Reply #9: I did decide to go....some brief remarks.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

First off, they where very freindly. They had a greeter that gave me a collection of brochures, etc, on the faith & congregation. And I signed a guest register.

The building is brand new (which is how I found out about it..wanted to see this new chuch, which had a nice design to it)...and it was apparetnly designed to avoid a wetland. The sanctuary was very nice..very lite and airy, no stained glass...I noticed that unlike traditional chuches the lectern was actually off to the side, There was original art on the walls..one of the members told me thay have rotating art & photography exhibits..sometimes by members, sometimes not.

The service was nice. They had a pretty good choir, a pianist (a grand piano, not an organ), and a harpist. They did this ritual about lighting a chalice, did some announcements, introduced visitors (Including me), did a greeting (like the Catholics & Lutherans do..turn and greet your neigbhor) and had like a littel childrens service, and then we "sang the children out"..the kid marched out of the sanctuary to I guess their Sunday School class.

The theme was "Earth Day" ..and there was a reading by Wendell Berry (!.)(...thats a real selling point right there as Im a Berry fan), and then a pretty good sermon by the minister.

This is actually a pretty nice group, it seems. I am going ot go a few more times. I see from their bulletin that they do have something called "Interweave", which is a gay & lesbian group, so i will visit there too.

I can tell there is an activist bent here as one of the announcements was that 50 of the congregation was going to DC for that upcoming pro-choice march , and they do food collection for the needy and adopt poor famliys and such.

Sounds like a real decent group of folks. The age mix was good..young and old and middle age.