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Rev. Michael McGee has challenged us to grow our membership to 1,000 before he retires next July. This is no small undertaking considering that we are presently 900. Yet this is a vital challenge, one that we must take up if we are to continue to fulfill our mission.

To complete the picture, we are 900 members and 400 inquiring and active friends. To reach our goal, we must both attract and retain newcomers and promote friends…

As a “Community Center” the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia welcomes an average of 2,200 people a week!

Leaders from First Unitarian shared their success story in a powerful presentation at Saturday’s Racial Justice Conference.  They explained that they subsidize dozens of cultural, educational, civic, wellness and spiritual groups, and the hundreds of people served by them, by providing affordable and…

On Sunday, January 30^th, Natalie Fenimore reminded us of the importance of relationships and of our human need to connect relationally.  She urged us to meet in one-on-one conversation, to tell our stories to each other such that we might learn to trust.  She said: "We are renewed when we connect in genuine transformational relationships that are based upon covenants of trust."

“Easier said than done!” you might say.  Purposeful…