Seeking Truth, Building Community, and Promoting Justice
Welcoming Congregation
We are a welcoming congregation that seeks to be a spiritual home for people of free faith. We value the full range of human diversity, including race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, affectional/sexual orientation, age, national origin, socioeconomic status, and ability.
We acknowledge that we gather on the traditional and sacred land of the Anishinaabe and Dakota people. In honor of their stewardship throughout the generations, we commit ourselves to protecting that land and working to mitigate the effects of climate change.
The St. Cloud Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is a small religious community serving the central Minnesota area. We are a welcoming congregation and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association which has more than one thousand congregations in the United States and Canada.
Our denomination has a shared set of principles to guide us rather than a prescribed creed. Each individual has an opportunity to seek their own spiritual path. Our efforts and growth are encouraged through intellectual, aesthetic, supportive and spiritual programs and activities and through discussions among members and friends.
If you are seeking an open and welcoming religious environment, please visit us and share in our fellowship.
Sunday Services
We meet at 10:30 on Sunday mornings from September through May. The services usually include music, readings, a presentation by a minister or other speaker, and a chance to respond to the presentation. Casual dress is common and the service is less formal than many churches. Visitors are welcome.
On the first and third Sundays of each month from September to May, a Children’s Religious Education (CRE) experience, based on UU Principles, is offered for children and youth ages 5 – 16. Recent topics have included: Democracy for Dinosaurs, Insects, A Creative Expression of Thankfulness, Bullying, Beekeeping, Meditation and Racism.
A “CRE Corner” in the Sanctuary has quiet games and activities for youngsters to enjoy during the other Sundays of the month. “Time for Children” story time is offered early in the service and a nursery is available for infants and toddlers.
Sunday Services and Events
SUNDAY SERVICES WILL BE MULTIPLATFORM. YOU MAY ATTEND IN PERSON OR USE THE ZOOM LINK ON THE WEBSITE.
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March 2025
10:30 a.m. Sunday, March 2: Classical Guitarist – Marko Topchii
Marko Topchii, originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, has performed around the world and has won numerous prestigious awards. The Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud arranged for him to be in St. Cloud for a few days and we are fortunate that he is available to perform for us and talk about what he does. Stay afterward for soup and bread.
Children’s Activity: Bright Bulb Kidz Korner or the Nursery with Ms. Heidi.
10:30 a.m. Sunday, March 9: How We Live an Earth Spirit Life – Erin Hughes and Jane Barth (Daylight Savings Time Begins Today. Spring Forward!)
In a heart-centered talk, two Fellowship members share their persistent commitment to a life of Spiritual rootedness on this Earth and their wonder of the world. They will include those actions of being and doing in their everyday lives, their weekly activities, their monthly observances, the 8 honoring days of the Celtic calendar, and travels around the Medicine Wheel that they introduced to us last year.
Children’s Program (CRE): Climate Change Revival offered by Carina Paton
10:30 a.m. Sunday, March 16: Events of Nature I Honor – Paul Heyl
Are you confident that scientific discoveries will save the environment? Does your confidence in science create distance between you and your very specific environment? Paul Heyl will talk about his personal connections to his environment and the need to place ourselves within our very specific environment in a very personal way, if we are going to succeed in keeping the world a viable place for human life.
Children’s Activity: Bright Bulb Kidz Korner or the Nursery with Ms. Heidi.
10:30 a.m. Sunday, March 23: From Farm Boy to Scientist – John Peck
John and Linda Peck have been members of St. Cloud UUF for more than 30 years. Today we'll hear about John's LBL (Life before Linda). How did he become a medical entomologist? What is a medical entomologist? How did John’s early experiences influence his life-long interest in science and nature, the interdependent web?
Children’s Program (CRE): How to love? We will talk about what qualities we love about ourselves and how we can show ourselves and others love. Amelia Fierro-Fine offers this for us.(Rescheduled from February.)
10:30 a.m. Sunday, March 30: Generosity: Giving with Love and Hope – Myo-O Habermas Scher
When we think of giving as coming from us and going to someone or something else, we might feel tired or overwhelmed. Where is the source from which there is no self to give and no other to receive, separate from each other? That source is only endlessly giving; how can we know this source? How can giving be anything but joy receiving itself? For instance, a baby’s first smile opens this gateless gate. We simply recognize it, together.
Children’s Activity: Bright Bulb Kidz Korner or the Nursery with Ms. Heidi.