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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  • Sunday Worship Service

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    FRS Church 10 Main Street, Newburyport, MA, United States

    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

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

    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.

  • Parish Board-Congregational Meeting (Hybrid)

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

    Sunday, November 24, Lower Meetinghouse, 11:30am-1pm. The Parish Board invites the FRSUU congregation to join them after Sunday worship to meet with the 4th Century Visioning Team and the 300th Anniversary Team. This will be an opportunity to learn about the teams' work and priorities, the events planned for the 300th anniversary, and visions of our next century. Come get your questions answered and share your ideas and comments.

  • Youth Group

    Recurring
    Youth Room (Parish Hall) 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Meets in Youth Room in Parish Hall. Led by Mara Flynn on 10/27, 11/24, 12/8, 1/12/25. Led by Rev. Laurel on 11/10, 12/22, 1/26/25.

  • Play Rehearsal

    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Sundays from 3-5pm November 3, 10, 17, 24

  • Thanksgiving Conversations

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

    Thursday, November 21, Lower Meetinghouse, 5:30-6:30pm. Monday, November 25, Lower Meetinghouse, 2-3pm. We've heard from many of you that the election results are making Thanksgiving gatherings feel more complicated or even painful, depending on the politics of those at the table. We've set aside two times to gather and share with each other, so that we might enter the holidays feeling more centered and supported. Both small group conversations will be with Rev. Laurel.

  • The Breath of Life: An Introduction to Breath and Awareness Practices for Health and Wellbeing – A Four-Week Series with Matthew Daniell

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    Parish Hall 1st Floor

    Please join NSIMC guiding teacher Matthew Daniell for a four-week Monday night series in November, held in partnership with the First Religious Society, Unitarian Universalist, in Newburyport When: Monday evenings, 7-8:30 pm, Nov. 4, 11, 18, & 25 Where: First Religious Society, Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall Cost: $85 for the series ($80 cash or check) Description: To breathe is to live. This is an anatomical fact, but it can also be a powerful tool to support our inner life, and find a quiet place of rest, renewal, and resilience, inside. In this four-part series, we will draw mainly from the ancient and modern meditative wisdom traditions to explore how mindful breathing can be a simple gateway to living a fuller, more emotionally skillful and more spiritually rich life, in the here and now. There will be meditation periods (15-25 minutes) with instruction and silence, along with reflections and time for discussion in each session, as well as exercises to bring into daily life. This series is appropriate for beginners as well as those with more meditation experience. People of all traditions are welcome, breath is common to all that lives. Matthew Daniell is the guiding teacher of NSIMC. He has been practicing Buddhist meditation since the 1980s, including over a decade in Asia, where he practiced Zen intensively in Japan, Tibetan Buddhism in India, and Insight meditation in Burma, India, and Thailand. Read more about Matthew on his teacher page. The fee for this program is $85 ($80 cash or check). To register and pay online, just click below; to pay by cash or check, email northshoreimc@gmail.com.

  • Reserved for Piano Tuning

    FRS Sanctuary 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Tuesday, November 26, Sanctuary, 12-3pm.

  • Thanksgiving Service

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    FRS Sanctuary 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Join Rev. Rebecca and FRS members and friends in a community reading of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address. We will have a community read of the Thanksgiving Prayer followed by a reflection from Rev. Rebecca. The Thanksgiving Prayer is traditionally used to welcome a new day. We hold this reading at a time near sunset to remind ourselves that the sun will rise again. Retaining our feelings of gratitude and connection to the natural world is essential for every one of us and for the collective wellbeing of this planet. All ages and guests are welcome. “You can’t listen to the Thanksgiving Address without feeling wealthy. And, while expressing gratitude seems innocent enough, it is a revolutionary idea. In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. The Thanksgiving Address and gratitude doesn’t send you out shopping to find satisfaction; it comes as a gift rather than a commodity, subverting the foundation of the whole economy. That’s good medicine for land and people alike.” --Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

  • Wednesday Guided Meditation (Zoom)

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    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. Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87349458812?pwd=dXdIUVBJb0F1MnVjL0ZDakErVlRIdz09