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312 FILLMORE STREET, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10301 PHONE: 718-447-2204

Given the recent COVID outbreaks across the city due to the Omicron variant, the COVID Taskforce, with the full support of our minister, has decided to make upcoming services virtual and to close in-person gatherings for the immediate future, hopeful to resume in-person events when it’s safe enough to do so.
-- Reverend Emily DeTar Birt, Minister of the Unitarian Church of Staten Island

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Sunday Services

Sunday January 23, 2022 • 11:00 am
The Transient and the Permanent Today
A Virtual Service with Rev. Emily DeTar Birt
181 years ago Theodore Parker, a prominent Transcendentalist preacher in Boston, gave a sermon about what was transient and permanent in the Christianity and religion of his era. Inspired by his words, and the many changes of the last years, I wonder what is transitioning and what is lasting about religion in 2022?

What will pass through time, and what will last the test of it? Let us consider what, through all the changes of our life, will keep with us no matter what.

Sunday, January 16, 2022 • 11:00 am
The Roses to Missions Project and Nuclear Disarmament
A Virtual Service With Joanne Robinson and Sally Jones
Join us on Sunday, January 16, 2022 to learn about the Roses to Missions project in which volunteers have been delivering yellow roses and certificates to the state parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons to express gratitude to the U.N. member states who have stood up to the nuclear weapons powers. With the Treaty having entered into force one year ago, on January 22, 2021, it is clear: nuclear weapons are illegal and must be banned.

At Sunday's service, we will reflect on how, early on, African American leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., recognized that there was racism inherent in the development and use of nuclear weapons. Sally Jones and Joanne Robinson will share what they have experienced with the Roses to Missions project and the intersection of race and nuclear disarmament activism.

Joanne Robinson is a veteran community activist who has worked with the NAACP, the Black Womens’ Political Caucus, WESPAC Foundation, Peace Action and Westchester Black Democrats. She is the daughter of a politically active Yonkers family. Her mother, May Morgan Robinson, was a leader in civil rights and in the Democratic Party in Westchester. Her daughter, Joanne, and Joanne’s twin sister, Roberta Robinson Frazier, have carried on this tradition, continuing the fight in Yonkers for affordable housing and social justice. Joanne serves on the board of Peace Action Fund of New York State and is active in many Peace Action initiatives, including the Roses to Missions project.

Sally Jones is a member of the Unitarian Church of Staten Island. Since 2002, Peace Action has played a leading role in her volunteer life. With other Staten Islanders and members of the UCSI, she helped found Peace Action of Staten Island in June 2002. She currently is Chair of the Peace Action Fund of New York State. She is active in the Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network, the NYC Move the Money Campaign to cut Pentagon spending, the Peace & Planet international network, the Ban Killer Drones campaign, along with the Roses to Missions project, which she helps facilitate with Mari Inoue of the Manhattan Project for a Nuclear Free World.

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: Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Host: Temple Israel Reform Congregation

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 resumes.

Children's Chapel
Children's Chapel and Workshops
Every Sunday with CCNY • 9:30 am
Sunday Chapel starts at 9:30am. It is a sacred space for kids to share Joys & Concerns and to connect with friends old and new. We light the chalice together, sing hymns, and make way for movement or meditation as time allows. Our chapel welcomes young people ages 5-17, and we invite families with children younger than 5 to attend with their little ones too!

Religious Education Workshops for grades K-8 begin right after Chapel and run until 11:00am.

This year in our workshops, we’re celebrating the interdependent web of existence! Using a Circles & Cycles curriculum, kids will be making connections between our 8 UU principles and 6 UU sources of inspiration to build a network of understanding about what was, what is, and what can be.

We’ll explore tenets of Judaic and Christian teachings, other world religions and cultural traditions, and examine the words and deeds of prophetic people both past and present to strengthen understanding of how we can live faith into action on matters of social and environmental justice.

UU Kids Connect
Every Third Thursday • 7:00 pm
Starts on Thursday October 21st
This fall UU Kids Connect is the place to be for kids in grades K-8 who want to meet new friends from new places, share their joys & concerns, show & tell what they’ve been up to, and have FUN!

The UU Kids Connect Team creates a safer online space for social support and spiritual development as kids journey forward through their years. The UUKC GATHERINGS will happen every third Thursday of the month from 7:00 pm-8:00 pm (Eastern) beginning on Thursday, October 21st.

Registration is FREE and open!

THE CHURCH IS LOCATED 1 BLOCK FROM SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER, ON THE NORTH SHORE OF STATEN ISLAND. A 15 MINUTE BUS/TAXI RIDE FROM THE SI FERRY TERMINAL IN ST. GEORGE.

DIRECTIONS:
BY TAXI: Drive to 312 FILLMORE ST, corner of CLINTON AVE—a 10 minute drive from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.

BY BUS: From the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, take the S40 BUS towards GOETHALS RD via RICHMOND TERRACE. Get off at corner of CLINTON AVE and RICHMOND TERRACE. Walk one block to 312 FILLMORE ST.

BY CAR: From the VERRAZANO BRIDGE, OUTERBRIDGE or GOETHALS BRIDGE, take the CLOVE ROAD EXIT on RT278. Turn onto Clove Road going toward and crossing VICTORY BLVD. Continue on CLOVE ROAD until you can make a RIGHT on BARD AVE and continue to RICHMOND TERRACE. Turn RIGHT on Richmond Terrace and proceed 4 BLOCKS to CLINTON AVE. TURN RIGHT onto CLINTON AVE and proceed 1 block to FILLMORE ST.

From the BAYONNE BRIDGE, take the first exit (EXIT 13) onto MORNINGSTAR RD. Turn right onto MORNINGSTAR and continue until the road ends at RICHMOND TERRACE. Turn right, going under the overpass, and continue on RICHMOND TERRACE for about 10 minutes, until you reach CLINTON AVE. Turn RIGHT onto CLINTON AVE. Go 1 block to FILLMORE ST. There is ample (and free) street parking.

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