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WellSprings News

Join Us for a Community Bike Ride on March 24th

On Sunday, March 24th, we will be meeting up as a group to take a 1-hour ride on the flat Chester Valley Trail. We hope you can join us for this fun group activity! All wheels are welcome: bikes, e-bikes, training wheels, e-scooters. We will ride at the pace of the group with ride leaders in front and behind. All abilities and levels of experience are welcome. The Plan We will meet at 12:45pm at Wegmans in Malvern, weather permitting.…

Special Congregational Meeting on January 28th

A Note From the Board… Greetings WellSpringers, We are writing to provide notice of a Congregational Meeting to be held on Sunday, January 28, 2024, after Sunday service. The purpose of the Congregational Meeting is to share information about calling Reverend Lee Paczulla as our settled minister. The Meeting will also be live-streamed, just like previous Congregational Meetings. When Reverend Ken retired as our Founding Minister, it sparked many conversations and questions in our congregation. One question that arose was…

Success and Gratitude For Our Faithify Campaign

Thanks to your overwhelming generosity, we’ve exceeded the $5,000 fundraising goal for our Faithify campaign, over this holiday season! Our Ministerial Intern, Nick Sanchez, recorded a special “thank you” message to share, with all of our supporters, which you can watch on YouTube below. By the close of our campaign, 50 backers had pledged over $6,700 to support our Beldon Intern Fund at WellSprings. Of those, 22 gifts came from folks outside of our congregation’s membership, including other UU clergy from across the country,…

Christmas Eve at WellSprings

All are invited to join us this Sunday at 4:30pm, for our traditional candlelit Christmas Eve service, inspired by the Netflix original film “Klaus.” This funny and poignant animated film offers both a new “origin story” for Santa Claus – and reminds us of ways we all can find connection, in deeply divided times. This service will be in place of our usual 10am Sunday service, and will be the only service that day. If you are planning to join…

Here’s Our Holiday Service Schedule

WellSprings, join us this holiday season for the following services: Sunday, December 24th – All-ages evening service beginning at 4:30 (Cookie reception to follow!) No Service Monday, December 25th Sunday, December 31st – New Year’s Service at 10 am We hope to see you, either in person or online this season!

Support Our Faithify Campaign!

About the campaign This Holiday season, WellSprings is raising funds to support our Ministerial Internship program – using an international, UU-wide crowdfunding website called Faithify! Faithify allows UUs to show their support for each other’s ministries and projects, from anywhere in the world. We know we have so many visitors, friends, online attendees, and long-ago and far-away followers who all value our beloved community and hope to see it thrive! If you’re not yet a pledging member with a regular gift…

Our Annual “Wild & Precious Life” service is This Sunday!

We hope you’ll join us, either in-person in Bell Hall, or online this Sunday, for one of our favorite services of the year. Each year, on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, we ask WellSpringers in different decades of life to answer the question posed in Mary Oliver’s poem The Summer Day: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Rather than a typical message, you’ll see fellow congregants – an 11 year old,…

Gather and Remember With Us, This Sunday

On Sunday, October 29th, we’ll gather together to hold our annual Remembrance Sunday. Our service will offer a space to welcome all whom we’ve loved and lost into the heart of our beloved community. Our Ministerial Intern, Nick Sanchez, will also offer a brief message, to ground us and open our time together. Traditionally, we share photos and videos of those departed and dear to our congregants, both via a video slide show, and at an altar set up in Bell…

Our Signature Small Group Returns for Fall!

Here is your next opportunity to participate in our beloved community’s signature small group: WellSprings 2.0 – Listening to Our Lives. Participants explore big questions and timeless spiritual topics together: about Inspiration, God, Community, Suffering, Death, Spiritual Practice, Living our Gifts, and more. Groups that have taken 2.0 together in the past have formed strong bonds with each other and with our community. This session meets Every other Sunday at noon, beginning November 5, 2023 and ending February 25, 2024. This…

Charging Up at WellCome Back Sunday!

On Sunday, September 10th, we celebrated our annual “WellCome Back Sunday” tradition at WellSprings, with a new twist! This service marks both the end of summer, and a return to the regular rhythms and schedules of our congregational year. If you missed it, you can watch the whole thing on our YouTube Channel. Our band rehearsed a new song before the service began, as volunteers set up a bit of an unusual chair configuration, because we had exciting plans for…

New for WellCome Back Sunday: Blessing of the Backpacks

On Sunday, September 10th, WellSprings will celebrate our annual “WellCome Back” Sunday – the special service which marks the end of summer and a return to the work, school, and worship schedules we follow through most of the year. This year, we’ll be holding our first-ever “Blessing of the Backpacks” at our 10 am Sunday service. All students (of any age!) are asked to bring their backpacks to Bell Hall to be blessed during our Sunday service – and to…

This Year, at WellSprings…

We’re busy planning for the year ahead at WellSprings! Our Fall message series starts in September – but scroll down to get a taste of the conversations we’ll be having (on Sunday mornings, in YouthSpirit, in small groups, etc.) all throughout the year… Off The Fence our Fall Message Series With battles raging all around us, and voices getting louder, it’s tempting to back away from controversy and conflict. We try not to get involved, hope things will work out,…