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.

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  • Justice Sunday – Banned Books

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    LMH Main Room 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Justice 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

  • Justice Sunday and Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil

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    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Soup 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.

  • Justice Sunday – Refugee Immigration Ministry

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    LMH Main Room 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Sunday, 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.

  • Justice Sunday – Anti-Racism Initiative

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    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Sunday, January 19, Parish Hall 1st Floor, noon-1pm. Please join the Anti-Racism Initiative team for Justice Sunday after the MLK service! We look forward to sharing soup, salad and a recorded interview with Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste, in anticipation of our upcoming Congregational Read. The interview will be followed by a brief Q&A facilitated by members of the Anti-Racism Initiative team.

  • Meeting the Moment with Rev. Laurel & Marianne Vesey

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    LMH Room A 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Meets for three consecutive Thursdays, March 13, 20, and 27, LMH Room A, 1-2:30pm. Join Marianne Vesey, co-chair of Newburyport's Human Rights Coalition and Rev. Laurel Gray for this three-part series about different ways to take action against authoritarianism, discern the work that is best for us to do, and make sure we have the tools to sustain our efforts.

  • Meeting the Moment with Rev. Laurel & Marianne Vesey

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    LMH Room A 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Meets for three consecutive Thursdays, March 13, 20, and 27, LMH Room A, 1-2:30pm. Join Marianne Vesey, co-chair of Newburyport's Human Rights Coalition and Rev. Laurel Gray for this three-part series about different ways to take action against authoritarianism, discern the work that is best for us to do, and make sure we have the tools to sustain our efforts.

  • Meeting the Moment with Rev. Laurel & Marianne Vesey

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    LMH Room A 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Meets for three consecutive Thursdays, March 13, 20, and 27, LMH Room A, 1-2:30pm. Join Marianne Vesey, co-chair of Newburyport's Human Rights Coalition and Rev. Laurel Gray for this three-part series about different ways to take action against authoritarianism, discern the work that is best for us to do, and make sure we have the tools to sustain our efforts.

  • Justice Sunday – Louis D. Brown Peace Institute

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    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Parish Hall, 12-1pm. Please join us as we welcome representatives from the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute. Our guests will share information on the upcoming 29th Mother's Day Walk for Peace to be held on Sunday, May 11. This gathering will also provide us with an opportunity to contribute essential personal hygiene items for men in the Peace Institute's Community Reentry Program. Some items that are often in short supply are men's body wash and body lotion. Please come to learn more, to show your support for the Mother's Day Walk for Peace, as well as to enjoy fellowship, soup, and salad.

  • Transgender Day of Visibility Flag Raising

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    Newburyport City Hall 60 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Monday, March 31, Newburyport City Hall, 10am. You are invited to join members of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies at the second annual Transgender Day of Visibility flag raising at the Newburyport City Hall on Monday, March 31 at 10 am. Founded in 2009, Transgender Day of Visibility is an annual event observed internationally that aims to celebrate transgender people and their contributions while raising awareness about the discrimination and challenges that transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people face. For those who do not identify as trans or nonbinary, this is an opportunity to show support loudly and proudly for a community that is confronting hate, mis- and disinformation, and unprecedented legislative and executive efforts to disempower, invalidate, and marginalize. Rev. Rebecca will offer a blessing at the flag raising.  

  • Justice Sunday-Potluck

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    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Sunday, April 27, Parish Hall 1st Floor, 11:45am-12:45pm. Following worship, join the Green Team for a sandwich and cold sides luncheon.