Individually and collectively we share responsibility and accountability for our actions. We honor each other’s worth by engaging in thoughtful and respectful dialogue that seeks to promote understanding. In the spirit of this Covenant, we promise our mutual trust and support to one another as we strive to bring our best selves forward.

We the members, staff and ministers of the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, covenant to affirm our commitment to each other and our congregation as we promise to:

• Warmly welcome all
• Foster a safe and nurturing environment for all our members
• Embrace our diversity and the opportunity to share our different perspectives
• Honor and support one another in our life journeys in times of joy, need, and struggle
• Be quick to listen, slow to judge, and willing to negotiate
• Accept responsibility for our individual acts
• Honor confidences
• Address our disagreements directly and openly
• See conflict through to authentic resolution
• Strive to keep our promises, but when we fall short, we forgive ourselves and others, and begin again in love