Upcoming Services​​​​​​​​​

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December 2025

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December 7 | When Hope is Hard to Find: A Blue Christmas Service

As we enter the time of Advent and the holiday season, some of us have a hard time making space for all the cheer and merriment. When we’re carrying grief, anxiety, fear for ourselves or the world, how do we also prepare for hope? How do we tell stories of love and joy with all this sorrow to hold?

— Patti Goodwin

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December 14 |  Preparing a Sanctuary

How do we, in this season of waiting and preparation, drop our expectation of perfection and embrace the call to be imperfect sanctuaries for joy? Can we allow ourselves to invite in hope and love and delight, even when nothing is Just Right? Even when we weren’t ready?

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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December 21 |  Stories in the Dark: A Solstice Celebration

We humans have, across the world and through all our time of human-ness, gazed up at the big, scary, dark of the night sky and reached for one another through story and song. Join us to share in a solstice celebration for all ages as we tell ancient stories and new ones. 

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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December 24 |  Love Shows Up - Christmas Eve Service! 

When we say Love is at the center of our faith, what does that mean? Our faith has always claimed that Love shows up, in our ordinary lives, with extraordinary saving power. Tonight we tell stories of Love showing up even when it wasn't expected.

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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December 28 |  Cleansing Fire - A New Year Fire Communion service

At this multigenerational New Year fire communion service, we will tell stories of light, hope, and belonging. Let us gather together to celebrate the risk and gift of beginning again in love.

— Kitty Forbush & Tom Williams

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January 2026

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January 4 | Going Softly

In case we have come barreling into the New Year, resolute with purpose, power, and productivity, let us take a moment to pause. To resolve to move more slowly. To be softer. And to hold on to the power of vulnerability.

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

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January 11 | Service for the Animals

In this service led by the Animal Ministry team, we celebrate the sentience of animals. Humanity has a long, complicated history with nonhuman animals. How should we treat animals today, both wild and domestic? What does it cost us—or what can we gain—by treating them the same way we want to be treated? (Please leave beloved animals at home)

— Adam Durand

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January 18 | No One Stands Alone

As we celebrate the bold life and work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, let us remember that he was not a lone hero but the representative of an entire movement, spanning nations and generations. Power, when it moves toward justice, is broad and diverse.

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

 

​January 25 | Beginning Again in Love

In this season of Power, let us honor one of the cornerstones of community–the power of accountability. When we bind our lives together in community, we need to get good at apologies, forgiveness, and beginning again in love. 

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell​

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*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.