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A welcoming and Beloved Community
that inspires spiritual growth and social action

First Parish Church
Unitarian Universalist
of Northboro

40 Church St. Northborough, MA

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Worship Services every Sunday, at 10:30 am.

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Our Mission

Our mission is to be a welcoming and beloved community that inspires spiritual growth and social action.

Our Vision

First Parish Unitarian Universalist is a spiritual home for individuals and families, for people of faith and seekers of meaning. Together, we affirm the worth of all people and the interdependent web of all existence, and we seek to inspire spiritual growth and social action. We are a welcoming, open community, and our members and friends are active in social and environmental justice.

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Message from the Minister

A NEW MANIFEST DESTINY October 2024 October always brings me thoughts about Halloween, beautiful foliage, what I call a pre-
traumatic loss of light and cold, and with Columbus/Indigenous Peoples Day a moment to reflect
on the disturbing relationship Europeans and Native Peoples have had. In America, we of course
have our own particular version of that. 
The mid eighteen hundreds were the first time white European and European American’s really 
in large numbers began to go west across the …
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Summer At First Parish

“SUMMER TIME AND THE LIVING IS EASY”….July is coming and we hope it will be slow….. Interim Minister Rev Abigail Stockman’s last day of service is June 30th, 2024.Thank you, Rev Abigail! Rev Steve Wilson starts August 1st, 2024. Welcome, Rev Steve! REV. STEVE WILSON’S FIRST SERVICE IS AUGUST 11TH! For July we have a minister we may call for emergency ministerial pastoral care.If you have a pastoral emergency that requires Professional Ministerial Pastoral Care during July, please contact Car…
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The Ministerial Search Committee and Governing Board are very happy to announce that we have hired a minister!

Welcome, Rev. Steve Wilson! Rev. Steve’s term begins August 1, 2024. I feel proud, grateful, and lucky that I am a UU minister. I can think of nothing else I would rather do. Maybe I just have a lack of imagination. Maybe? However, I can’t think of a more comprehensive expression of who I am, want to professionally be, than be a Pastor. It is a sobering and joyful profession, calling, and way to live my life; I like to think I bring my own unique commitment, intellect, and humor…
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Latest News, Announcements and Events

Meetinghouse Arts Center Concert: Cara Brindisi

November 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – In the Meetinghouse Let’s welcome Cara Brindisi to the stage of the Meetinghouse Arts Center! Described as ‘perfect’ by John Legend and ‘hypnotic’ by Blake Shelton, Cara Brindisi is a vocalist with equal parts power and ease. After a decade of performances that include direct support […]
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Monthly post-church Theology Discussion

On the 2nd Sunday of each month, Rev. Steve will host a roughly hour and 15 minute Adult Ed Theology program following church from 12:15 to 1:30  Like the writing group, each of these that sessions stand independently, and are open to both our members and outsiders.  Each session will have a meditative piece, an […]
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Adult Ed Program: Writing Group

Memoir Writing as a Spiritual Practice First Monday of the month In Person or on Zoom 7pm to 8:30pm “You Addiction,” my former Korean-Australian friend Soo Been would tell me anytime I suggested I want a coffee, …a beer, …or even a snack.  I responded by saying quite indignantly that “I’m not “addiction” to anything.”  […]
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