Memorial Service
Saturday, August 15, Sanctuary, 12pm.
FRSUU Events Calendar
This calendar lists FRSUU activities inside our buildings and in the community. It also shows when FRSUU spaces are being reserved by outside groups. Click on an event to see its location and more information.
If you need to reserve space for your meeting or event, please fill out [this form].
For questions regarding church ministry related events and meetings, please contact the Church Administrator at diane.carroll@frsuu.org.
For external inquiries including private events and rentals please contact nick.place@frsuu.org.
Saturday, August 15, Sanctuary, 12pm.
Sunday, July 26, Sanctuary and YouTube, 10am What Kind of Ancestors Will We Choose to Be? – led by Ray Wilson The Rev. Dr. Peter S. Raible wrote, “We build on foundations we did not lay; we warm ourselves by fires we did not light; we sit in the shade of trees we did not plant; we drink from wells we did not dig.” All those things—and a thousand more, both good and evil—are our inheritance from our ancestors. We stand on their shoulders. Now: “What kind of ancestors will we choose to be?”
Sunday, July 19, Sanctuary and YouTube, 10am Visions of Hell – led by Doug Latham Concepts of the afterlife have evolved over millennia. Why does an afterlife occupy such a prominent place in the human search for meaning? How does the question or certainty of an afterlife resonate with liberal theology? What meaning does it hold in our lives?
Sunday, July 12, Sanctuary and YouTube, 10am Growing into Harmony with the Divine: May Beauty, Truth, and Good Be Sung - led by David Turner Drawing from Steve McIntosh’s Evolution’s Purpose, the story of cosmic, biological, and cultural evolution, the service will explore how familiar phrases from our FRS Affirmation of Faith and Doxology can speak to our lives today. The service will include harmonies from choir members and video reflections and songs from Alban and Erinda in Albania, inviting us to find meaning, strength, and hope in a turbulent world.
Sunday, July 5, Brown Square (across from City Hall), 10am. Please join us for the annual community reading of Frederick Douglass’s speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Meet in Brown Square across from City Hall (rain location, FRSUU) at 10am. No sign-up required. Light refreshments will follow. Lawn chairs are encouraged as seating is limited. Co-hosted by the Friends of William Lloyd Garrison, the YWCA of the Greater Northshore, Museum of Old Newbury, and Congregation Ahavas Achim, with support from Mass Humanities and Mass Cultural Council. No livestream. More information at www.WLGarrison.com. Rain location: FRSUU Sanctuary and Lower Meetinghouse (reserved 9am-1pm)
Sunday, June 28, Sanctuary and YouTube, 10am. Ohketeau Cultural Community - led by Sue Creed Please join us as Larry Spotted Crow Mann, Director and Founder of the Ohketeau Cultural Community, shares ancestral music, stories, and teachings that will increase our cross cultural knowledge of their community in our area past and present. The Ohketeau Cultural Community serves Tribal members across New England and is invested in the overall health and wellbeing of all indigenous Peoples, teaching caretaking of the land by being in Right relationship and reciprocity with the land that sustains us all.
Friday, June 19, Sanctuary and LMH Main Room, 5-8:30pm
Sunday, June 14, Sanctuary, 4-5pm
Sunday, June 14, Sanctuary, 10:30-11:30am with livestream on YouTube. Our annual Pride worship service will be led by Rev. Laurel, with music by Nick Place.
Sunday, June 7, Sanctuary and Zoom, 10:30am. Join us for a shorter worship service followed by our annual meeting.
Sunday, May 31, Sanctuary with livestream on YouTube, 10:30-11:30am. With Love and Gratitude: Our Final Worship Service with Rev. Rebecca. Join in a community laying-on of hands and closing worship service with Rev. Rebecca and our beloved community.
Saturday, May 30, Sanctuary, 5:15-6:30pm