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Sunday, August 31, 10:30am
Hotel Aldea or https://zoom.us/j/414604040/ Password: 294513
free
No Caravan of Despair: General Assembly 2025 Through the Lenses of Two Participants
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Sunday Service
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Tom Rosiello
By Kate Greenaway, UUFSMA member
What is the Unitarian Universalist Association’s General Assembly, and why does it matter to us? This week, Jean Marie Stine and Frankie Hill, our delegates to this year’s GA, will share some of their highlights and takeaways to give us a glimpse inside.
Just to set the stage: from June 18–22, 2025, nearly 3,300 Unitarian Universalists from the US, Canada, France, and Mexico gathered for the 64th UUA General Assembly. The multi-platform event featured a main stage at the Baltimore Convention Center. Over five days, attendees participated—in person and virtually—in more than 70 worship services, workshops, and business sessions.
The theme, “Meet the Moment,” framed the GA as more than just a meeting. It encouraged UUs to consider how we can harness our courage, develop our skills, and ground ourselves in our values to respond to these unprecedented times. Sessions featured innovative, values-aligned responses to the pressing needs of our congregations, communities, and our world.
To close out the month of August, using the GA as a focal point, Jean Marie and Frankie will reflect on Rev. Dr. María Cristina Vlassidis Burgoa’s reminder that Love lies at the heart of our values and can be made manifest in the world.
Jean Marie and Frankie have been UUs since 2002 and members of UUFSMA since 2020, with Frankie joining our Board of Directors this year. During the weekdays, they operate a small publishing company, bringing new and classic genre fiction into the world. In their free time, they dote on their grandchildren and fall into complicated love, again and again, with the liberatory history and potential of Unitarian Universalism.
Unitarian Universalism is a liberal faith centered on shared values for living. Our UU Fellowship welcomes people of all ages, races, religions, sexual orientations, and gender identities. We gather not around a belief in divinity, but around community, love, compassion, social justice, reverence for nature, and the spirituality of music within the interconnected web of existence.
The UUFSMA Social Justice Foundation supports local nonprofits that provide health, educational, environmental, and other services. Learn more at https://www.uufsma.org/foundation.html .
To participate in our online Sunday Service, visit www.uufsma.org and click on the Zoom Service button on the home page. If requested, enter password: 294513. Sign in from anywhere on Sunday mornings between 10:15-10:25 a.m. CST. Enjoy previous services at https://www.youtube.com/UUFSMA.
We meet at 10:30 a.m. at the Hotel Posada de la Aldea, Ancha de San Antonio 15, in San Miguel de Allende. Join us.
Link to current service description: www.uufsma.org/upcomingservice.html
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