Path to Membership

But How Do I Join?

First, Get To Know Us!

Attend our Sunday services. They vary quite a bit from Sunday to Sunday as you may already know. Request a per permanent nametag by filling out a form posted on the bulletin board next to the nametag board (in the first floor hallway outside the Community Room.) Read our newsletter The Spectator, available at the Newcomer's Table in the Community Room, and available here on our web site.

Mix it up during Coffee Hour (after service on Sundays.) Talk to members. Talk to other newcomers (you'll recognize them by their stick-on nametags and yellow coffee cups just like yours.) You'll make friends quickly. The best opener: "How did you come to UUCLV?"

Sign up for eNews. Go to our website and get signed up to keep up-to-date on services, classes, social events, and all the goings-on of our community!

Attend some church functions! Come to a pizza night, the yard sale, the annual auction, a circle dinner, a choir rehearsal, a minister lunch, or a Christmas decorating party! Hang out and find some friends.

Join us in service - but in a small way! If you like, help out while you're eating pizza! Join in with clean up. Go to a soup kitchen day, offer to bring food to coffee hour, or flowers for service. We only ask that Newcomers limit their service to projects and tasks, and don't offer to chair a committee or get too over-involved in their first year. It's a time to get to know us and where you fit in best, not a time to get burned out!

Then, Get To Know Unitarian Universalism

Attend a monthly "30 Minutes With the Minister" session. This is held each month immediately following a service just for newcomers wishing to know more about Unitarian Universalism and becoming members of the church. Watch The Spectator (our newsletter) and the church Order of Service (the flyer handed out at the beginning of service) for dates each month.

Attend a "New UU" class held every 2-3 months. This is a more in-depth class covering a short history of Unitarian Universalism as well as the history of the UUCLV. Newcomers will also discuss their own religious/spiritual paths to Unitarian Universalism. We'll describe how the UUCLV works, how it is "governed," the UUCLV committees and their functions. After these classes, you'll have a better idea of how the UUCLV works, and how your passions might find a home here.