PLEASE NOTE: Due to heavy snow forecast, this FAITH+WORKS service will be online only. You can register for the zoom link here.

Opening this anniversary year we will welcome very special guests! Rev. Dr. John Gilmore Om Prakash played a crucial role in helping see our future as a congregation. We are delighted to welcome him back on January 19th to talk about “Life and the Greater Work.”

Congregation leader Darcy Hall remembers with absolute clarity several years ago when the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Essex County, fading in numbers and mission, was shown the path to its future by Reverend Dr. John Gilmore Om Prakash. He described two organizations—one that flourished and one that died. The difference, he thought, was that the organization that survived owned its land. “Your greatest asset,” he said, “is that you own your own buildings. You can use this space to create community with like-minded people and that, in turn, will grow your mission.” This was also a valuable lesson in problem-solving. We assumed that our buildings were a dilapidated deficit that hampered our goals. It took a wise outsider to show us what we couldn’t see: the buildings are the mission. Through Faith+Works, the HUUB and the University of Orange, this is what we bring to Orange—a campus of diverse spaces where community-generated work, gardening, learning, meeting, social events, parties, potlucks, music and art find a welcome and loving home.

You can read more about Rev. Dr. John Gilmore Om Prakash in his own words here. 

Please join us in person at Faith+Works Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Orange, 35 Cleveland St., Orange, NJ or on Zoom. Click here to register for a Zoom link.

Upcoming Service

The celebration of 135 years of our congregational life continues! 

On February 9th we are excited to hear from two great social justice advocates, Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker and Rev. Dr. Joanne Braxton. Look for more information regarding this service in the coming weeks.

On both Sundays (January 20th and February 9th) we will have a social hour at 3pm in Parish Hall.