History
The Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church was started in 1957 as the Sno-King Unitarian Fellowship (Sno-King is a reference to Snohomish and King Counties). Until 1959, the group met alternate Sunday evenings, but in 1959 they rented Edmonds Masonic Temple to allow space for Sunday school. 1962–1966 the Sno-King Unitarian Fellowship started renting Edmonds High School.
In 1966, Deciding it was time for a real minister and church building, the Fellowship purchased the land and building that is still in use today. The Reverend Robert Fulghum agreed to stay for a year to "help the church get its feet on the ground", he finally left in the spring of 1985. Stuart and Maybelle Chapman, the founding "father and mother" of the church, were ordained as lay ministers in 1969. All three ministers worked together until Stuart died in 1978, and then as a twosome until Fulghum's departure in 1985. Maybelle Chapman died in 2000.
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