Adult Choir
LMH Main Room 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United StatesThursdays, LMH Main Room, 7-8:30pm
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 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.
Thursdays, LMH Main Room, 7-8:30pm
Fridays, LMH Room A, 10-11:30am. We meet weekly and read both fiction and non-fiction books chosen by participants. Each book is read and discussed over a period of several meetings, with the reading for each determined by the group.
Gay Pearson piano practice, every Friday, 4-5pm, Sanctuary
Meets weekly on Friday
Saturday, March 1, Parish Hall 1st Floor, 8-11am. The new PEG Center Book Group will launch on Saturday, March 1st, from 9-10:30AM at FRS UU PARISH HALL in downtown Newburyport. At the first meeting, we will determine our monthly meeting times moving forward, if we need to offer two groups, and the discussion format. The emphasis on our reading will be about activism, humanitarianism, and spirit. Our first read will be "We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption" by Kaira Jewel Lingo. All are welcome! This book group will give many gifts, from comraderie to compassion to action, together. $10 Love Offering per monthly meet up. Thank you! You can register for the event here. We have purchased 10 copies of this book which is in limited supply. Our cost is $12 each. We will have them at the 1st meeting for the 1st 10 people who buy them. Contact Jabberwocky Book Store 978 465 9359.
Saturday, March 1, LMH Main Room, 10am-12:30pm. Join Manny Muros and Alise Ashby for a transformative experience that nurtures your body, mind, and soul. We begin with an all-levels yoga class to create alignment and integrity in your physical, mental, and emotional self. This practice opens the body and prepares you for deeper stillness. Manny will then guide a serene meditation, inviting you to connect with your Divine Self, beautifully accompanied by Alise’s soulful piano music. The powerful combination of yoga, meditation, and live music creates a space for profound peace, harmony, and inner connection. We look forward to sharing this inspiring journey with you! Admission price: $45. https://www.manueljosemuros.com
Sanctuary, first Sunday of the month, led by Rev. Alan Seale. Contemplation has been described as “a long loving look at the real” and “a pure intuition of being, born of love” (21st-century mystic William McNamara). Join Rev. Alan Seale at 8am on the first Sunday of the month for a half-hour contemplative worship experience—a space and time to be present with the simplicities and complexities of life in the quiet embrace of the FRS Sanctuary. The sanctuary will be open to welcome you from 7:50am. The service will include quiet piano music, a brief message or reading, and periods of silent reflection and meditation. If this contemplative worship experience calls out to you, we hope you will join us.
Sundays, February 2, February 16, March 2, LMH Room A, 9-10:15am. Are you new to FRS and/or Unitarian Universalism? This series of three classes is designed to help answer questions about Unitarian Universalism, give you tools to navigate all that FRS has to offer, and foster connections with other newcomers as well as longtime members. Questions? Please reach out to Rev. Laurel at revlaurel.gray@frsuu.org. We would love to have you join us! Snacks will be provided!
Reserved from 10:00am-11:30am
Join us for services at 10:30am on Sundays, from the Sunday after Labor Day through late spring. Experience elements of the world religions, including our Christian roots and humanism. Find inspiration in choral and instrumental music (including organ), congregational singing, a time for children, readings, an offering, and meditative silence. Hear a sermon on social justice, spirituality, dealing with life’s challenges, or other issues. We may celebrate a holiday, act out a skit, hold a coming-of-age ceremony, or hear a member’s Journeys of Faith. Services end around 11:30am and are usually followed by a 30-minute fellowship gathering. For a relaxed service with music from the jazz tradition, come to a Jazz Vespers. Our Christmas Eve service and Christmas Candlelight service are community traditions.
Young Church is for children up through 8th grade. Children sit with their families for the beginning of worship service (about 15 minutes), and then head downstairs to the Lower Meetinghouse with volunteers and the Director of Youth and Children’s Ministry, Mara Flynn. We offer nursery care for children under age 5 – and “littles” are also welcome to join us in Young Church with a parent/guardian in attendance. Our Young Church programming engages and allows our K-8th grade children to experience and create meaningful connection through: Ritual, stories, crafts, games and joyful community building Special guests, activities and projects that support curiosity and spiritual growth Explorations of the 7 UU Principles and social justice engagement If your child will be attending, please fill out our registration form HERE Questions? Email Mara Flynn, Director of Youth and Children’s Ministry at mara.flynn@frsuu.org.
Sunday, March 2, Parish Hall, following worship. Join us for our Annual Giving Campaign kickoff ice cream social!