I am a UU “lifer”—I’ve been a UU since I was 4-years old, attending five UU congregations in my lifetime. My earliest UU memory was of the fellowship at the Dartmouth College chapel, where I remember scissors, glue, and reading a book about the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Then there were more years of scissors and glue in the RE program of the Birmingham Unitarian Church in Birmingham, Michigan.

I stepped away from active participation during my college years, but I never stopped identifying as a UU. When my wife and I met and married, we were briefly members of the UU congregation in Reading, Massachusetts until my career took us to the Franklin area. We soon joined the Unitarian Congregation of Mendon and Uxbridge. Finally, we arrived at the First Universalist Society In Franklin in 1999.

What I have learned from being a life-long UU, involved with five different UU congregations, is that FUSF is priceless. FUSF is the most spiritually healthy and forward-looking UU congregation I have known.