BRUU is an active congregation throughout the year. We meet every Sunday morning for worship services, with a nursery for baby care during the service, 52 weeks a year. We celebrate holidays of many traditions with special services. Attendance at Sunday Service varies due to many factors. Following Sunday Services, a Fellowship Hour downstairs in a Fellowship Hall provides coffee, snacks, and time for discussion, socializing, and meetings of the different groups organized at BRUU. Zoom participants are invited to breakout rooms for Fellowship.

Organized religious education classes for our children/youth are held on Sunday mornings from September-June. We sponsor nature hikes, volleyball games, and family picnics in the Spring, Summer, and Fall. The Auction each November offers members a chance to sell dinners, game nights, and a variety of services that continue throughout the year, enabling people to meet others in small groups while having fun. In the Winter we are still busy, though many activities move indoors.

Our Social Justice programs, including food distribution to the poor located in the Manassas area, continue year-round. Parties and social events never stop – we are an unusually energized congregation with some sort of programming every week. It is easy to find someone at BRUU with a common interest; we have roughly 200 members, including many in their 20’s and their 80’s. Often, there are two or more events scheduled, offering some choices regarding how to engage with others within our community.

Sunday Morning Services

We have one Sunday Service, starting at 10:00am. Announcements start five minutes before services.
Sunday Services are offered in-person at the church and virtually on zoom (see weekly newsletter for link).

A typical Sunday’s order of service might look like this:

• Announcements
• Call to Worship
• Musical Prelude
• Welcome
• Opening Words and Chalice Lighting
• Hymn
• Spoken Meditation
• Reading
• Musical Anthem
• Offertory
• Sermon
• Closing Hymn
• Benediction

At the end of service, we stop the recording and share joys and sorrows, a time for members and friends to speak about major events in their lives.

After each Sunday Service, we gather for fellowship over coffee and snacks in the Fellowship Hall below the Sanctuary, or in breakout rooms on zoom.

Some services do not follow this model, particularly our summertime lay-led services and the two annual choir services in December and June. The BRUU music ministry presents two services each year that are devoted to music as worship. In June the adult choir presents a Spring music service. In December, there is a holiday music service with the adult, youth, and children’s choirs.

Because of the wide variety of services, we encourage you to come to two or three services to get a true sense of BRUU. In particular, we invite you to visit when the adult choir is singing (usually the second and third Sundays).

Social Justice Projects

Social Justice projects include the Food Pantry on the first and third Sundays of each month, from 9:30am-2:00pm. The USDA Food distribution is on the 2nd Friday of every month, from noon-2:00pm. A member of our Green Team, active naturalists and conservationists, lead a hike every second Sunday. Come explore our local area; discover places and get to know like-minded people!