Welcoming Congregation
The Unitarian Universalist Area Church at First Parish in Sherborn welcomes, affirms and actively promotes the full participation of all persons in our activities and endeavors without regard to race, color, gender, physical or mental challenges, sexual orientation, age, class, or national origin.
As a Welcoming Congregation, we celebrate and support the lives, relationships and contributions of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members and friends.
What the program strives for
Welcoming Congregations strive to be more inclusive of bisexual, gay, lesbian and/or transgender people. Through workshops and other task force and committee initiatives, the program works to:
- Educate members
- Reduce prejudice
- Increase understanding and acceptance among people of different sexual orientations
How we became a Welcoming Congregation
Delegates of the 1989 Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to initiate this program in order to educate members, reduce prejudice, and increase understanding and acceptance among people of different sexual orientations.
Our congregation began work to implement programs to promote this ideal accordingly during the 1998–1999 church year, and voted to become a Welcoming Congregation in 2001.
Come as you are
All are welcome at Sunday worship and in every part of our congregational life.