First Religious Society of Newburyport

Afghan Working Group
2025-06-26 12:15 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | LMH Nursery/Conf Room
Meets on the 4th Thursday of the month in LMH Nursery/Conference Room.

Reserved for Piano Practice
2025-06-26 14:00 - 16:00 | FRS Sanctuary, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Thursdays, Sanctuary, 2-4pm, Gay Pearson

Reserved for Meeting
2025-06-27 12:00 - 13:00 | LMH Room A, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Friday, June 27, LMH Room A, 12 noon. Reserved by Michael Sandberg.

Candlelight Committee meeting
2025-06-27 14:00 - 15:30 | LMH Room A, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Friday, June 27 – 2:00-3:30pm – Room A

Reserved for Piano Practice
2025-06-27 16:00 - 17:00 | FRS Sanctuary, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Gay Pearson piano practice, every Friday, 4-5pm, Sanctuary

SMART Recovery (Contact: 678-378-0786)
2025-06-27 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-07-04 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-07-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Hayward Room, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Meets weekly on Friday

Summer Sunday Worship Service
2025-06-29 10:00 - 11:00 | FRS Sanctuary, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Sunday, June 29, Sanctuary, 10am with livestream on YouTube.
The Great Game of Red Rover: Shamanic Insights on Thriving through Today’s Upheaval
Join Kristen Miller, FRSUU member, former FRSUU Youth Music Director, Shamanic Sound Healer, and cellist for a service that aims to leave you strong, grounded, and ready to face the world with hope and joy.

FRSUU Poetry Group (Zoom)
2025-07-01 11:00 - 11:45, 2025-07-08 11:00 - 11:45, 2025-07-15 11:00 - 11:45 | Zoom
All who love poetry, and who enjoy listening to poetry are invited to join the FRSUU Poetry Group. This poetry listening and appreciation group meets on Tuesday mornings for 45 minutes via Zoom. We read the same poem several times, respond to prompts, and share perspectives, wisdom, humor, and collegiality. There is no poetry writing in this group. Please join us and give your soul and psyche the gift of poetry on a Tuesday morning.
This group is facilitated by Rev. Jane Tuohy.

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Short Story Group
2025-07-01 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-07-15 12:00 - 13:00 | LMH Room A, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
The Tuesday Short Story Group meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month, noon, Lower Meeting House (with a Zoom option available).
For more information please visit: https://www.frsuu.org/short-story-group/

Governance Committee Meeting (Hybrid)
2025-07-01 14:00 - 15:30 | LMH Room A, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Tuesday, July 1, LMH Room A, 2-3:30pm. End of year wrap-up meeting.

4th Century Visioning Team (Hybrid)
2025-07-02 09:00 - 10:00 | MA
Meets 1st Wednesdays, LMH Main Room, 9-10am (Hybrid).

Wednesday Guided Meditation (Zoom)
2025-07-02 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-07-09 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-07-16 10:00 - 10:30 | Zoom
Join FRS member and LICSW Woman Cooper on Wednesdays at 10am for a brief period of mid-week relaxation and renewal. Each 30-minute session will include a guided visualization and reflection on questions around where we hold stress and how we can release it. You’ll also learn some relaxation techniques to use on your own. This is a drop-in program; come one time or many.
If you’d like to reach out to Woman, email susanc0805@gmail.com.
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Centering Prayer Group
2025-07-02 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-07-09 10:00 - 11:00 | LMH Room A, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Wednesdays, May 28 – July 9, LMH Room A, 10-11am. Led by Cynthia Tolbert.
For almost 20 years Cynthia Tolbert has practiced Centering Prayer, a silent meditation of consent to the presence and action of the Divine within. In essence, contemplative prayer is simply a wordless, trusting opening of self to the Divine presence, however you name that presence, The Divine, the One Light, God, the Creator. It is not a guided meditation, you do not offer any words in prayer, you just listen and open yourself to the Divine.
Centering Prayer will be on hiatus after July 9 until September.

Grief Support Group (offsite)
2025-07-02 12:30 - 14:00 | Anna Jaques Hospital, 25 Highland Ave, Newburyport, MA, United States
First and third Wednesdays of the month, Morse Conference Room (across from Gift Shop) at Anna Jaques Hospital, 12:30-2pm.
This support group for patient family members and staff is facilitated by Rev. Jane Tuohy, interfaith minister and chaplain; Nancy Kidd, retired hospice trainer and bereavement support counselor; and Linda Harding. For information, email Rev. Jane at jane.tuohy@frsuu.org or Nancy Kidd at nankdd@gmail.com.

Capital Campaign Meeting (Zoom)
2025-07-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, July 2; Fridays, July 18, August 1, August 15, August 29; Zoom

Independence Day
2025-07-04 | MA

Reading Frederick Douglass Together
2025-07-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Brown Square, Brown Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Sunday, July 6, Brown Square (across from City Hall), 10am.
Come join in the annual community reading of Frederick Douglass’s speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” – an FRSUU tradition since 2018! We’ll meet in Brown Square across from City Hall (rain location, FRS). No sign-up required – everyone is invited to read or listen. A discussion and light refreshments will follow. Co-hosted by the Friends of William Lloyd Garrison and Museum of Old Newbury, with support from Mass Humanities.
Rain location: FRSUU, 26 Pleasant St – Sanctuary and Lower Meetinghouse (reserved 9am-1pm)

Support Group for Mild Cognitive Impairment
2025-07-07 11:00 - 12:30 | LMH Room A, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
First Mondays, LMH Room A, 11-12:30pm. Led by Nancy Kidd.

Retired Old Men Eating Out (ROMEO)
2025-07-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Barking Dog Grill, 21 Friend St, Amesbury, MA, 01913, United States
Wednesday, July 9, Barking Dog Grill, noon.
The next meeting of ROMEO is at the Barking Dog Grill, 21 Friend St, Amesbury, MA 01913, https://www.barkingdoggrill.com. Our Officer of the Day is Chuck Kennedy who can be reached at chuckanzie@gmail.com. Please feel free to contact Chuck if you have any questions or concerns. No reservations are required, but $$$ to pay your share of the tab is needed.

Mt. Pemigewassett Hikers
2025-07-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Hayward Room, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Hayward Room

Merrimack Valley Ship Model Club (MVSMC)
2025-07-12 08:00 - 11:00 | LMH Main Room, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Second Saturdays, Lower Meetinghouse Main Room, 8-11am.

Summer Sunday Worship Service
2025-07-13 10:00 - 11:00 | FRS Sanctuary, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Sunday, July 13, Sanctuary, 10am with livestream on YouTube.
One More Step – Sue Creed
The inspiration for Sue’s topic, “One More Step,” comes from the writings of the late Maxine Steeves, wife of the late Rev. Bertrand Steeves, FRSUU minister from 1956-1994. Having been a personal witness to the times during which Maxine and Bert lived and ministered, Sue hopes to draw a through line of real activism here at the FRSUU for all of us. Via Maxine’s stories, may we hear a call to action and do all that we are able to meet today’s challenges.
