Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stanislaus County

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The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stanislaus County is a congregation of Unitarian Universalists in Stanislaus County, California, just outside of Modesto, in California's Central Valley Theirs is the only UU congregation in the county, and it is member congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. The current minister is the Reverend Grace Simons. The congregation inhabits the oldest church which has been in continuous use in the entire county, which they have owned since the early 1960s.

[edit] History

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stanislaus County was founded on January 6, 1953, when a few former Unitarians and their friends, who were natural Unitarians, met at the Hotel Covell for the purpose of forming a Fellowship. That gathering proved to be encouraging and within three weeks the first speaker, Joe Bartlett, spoke on Unitarian History. Thirty people attended the services at the Odd Fellows Hall, which was to be the first of many meeting places. Music, flowers, meditation, talk back and coffee set a pattern which is still followed today. Later that year thirty-one men and women registered as Charter Members.