312 FILLMORE STREET, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10301 PHONE: 718-447-2204
Due to ongoing concerns regarding COVID-19, the Board of the Unitarian Church of Staten Island has cancelled in-person Sunday Services for the foreseeable future. Join our virtual Sunday services online from our Facebook page at 11:00 am.
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Sunday Services
Sunday, May 2, 2021 • 11:00 am
Grounded Hope With Rev. Emily DeTar Birt Hope has been used in faith as an aspiration and a bedrock. And if not grounded, it can be the sugary sweet Pollyanna phrases people use, that don't soothe or heal the wounds of the past nor carry forward the work of the future. What does it look like to make hope something grounded, both in the lived injustice of life and in the possibility of the future? 
Sunday, April 25, 2021 • 11:00 am
Earth Day To Be Announced 
Sunday, April 18, 2021 • 11:00 am
Investing Heart With Rev. Emily DeTar Birt All community life takes an investment: Investment of time, of skill, of relationship building, of talent, and of resources. To be a community is to invest the heart, to make relationships, and to name why what we do for each other and our world matters. As our community looks towards the future, how will we invest our hearts to help make our dreams a living reality? 
Sunday, April 11, 2021 11:00 am
Keeping Hope, Faith, and Confidence in the Fight Against Nuclear Weapons With guest Susi Snyder, coordinator, Don’t Bank on the Bomb Please join us for a presentation by Susi Snyder, coordinator for Don’t Bank on the Bomb research and campaign, and steering group member and President of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. “Keeping hope, keeping confidence, and keeping faith are essential when fighting against nuclear weapons,” says Susi, “where it feels like the ones with the big bombs are the ones taking aim at you. At the same time, surprisingly good things happen to keep you going along the way!” Please join us as Susi shares with us her own experience of keeping hope, confidence, and faith in her decades of activism against nukes. Learn more about Susi here: https://www.dontbankonthebomb.com/our-team/ 
Sunday April 4, 2021 • 11:00 am Impossible Love: A Universalist Easter With Rev. Emily DeTar Birt In the Christian story of Easter, it is the prophet and leader who suffers and cries out that they are forsaken, who comes back to life. Whether in the legacy of stories shared throughout centuries, or in the ways we today call out the names of those who have left us, no matter what leaves human beings feeling forsaken or left behind, death and destruction do not have the final word. Our Universalist heritage teaches us that Love is the ultimate ending. What can our Universalist roots teach us about new life on this holiday? |
Upcoming Events
Loving Staten Island Friendship Coffee and Dessert Hours
Hosted online by various Staten Island faith communities For a number of years, the Staten Island Inter-Religious Leadership Council has been hosting Loving Staten Island Friendship Dinners, with the aim of getting people of different faiths and backgrounds together and forming connections. The pandemic curtailed the in-person gatherings, but not the gatherings themselves! So, grab your favorite dessert and login to Zoom to meet other Staten Islanders. To support each other through the pandemic. To learn about different houses of worship and community centers in your borough. And to have meaningful conversation and make new friends. Date: Host: April 18 - Reformed Church of Prince Bay May 16 - Albanian Islamic Cultural Center June 27 - New York City Commission on Human Rights Time: 7:00 - 8:30pm To join any Friendship Dessert Hour: Go to zoom.us and enter: Meeting ID: 931 9985 7416 Passcode: 135731  UCSI Women gather for fun and Christmas cheer, 2018
Get/Stay Connected with the UCSI Women's Online Gatherings
Every Wednesday at 7:00pm Through weekly meetings of the Women's Group, during this time of social distancing, we enjoy getting to catch up with each other and to get to know one another better. You can either video call or phone call in to these gatherings. Please contact Kathy Santo at membership@uucsi.org for more details. 
Virtual Children and Youth Programming
Every Sunday at 10:30 am and 6:30 pm Children's Chapel We have been invited by Community Church of New York to join their Children's Chapel on Sundays at 10:30 am. All families with children ages 0-17 are welcome! Please register for the chapel. Email DRE Jil Novenski at jnovenski@ccny.org Beacon UU Youth Groups Beacon UU (formerly known as the UU congregation of Summit, NJ) has opened their programing for us to join. Every Sunday at 6:00 they have two youth groups. One for 6th-8th grade members, and another for 9th-12th grade. Please email minister@uucsi.org to register. |
