Bruce & Maries Backyard Big Bash
Local musicians Richard Terrill and Lawrence McDonough leading Sunday Service.
Winter Solstice Celebration Bonfire
Bridge Brigade in New Brighton
Monthly Coffee House
Trunk or Treat
Dancing at our summer sing-a-long Sunday service.
Columbia Heights Pride Festival
Polly Philblad, member of Delphi, the Merging Waters jazz group.
Interfaith Iftar Dinner hosted by Turkish American Society of Minnesota (TASMN)
People's March and Rally
Volunteering at SACA Food Shelf & Thrift Store
Unitarian Universalism Shared Vales
graphic by Tanya Webster
Who We Are
Drawing on shared values of Mindful Interdependence, Authentic Curiosity and Courageous Love, we commit ourselves to living out our mission and transforming ourselves and the world, using our MW resources of time, talent and treasure to create and enliven the community we envision.
Our Shared Covenant
In Unitarian Universalism our shared covenant is expressed through a set of inseparable and deeply interdependent shared values.
A chalice with the word Love over the flame, with six outstretched swirls that create a circular space within them. Together, they form a six-petal flower shape and alternate in color between goldenrod and red. Each contains one of the six UU shared values, printed in a modern font. Clockwise they are: Interdependence, Equity, Transformation, Pluralism, Generosity, and Justice.
Merging Waters Priority Action & Justice Issues
“...transgender people should have the same rights that any other person has”
Transgender Rights
“Ever since I was a schoolgirl, I’ve had a strong sense of fairness. I didn’t like being told that girls or women couldn’t do certain things, or that men were somehow superior. Based on my dislike of being treated unfairly, I came to believe that nobody should be judged by characteristics they can’t control, nor should an entire group of people be subject to discrimination or mistreatment. Gender is biological, not a choice, and so I believe that transgender people should have the same rights that any other person has.” - Kathy Burek, Action and Justice Team Member
Many Americans do not understand what it means to be transgender. Hateful rhetoric and deliberate misinformation have generated a great deal of fear and hostility toward transgender people. Discriminatory legislation has been enacted in many states, and our federal government is erasing transgender people from the public record. Transgender people are being denied gender-affirming care.
Our Unitarian Universalist Association, of which Merging Waters UU Congregation is a member, is organized on the values of Justice, Equity, Transformation, Pluralism, Interdependence, and Generosity, with Love at the Center. Supporting the basic rights of transgender people is one of the ways we at Merging Waters live our values.
UUA Board of Trustees Statement on Religious Practice of Faithful Dissent, Noncompliance, and Civil Disobedience
On September 20, 2026, the Board of Trustees of our Unitarian Universalist Association released a statement on Faithful Dissent, Noncompliance, an Civil Disobedience. This statement grounds resistance to authoritarianism in our UU history and Values.
Visit Us
Sunday Services, 1:00pm
United Church of Christ
New Brighton
1000 Long Lake Rd
New Brighton, MN 55112