The Anti-Hate Summer Reading Program, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks, the Exeter Community Library, and Bring the Change, is in need of moderators for community conversations about each book.  The program is aimed at tweens, teens and adults, and is funded by the Berks County Community Foundation.  Goals of the reading program are to define and fight … Continue reading Volunteer Moderators Needed

Please click on the link below for our updated policy on Church gatherings. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1frTR5R-DY8pdBf0GfnXvaklJO94jvv8rPEh6E7ND62s/edit?usp=sharing

The Multi-platform team will be hosting a Zoom conversation with the congregation immediately following the service this Sunday, June 20th.  Join us to hear what’s happening with the plans to move toward in-person gathering, as well as to create more robust virtual resources for FUUBC! Below, you can find the Introduction part of the meeting, recorded … Continue reading Coming Back Together: Moving toward a Multi-platform Church

As we move towards fall, we are very excited to be making plans to be coming back together through multi-platform operations.  Multi-platform means that we are hoping to give families and individuals the option to attend worship services and meetings either in-person or online via Zoom.  Note: masks and distancing will be required for those … Continue reading We need your input:

Ginny Chudgar, chair of the Social Justice Coordinating Team, is looking for a patient-but-enthusiastic social justice warrior who is comfortable with technology to share with her the administrative and leadership tasks associated with the SJCT until September 2021.  If you care a lot about the impact FUUBC can have and does have on our larger community, but don’t want … Continue reading Opportunity: Volunteer Interested in Social Justice for a Time-Limited Co-Chair Partnership

Join us on Monday June 7th, @ 7:00pm for the first in a series of 3 ‘Contemplative Summer’ sessions. Contemplative Companions will continue to meet monthly via zoom for the summer of 2021, with a relaxed format to mark the lazy days of summer. Contact Nadine Smet-Weiss (njw1258@hotmail.com or 484-333-4015) for further information or to … Continue reading Contemplative Companions – June 7, 2021

Family Promise will be holding there annual Night Without a Bed fundraiser, it will be held June 26th -27th . We are asking companies to sponsor our event in addtion to asking families, congregations, church youth groups,and schools to participate by sleeping somewhere other than their bed – such as living room , car ,outside … Continue reading Family Promise Night Without a Bed

We are now selecting the next FIVE organizations we will support during our next six-month cycle. We ask that you nominate and suggest local organizations to be placed on the eventual ballot. By clicking the link below you will find a listing of past Special Plate recipients and the amounts that we donated toward their … Continue reading Special Plate NOMINATIONS

Dear Beloveds, I am offering a few musings about Beloved Conversations through Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago.  Because I am white, I am enrolled in the group of registrants who are all white: the other two groupings of study offered are BIPOC+ (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and Religious Professionals. These segregated groups … Continue reading Reflections from Beloved Conversations by Be Young