Cedar Lane has weekly Sunday services and offers religious education classes for young people during the school year.

A. Powell Davies, All Souls founded five new churches in the surrounding community, including Cedar Lane, which held its first service in September, 1951.

Roberta Nelson, famously defended the Unitarian-Universalists' proactive stance on church-based sex-education in a TV interview with Bryant Gumbel.

[citation needed] Cedar Lane has an active social justice ministry, focusing on immigrants and refugees, racism,[4] the environment, and gender issues.

[5] The church achieved some notoriety for sheltering a Salvadoran immigrant facing deportation eighteen months after the congregation voted to become a sanctuary ministry.