Our History
In 1996, a group of like-thinking residents of St. Simons Island
incorporated the Fellowship that has become Unitarian Universalists of
Coastal Georgia.
The Fellowship met in various members homes at
first. Later, they met in various halls or restaurants. The old Post
Office building on St. Simons was home for several years. Shortly
before that building was demolished, the group, hoping to reach a larger
audience, voted to move to Brunswick. From 2004-2008, it met at the Ritz Theatre in downtown Brunswick. With membership growing, the
Fellowship decided it was time to find a place of its own. In 2006, it
purchased property on H and Norwich Streets near the old Court House in
Brunswick. After hiring an architect and debating plans for this new
building, another opportunity arose, and the congregation reacted
rapidly. An existing building, a five-year-old former lawyer's office,
was purchased, and soon after a contractor was hired and modifications
were begun to make it more churchlike. The congregation was to move
into this building in November, 2008.
For the first several years,
the Fellowship met without a minister. Guest speakers and members of
the congregation provided the Sunday services. In 2001, the Rev.
William Phillips, a Methodist minister and retired psychotherapist, was
hired on a part-time basis. He continues to lead the Fellowship.
