First Universalist Church of Rochester

Sundays

Connecting:

Sunday Services are weekly at 10:30am.

All are welcome to worship with us virtually via Zoom, or in-person in our beautiful sanctuary!

Via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/131764422

Via Phone: Dial 1-646-558-8656, and enter meeting ID 131-764-422

Our Drop-In Discussions are held virtually on Tuesday evenings, and in person on the first Sunday of each month at 9:15am in the Chalice room. We take a break from our in-person drop-in discussions over the summer, but we resume them each September. We hope to see you virtually or in person!

Upcoming Services

November 2025

November 2 | Risking a Rest—Pajama/Cozy Clothes Sunday!

Rest is an essential need for all living things, but when we’re caught up in a system of over-production and over-consumption, rest can feel like a risk. How do we reclaim our need to rest?

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

November 9 | The Cost of Community

What is the cost of community care? And in this moment of turmoil and upheaval, what do we risk if we fail to cultivate it?

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

November 16 | Stone Soup

Join us for this multigenerational story service, where we retell the folk story of Stone Soup and wonder at how the sum of us all together is worth so much more than each of us, alone.

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

November 23 | Who Are We Willing to Risk? - Trans Day of Remembrance

In observance of Trans Day of Remembrance, we ask ourselves, whose risks make us all more free? And whose bodies and lives are we willing to risk?

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

November 30 | Seeds of Change: Risk & Gift Culture

What do we risk as we practice collective care inside market economy? If you've read Robin Wall Kimmerer’s words and hunger to weave this wisdom into your daily life, join us. With plants as our teachers, expect to laugh, cry and come alive as we explore living in old and new ways! Bring a bag to bring home an abundance of seeds to sow more fruitful futures for all generations to come. Join us for deeper dialogue after coffee hour!

After coffee hour: Embodied Gift Economics: Principles & Practices Weaving Interdependent Webs

Let's TALK! Bring your curiosities, questions, concerns & deep care for all beings. We don't pretend to have answers and we do claim our hearts broken by market economy can inspire humans re-membering gift culture. Come learn, share, long and practice with us, as well as sow more fruitful futures together, for us all.

— Petra Page-Mann

*First Universalist has a long-standing tradition of having one Sunday sermon a month be presented by someone other than our minister. Our lay-led services give our minister well-deserved unscheduled time, as well as allowing us to share our individual spiritual journeys, experiences and diverse world views, which is an important part of our rich Unitarian Universalist heritage.