Special thanks to all who joined the Strategic Planning Team (SPT) for one or both of their sessions to review the recommended goals and strategies to guide First Parish of Sudbury's (FPS) next five years. The presentation is here for your reference. If you have...
FPS News
Possibly the Last Auction Article?
Auction Wrap Up Thank you to everyone who attended the 2019 Spring Auction. And…..a special thanks to those who bid enthusiastically, those who donated items and everyone who volunteered. We met our fundraising goal of $16K………and had a fun evening! There are two...
Family Promise Walk a Success!
Family Promise Metrowest, Walk to End Homelessness, April 6, 2019 First Parish of Sudbury’s team ( Michele Barkhauer, Tom Yelton, Valerie Tratnyek, Diahanne Lucas, Kharis Dowridge and Leslie Lowe) raised $2075 from family, friends and First Parish congregants for the...
Religious Exploration April 14th & Easter!
Easter Sunday- This year's Easter Sunday will include bag decorating for the children of First Parish followed by our annual Easter Egg Hunt outside (weather permitting) located behind the church on the playground and in and around the Memorial Garden. The children...
Annual Congregational Meeting Sunday, June 9 at 11:30am
June 9, 2019 On Sunday, June 9 at 11:30am, we will begin our Annual Congregational Meeting in the sanctuary. There will be a brief social hour in the Parish Hall to fortify us beforehand, children will get connected with the childcare providers, and then up to the...
Easter Sunday
Rev. Katie Lee Crane. What better way to celebrate Easter than to celebrate life! Our worship service will begin with the dedication of Audrey Orcheski, daughter of Ben Orcheski and Mary McLaughlin and granddaughter of longtime FPS member, Leslie Bryant. Noting the...
Sunday Service Mr. Jan Hardenbergh
Mr. Jan Hardenbergh speaking on "How First Parish Became Unitarian". In 1959, our minister Carl Scovel wrote a very well researched sermon about how and why First Parish became Unitarian, including the story of locking our minister out of the service in 1837. This...
It Might Have Been Otherwise: Spiritual Gratitude (newsletter)
Rev. Edwin Lynn Rev. Lynn will reflect in his sermon on a personal near death experience, after which he asks "what did I learn?" Edwin Lynn is the Minister Emeritus of the Northshore Unitarian Universalist Church in Danvers MA , where he served for 33 years. Rev....
Board of Trustee Notes from March 6 meeting
The Board of Trustees met on March 6. Chad Trexler reported that the Strategic Planning group has been meeting weekly. Once the plan is completed, everyone will be involved in its implementation. Valerie Tratnyek reported on the Stewardship Sunday and the associated...
The Auction is Upon Us…Saturday at 6pm
The 2019 auction – Breakfast at Tiffany’s - will be here in three days and we have some great items awaiting your bids! Restaurant gift certificates, pool parties, dinners, a proper English tea, yummy food delivered to your door, museum passes, all kinds of...