Category: 2. From Our Newsletter

Notes on 200 Years and More

Notes on Two Hundred Years (and More)
by Douglas H. Parkhurst

More than a half-dozen church buildings in Danbury are local landmarks. Downtown examples include Lighthouse Ministries, West St. (constructed in the 1860s); St. James Episcopal, West St. (1860s and 70s); St. Peter Roman Catholic, Main St. … read more.

Community Events

DANBURY BRANCH NAACP 2023 FREEDOM FUND DINNER – “Thriving Together” – Thursday, October 19, 2023 – 6:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception, 7:00 p.m. Banquet Dinner at Anthony’s Lake Club, 10 Christopher Columbus Ave., Danbury.  $85.00 – Please make checks payable to NAACP Branch 2001

42 Lake Avenue … read more.

Congregational Vote October 8th

Your Board has received lots of complaints about sound quality during Sunday services, and after much research and deliberation we are recommending that acoustic panels be installed on the ceiling and walls of Fellowship Hall. We are soliciting comments from the congregation at two public … read more.

Welcome New Members

Dale and Jonathan Hill

Ms. Dale Hill is an economist and evaluator with over 35 years’ experience in international development. The Hills attended River Road UU congregation in the DC area from 1996 until two years ago, when the couple moved to CT to live … read more.

September Services

September Services – One Service at 10:00 a.m.

Sunday, September 3rd – A Cooperative Game – Rev. Craig Schwalenberg
Would you like to play a game? Which game? You choose. The game isn’t important to me. If we play together, then they’re all … read more.

Share the Plate

The Sunday Services Team would like to return to monthly “Share the Plate” contributions starting in January 2024, on the first Sunday of the month. We’re in the process of forming a committee devoted only to “Share the Plate”, with an additional goal of updating the … read more.

September Events

Music at the Ridge presents Jim Scott in Concert
– Sunday, Sept. 10, 4pm

Jim Scott is a composer, guitarist and singer whom Pete Seeger called “some kind of magician”. He creates and performs music for a just, peaceful and sustainable world. Jim was part … read more.

Notes on 200 Years and More

Notes on Two Hundred Years (and More)
by Douglas H. Parkhurst

The Rev. Harry Adams Hersey began his pastorate at First Universalist Church, now Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Danbury (UUCD), on March 1, 1930. He would turn sixty years old in April. By then a parish minister … read more.

August Summer Services

One Service at 10:00 a.m.

Sunday, August 6th – How to Alleviate the Causes of Violence, Suffering and Hate, While Advancing Peace, Justice and Human Dignity – led by Rabbi Ari Rosenberg
Rabbi Rosenberg will discuss the important work that the Association of … read more.