Service Descriptions

Join us for our first summer lay-led service, Sabbath for the Agnostic, with member Leslie Bryant, as she shares the practice of how to bring rest back into your life. All are welcome.We will begin with a light breakfast at 9:30 am.

The Singer and the Song: Celebration, Flowers, and Farewells Service: 10 amPotluck: 11:15 am, Parish Hall Bring a flower for the annual Flower Communion as we celebrate diversity: its beauty and its abiding truths. We say fare-thee-well to Rev. Kathleen and tap into...

This is Rev. Hepler’s next-to-the-last worship service before her ministry here ends.  What might be needed from everyone going forward in the life of First Parish? We will honor the ways that many of you have served the presence of liberal religion in Sudbury this...

All are welcome to join us for The Challenge & Promise of Change with guest speaker Lisa Fagerstrom. Join us as we reflect on "The Challenge and Promise of Change." Each one of us experiences change as a part of life—it is universal and inevitable. One of my...

All are welcome to join us for Progressive Religion in a Regressive Era with Rev. Kathleen Hepler. Unitarian Universalism is a “progressive religion.” It turns out that the practice of progressive religion is that which makes the practice of democracy viable…and an...

Join us for The Religion of Democracy, delivered by Board member Deb Mackey. It is based around a talk by the same name given by Fish Stark, Exec. Director of the American Humanist Association. In-person and online.

All are welcome to join us for Healing with Rev. Kathleen Hepler. What is healing? How can we participate in the healing of self and others? What are the barriers to the creation of a spaciousness within us and our communities that heals everyone? In-person and...

All are welcome to join for Who's Calling, Please, a Sharing Circle Service, in the Parish Hall. Were you born knowing what you were meant to do? Did you ever have a sudden insight about doing something that made you really excited? Have you ever felt "called" to take...

All are welcome to join for Here a Truth, There a Truth, Everywhere a Truth, Truth with Rev. Kathleen Hepler. Deluged with information, we are. What is the truth of any matter of consequence? How do we travel from clever soundbites, intentional and repeated lies, and...

All are welcome to join us in-person or online for our annual Music Sunday service! Presenting a collection of choral and instrumental music and readings, our music-inspired service will focus on celebrating the many gifts we receive from nature and reflecting on the...