Unitarians have new home

2008-08-15 / Faith

After mostly renting spaces for Sunday services for 46 years, the Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will meet and host programs in a newly built center at 3327 Old Conejo Road in Newbury Park.

The $4.4 million home in the new Bollinger Executive Office Park consists of two buildings. An open sanctuary has a vaulted ceiling and is rimmed with floor-to-ceiling windows on three sides. A separate, twostory building has a social hall with kitchen, five classrooms for religious education, a board room, office space, a child care room and a multipurpose room.

The Rev. Dr. Betty Stapleford, minister of the fellowship, said she is "thrilled and inspired by the possibilities that having buildings of our own now offer."

Sunday services are held at 9:15 and 11 a.m.

The Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship serves a large geographical area. Members come from Simi Valley, Moorpark, Camarillo, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, and parts of the San Fernando Valley.

Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religious movement, with members engaged in a continuing search for truth, bound by no dogmas or creeds, and taking inspiration from a variety of religious traditions, science and reason.

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