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The Board of Trustees has developed a set of Ends Statements, which state the Core Values of this congregation and which guide the congregation's activities and programs.

Core Values

The First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor, MI has been deeply committed to liberal religious thought and action for over 140 years. We join together in community to encourage and inspire each other’s spiritual journeys, to honor and care for the natural world around us, and to join forces in furthering social justice in the Ann Arbor area and the wider world.

1. Spiritual life
We find inspiration, renewal, and challenge in worship services. Children, youth and adults are enriched by classes and programs that expand religious understanding and nurture spiritual growth rooted in Unitarian Universalist traditions and values.

2. Social Justice and Environmental Action
We live our beliefs by creating, sustaining, and enhancing programs that actively engage congregants of all ages in projects that promote peace, justice, and positive environmental action locally and beyond.

3. Community
We create and foster community by providing an intentionally welcoming and safe environment where all feel valued and cared for, and where all are given opportunity to form meaningful connections with one another.  We foster a climate of purposeful inclusion of all regardless of gender, age, race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, financial means, education, or political perspective.  We live together in peace, search for truth in love, and help one another.

4. Stewardship
We are all active stewards, serving our congregation and pursuing our ministries through prudent and creative use of our resources, whether physical, environmental, financial or human. We show respect and care for our beautiful building and grounds, for our staff, and for one another. We cultivate right relationships among members of this congregation and with the wider world.

5. Culture
We are nourished by the culture that has evolved in this congregation throughout our rich liberal religious heritage in Ann Arbor, a culture rooted in our core belief in the inherent worth and dignity of every individual. We learn and grow from our differences. We value our connections, past, present and future, to the Unitarian Universalist world network.

Revision from August 17, 2008