We gather at 10 a.m. for informal visiting.  Worship begins at 10:30.  Children and youth are welcome to participate in the service or to try out our classes as guests. We offer child care for the very young during the service.

Our mission is simple: Live your sacred – Transform through love – Act with courage. My ministry is devoted to encouraging spiritual depth, growing through genuine relationships and joining with others to create more love and justice in the world.

We gather every week to explore and celebrate our values and remind ourselves to live them every day.  As members of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations we strive to practice the following principles:

• The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
• Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
• Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
• A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
• The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
• The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
• Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

We are a non-creedal religion that draws wisdom from the world’s religions and spiritual traditions, as well as from human experiences of transcending mystery, the teachings of reason and science and the insistent call to confront injustice. Learn more about Unitarian Universalism here.

I look forward to meeting you.

Rev. Mary Foran

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We, the Unitarian Universalists of Petaluma (“UUP”), are a community of religiously liberal people who gather on a weekly basis to share our values in a Sunday service setting, and who work (and play!) together to establish an atmosphere of principled seeking and ethical living on a day-to-day basis.

We meet at 10:30am on Sundays at the Woman’s Club at 518 B St in Petaluma, CA. Click here for directions. Please read through the upcoming services below or read through our past services to get an idea of what to expect if you visit us on a Sunday. Also please explore our photo gallery to see what we’re doing in the community and beyond.

UUP welcomes all to join in our Mission:
Live your sacred •  Transform through love  •  Act with courage

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When Our Heart Is In a Holy Place: UUP’s Flower Communion Ritual
Worship Leader: Jodi Boyle

There are many different people in this wide world and many different ways to live. Sometimes our differences from one another make us feel miles apart and divided by a chasm that seems utterly uncrossable. How do we transform ourselves through love so that we might perceive not division but opportunities to experience the gloriousness of union where we thought none could possibly be had. This is our practice as Unitarian Universalists.

Join us for our annual, multigenerational Flower Communion ritual where we experience what can be created when our heart is in a holy place.

Please bring a flower to contribute to the ritual.

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Join us as we hear multiple voices, men and women, speaking about their experience of mothers and mothering, as we honor a holiday conceived of as mothers worldwide standing together for the cause of peace.

After several months of retreats and self and group explorations, five young people, who have grown up in UUP, will share their discoveries in a worship filled with music, heart, and humor. We will recognize mentors, parents, and our Coming of Age youth in a special ritual.

After worship we will have a creative conversation about UUP’s future. Come early and stay late!

Words can move you, soothe you, prove you, swoon you, smooth you, and groove you,
so, it will behoove you, to join your fellow congregants and dig the poetic words they have chosen to lay down.

The immigration debate provides an opportunity to uncover difficult spiritual issues that underlie the more talked-about political and economic ones. Bruce Lohmann, a seminary student, and his family have lived the nightmare of the current immigration policy. “My history with the immigration system began in the late 1970′s when I attempted to bring Sonia, the mother of our then-two children, and newly pregnant with our third, to the U.S..” Bruce has provided counsel and assistance to undocumented friends and neighbors in Mexico and the United States over the years and is an ardent advocate of immigration reform. He will describe his family’s experience that now motivates his exploration of the roots of an immigration system he finds in ethical and spiritual crisis.