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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 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.
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Reading Fredrick Douglass Together
Brown Square Brown Square, Newburyport, MA, United StatesThe Museum of Old Newbury and First Religious Society Unitarian Universalist will host an in-person community reading of Frederick Douglass's impassioned 1852 speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Lend your voice to this powerful participatory event. We will gather near the Garrison statue in Brown Square, Newburyport. Seating is limited - please bring a chair or blanket to the reading Please visit the eventbrite page for more information:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-frederick-douglass-together-on-the-4th-of-july-newburyport-tickets-920327543457?aff=erelexpmlt
Anti-Racism Initiative Team Retreat
LMH Room A 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United States
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Green Team First Fall Meeting & Potluck
LMH Main Room 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United States
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Justice Sunday – Banned Books
LMH Main Room 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United StatesJustice Sunday - Banned Books, 11:30am-1pm, Lower Meetinghouse Please join us for our 1st Justice Sunday! Each month throughout most of the church year, we will host a program focused on the justice work that takes place within and beyond our congregation. Programs take place after Sunday worship and start with a community soup & salad lunch, followed by a justice program. Banned Books Week is an annual event that highlights the value of free and open access to information and that brings communities together in shared support of the freedom to seek and express ideas. Reverend Laurel and Mara Flynn, Director of Youth and Children's Ministry will be leading a program with support from August Mead and Rebecca Lobb that will include information from the American Library Association about censorship, book readings and calls to action. The FRS Youth Group will be hosting this event! Please click below if you are able to provide a soup! Justice Sunday Soup Sign Up
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Justice Sunday – Addictions Ministry Team
LMH Main Room 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United StatesOctober 20, 2024, Lower Meetinghouse Main Room. Soup and salad at 11:30, presentation at noon.
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Justice Sunday and Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil
Parish Hall 1st FloorSoup 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.
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Justice Sunday – Refugee Immigration Ministry
LMH Main Room 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United StatesSunday, December 1, Parish Hall, Soup & Salad at 11:30 am; presentation at noon. When immigrants to the United States apply for asylum, they are not allowed to work for the following six months. How can they survive with no income? For 38 years, RIM, the Refugee Immigration Ministry, has engaged congregations in an interfaith support system for these people. FRSUU was once an integral part of RIM. On December 1, the founder and leader of RIM, the Rev. Dr. Ruth Bersin, will be at FRS to reintroduce our congregation to the meaningful work that they do.