The Mission Of The Universalist Unitarian Church Of Santa Paula:
To Practice Inclusiveness, Seek Justice, And Foster Spirituality.

COVID-19 Response Updates

The church building is now closed to all services and activities until further notice.

For more information and the latest on COVID-19 and our community, click here.

 

Welcome to Our Church

Nurture Your Spirit, Help Heal Our World.

We are a warm and friendly congregation. We welcome all who seek to find meaning in our busy lives, make connections with others and search for answers to life's big questions.

Worship

Our communal worship calls us to be our best selves, to find meaning and purpose and compassion in a world that often seems filled with heartbreak and dehumanization.

Faith Exploration

Our Faith Exploration Program informs and celebrates children, youth and adults on their spiritual path.

Santa Paula Concert Series

The Santa Paula Concert Series is an intimate venue featuring musicians from classical to jazz to world music and more.

Spiritual Growth Center

The Spiritual Growth Center at the Universalist Unitarian Church of Santa Paula provides opportunities and programs to awaken and sustain love, compassion, service and personal transformation.

Upcoming Events

April 18, 2021

Service: Mind-full of Earth

Location
Zoom & Facebook 740 E Main Street, Santa Paula, California,
Day and Time
Sunday Apr 18, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Details

Rev. Nic Filzen, Jerry Gray
As we move toward potential climate disaster, how can we be more mind-full of Earth’s suffering? More mind-full of Earth’s beauty? How can we promote the wholeness of nature herself?

Parking is available on the street in front of the church. In addition, there are a limited number of parking spaces behind the church in the alley-way. A handicap accessible entrance with an electric lift is available on the east side of the building next to the side entrance.

April 25, 2021

Service: Cluster Service with Lea Morris/UU Ventura

Location
Zoom & Facebook 740 E Main Street, Santa Paula, California,
Day and Time
Sunday Apr 25, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Details

Please join the UU Church of Ventura who will be hosting a Channel Islands ClUUster of congregations collaborative worship service, with special guest Lea Morris. More information to come!

Please note this is a different Zoom number than our normal UUCSP
Join Zoom Meeting
https://uuma.zoom.us/j/6159064009
Meeting ID: 615 906 4009
One tap mobile +16699006833,,6159064009# US (San Jose)

Parking is available on the street in front of the church. In addition, there are a limited number of parking spaces behind the church in the alley-way. A handicap accessible entrance with an electric lift is available on the east side of the building next to the side entrance.

Our Congregation

Are you looking for a friendly home where you can explore the larger questions of life with those who bring many perspectives? Are you looking for a faith community that looks outward to the larger community to make a difference in the world? Are you looking for a place that you can share your gifts as well as your concerns and your interests? Would you like to find a place that has a Spiritual Growth Center so we can grow together in spirit and health? Would you like to be able to laugh and cry together, sing together and share our lives? Rev. Maddie would love to welcome you to our small but mighty faith home.

Universalist Unitarian Church Of Santa Paula

About Unitarian Universalism

We are people of all ages, people of many backgrounds, and people of many beliefs. We are brave, curious and compassionate thinkers and doers. We create spirituality and community beyond boundaries, working for more justice and more love in our own lives and in the world.
Church of the Larger Fellowship
Unitarian Universalist Association
LGBTQ Welcoming Congregation
Pacific Western Region of the UUA
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

Our Minister

Rev. Maddie Sifantus

(On Sabbatical through July 2021) Reverend Maddie Sifantus arrived in 2015 to begin her full-time settled ministry at the Universalist Unitarian Church of Santa Paula, a historically Universalist congregation founded in 1889. She comes to California from Massachusetts and has a long history in Unitarian Universalism, both parish and community ministry, as well as a musical career. She loves music, art, movies, reading mysteries (and everything else), walking and living near her grandchildren in Southern California