WellSprings News
Generosity is Love in Action: A Message from the Stewardship Ministry
Greetings WellSprings! The Stewardship Ministry is kicking off our annual pledge campaign for the fiscal year July 2026 through June 2027. We thank everyone for sustaining WellSprings with your pledge gifts during the current fiscal year (July 2025 to June 2026). Our pledge campaign theme this year is: Generosity is Love in Action! The pledge campaign begins now and concludes on April 26th. Our pledge goal for FY2027 is a modest increase of 1.8% over the current year: $220,000 in…
A Mid-Year Letter from Rev. Lee
Hello WellSpringers! As I returned from vacation today, I intentionally set one item on my to-do list as “number one” for my first day back: collecting the notes from our Senior Leader Retreat, held one month ago, back at the end of February. Once a year, we invite all our Senior Leaders (that is: leaders of each Team, and participants on each Ministry) to come together in the middle of the winter season, for a check-in on our congregation’s annual…
Now Hiring: Guitarist
The WellSprings Band is looking for someone new to join us, on guitar! Our beloved Andy Mann will retire from his Sunday morning gig, later this Spring… so we are now auditioning new guitarists, for what may be the most unique, paid, regular weekly gig in town! (As it says on the flyer: think “church band,” but not church music.) Check out the flyer below to learn more — and please feel free to share, with any local musicians you…
Hired: Community Engagement Coordinator
WellSprings is hiring for a part-time role on our Staff Team: our Community Engagement Coordinator! The person who fills this role will help us tell our story – through social media, our website, and all of our other communications channels – to people both inside and outside of the congregation. Read below for more information, including hours, pay, and how to apply. Please note this position has been filled and the application is now closed. About WellSprings: WellSprings Congregation is a…
YouTube-Only Service on Sunday, January 25th
Dear WellSprings, Whenever I take time away from our congregation, I so look forward to my first Sunday back in Bell Hall, with all of us together. I cherish our time together – even moreso – on any Sunday when the world brings its struggles and pains to our doorsteps, and floods our screens and newsfeeds with terror, and for so many of us, pierces to the very center of our hearts. Unfortunately, as you’ve likely seen, our area is…
Join Us for Our Winter Message Series: How To Have An Enemy
You’re invited to join us every Sunday in January and February, for the message series that will take us through the winter season: How To Have An Enemy. It’s against our religion to give up on each other – yet these days, it’s tempting. We nod along when the pastor says “all are beloved” but… what do we do with the neighbor who hates us? How do we respond to the powerful voices that tear us apart? When we name our…
Christmas Eve at WellSprings
We invite you to join us this Christmas Eve at 4:30pm, for our traditional candlelit service, inspired by the classic film “Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas.” This sweet and delightful family classic, directed by Jim Henson, is based on the classic tale “The Gift of the Magi.” Watching from home or afar? Join via livesteam at our channel. This is an all-ages service, meaning there will be no YouthSpirit dismissal. There will also not be a staffed nursery during the service. As…
Your Invitation to Our Holiday Message Series: Love the Zone
Join us every Sunday in November and December for the message series that will take us all the way through the holiday season: Love The Zone. There’s an idea you might be familiar with – or feeling the effects of – these days. It’s called “flooding the zone,” and it happens when the headlines are loud, and terrible, and everywhere. In a flood, landmarks and signposts go underwater. Sometimes, so do we. But nobody makes it through a flood by…
Meet Yvette, our New Ministerial Intern!
Late last month, we announced a pleasant surprise at WellSprings: Yvette McDonnell, who serves on staff as Congregational Life Coordinator at the nearby Main Line Unitarian Church (MLUC), will be joining us this year for a part-time “joint” Ministerial Internship! In our denomination, an internship in a UU congregation is among the last steps required before ordination – when a ministry student finally becomes a “Rev.” WellSprings has a long history as a UU Teaching Congregation, and Yvette will be…
Join Us for WellCome Back Sunday
On Sunday, September 7th, WellSprings will celebrate our annual “WellCome Back” Sunday – the special service that marks the end of summer and a return for all to work, school and worship schedules we follow throughout the year. This special service is an all-ages one with special elements to that make it extra family friendly. As with all of our all-ages services, we will have a special story read by Miss Carol, our YouthSpirit Director, and other helpers. Another special…
This Year, At WellSprings…
As always this Summer, we’re busy planning for the year ahead at WellSprings! Our Fall message series begins on September 7th – but you can scroll down to get a taste of the conversations we’ll be having (on Sunday mornings, in YouthSpirit, in our small groups, etc.) all throughout the year… Known By Name our Fall Message Series Is there a story behind your name? Does it hold a grand tale of family migration – or a tribute to an ancestor…
Bring a Friend Along for “Neighbors & Helpers”
Our summertime tradition at WellSprings returns… our annual “Neighbors & Helpers” message series is back, starting August 3rd! Every summer, we invite guests from the community to join our preacher for a conversation, during each Sunday service in August – to help us get to know our neighbors, and to hear about their experience of life in this corner of the world that we share. We know that even though we live close to each other, we don’t all have…