First Religious Society of Newburyport

Membership Class
2024-10-30 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | LMH Main Room, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Membership Class meets in the LMH Main Room with Rev. Laurel Gray.

Reserved for Piano Practice
2024-10-31 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-11-07 14:00 - 16:00 | FRS Sanctuary, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Thursdays, Sanctuary, 2-4pm, Gay Pearson

Adult Choir
2024-10-31 19:00 - 20:30 | LMH Main Room, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Thursdays, LMH Main Room, 7-8:30pm

Reserved for Piano Practice
2024-11-01 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)
2024-11-01 18:00 - 19:30 | Hayward Room, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Meets weekly on Friday

Contemplative Worship at FRS: Touching the Sacred Within
2024-11-03 08:00 - 09:00 | FRS Sanctuary, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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.

Reserved for Nursery
2024-11-03 10:00 - 11:30 | LMH Main Room, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Reserved from 10:00am-11:30am

Sunday Worship Service
2024-11-03 10:30 - 11:30 | FRS Church, 10 Main Street, Newburyport, MA, 01950, 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
2024-11-03 10:30 - 11:30 | LMH Main Room, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, 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.

Candlelight Chorale Rehearsal
2024-11-03 13:00 - 15:00 | FRS Sanctuary, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Sanctuary

Play Rehearsal
2024-11-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Parish Hall 1st Floor
Sundays from 3-5pm
November 3, 10, 17, 24

Daytime Election Services
2024-11-04 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-11-05 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-11-06 12:00 - 13:00 | FRS Sanctuary, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Join us for “Sanctuary in the Sanctuary” Election Week daytime service from 12:00-1:00pm on Monday, November 4th through Wednesday, November 6th. The noon time services will be quiet, simple, contemplative services designed to calm the nerves, create solidarity and build community.

Election Week Services
2024-11-04 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-05 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-06 19:00 - 20:00 | FRS Sanctuary, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Join us for Spirit Strong: Election Week Services Monday, November 4th through Wednesday, November 6th from 7:00-8:00pm. The Monday service will be intergenerational, and Tuesday and Wednesday services will be led by Rev. Rebecca. There will also be a Sanctuary in the Sanctuary Service daytime offering from 12:00-1:00pm. The noon time services will be quiet, simple, contemplative services designed to calm the nerves, create solidarity and build community. Come together with your FRS community for strength, solidarity, and peace.
*Note there will no longer be a Mystic and Contemplative Circles and Services meeting held on 11/5. This will replace that gathering.
Evening services: Monday, Nov. 4. Reverends Jane Tuohy and Laurel Gray, Tuesday, Nov. 5. Rev. Rebecca Bryan, Wednesday, Nov. 6. Rev. Rebecca Bryan
Noon time contemplation services: Monday Nov. 4. Rabbi Alex Matthews, Tuesday, Nov. 5. Rev. Stan Barrett ( Sufi teacher), Wednesday, Nov.6. Rev. Jane Tuohy, Buddhist teachers Barbara Dowd, Carolyn Davis

The Breath of Life: An Introduction to Breath and Awareness Practices for Health and Wellbeing - A Four-Week Series with Matthew Daniell
2024-11-04 19:00 - 20:30 | 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.

Short Story Group
2024-11-05 11:00 - 12:00 | LMH Room A, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Special meeting time for this date only. LMH Room A, 11am (with a Zoom option available).
For more information please visit: https://www.frsuu.org/short-story-group/

Gift Acceptance Committee Meeting
2024-11-05 15:00 - 16:00 | LMH Room A, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Tuesday, November 5, LMH Room A, 3-4pm.

4th Century Visioning Team (Hybrid)
2024-11-06 09:00 - 10:00 | MA
Meets 1st Wednesdays, LMH Main Room, 9-10am (Hybrid).

Wednesday Guided Meditation (Zoom)
2024-11-06 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.
Join Zoom Meeting:

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Staff Meeting
2024-11-06 10:30 - 12:00 | LMH Main Room, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States

Ladies Who Lunch
2024-11-06 12:00 - 13:30 | Michael’s Harborside Restaurant & Bar, 1 Tournament Wharft, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Wednesday, November 6, Michael’s Harborside, noon.
The Ladies Who Lunch meet monthly at a local restaurant. Please join us if you can. Call or email the church office if you can attend. Hope to see you there!
Save the date: We will be meeting December 4 at Loretta.

Capital Campaign Meeting
2024-11-06 13:00 - 14:30 | LMH Room A, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
LMH Room A, 1-2:30pm

Addictions Ministry Team
2024-11-06 15:00 - 16:00 | LMH Nursery/Conf Room
The Addictions Ministry Team occurs monthly on the first Wednesday from 3:00pm-4:00pm in the LMH Nursery/Conference Room.

Habitat Education Board
2024-11-06 18:00 - 19:30 | LMH Main Room, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Meeting for 18 in the LMH from 6-7:30pm

Executive Committee Meeting
2024-11-07 13:00 - 14:00 | LMH Room A, 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Meets 1st Thursday, 1-2pm, LMH Room A.

Private Rental
2024-11-07 15:30 - 17:30 | Parish Hall 1st Floor
TITO Afterschool Program from 3:30-5:30pm, Parish Hall 1st floor.
Oct. 24
Nov.7, 14 & 21
Dec. 5, 12 & 19
