**Services Sundays @ 10am with year-round childcare**
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We are a welcoming, diverse group of spiritual free-thinkers who gather to celebrate life, build community, and better the world. Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, you are likely to find fellow travelers in our church community. After services we host 'Coffee Hour' with
snacks, beverages, and good conversation. The second Sunday of the month is our Potluck Sunday when, even if you haven't brought a dish to pass, we invite you to join us in a delicious meal immediately after services. We also have an active Social & Environmental Justice Committee that meets monthly, small group ministry, and more! Our Story: Three people had a dream one day in the Fall of 1991. That dream was to have a Unitarian Universalist Congregation in the city of Canandaigua. The Reverends Carl and Maureen Thitchener (co-ministers of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst near Buffalo, NY, and also serving the Waterloo Fellowship in Waterloo, Canada), spent their summers at their retreat in the Bristol Hills, where they met Shelley Page, a young active Unitarian Universalist in the Rochester Unitarian congregation who had strong talents in areas of programming and growth. A dream of having a congregation in Canandaigua was shared equally. The initial step was to hold public meetings at Wood Library, to see if there was interest in this community. There was! Things began to happen to make the dream come true; afternoon information meetings were held at what is now the Inn on The Lake in Canandaigua. Soon there were regular services held at the Thompson Cooperative on Main Street in Canandaigua on Sunday afternoons. (The Thitcheners were not available on Sunday mornings due to the commitments to the other congregations which they served.) We hired a Religious Education Director for our children's program and a Music Director for services and events. In early 1992 it became quite evident that this congregation would grow, but needed some changes for this to happen. So the services were changed to mornings, and the congregation was chartered as a full member of the Unitarian Universalist Association on October 3, 1993. Space became an issue, and the congregation purchased their present home at 3024 Cooley Rd., in Canandaigua, a former Jehovah’s Witness Hall. On Easter Sunday, 1997, the new building was officially dedicated and the congregation has continued to grow. Since 2003, we have facilitated Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) as a distribution center and through many paid shares within the UUCC. In 2009, the UUCC began a partnership with First Unitarian in Rochester, NY, which continued until 2016 when UUCC, in conversation with First Unitarian, decided to return to local administration. As of 2010, we became an official "Green Sanctuary" with the UUA, as well, making the commitment to be good environmental stewards that we have maintained ever since. After a capital campaign and revisioning of the space, the UUCC completed significant renovations of the church in the summer of 2017.
