Trustees of the Pennsylvania
Universalist Convention (TPUC)
TPUC Annual Membership Meeting
At the Budget meeting you heard about the grants we’ve received from the TPUC. Each year we get offered our share of the distribution as a member of the TPUC. It comes from the earnings of the general endowment of the Pennsylvania Universalist Convention. We are one of the six remaining Universalist Heritaged churches still in existence in the state. Cynthia B and Fern C are your Trustees and as such they represent our community at a Board of Trustees level.
Each year there is a membership meeting where each church can send up to 5 voting delegates and a minister. At this meeting, the slate of officers is elected and we share information about our individual communities. The location of the meeting rotates so that each group has the responsibility in turn. In 2016, we had the then UUA president, Rev. Peter Morales as our speaker. |
A communal lunch is always served following the meeting. In the afternoon, the trustees have a business meeting while there are activities offered for the delegates and their traveling companions or families. Saturday night the tradition is to have a dinner and some form of entertainment. Sunday, delegates often attend the hosting church’s regular worship service and we prepare brown bag lunches for those who request them for their trip home.
This year our meeting will be on Oct. 7 - 9. Please mark your calendar and plan to join us. The dinner is a fun time to get to know other UU’s from Pennsylvania. The other five churches are:
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We are one of the six remaining Universalist-heritaged churches in Pennsylvania and have been active members of the Pennsylvania Universalist Convention that was revived in the late 1970’s by a group of like minded folks including members of this church.
The Annual meeting is always held in the fall and rotates around the state with each member congregation having a turn to host the event. We last hosted the event in 2016 and will have another turn in 2022. This year the Keynote speaker was the UUA President, Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray. Her most recent article in the UUWorld is entitled "Love is an essential spiritual and moral value." She writes: If our justice work does not emerge from the moral and spiritual value of love, in the end it will reinforce practices of domination and violence, just in new forms.
We are entitled to 5 voting delegates from our congregation and have our Trustee and Alternate Trustee, Fern C. and Cynthia B. We also can have one voting delegate from the church staff. Talk to the Moderator or Cynthia B. to learn more.
The Six Universalist-Heritaged Churches in Pennsylvania
First UU Church Berks County 416 Franklin St Reading, PA 19602 UU Congregation of Smithton |
UU Church of Athens and Sheshequin 112 North Street Athens, PA 18810 Unitarian Universalist Church |
First Universalist Church Brooklyn Village 6925 Maple Street Kingsley, PA 18826 Unitarian Universalists |