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Support Our Faithify Campaign!
About the campaign This Holiday season, WellSprings is raising funds to support our Ministerial Internship program – using an international, UU-wide crowdfunding website called Faithify! Faithify allows UUs to show their support for each other’s ministries and projects, from anywhere in the world. We know we have so many visitors, friends, online attendees, and long-ago and far-away followers who all value our beloved community and hope to see it thrive! If you’re not yet a pledging member with a regular gift…
Our Annual “Wild & Precious Life” service is This Sunday!
We hope you’ll join us, either in-person in Bell Hall, or online this Sunday, for one of our favorite services of the year. Each year, on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, we ask WellSpringers in different decades of life to answer the question posed in Mary Oliver’s poem The Summer Day: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Rather than a typical message, you’ll see fellow congregants – an 11 year old,…
Gather and Remember With Us, This Sunday
On Sunday, October 29th, we’ll gather together to hold our annual Remembrance Sunday. Our service will offer a space to welcome all whom we’ve loved and lost into the heart of our beloved community. Our Ministerial Intern, Nick Sanchez, will also offer a brief message, to ground us and open our time together. Traditionally, we share photos and videos of those departed and dear to our congregants, both via a video slide show, and at an altar set up in Bell…
Our Signature Small Group Returns for Fall!
Here is your next opportunity to participate in our beloved community’s signature small group: WellSprings 2.0 – Listening to Our Lives. Participants explore big questions and timeless spiritual topics together: about Inspiration, God, Community, Suffering, Death, Spiritual Practice, Living our Gifts, and more. Groups that have taken 2.0 together in the past have formed strong bonds with each other and with our community. This session meets Every other Sunday at noon, beginning November 5, 2023 and ending February 25, 2024. This…
Dig Deeper With our Messages & Join Us for a Soul Bite, This Fall…
Do you ever wish you could “dig deeper” into something you heard, on a Sunday morning? Or that you could get together and talk about your thoughts and feelings on the message, with other folks in our community? This year, our Small Groups Team is trying something new: offering a series of “Soul Bites” for WellSpringers to come together and discover the deeper meaning behind our Sunday message themes. A Soul Bite is a single-session group gathering, for discussion and…
Charging Up at WellCome Back Sunday!
On Sunday, September 10th, we celebrated our annual “WellCome Back Sunday” tradition at WellSprings, with a new twist! This service marks both the end of summer, and a return to the regular rhythms and schedules of our congregational year. If you missed it, you can watch the whole thing on our YouTube Channel. Our band rehearsed a new song before the service began, as volunteers set up a bit of an unusual chair configuration, because we had exciting plans for…
A (Sun)Day in the Life of YouthSpirit
A Note from Board Member, Tonie Scullion… Almost every Sunday during service, we hear the familiar words: “Now is the time for the children to join Ms. Carol for YouthSpirit.” As we watch those ages 5-12 head to the back of Bell Hall and then leave the building. Ever wonder what comes next? I had the opportunity to sit in and observe what our younger WellSpringers do — the six attendees’ time together started by introducing themselves so everyone knew…
New for WellCome Back Sunday: Blessing of the Backpacks
On Sunday, September 10th, WellSprings will celebrate our annual “WellCome Back” Sunday – the special service which marks the end of summer and a return to the work, school, and worship schedules we follow through most of the year. This year, we’ll be holding our first-ever “Blessing of the Backpacks” at our 10 am Sunday service. All students (of any age!) are asked to bring their backpacks to Bell Hall to be blessed during our Sunday service – and to…
YOU can Host a “Soul Bite” Discussion Group! We’ve Made it Easy
Do you ever wish you could “dig deeper” into something you heard, on a Sunday morning? Or wish that you had a place to explore your thoughts and feelings on the message topic, with other folks in our community? This year, our Small Groups Team is trying something new: with help from Rev. Lee, we’ll have a ready-made “Soul Bite” outline available, for every message series in 2023-2024. A Soul Bite is a single-session group gathering, for discussion and connection –…
This Year, at WellSprings…
We’re busy planning for the year ahead at WellSprings! Our Fall message series starts in September – but scroll down to get a taste of the conversations we’ll be having (on Sunday mornings, in YouthSpirit, in small groups, etc.) all throughout the year… Off The Fence our Fall Message Series With battles raging all around us, and voices getting louder, it’s tempting to back away from controversy and conflict. We try not to get involved, hope things will work out,…
All About Our “Neighbors & Helpers” Message Series this August
An August tradition at WellSprings returns… We see the world through our own eyes – and sometimes we assume that’s just “the way it is” for everyone. But when we engage with our neighbors, we start to realize how much our own limited perspectives never showed us. There are so many shades and colors of what it means to be “us” – to live in Chester County, or to be a Unitarian Universalist – beyond our own experiences. Once again…
Celebrating 10 Years of Rev. Lee!
A Note From Tonie Scullion, on the WellSprings Board of Trustees Ten years ago today (August 1, 2013), WellSprings was introduced to our newest ministerial intern, Lee Allison Paczulla. Generally, when an intern comes to a congregation, they stay for two years and then leave to go to what will become their home congregation. However, Lee was such a perfect fit for WellSprings that the UUA permitted her to stay. How fortunate for us! With her sermons that always leave…