6301 River Road
Bethesda MD 20817
(entrance on Whittier Blvd.)
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RRUUC is an easy-access facility.

Resolution on Racial Justice
As individuals, we commit to a new level of engagement, to continually seek ways to use our voices, our privilege, our standing in the community to effect change.
As a congregation, we commit to turning a new page. We declare the obvious—that Black lives matter to our beloved community. We affirm the need for powerful words and collective action, both to call out injustice and to call in love.

RRUUC Land and Labor Acknowledgment
We acknowledge that the land on which we worship is the traditional land of the Nacotchtank and Piscataway people and the land through which other Indigenous Peoples traveled. We acknowledge that enslaved African people and their descendants likely labored and lived on this land. We recognize these and other people displaced, enslaved, or harmed by past injustices.

We pledge that we will follow our faith in love and work to make our congregation and our larger community more accessible, inclusive, and equitable. We pledge that we will be good stewards of the land by encouraging healthy ecosystems. We pledge to remember the past while building a more just and welcoming future for all.

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Old Growth

Nov. 28, 2021, 10am Rev. Kären Rasmussen Affiliate Community Minister, Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd Senior Minister

Walt Whitman mused that it is the trees which “know the amplitude of time.” At the end of this month when our congregations reflect on what it means to hold history, we’ll follow the old growth trees into deeper time than our own short lives, paying homage to what Ursula K. Le Guin has called the “tall fraternal fire of life as strong now as in the seedling two centuries ago.”

This week there is only one service, at 10am.

Please note that there will be no RE this week. Childcare for children 4 years and under will be available in the Fireside Room.

Pre-register for ONE service at 10:00 here. 10am service will be online and in person. Registration is only necessary for in-person attendance.

River Road UU Congregation

River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation

Old Growth