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...
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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...
Strategic Planning Team’s draft 5-year strategic plan–come give feedback
On April 14th (12-2), the Strategic Planning Team invites you to join in reviewing and providing feedback on the recommended goals and strategies to be addressed by First Parish's 5-year Strategic Plan. We'd also like to enlist your active support and energy in...
Spirituality Book Group Saturday April 20, 10am – Prodigal Summer
All who are interested are welcome to come on Saturday, April 20 at 10am when the Spirituality Book Group is meeting to discuss Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives...
Religious Exploration April
Religious Exploration- What does it mean to be whole? Each week those that welcome us to First Parish invite us to bring our "whole selves" to our meetinghouse but how many of us understand what it means to be unified with the self, complete, or whole? This month the...
Insights: The Ambulance and the Swan by Rev. Meg Barnhouse
The Stretcher and the Swan by Rev. Meg Barnhouse I drove by an accident the other day. Emergency services people were putting a woman on a stretcher. They were tender, attentive, capable. She was being taken care of. Traffic was directed competently around the wreck....
Register Now for the May 3-5 Women’s Alliance Weekend Retreat
All who identify as women associated with First Parish are invited and encouraged to come to our annual weekend retreat, being held for the 4th year at Wisdom House near Litchfield CT. Registrations are due back to Carolyn L. by April 15 at the latest. Forms are...
Brit Lit Book Group: Great Expectations on May 14
Join the enthusiastic readers in the Brit Lit Book Group for a discussion of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. It will be held in the Commons at First Parish of Sudbury at 7:00pm on Tuesday, May 14. In this classic read, a poor boy named Pip is invited into the...