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 | Get 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

 

Fundraising: fundraising@uusmc.org
Pledges:  pledge@uusmc.org
Volunteers: volunteer@uusmc.org

 

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.

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


 

Click here for the Rental Information Sheet.

Click here for the UUSMC Room Request Form.