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We invite people of all races, ethnic
and religious backgrounds and sexual orientations to join us in striving to
create a vital, loving community, to foster understanding, to work for
social justice and to support each other in our spiritual journeys.
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We are a Welcoming Congregation
committed to supporting civil
rights, promoting interpersonal understanding and welcoming gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people into our church family.
To learn more
about First Parish Church's Welcoming Congregation activities, click
here: Welcoming Congregation Committee |
Upcoming worship services, Sundays at 10:30
a.m. unless otherwise noted.
(Church school classes also at 10:30 a.m.)
May 11–
"Two UU 'Mothers"–Catherine & Carie will celebrate Mothers' day by
looking at the lives of Elizabeth Peabody & Sophia Lyon Fahs. (New Member
Sunday)
May 18 –
BALLOON SUNDAY – is a
service for the whole family. The service will include recognition,
appreciation, and celebration of our Church School year together. (All church
picnic following Worship)
To download the current edition of
our newsletter, "The Bell-Ringer," click the "Calendar" button above.
New Orleans teens participate in FPC youth
conference
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Five teenagers from New Orleans, part of a group named Rethink
that is working to help rebuild and improve that city’s schools after
Hurricane Katrina, will participate in an all-day middle school youth
conference at First Parish Church, Unitarian Universalist, Duxbury, on
Saturday, May 10. The public is invited
to an open session of the conference, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
The conference is aimed
at encouraging leadership and participation skills in young people. The
New Orleans youths will talk about their efforts to help students become
part of the process of rebuilding and improving New Orleans schools. The
young people have participated in six-week summer sessions for the past
two years, working to identify and help fix problems in public schools.
One of their projects has been the designing of “green” restrooms for
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“Rethinkers” publish their own newspaper, maintain their own YouTube
page and hold press conferences to describe problems with their schools.
To read more, click here: Youth conference |
Members of Rethink
are helping to reinvent and rebuild public schools in New Orleans.
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A message from the minister
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Dear friends,
As another church year moves toward its close, I remember once again
how blessed we are to be together —
learning, teaching, engaging one another; finding and creating
opportunities for acceptance, encouragement,
sharing and
service
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and love.
One of my clergy colleagues has said:
"The religious
community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see
all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is
renewed."
My spiritual friends, we need one
another, and how blessed we are to have found what we need at our
beloved church home, First Parish Church. So, if you happen to meet
a like-minded spiritual seeker on the road of life
— one of the many who we instantly
recognize are "UUs but don't know it" —
will you please show her or him the way to our church home? And if
FPC is feeling like home to you but you are not yet an “official”
church member, see me and you can sign our membership book.
Catherine
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We celebrated our 375th year with 2 special events
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A
375th anniversary worship service was held on
Sunday, Oct. 14, 2007,with the Rev. Peter Gomes of Harvard University's
Memorial Church as the guest preacher. To read about
it, click here |
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An all-Bach
concert, organized by FPC Music Director and harpsichordist Edwin
Swanborn, was presented on Oct. 21, 2007.
To read about it, click here |
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