This Sunday after the second service will be the Annual Meeting of this church. It is the place where congregational polity is most experienced. Congregational Polity is the form of governance for Unitarian Universalism, Baptists, and United Church of Christ denominations. 

At the annual meeting, leaders will be elected, and the annual budget will be approved. You will hear reports from the President of the Congregation, the Minister, and the Treasurer. It is somewhat like a State of the Union address.

There is much to know about congregational polity. I've chosen a few points from so much information on our denomination's website to share with you from the Theological Perspective section. I'll be talking more about this in my report and from the pulpit Sunday.

For UUs under congregational polity each congregation is self-governing, choosing its own leadership, handling its own finances, and choosing its own delegates to the General Assembly.

When we say we agree to govern ourselves in accordance with the principles of "congregational polity," we affirm the moral and spiritual values that we believe this form of governance expresses and sustains by its very nature. Central among these values is the freedom of people to form self-determining, egalitarian, and democratic religious communities. If we are deeply committed to congregational polity, it is because its beliefs and values are central to our liberal faith. We need to affirm congregational polity as a covenant, that is, a mutual agreement and a commitment to walk together and support one another; it is an expression of our
spiritual vision.

Our Spiritual Vision - who we are and what we want to be. On with the search!!