About
About
About
About
Something short here about our mission, etc. These are pics I grabbed offline.
The following copy is from another UU site:
Committees and teams are where much of the work of All Souls gets done, and there are lots of ways to get involved at All Souls. If you're interested in our beautiful old building, you could join the Building & Grounds committee. If you like to cook, consider helping prepare and serve at The Stone Soup Café. If you have financial expertise, a green thumb, or a desire to work for justice, there’s a committee for you!
Committees and teams are where much of the work of All Souls gets done, and there are lots of ways to get involved at All Souls. If you're interested in our beautiful old building, you could join the Building & Grounds committee. If you like to cook, consider helping prepare and serve at The Stone Soup Café. If you have financial expertise, a green thumb, or a desire to work for justice, there’s a committee for you!
Committees and teams are where much of the work of All Souls gets done, and there are lots of ways to get involved at All Souls. If you're interested in our beautiful old building, you could join the Building & Grounds committee. If you have financial expertise, a green thumb, or a desire to work for justice, there’s a committee for you!
social justice
About
Greenfield, MA
413.773.5018
Sunday Services
10:30 a.m.
History
1900s onward
Near the turn of the19th to the 20th Century, Mary P. Wells Smith, best known as the author of the Boy Captive series of children's books and an active member of the church, initiated the Union Tea, inviting women from all churches in town. This was long before the term "ecumenical" was in common use.
As a result of the teas, the Women's Club of Greenfield was founded. Because of changes in women's lives, with so many of them working, the Union Teas died out in the 1970s. However, one revived on a Saturday during All Souls' centennial year.
The first boys' club organized in Greenfield was established in the church in 1910 when Welles Seller was brought to town to direct the new organization. It was supported completely by All Souls, but was open to all boys in the community. This was a forerunner of the YMCA of the Greenfield area and the Rev. John B. Day of all Souls took an active part in establishing the "Y." In the 1930s, Channing Bete Sr. took a leading role in instituting Boy Scout Troop 10, operating out of All Souls.
More recent community initiatives included the establishment of the Franklin County Interfaith Council and the Community Meals Program, both during the pastorate of Rev. Frances Reece Day in the mid 1980s. The All Souls Charity Fund, founded by Judge Charles Allen in 1906, has been the source of philanthropic work quietly conducted in the community to the present date. The fund provides necessities for people in need regardless of religious beliefs.
All Souls is a non-creedal church in which members are encouraged to develop their own philosophies of life in the light of conscience, a liberal religious tradition and experience. Unitarian Universalists treasure the universal truths taught by great teachers of humanity in every age and traditions.
Today
All Souls' imposing square tower, defended by gargoyles at all four corner, has stood the test of time. All Souls abides as a masterpiece of classic Romanesque architecture. Many meaningful events occur here: both private and public, some of the heart and spirit, others of intellect and social conscience. Joys are celebrated, sorrows are shared, concerns about injustice are raised and then converted to action. Our community, and the community at large, is strengthened.
