A warm welcome to you. Worship is central to the life of this community. Worship reminds us of who we are, what we can become, how we want to live, what we hope to give to the community and the world. Our liberal religious community's programs and events support people's life-long growth and learning, encourage each person's unique contributions to the world, and create and celebrate human community. We welcome young and old, families and singles, all the colors and cultures of the human race, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and straight people.

We believe each person has a share of the truth and we need one another to grow whole. Our differing gifts and strengths join together to make a vibrant, loving community. Together we reverence living and dying, mark joy and pain and promise. We hope you will visit the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley. May you find the community of your longing.

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Rev. Christopher Holton Jablonski Revs. Barbara and Bill Hamilton-Holway Photo Credit: Jim Gasperini Ministers' Monthly Column Vision Statement The Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley is a welcoming and vibrant congregation. We joyously support spiritual development guided by individual faith, reason, and conscience. We are committed to serving one another, our church, and the local and global communities. We foster a spirit of generosity and trust that encourages care for our church home, and affirms diversity and relationships consistent with Unitarian Universalist principles.

W e l c o m i n g C o n g r e g a t i o n

The Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley is a church that welcomes a diversity of people. We are intentionally welcoming to people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. We are an official UUA Welcoming Congregation, having worked through a curriculum that consciously examines homophobia, heterosexism and what it means for heterosexual people to be allies to people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. Unitarian Universalists actively honor the worth and dignity of all people. You are welcome in our community!

After presiding at same-sex weddings for twenty-one years, and within our Unitarian Universalist Association where ministers have been presiding at same-sex weddings for over 30 years, what a joy to celebrate today two of our members' legal marriage and to witness our great state live up to the constitutional rights of equality and justice. The couple, Maryann Simpson and Cynthia Asprodites, has been saying "I do" to each other for 28 years, but what a thrill to hear them say to each other "I do take you as my lawfully wedded partner." We did not know how tender and powerful it would feel for us to say, "Now by the power vested in us by the State of California, we pronounce you legally married." We bless them and all who have persevered in their right to marry.

Revs. Barbara and Bill Hamilton-Holway, Co-Ministers
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley

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