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.

Parish Hall 1st Floor

Events at this venue

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  • Serenity in the Sanctuary

    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Join us for short programs of poetry, guided meditation, silent meditation, and blessings. Take refuge in reflection, centering practices, and silence. Let’s remember what is important, true, and lasting and be in community. Join us for short programs of poetry, guided meditation, silent meditation, and blessings. Take refuge in reflection, centering practices, and silence. Let’s remember what is important, true, and lasting and be in community. Peace Within, Peace Without ;  When: Thursday, December 19 - Tuesday, December 24 (excluding 12/22) 12pm in the Sanctuary. Saturday, December 21 program will meet in the Parish Hall 1st Floor. THURSDAY 12/19: Nick Place Music Service: Be Where You Are “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.” Can we take this teaching of Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and free ourselves of all that takes us away from our own spiritual centers? Letting go of expectations imposed by others or by ourselves, can we settle into the peace and harmony that are always available in our own hearts? FRIDAY 12/20: Rev. Rebecca Bryan Blue Christmas Service The holidays can be difficult times for many of us, even as they are joyful. Join Rev. Rebecca in a simple and warm service for us to come together to find peace in challenging times. This gentle time will offer comfort to your heart and peace for your nostalgic or busy mind. SATURDAY 12/21 Rev. Stan Barrett What Are We Waiting for? - this service meets in the Parish Hall 1st Floor What are we waiting for? And from where do we expect it to come? We’ll mediate on three “directions” toward the divine as we imagine and experience it, toward ourselves/our own inwardness, and toward a human face in which we somehow see eternity. “O Come, O Come.” No offering

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  • Private Rental

    Recurring
    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    TITO Afterschool Program from 3:30-5:30pm, Parish Hall 1st floor. Oct. 24 Nov.7, 14 & 21 Dec. 5, 12 & 19

  • Private Rental

    Recurring
    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    TITO Afterschool Program from 3:30-5:30pm, Parish Hall 1st floor. Oct. 24 Nov.7, 14 & 21 Dec. 5, 12 & 19

  • 300th Anniversary Book Launch

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    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Sunday, December 8, 11:30am, Parish Hall 1st Floor. Come celebrate the launch of the official 300th Anniversary commemorative book. Join us after church for coffee and a chance to purchase the book.

  • Private Rental

    Recurring
    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    TITO Afterschool Program from 3:30-5:30pm, Parish Hall 1st floor. Oct. 24 Nov.7, 14 & 21 Dec. 5, 12 & 19

  • Program Council Meeting

    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Monday, December 2, Parish Hall 1st Floor, 6-7:30pm.

  • The Breath of Life: An Introduction to Breath and Awareness Practices for Health and Wellbeing – A Four-Week Series with Matthew Daniell

    Recurring
    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Please join NSIMC guiding teacher Matthew Daniell for a four-week Monday night series in November, held in partnership with the First Religious Society, Unitarian Universalist, in Newburyport When: Monday evenings, 7-8:30 pm, Nov. 4, 11, 18, & 25 Where: First Religious Society, Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall Cost: $85 for the series ($80 cash or check) Description: To breathe is to live. This is an anatomical fact, but it can also be a powerful tool to support our inner life, and find a quiet place of rest, renewal, and resilience, inside. In this four-part series, we will draw mainly from the ancient and modern meditative wisdom traditions to explore how mindful breathing can be a simple gateway to living a fuller, more emotionally skillful and more spiritually rich life, in the here and now. There will be meditation periods (15-25 minutes) with instruction and silence, along with reflections and time for discussion in each session, as well as exercises to bring into daily life. This series is appropriate for beginners as well as those with more meditation experience. People of all traditions are welcome, breath is common to all that lives. Matthew Daniell is the guiding teacher of NSIMC. He has been practicing Buddhist meditation since the 1980s, including over a decade in Asia, where he practiced Zen intensively in Japan, Tibetan Buddhism in India, and Insight meditation in Burma, India, and Thailand. Read more about Matthew on his teacher page. The fee for this program is $85 ($80 cash or check). To register and pay online, just click below; to pay by cash or check, email northshoreimc@gmail.com.

  • Play Rehearsal

    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Sundays from 3-5pm November 3, 10, 17, 24

  • Rummage Sale (Friday)

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    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Parish Hall 1st Floor, Friday, November 22, 3-7pm.

  • The Breath of Life: An Introduction to Breath and Awareness Practices for Health and Wellbeing – A Four-Week Series with Matthew Daniell

    Recurring
    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Please join NSIMC guiding teacher Matthew Daniell for a four-week Monday night series in November, held in partnership with the First Religious Society, Unitarian Universalist, in Newburyport When: Monday evenings, 7-8:30 pm, Nov. 4, 11, 18, & 25 Where: First Religious Society, Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall Cost: $85 for the series ($80 cash or check) Description: To breathe is to live. This is an anatomical fact, but it can also be a powerful tool to support our inner life, and find a quiet place of rest, renewal, and resilience, inside. In this four-part series, we will draw mainly from the ancient and modern meditative wisdom traditions to explore how mindful breathing can be a simple gateway to living a fuller, more emotionally skillful and more spiritually rich life, in the here and now. There will be meditation periods (15-25 minutes) with instruction and silence, along with reflections and time for discussion in each session, as well as exercises to bring into daily life. This series is appropriate for beginners as well as those with more meditation experience. People of all traditions are welcome, breath is common to all that lives. Matthew Daniell is the guiding teacher of NSIMC. He has been practicing Buddhist meditation since the 1980s, including over a decade in Asia, where he practiced Zen intensively in Japan, Tibetan Buddhism in India, and Insight meditation in Burma, India, and Thailand. Read more about Matthew on his teacher page. The fee for this program is $85 ($80 cash or check). To register and pay online, just click below; to pay by cash or check, email northshoreimc@gmail.com.

  • Play Rehearsal

    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Sundays from 3-5pm November 3, 10, 17, 24

  • Justice Sunday and Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil

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    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Soup Sunday will start following worship. Then, we will meet in front of the church at 12:45pm to walk together to the vigil in Market Square Please join the Welcoming Committee for a Justice Sunday program about Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual opportunity to remember the trans people who have been killed in anti-trans violence during the year. Following the Justice Sunday program, people are invited to join us on a silent march from the church to Market Square for a Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil where the names of these individuals will be read and where we will join together in song and prayer. All ages welcome.