WELCOME TO FIRST UU!
Worship is celebrated every Sunday at 11:00AM
Please join us!
For other events, meetings and celebrations please check our calendar or Facebook page!
All are Welcome!
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Children and Youth are welcome to join our Religious Education Classes.
There is child care available for infants and toddlers in the Red Door Nursery.
All are welcome to join us after worship for conversation and coffee downstairs.
If you are new to First UU, please come visit the Welcome Table!
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CONTACT US!
Church Office (9AM-4PM): 718 624 5466
Mailing Address: 48 Monroe Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Director of Congregational Services Rob Petrillo: dcs(at)fuub.org
Rev. Jude Geiger: mre (at) fuub.org
We are an embracing and diverse spiritual community who nurture, strengthen, and challenge one another to grow and to have a positive impact on our community and our world.We are a welcoming congregation, celebrating the lives of all people and their ways of expressing love to each other, and we have a dedicated focus on promoting social justice and equality through our words and actions. We gather in the heart of Brooklyn Heights each Sunday at 11AM to celebrate our shared Unitarian Universalist values while affirming our individual beliefs. Please check out the links on this site to learn more. As a congregation, we covenant to affirm and promote the following seven principles:
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2011-2012 accomplishments: Supplied a Field Placement Grant to continue supporting our female Seminarian, Beth Dana. Contributed monetary support for additional productions of the highly successful play “Mother Wove the Morning”. Establishment of a Google group so that we can communicate better about the activities of the Women’s Alliance fuubwomensalliance@googlegroups.com Continue to administer The Miriam Campobasso [...]
Good morning! I’m Mary Most, and I was born and raised Unitarian. I came to this congregation about 19 years ago, and my children were raised here. I have served on the Bd of Trustees, and on the Communications Committee for many years. If anyone here would like to help with promoting the activities of [...]
The Youth Social Justice Program creates opportunities for community service and social action, teaches about community organizations in Brooklyn, and deepens Unitarian Universalist identity. The program engages the congregation’s senior high (9th-12th grade) youth in partnering with community organizations to put their faith into action. The main components of the program are monthly service projects [...]
Sunday, October 16, approx. 1 PM, Frances White Room, after services The Role of the Church in the Struggle for LGBT Rights in Uganda with Rev. Mark Kiyimba With the overt participation and support of a strong evangelical community in the United States, the Ugandan parliament is currently considering legislation that would make homosexual activity [...]
Here’s a link to Rev. Dr. Horn’s excerpted piece “Another Kind of Knowledge”: www.clfuu.org/quest/2011/10/horn.html The Church of the Larger Fellowship was founded over 50 years ago to serve the needs of isolated UUs (see our history). Membership in CLF brings you lots of benefits and services. CLF’s mission is to provide a ministry to isolated [...]
The Congregational Survey, created by the Senior Minister Search Committee, will be closing in one week on Friday, September 30! If you haven’t taken the survey already, we hope to hear from you before it closes. Because we are on a tight timeline, we unfortunately cannot extend this date. The survey can be accessed at: [...]
Peace Mosaic Reflection What a week we’ve had. It was late on Sunday when my boyfriend, Brian, looked over from reading the e-news to say, “They killed Bin Ladin.” He was relieved, a long time NYC resident, Brian had been living here when the Trade Center came down. The non-profit he works for was in [...]
Palm Sunday Music Service Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata 196 Der Herr Denket an uns from Cantata 148 Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens works of Georg Philipp Telemann and Christoph Graupner Thais Schaller: soprano, Karen Geer: soprano Adam Baritot: tenor, Andrew Cook-Feltz: baritone Choir of the First Unitarian Church with Chamber Ensemble William Peek, organist [...]
There once was a farm in a valley that was practically perfect in every way, except that it had no rooster to crow at the crack of dawn, and so everyone was always late getting out of bed.”(1) If only all our problems seemed so simple! But I imagine it didn’t seem like such a [...]
I was born 64 years ago today – just yesterday, really. I was born only about seven or eight miles from here – or about six stops away on the A Train, as New Yorkers like to measure distance, on the West Side of Manhattan. Legends and stories about my birth quickly spread, as you [...]
