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LAKEHEAD UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP "an inclusive spiritual community promoting a compassionate, just, and sustainable world" |
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Welcome to Lakehead Unitarian Fellowship (LUF).Chartered in January 1959 we have been a force for liberal religion in the community for over fifty years. We believe in the celebration of a variety of religious and philosophical ideas from different cultures. We believe in the never ending search for truth and encourage individuals to develop their own personal theology. We promote social justice, and work to safeguard the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
We are an official Welcoming Congregation which means that this Unitarian Universalist community welcomes and celebrates the presence and participation of persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions.
Our Mission Statement:
Lakehead Unitarian Fellowship is a nurturing, caring community that embraces diversity; explores spiritual, religious, ecological and humanist values; and enriches the lives of members, friends and society at large.
Go to the Newsletter Page for the current and past issues of our newsletter.
Note: Office hours are usually between 10:00 am. and 3:00 pm., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. At other times please send e-mail or leave voicemail at 344-5980 and someone will get back to you during office hours.
- JANUARY NEWSLETTER
The January issue of LUF Letter is now available online by clicking here.
- CUC's international interfaith work featured in new video
Watch CUC Executive Director Jennifer Dickson, along with UUA President Peter Morales, among the world religious leaders featured in this just-released video from the 33rd World Congress of the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF), held in Kochi, India in September. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jsHckb8QQA
The Congress is held once every four years. This year's meeting, opened by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and attended by hundreds of religious leaders of all faiths, was on the theme: "From Conflict to Reconciliation: The Challenge of the 21st Century." The Congress elected Jennifer to a four-year term as a North American representative on the IARF's International Council. She joins Rev. Brian Kiely of Edmonton, who is currently President of the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists, as a Canadian UU serving in a prominent international role. The IARF is a charity working for freedom of religion and belief at a global level. It has a more than 100-year history of encouraging interfaith dialogue and tolerance, with member groups in 25 countries, from faith traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Shinto and Zoroastrianism.
- UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST UNITED NATIONS OFFICE
LUF is being asked to help support UU-UNO. The UU-UNO has been part of enhanced engagement at the United Nations to end extreme poverty and hunger, establish gender equality, provide for child and material health, combat HIV/AIDS, work for environmental stability, and establish a global partnership for development, to educate and provide education to some of the three thousand children in the communities who have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS. We need your support to keep these programs going. Please check out their website.
- MEMORIAL PLANNING
Here at LUF we have available a series of planning materials to help us do the work of preparing for our own eventual deaths. The forms are available online and include In case of life threatening illness or death, A celebration of your life: memorial service planning worksheet, and Personal history for obituary and eulogy. These forms are also available from the LUF Administrator. The completed forms can be held in the LUF office for members, or in a safe place at home if you prefer.
