The new web address is: www.uumtairy.org
We welcome people from any religious background who seek personal and spiritual growth in an extended family atmosphere.
Our denomination has no creed or doctrinal tests. All who are in sympathy with our beliefs and are willing to join us in supporting the goals of this church and the principles of the Unitarian Universalist Association are welcomed into membership.
Our building is now accessible to people with disabilities! It features a ramp to the main sanctuary and a wheelchair lift to the Social Hall beneath. Two accessible restrooms have been created: one on the main level of the Hale Building and another on the lower level of the sanctuary to make our Fellowship Hall more accessible to our congregants, visitors and renters. CHECK HERE for photos.
In line with CDC recommendations, COVID Act Now is now keeping track of statistics and making recommendations in a totally different way. According to the new system Philadelphia is comfortably in the lowest (of 3) risk category, Low. The Board has has discussed how we plan to adjust our internal guidelines to reflect this new system. For this weekend (May 22), we will be allowing up to 50 people in the Sanctuary, and we will have an in-person Coffee Hour. For those staying for the Budget Meeting, there will be pizza available, or you can bring some nourishment with you. We would like to continue serving coffee and tea after the worship service on Sunday after this weekend, if we get volunteers to serve as hosts. We do not have systems in place yet to have food at coffee hour (of course, you can bring something for yourself if you would like), but we might be able to add that next month if people volunteer to coordinate and help make it happen! If you would like to help make that happen, please contact Bruce.
Dress is casual, but know that we are celebrating our 200th Anniversary from 2020 to 2023, and we're striving to build a better here and now, based on our progressive church's legacy of social justice activism and racial integration. We believe that many faiths can worship together under one roof, and whether you believe in God, identify as a Humanist, pray through meditation or by donating your time to nonprofits or volunteerism, you are welcome here with us.
The Reverend McKinley L. Sims, M.Div. We now have a new web address: www.uumtairy.org. If you would like to know more about our denomination, please click on this Unitarian Universalist Organizations link.
Chalice Design by Gary Sobolow
The UU Church of the Restoration members recently voted to be renamed Unitarian Universalists of Mount Airy.
Who Are We?
Some of us after coffee hour on a sunny Sunday. CLICK HERE for an enlargement.
We are a religiously diverse, LGBTQ+ embracing, intentionally multiracial and multicultural Unitarian Universalist faith community. In our congregation, we journey together in Love toward restoring spiritual wholeness. We were founded as a Universalist church in central Philadelphia in 1820 and relocated to the Mount Airy neighborhood in 1938. Join us for Sunday services each week in our air-conditioned sanctuary at 11 am and for our coffee hour afterward. Sunday school and child care are available. Summer services are followed by a potluck coffee hour.
COVID Protocols
From our Minister, The Reverend McKinley Sims —
Welcome from all of us here at UUs of Mt. Airy, located in the historic sanctuary of the Universalist Church of the Restoration of Philadelphia! We are a proud Unitarian Universalist congregation, commited to build Beloved Community by embracing all souls and nurturing wholeness in everyone who stops by in person or online. We are always learning from our ancestors and elders like Alice Walker, Mary Oliver, Rumi, Jesus of Nazareth, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thich Nhat Hanh. We worship every Sunday and draw from all kinds of literature and sacred scripture.
Minister, (he/him)
Play Hard. Never Stop. Have Faith
NEW WEB ADDRESS!
Please bookmark it in your browser and begin using it. For the time being, both websites will work and will look the same. If you are composing an email to any of the people with a @uurestoration.us email account, you may now use @uumtairy.org instead but either address will work until some time later in the year.
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