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Join Us for 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…
How We Show Up
Dear WellSprings, Our community – each of you individually, and all of us collectively – has been so much on my mind and my heart in these past few weeks. When I was preaching two weeks ago, we spent some time reflecting together – and then sharing with each other – about who we are, and how we hope to show up in our world right now. This was no small task… because it is meaningfully difficult to be alive…
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…
HeartWorks Team Continues to Shine
WellSprings is a thriving community with many wonderful teams. While each team has an important role to play within WellSprings and our surrounding communities, we’d like to highlight one team hard at work every year: The HeartWorks Team. The mission of the HeartWorks Team is to commit to heartfelt acts of conscious service grounded in compassion and respect. Through life’s endless cycle of giving and receiving, we connect with each other and with the Sacred. Led by Sandy Tucker, this…
From Rev. Lee: A New Year at WellSprings
Dear WellSpringers, Early in June, we let you know that Beth Trandahl’s role on our Staff Team would change in the coming year. Today we are pleased to announce that, effective July 1st, Beth will begin serving as our Community Engagement Coordinator. In keeping with the limitations of our budget – and Beth’s request to let go of her regular Sunday morning hours – this will be a 12 hour per week position. As Community Engagement Coordinator, Beth will work…
Join us for SpiritFlix in July!
This summer at WellSprings, we’ll find meaning in the stories we watch on our screens during our annual SpiritFlix message series. Each Sunday’s service will draw wisdom from a different movie or show – check out our lineup for July and mark your calendars so you don’t miss any of your favorites! We hope to see you this summer, Sundays at 10am. Join us at 10 AM each Sunday in person at the Montgomery School, or online at our YouTube Channel.