s day)
Nov. 16 “Everything is Never Enough”
Satisfaction is rarely found in acquiring more and more
things, and joy seldom comes from having ever more material goods.
Nov. 23 “Seeds in the Apple VS Apples in the Seed”
A Thanksgiving message on spiritual abundance. It is easy to
calculate the number of seeds in an apple but difficult to calculate the number
of apples in a seed.
Nov. 30 Lay Led
Dec. 7 “Spiritual Noise of the Holidays: How we Listen”
We tend to find in the predictable noises of the holidays that
which we expect to be there, and may in the process miss something of joy and
gladness.
Dec. 14 Annual Children’s Holiday Service & “Children Know Best
Sometimes” Rev. Dean’s homily.
Dec. 21 “The Rituals of Our Lives”
All the major world holidays, especially those of this season
in this country, Christmas, Hanukkah, Solstice, Kwaanza, are lessons on how to
celebrate ourselves as we celebrate the season. [carol service]
Dec. 21st Winter Solstice Service 7:30pm
Dec. 24th Christmas Eve Carol Service “Bringing the Light”
6:30pm
Dec. 28 –Lay Sunday
| Looking for a prime rental location? The UUSMC
Rents individual rooms, our kitchen and even our sanctuary.
Available for long-term rentals as well as for special events.
Contact us at
rentals@uusmc.org |
Click here for the Rental Information Sheet. Click here for the UUSMC
Room Request Form. |