Channing Unitarian Universalist Church
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45 Webster Street
Rockland, Massachusetts 02370
781-878-0650
Worship and Religious Education 10:00am Sunday
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Believing they were “endowed with the liberty to decide for themselves their attitude toward God, the Bible, and to Truth Known and to be Known” our founders began building Channing Church in 1883 and dedicated it in 1889Today, symbols from many of the world’s religious traditions are displayed in our sanctuary. Among us you will find Humanist, Theist, Atheist, Pantheist, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Pagan, Mystic, and Transcendentalist perspectives on theology. Steeped in our Unitarian heritage of Freedom, Reason, and Tolerance and grounded in the Universalist spirit of Love, we support one another’s religious questioning/questing as we live out our lives as bankers, carpenters, homemakers, retirees, students, and teachers. We are newborns, and great grandparents and everything in between. We hope you will join us!
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has”
- Margaret Mead
Welcome new minister Tim House!
The Ministerial Search Committee is pleased to announce that Reverend Tim House will be serving as our Sunday Preacher this year, filling our pulpit two services a month, visiting with us at coffeehour, and leading our "children's moment." Tim is a fantastic preacher with a background in theater. He was an actor, theatre director, and college teacher before he became a minister. He taught at Emerson College in Boston for 20 plus years – full- and part-time - both in the Division of Performing Arts and the Division of Writing, Literature & Publishing. In May of 2009, Tim received his Master of Divinity degree from Andover Newton Theological School. He completed his two-year ministerial internship at First Church in Boston in June, and was the summer minister at the UU Congregation of Reading in July and August of 2010. He was ordained at First Church in Boston May 22, 2011, and welcomed into preliminary fellowship at General Assembly in Charlotte NC in June. He jokes that he is thrilled to become a UU minister before becoming too old to remember where he put his glasses!
Tim is married to Ann Gary, who is on the board of the UU Partner Church Council. They have a 16 year-old son, Alex, who is a very good epee fencer, and an eight year-old Australian terrier, Baci, who according to Tim, is a very good eater and barker.
Tim describes his interests as follows: "I’m especially interested in people and their stories. We need to tell one another our stories and listen deeply to the stories of others. I’m also interested in spirituality and the arts, and hope to find ways to use the many forms of applied, performance, and language arts to open some pathways for sensing and expressing our connection with the Mysterious Source of Being."
Tim's first service at Channing Church is the annual Water Communion on Sunday, September 11th. Come on over and meet this dynamic new presence at Channing. We feel very lucky to have him in our pulpit. No doubt you'll feel the same!
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Channing Church Affirmation
Love is the doctrine of this churchThe quest for truth is its sacrament
And service is its prayer.
To dwell together in peace;
To seek knowledge in Freedom;
To serve humanity in fellowship;
To the end that all souls shall grow
Into harmony with the divine.
Thus do we covenant with each other
And with God.