Opening Service for the UUA General Assembly

By Ann Kuffner

Join us online for the largest annual gathering of Unitarian Universalists (UUs) joining in worship. This powerful, communal worship experience will stream on Sunday, June 25, 2023, at 11am ET/9am CT/9am MT/8am PT. It will be the opening service for the UUA General Assembly (GA). Members of the public are welcome to view the service. There will be no in-person service in San Miguel de Allende on June 25.

The Office of the UUA President, the Rev. Susan Frederick Gray, is pleased to announce that the Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti, Senior Minister of the First UU Congregation of Ann Arbor, MI will lead the 2023 Sunday Service at the GA.

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti serves as Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is a co-editor of «Conversations with the Sacred: A Collection of Prayers» (2020) and the 2018-2019 UUA common read, «Justice on Earth: People of Faith Working at the Intersections of Race, Class, and the Environment.» He has served extensively in Unitarian Universalist leadership, including as a member of the UUSC Board of Trustees; the UUA Board of Trustees; President of DRUUMM (our UU people of color organization, Diverse and Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries); Commissioner on the UUA Commission on Appraisal; Secretary of the Board of Starr King School for the Ministry; and an author and advocate of the 2007 General Assembly resolution confronting gender identity-related discrimination. He brings to the ministry his multicultural experience serving as a U.S. diplomat during the Clinton administration. Rev. Manish loves desert hiking and his amazing kids and husband.

Each year, a talented group of choral singers performs at the Sunday Morning Worship for the General Assembly audience. 

Unitarian Universalism is a liberal faith inviting its community to gather around a set of harmonizing values and principles for living. Our UU Fellowship welcomes people of all ages, races, religions, sexual orientations, and gender identities. Belief in a divinity is not the central issue around which we gather for worship and generous action. Rather, we come together with a belief in community, love, compassion, social justice, reverence for nature, and the spirituality of music, all within the interconnected web of existence.

UUFSMA donates generously to support nonprofit organizations that provide health, educational, and environmental services for underserved communities in the San Miguel region. Please support this work by clicking on the website home page Donate button. 

UUFSMA normally meets in person on Sundays at 10:30am at the Hotel Posada de la Aldea on Ancha San Antonio 15.