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...
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...
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....
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 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...
Hop Brook Protection Association is looking for new leadership, and in the unfortunate event that they are unable to find volunteers, they have voted to dissolve the organization after 32 years of protecting Hop Brook. Read more here. HBPA Invitation
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...
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- 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...
Ms. Kimberly French will preach her sermon "A Moral Divide." She writes "We live in divided times. Our Principles ask us to accept others and their beliefs. But our moral selves sometimes demand that we take strong stands. How can we be true to both of these...