Are You a Unitarian without knowing it? Unitarians differ from many other religions in that we believe in helping people to find their own spiritual path rather than defining it for them. We welcome all those who share our views on tolerance toward others, who embrace the freedom to be in a faith community that does not impose creeds or specific beliefs, and where the approach is based on reason not dogma. We conduct baby namings, weddings, same sex weddings, and funerals, arranged according to people's personal spiritual requirements. To find out more go to www.unitarian.org.uk.
You can then go to Find a Congregation near you, type in Southampton and our present website will come up. If you click on Events on the left hand side you will come back to this information.
Local services are held at The Edmund Kell Church, Bellevue Road off London Road, Southampton (SO15 2AY) at 1O.3O am each Sunday.
A variety of Ministers and Lay Leaders take our services. Also some members of the congregation. Services over the past few months have been richly varied, with several members providing innovative approaches. We are a small community. You will be very welcome if you visit us.
Worship and events Calendar
2012
March 4th Brenda Knopf. 11th Val Worthington 18th Mothers day Family service with puppet show led by Kathy Beckett 25th Rev Brian Anderson.
April 1st Jennie Musson 8th Easter Sun Rev Brian Anderson. 15th Short service Colin Turnage followed by congregational meeting. 22nd Tony Rees 29th Graham Loudon
May 6th Kathy Beckett 13th Val Worthington 20th Graham Loudon 27th Rev Linda Phillips
June 3rd short service Colin Turnage followed by congregational meeting 10th Past president Neville Kenyon 17th Rev Brian Anderson 24th Val Worthington.
Our services are followed by refreshments in the hall. Donations for this are sent to a charity.
OTHER EVENTS
In May we are hoping to form a small informal singing group, mainly for fun. All welcome. Also we are hoping to resume our monthly film evenings. 3rd to 5th April General Assembly meetings. May 11th to 13th Meditational Fellowship w/e. A crem tea will be given in Kathy's garden on 3rd June, 4 to 6pm, weather permitting. On June 17th we will join in the Southampton Interfaith Peace walk and on July 1st we have an outing to the I.O.W. In Sept we hope to visit the old Unitarian church in Ringwood, now an information centre.
On the 3rd Sunday of the month we have a Sun eve gathering in Salisbury, contact Brenda re details.
We have a regular bulletin with all info which Brenda will send you if you email her your address.
Ring Brenda Knopf O238O 555333 for any enquiries.
e-mails:
TonyMRees@me.com
brenda.knopf@btinternet.com kathybeckett@kathybeckett.plus.com
You can also contact our Headquarters in London on
O2O 724O 2384 or through this web-site: www.unitarian.org.uk.
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