GENEVA UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS

Sunday Meetings.

The Unitarian Universalist group in Geneva, Switzerland invites you to join us on the 3^rd Sunday of each month for a short service at 4:00pm followed by a discussion and a concurrent children's programme and ending with potluck snacks.

Our focus this year will be on the seven principles (see below) adopted by the Unitarian Universalist Association in the United States using the book The Seven Principles in Word and Worship, edited by our own Ellen Brandenburg. Each of our gatherings throughout the year will focus on one principle.

Please join us for a year devoted to understanding better how to live principled lives.

Our Principles (from www.uua.org which has a Spanish version)

There are seven principles which Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote:

• 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.

Unitarian Universalism (UU) draws from many sources:

• Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life;
• Words and deeds of prophetic women and men which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love;
• Wisdom from the world's religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life;
• Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God's love by loving our neighbors as ourselves;
• Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and warn us against idolatries of the mind and spirit.
• Spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.

These principles and sources of faith are the backbone of our religious community.

Children's Version of the Principles and Purposes

1. Each person is important.
2. Be kind in all you do.
3. We're free to learn together.
4. We search for what is true.
5. All people need a voice.
6. Build a fair and peaceful world.
7. We care for Earth's lifeboat.

Meeting Time and Place

We meet at: 13 Avenue du Mervelet, Petit Saconnex (at the Quaker House).

To reach the Quaker House by public transport, take the Number 14 or 16  tram (direction Avanchet) to the "Bouchet" stop at the intersection of Route de Meyrin and Avenue du Bouchet. Then walk right (if coming from Cornavin) on Avenue du Bouchet and follow this road to Avenue du Mervelet on the left (at the Kuwaiti Mission). Turn left, go past Chemin Charles Georg.and the Quaker House is the second house on the left.  Enter through the large gate.

Alternatively, bus 22 stops at "Mervelet" (Avenue Bouchet near the bottom of Avenue du Mervelet) on its way between the Place des Nations and the Tours-de-Carouge. (But NB buses run at 40 minute intervals on Sunday afternoons, as of this writing.) 

If you are coming by car, there is some parking (but only on one side of the road) in Avenue Riant Parc, Avenue du Mervelet and Chemin Charles Georg.

Please call or send email to find out more about our next meeting or to get on our mailing list. We customarily do not meet in July and August.

- Isabelle (+41 22 366 0919)

- or e-mail us at enquiries@genevauu.org