Connections

  • Spring Food Drive
    The Media Food Bank @ First Church distributes food and personal care items to over 165 residents of Delaware County struggling with food insecurity. We ...
  • Parents Soul Matters Group
    Parents Soul Matters Group (formerly Young Families Soul Matters Group) will be meeting on Sunday, May 5, from 4 to 6 pm at the Breingan’s ...
  • Support Public Education Funding
    It’s time to rally in Harrisburg with UUJUSTICEPA and Education Voters on May 8, 2024! Why? Public education funding for 2024 to 2025 needs support. ...
  • Journey With Us: Starting Point
    Starting Point is a unique program designed to provide newcomers and long-timers, visitors and friends with the opportunity to experience Unitarian Universalism rather than just ...
  • Stop the Money Pipeline
    To combat climate change, it is imperative that Wall Street stop financing destructive fossil fuel projects. Stop the Money Pipeline is an organization that is ...

Words of Wisdom

  • My Principles
    “I have a total of 29 principles. I want to share some of them with you: 1. Be grateful as often as possible and as deeply as possible for as many things as possible. 2. Act responsibly even when other people act irresponsibly. 3. Create win-win solutions. 4. Always take full responsibility for your words, actions, and reactions. 5. Be kind to everyone for each person carries a hidden burden. 6. Focus on facts rather than assumptions, imagination, fantasy, or emotionally driven thinking. 7. Be present, empathetic, and responsive to, but not responsible for, others.” —Rev. Ed Brock, January 21, 2024

Share the Plate

  • Worthy Now Prison Ministry Network
    The Share the Plate recipient for April is the Worthy Now Prison Ministry Network. Worthy Now is a ministry of the Church of the Larger ...

Anti-Racism Activity

  • Sign Up for Microaggressions Workshop
    The First Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County is hosting a workshop entitled “Exploring Subtle Acts of Exclusion; How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions,” on Sunday, April 21, from 12:15 to 3:15 p.m. Child care will be provided. For more information and to register by April 19, contact Pat ...

Religious Education

  • Religious Education Volunteers Needed!
    Each Sunday morning our RE teachers, assistants, and youth leaders get the opportunity to teach, explore with, laugh with, and learn from our children and ...
  • Social Justice Service
    Come join the 9:30 service in person and on zoom. Classes will be held for Preschool to 8th Grade. There will be a coffee hour ...
  • Ridley Creek State Park Campout
    Come together for a Spring campout at Ridley Creek State Park from Saturday, 27 to Sunday April 28. All ages welcome. BYO gear, food, drink, ...

Weekly Musical Inspiration

  • Into the River
    Into the River by Starling Arrow and Chloe Smith is a joyous homage to laying one’s tired body down in the water, and for rain finding the rivers, voices finding one another for this sweet collaboration and merging into one. (https://youtu.be/mLViKfcBlZI?si=txFxotn-d88iLX67)