Accotink Unitarian Universalist Church

Here follows an excerpt from the church's website:

Accotink Unitarian Universalist Church (AUUC) is an open and nurturing community of faith offering a wide variety of services and programs. AUUC is a welcoming religious community devoted to personal spiritual growth and to social justice in our surrounding community and beyond. This church is a place where people on a variety of spiritual paths come together to learn and grow.

We have Sunday worship services and we offer pastoral care, adult and youth education, choir, book groups, social justice activities, social gatherings, and other programs.

AUUC is a welcoming and inclusive spiritual home where we inspire each other to live our values. Together we Care in Community, Grow in Spirit, and Act for Justice.

AUUC was founded in 1980 by members of area Unitarian Universalist (UU) churches eager for a presence in the Burke/Springfield area of Fairfax County. The dream of a church home was realized with the dedication of the building at 10125 Lakehaven Court in February 1995.

In Unitarian Universalism, you can bring your whole self: your full identity, your questioning mind, your expansive heart. 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.

Unitarian Universalism draws from our heritages of freedom, reason, hope, and courage, building on the foundation of love. We covenant, congregation-to-congregation and through our Association, to support and assist one another in our ministries.

Love is the power that holds us together and is at the center of our shared values.

Origins of Unitarian Universalism:
Our faith gets its name from the merger in 1961 of two religious groups: The Unitarians and the Universalists. Today, across North America there are more than 1,000 UU congregations serving 250,000 people. You may find folks of many different religious backgrounds (Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and Pagans) You may find folks with different beliefs in God – from theists to agnostics, to atheists. You will find we embrace science and reason and see them as essential to a responsible spiritual life.