Welcome

Welcome to the First Religious Society Unitarian Universalist, a place where you will be welcomed regardless of your age, religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status. A place where you can grow spiritually, morally and intellectually. Join us!

Welcome

Welcome to the First Religious Society Unitarian Universalist, a place where you will be welcomed regardless of your age, religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status. A place where you can grow spiritually, morally and intellectually. Join us!

Welcome

Welcome to the First Religious Society Unitarian Universalist, a place where you will be welcomed regardless of your age, religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status. A place where you can grow spiritually, morally and intellectually. Join us!

JUNE MINISTRY THEME: LIFE

Annual Ministry Theme: Life

SUNDAY, JUNE 28

OHKETEAU CULTURAL COMMUNITY

 

SERVICE STARTS

AT 10AM

Sunday, June 28, 2026
Ohketeau Cultural Community
10am with livestream on YouTube

Please join us as Larry Spotted Crow Mann, Director and Founder of the Ohketeau Cultural Community, shares ancestral music, stories, and teachings that will increase our cross cultural knowledge of their community in our area past and present. The Ohketeau Cultural Community serves Tribal members across New England and is invested in the overall health and wellbeing of all indigenous peoples, teaching caretaking of the land by being in Right relationship and reciprocity with the land that sustains us all.

Summer Sunday Worship
June 28, July 12, 19, 26
10am in the sanctuary with livestream on YouTube

Sunday, July 5, 2026
Reading Frederick Douglass Together
10am, Brown Square (rain location: FRSUU)

Click here for the full schedule of summer services and events.

 

FRSUU Welcomes New Interim Minister!

The FRSUU Board of Trustees and the Interim Minister Search Team are excited and proud to announce the selection of Rev. Connie Simon as our new interim minister. Rev. Connie, who is completing her interim ministry at the River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Bethesda, MD, will start her two-year ministry at FRSUU on August 1. Her first official Sunday in the pulpit will be September 13, Opening Sunday for the 2026-27 church year.

Rev. Connie explains her approach to interim ministry on her website: “I’ve chosen to focus my ministry on transitional work because I genuinely love it. There’s something deeply meaningful about accompanying congregations through periods of change—helping them reflect on their history, clarify their identity, strengthen their leadership, and step intentionally into their future. Transitions are challenging, but they’re also extraordinary opportunities for growth, healing, and renewal.”

Read the full announcement HERE.

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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.