Upcoming Services

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​​​November 2025

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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's 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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*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.