Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship

Worship at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship

Worship is essential to our community here at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship.

We understand “worship” to center on its oldest meaning: a time that reminds us of what is most important and worthwhile in our lives.

Each Sunday morning we come together to be reconnected to life's ultimate concerns.

Our services are respectful of the Judeo-Christian heritage, but you will likely experience a variety of religious and ethical traditions as part of worship. We often have readings and music from a wide range of sources, including Eastern Spirituality, Earth Centered Traditions, Religious Humanism and spirituality found in great works of poetry and prose. Music has long been a powerful aspect of worship and community at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship. Our musical offerings are eclectic -- drawing on sources old and new.

Each week the sermon seeks to inspire the heart and mind and to explore what gives our lives meaning and substance. In this denomination it is okay to question and challenge assumptions about truth and faith.

We have two Sunday morning worship services through most of the year. One at 9:15 am and one at 11:15 am. They are very similar in focus and in the theme of the sermon. The dress for services is usually casual, however you are always welcome to dress as feels right for you. We have a Grand Hour with coffee and conversation between services. After Easter Sunday and through Labor Day weekend we have one service at 10:30 am, with a Grand Hour of coffee and conversation directly after the service.

Every service we recite our covenant, which helps us recall our purpose and spirit as we are together:

Love is the spirit of this fellowship,
And service gives it life.
Celebrating our diversity,
And joined by a quest for truth,
We work for peace and honor all creation
This is our covenant.

The Reverend Douglas Wadkins, Minister

The Rev. Dr. Douglas Wadkins is joyously in his twelfth year as minister of the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship. While ministry was his first vocational choice, he had many jobs before finishing his journey to ministry. He worked as a high school music teacher, as a therapist and musical theater guy. He also worked in campus ministry, as a hospice chaplain and with congregations in North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Oregon and Wisconsin before beginning his ministry in Bellingham. Doug loves traveling, reading, music (of course) and film in his often-minimal free time.