Weekly Services
ONGOING PROGRAMS
& EVENTS Food Pantry Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays Noon to 2:00 PM Our Next Board Meeting Thursday Feb 8 6:30 pm The Eclectic Café Pat Wictor- Deborah Lutz Feb 9 Live Poets Society See below Playwrights See below WHO WE ARE
A small yet growing congregation, our fellowship is home to thought-provoking, inspiring sermons; engaging conversation; and warm community. We belong to the Unitarian Universalist Association, which represents the interests of more than one thousand Unitarian Universalist congregations world-wide. MEMORIALS, BIOS and Personal Stories: If this seems like a good space to celebrate your loved one, we can post your own words and pictures here on our private and password protected member page. |
Coming Services
April 22
Dave Chapman Now, more than ever, it's important that we lift our voices and stand on the side of love
Sophia Fahs Summer Camp
|
Religious Education
call to confirm in session and/or check your email Eclectic Café
On Saturday, April 14th The Eclectic Café presents Baby Soda. Formed in 2007 in Brooklyn NY by musicians who met playing traditional jazz in Washington Square Park and the NYC subway system Baby Soda has grown and changed over the years to include a large family of talented New York musicians, many coming here to realize their musical aspirations. The repertoire has changed as well with the original ensemble playing more of the music common to the street bands in New Orleans today.
The current repertoire has expanded to include more of the music of Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, Harry Warren and the composers who created the great American songs of Tin Pan Alley. They are not recreationists, playing note for note transcriptions, but play this expanded repertoire in the New Orleans style of small ensemble improvisation, blending arranged and improvised sections. The instrumentation is a distinctive part of their sound. A low-boy hi-hat, wood block and one-string box bass have replaced the washboard as the percussion section most of the time. They are played by the horn and banjo players, unless they are performing with a traditional kit drummer. Unitarian Society 28 Brentwood Rd. Bay Shore. Open mic 7:30, feature performer 8:30 pm. Admission $17 in advance, $20 at the door. Please bring a non-perishable food item for donation to our in house food bank. eclecticcafe.org Live Poets Society
The Live Poets Society meets second Sundays, September through April and third Sunday in May. 1 to 3pm at Islip Public Library 71 Monell Ave, half a block south of Main Street. Turn south onto Monell opposite Starbucks.
LPS invites poets to bring two poems-in-progress to a gentle critique by Gladys Henderson, Poet Laureate of Suffolk County and peers. Please make a few copies in advance, 10 cents each at the Library. Playwrights
Playwrights is a new local group who will be meeting the second and third Saturdays through May. 2-3:30 pm at the Islip Public Library 71 Monell Ave. Islip.
Bring copies of your script or script in progress to do cold readings with others. Please contact Noreen at 631-581-6740 for more information. News and important information from the Long Island Area Council of the UUA
|

Local State Parks for Getting Out and About
- Belmont Park - short hike around the lake or for a longer hike take the perimeter trail
- Heckscher Park, East Islip - great views of bay
- Sunken Meadow - Boardwalk is 1 1/2 miles, one way. Great views of the sound
- Pilgrim State nature preserve - trails rough, easy to get lost.
- Horse trail from Argyle Lake to Belmont Park Goes under Sunrise Hwy and So Pkwy. 3 miles
- Robert Moses Park - hike to Lighthouse, or on the beach.
- Connetquot Park - big park, lotsa trails, and lotsa ticks, fee year round
- Bayard Cutting Arboretum - nice trails, good views of water
- Gardner Park, West Bay Shore - mile down to bay, side trails get boggy
- Belmont Park - short hike around the lake or for a longer hike take the perimeter trail
- Heckscher Park, East Islip - great views of bay
- Sunken Meadow - Boardwalk is 1 1/2 miles, one way. Great views of the sound
- Pilgrim State nature preserve - trails rough, easy to get lost.
- Horse trail from Argyle Lake to Belmont Park Goes under Sunrise Hwy and So Pkwy. 3 miles
- Robert Moses Park - hike to Lighthouse, or on the beach.
- Connetquot Park - big park, lotsa trails, and lotsa ticks, fee year round
- Bayard Cutting Arboretum - nice trails, good views of water
- Gardner Park, West Bay Shore - mile down to bay, side trails get boggy
We are a Welcoming Congregation. To learn more about this program and our efforts to become more welcoming and inclusive of people with marginalized sexual orientations and gender identities, click HERE. |
|
Are you interested in learning more about Unitarian Universalism? Watch the video below, “Voices of a Liberal Faith”, or the video "The Flaming Chalice and the Unitarian Universalist Church", or visit the Unitarian Universalist Association website.
Scroll over the images below to learn more about us and our Unitarian Universalist faith -