Sunday Worship Services
Join us every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. in our classic New England sanctuary for worship services. Our services engage the mind, body, heart and spirit with beautiful music, spiritual themes, stories for all ages, and time for contemplation and prayer. Children begin in the sanctuary with their families and then are excused for faith development programs which run concurrently. Nursery care is available for the youngest, and babies and children are always welcome to remain in the service with their caregivers.
You can also join us live online, or view any of our past services on our YouTube channel.
Worship Online
During our service, we share prayers from our community. If you have a prayer you wish to share during our service, you can fill out the form below, or complete a prayer card in the sanctuary.
Worship theme: nurturing gratitude
We nurture gratitude for one another and for the earth. We give thanks to have loved, even when those we love pass on. We turn again and again to the saving power of community, memory and hope.
Sunday mornings 10:30AM
View past services, music, and children's stories on our YouTube channel
Sunday, November 16, 2025 YouTube Livestream: https://youtube.com/live/CQ1kGmzeEpQ?feature=share
The Challenges of Neighboring Well
Jesus’ lesson to love our neighbors as ourselves is well known and often cited. But where does neighboring begin and end? Join us to explore how we persist in loving and nurturing one another through divisive times and complex and ever- evolving societal challenges. Elizabeth Murphy, preaching, with Rev. Sarah C. Stewart as liturgist.
Elizabeth Murphy is deeply rooted in the Massachusetts SouthCoast community. Her work has included being an independent college advisor for 15 years, and serving in many volunteer capacities. Her special focuses have been local public education, immigration justice, and climate justice. This work included developing the New Bedford Immigrant Support Network, an immigrant accompaniment effort first centered on transportation, and later pivoted to COVID relief efforts, delivering food and personal supplies to hundreds of local families facing illness, unemployment, and food insecurity.
Elizabeth earned a Master of Divinity degree from Meadville Lombard, a Unitarian Universalist theological school. During her studies she learned that administrative skills are a special type of community ministry, and she now brings those skills to Round the Bend Farm, a Center for Restorative Community, in Dartmouth, MA. She continues to seek opportunities to build more resilient communities, and to make that process fun. She is energized by connecting disconnected people, and believes that we can heal the world by sharing more food and more conversation.
Service Music: We welcome back guest organist William Ness to our sanctuary this morning, who will pull out all the stops on works by Dubois, Powell, and Buttstedt.
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Stone Soup
Today our children and youth, especially our Middle School Youth Group, BYKOTA, welcome you to enjoy a service all about the importance of community and the warmth it brings. Led by members of the Faith Development program and staff.
Faith Development: Today's service is intended for all ages. Please join us in the sanctuary!
Sunday, November 30, 2025
An Unlikely Thank You
We turn to our religious traditions for shared joy in good times and comfort in hard times. Tibetan Buddhism has a counter-intuitive suggestion that seems to bring the two together: when met with suffering, give it a thank-you gift. We'll explore what we learn when we say "thank you" to the hard times. The Rev. Sarah C. Stewart preaching.
Faith Development: Today is the first day of our Christmas Pageant rehearsals! There is a role for everyone, join in one the fun. Adults - you too - can help! We always need adults to help costume!
Sunday, December 7, 2025