APRIL MINISTRY THEME: INSIGHT & SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
Annual Ministry Theme: Life
SUNDAY, APRIL 5
EASTER SUNDAY WORSHIP
SERVICE STARTS
AT 10:30AM
Sunday, April 5, 2026
Easter Sunday Worship
10:30am with livestream on YouTube
Celebrate the coming of spring and Easter with the traditional story as well as choir and brass music. Children are invited to join us outside after the service for an Easter egg hunt. Rev. Rebecca will lead the service.
“Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.”
–Morris Dees
Attend on YouTube: https://bit.ly/FRSUUYouTube
Thursday, April 2, 2026
Maundy Thursday Service
Sanctuary and YouTube, 5:30pm
Join us for a peaceful service focused on humility, community, and love. In addition to beautiful organ music and quiet time together, we will celebrate a Unitarian Universalist version of communion and optional rituals of hand and feet washing. Rev. Rebecca and Rev. Jane will lead the service.
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Tour the FRS Campus and Buildings
Follow our drone footage as we fly to the top of FRS’s steeple featuring a glass-eyed gilded weathercock which overlooks downtown Newburyport and Merrimack River. From there, you’ll get a first-hand look at our campus grounds and the interior of our meetinghouse and Sanctuary which dates back to 1801. Rev. Rebecca, our Senior Minister, welcomes you and ALL who seek a place of spiritual community and faith here. Organ music provided by former Director of Church Music Justin Murphy-Mancini on our 1834 Joseph Alley organ. Piano music provided by Director of Church Music Nick Place. We close with a view of the bell from the foundry of Paul Revere and Sons bell.
