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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

May 2026

 

May 3 |  Whose Side Are We On?

As we begin the seasonal theme of Solidarity, let us pause to consider how far our loyalties reach. Ours is a faith that might make us reluctant to take sides, but should we? Whose side are we on, and who, exactly, should we be in solidarity with?

Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

May 10 | A Space for Children

What happens when we decide to be in solidarity with children? What are the ripple effects of making a space hospitable to children and their needs? 

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

May 17 | Community Demands Discomfort

It is through the many small discomforts of community life that we build the muscle for solidarity toward a greater good. How is our community life cultivating our skills for the liberation we dream of?

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

 

May 24 | Turning the Wheels of Change: A Story of Solidarity - Guest Preacher

As I look for rays of hope in our current world situation, I have found inspiration in a story from our US history that touched my life directly. 

— Lisa Gwinner

May 31 | Tending the Flame

Our solidarity is practiced here and now, in the place we are planted. And it also lives across a wide expanse of time, including all the ancestors–spiritual and genetic–who struggled for liberation before us and everyone who will tend the flame after we are gone. 

— Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell

*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.

Monthly Worship Themes

We explore a variety of specific themes in our Sunday Worship services and occasional Drop-In Discussions.

Explore with us this church year!

2025-2026 Church Year Themes

July: N/A

August: N/A

September & October: Liberation

November & December: Risk

January & February: Power

March & April: Truth

May & June: TBA

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A man addressing a crowd from a pulpit in the sanctuary of First Universalist.

We acknowledge with respect the Seneca Nation, Keepers of the Western Door and part of the Haudenosaunee People, on whose ancestral land First Universalist Church now stands.

Contact Us

150 South Clinton Ave

Rochester, NY 14604

585-546-2826

office@uuroc.org

Current Office Hours

Tue & Thu 9am-4pm

Closed on Mondays 

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Sundays @ 10:30am 

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