In one strong body: this congregation, this fellowship. In his meditation, “Gathering,” Robert Walsh places gathering and founding side by side. But he begins by saying, “When we tell the story of our [very old New England congregation], we say it was gathered in 1632.” The history of our congregation is somewhat shorter as we too emerge from this longer tradition, but the story no less important and profound. Founding is a vertical, linear word of establishing; gathering is a horizontal, circular word of bringing in. Both have helped make us who we are.
Join us as we celebrate those who gathered and founded the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hendersonville and made it real in body and spirit.