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Welcome!
This Unitarian Universalist congregation is welcoming of all seekers after truth, beauty, justice and compassion cherishing their diversity of race, gender, sexual identity and orientation, religious background and perspective on life.
Minister's Column,
September 2008:
"From My Window"
by Rev. Charlie Ortman
I am just back from a most amazing and wonderful trip to Romania.
Originally, I had planned on going with members of our own Partner
Church Committee, but unfortunately a number of unforeseen circumstances
precluded any of their participation. So, I was invited to join
the Unitarian Church of Summit's choir tour of Partner Churches.
We primarily traveled in the Transylvania region of Romania, the
birthplace of Unitarianism.
Some of the highlights: the stunning Carpathian Mountains, the
warm welcome of the Romanian and Hungarian people, the good company
of my fellow travelers, our delightful, caring and informative Unitarian
tour guides who accompanied us on the entire trip, the opportunity
to actually sing and perform with another talented UU choir, our
amazingly appreciative audiences, speaking before 4,000 Unitarians
gathered to celebrate the 440th anniversary of Unitarianism, preaching
the Sunday service for our Partner Church in Szentabraham, fresh
produce from the gardens of our hosts and endless stores of delicious
food, the very tasty and thirst quenching Ciuc Beer (pronounced
chuke), finding that American Unitarian Universalists have
more in common with our Unitarian partners in Romania than I had
imagined, and learning about the delicate and sensitive nature of
the relationship between the Hungarians (much of Transylvania) with
the Romanians. These are only some of the highlights!
As this issue of the Gazette goes to press, I'm working on putting
together our worship service for September 28th. My hope will be
to share even more of the journey with you, including performances
by the tour choir that I performed with. This undertaking will require
a Music Director exchange for the morning (Artis Wodehouse will
be in Summit and Mitchell Vines will be with us) and the balancing
of many, many schedules. As of this moment, things look like they're
coming together very well and it looks like they will… just
like the trip did. I hope you'll be able to join us that morning
to hear about our evolving partnership of faith with our Transylvanian
brothers and sisters. And I'll hope you come to hear the singing
of my new friends from the Summit choir, and to meet and visit with
them during Coffee Hour. I'll especially hope that you're able to
glean even a portion of the inspiring and meaningful experience
that we were able to enjoy as we made so many meaningful connections
on our journey.
I'll see you at the "U." Please pray for peace and act
for justice,
Charlie Ortman |
