Past Services

Sunday, April 17th, 2022

"THE RESURRECTION: EASTER SUNDAY"

We are no longer requiring advance registrations for in-person worship. We do require masks (covering both the nose and mouth) and social distancing in our building for worship services. Thank you!

Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Landrum
9:00 in the sanctuary and 11:00 in the sanctuary and online
 
Join us for our traditional Easter Sunday service focused on how we practice resurrection in our lives.  This service will also include a recognition of Passover. 
 
The 11:00 service (only) will conclude with a group sing of the Hallelujah Chorus. 

 An egg hunt for children will follow each service. 
 
We are no longer requiring advance registrations for in-person worship. We do require masks (covering both the nose and mouth) and social distancing in our building for worship services. Thank you! 
 
Join by Video: https://tinyurl.com/fpcspring
Meeting ID: 959 7712 0122
Passcode: 01775
Join by phone: 1-929-205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

ORDER OF SERVICE: CLICK HERE

LARGE ORDER OF SERVICE: CLICK HERE

HALLELUJAH CHORUS SHEET MUSIC: CLICK HERE

Thursday, April 14th, 2022

"MAUNDY THURSDAY VESPERS"

6:30pm in the Sanctuary Only

Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Landrum
6:30pm in the sanctuary and online
 
Join us for a contemplative service in remembrance of the Last Supper with Taizé-style music, meditation, reflection, and communion. 
 
Please note, we are planning for this service to include a communion service, so participants should know that there will be a brief unmasked period in the service.
 
We are no longer requiring advance registrations for in-person worship. We do require masks (covering both the nose and mouth) and social distancing in our building for worship services. Thank you! 
 
This service is not being offered online, with apologies.  

Sunday, April 10th, 2022

"ART SERVICE: The Myth of Talent and a ‘Pop-up’ Art Show"

10:05am-10:55am: ‘Pop-up’ art show in Fellowship Hall

SUNDAY APRIL 10, 2022  

ART SERVICE: The Myth of Talent and a ‘Pop-up’ Art Show

Brad Dumont and Artists of FPC

9:00 in the sanctuary and 11:00 in the sanctuary and online

10:05am-10:55am: ‘Pop-up’ art show in Fellowship Hall

 

Service: “Talent”—a loaded word which limits our exploration of creativity around the assumption that some were born with ‘gifts’ and others were not. Or possibly a word that some have found comfort in as a way to lift up and share a unique skill set they possess. Whether the label of ‘talent’ has carried a certain connotation for you, we have all experienced moments where we have doubted our creative selves. Come hear from artists at FPC as they talk about self-doubt in the face of creative challenges and consider ‘The Myth of Talent.’ 

 

‘Pop-up’ Art Show: Between services please join us in the Fellowship Hall where we will put out all of the folding tables for folks to display a few pieces of their art. This is meant to be casual, quick, fun, and informal! All levels and types of art are welcome to be displayed as long as you can setup quickly and leave space for others. We’d love to see everyone (youth too!) contribute a piece of art to the gallery! Please bring a card or page that has your name and a description of your work to go alongside it, unless you want to be anonymous! 

 

We are no longer requiring advance registrations for in-person worship. We do require masks (covering both the nose and mouth) and social distancing in our building for worship services. Thank you! 

 

Join by Video: https://tinyurl.com/fpcspring

Meeting ID: 959 7712 0122

Passcode: 01775

Join by phone: 1-929-205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

 

ORDER OF SERVICE & ANNOUNCEMENTS: CLICK HERE

LARGE ORDER OF SERVICE & ANNOUNCEMENTS CLICK HERE:
 

Sunday, April 3rd, 2022

"STRONG IS WHAT WE MAKE EACH OTHER"

Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Landrum & Michelle Cote, Director of Religious Education

After two long years we are finally able to gather for an intergenerational service!! This service will feature a story told by both children and adults.  It interweaves the story with music, acting and opportunities for all to participate. The theme is how we as a congregation make each other strong by how we support each other. What a wonderful message to share as we gather in community with all our members from young to old. 

The story was adapted by the Rev. Erika Hewitt from the story “Hare’s Gifts” by Rev. Ken Collier. For this service, we are asking members to please bring a canned good or dried food to donate to a local organization.
 

Join by Video: https://tinyurl.com/fpcspring
Meeting ID: 959 7712 0122
Passcode: 01775
Join by phone: 1-929-205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

ORDER OF SERVICE & ANNOUNCEMENTS: CLICK HERE

LARGE ORDER OF SERVICE & ANNOUNCEMENTS: CLICK HERE

Sunday, March 27th, 2022

"SEEKING ASYLUM"

Seeking Asylum

"Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,  lift my lamp beside the golden door!" 

FPC's Social Justice group Supporting Asylum Seekers will highlight current work supporting refugees and asylum seekers from around the world as they settle in our communities. 



We are no longer requiring advance registrations for in-person worship.  We are requiring masks (covering both the nose and mouth) and social distancing in our building.  Thank you! 
 
Join by video: https://tinyurl.com/fpcfebmar
Meeting ID: 933 6431 4909
Passcode: 01775
Join by phone: 1-929-205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

ORDER OF SERVICE: CLICK HERE

LARGE ORDER OF SERVICE: CLICK HERE

 

Sunday, March 20th, 2022

"RENEWING FAITH"

Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Landrum

Anne Frank wrote, “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.” How do we renew our faith in the goodness of people in such times as these? This service will explore some answers.

 
We are no longer requiring advance registrations for in-person worship.  We are requiring masks (covering both the nose and mouth) and social distancing in our building.  Thank you! 
 
Join by video: https://tinyurl.com/fpcfebmar
Meeting ID: 933 6431 4909
Passcode: 01775
Join by phone: 1-929-205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)
 
ORDER OF SERVICE & ANNOUNCEMENTS CLICK HERE

LARGE ORDER OF SERVICE & ANNOUNCEMENTS CLICK HERE

 

 

Sunday, March 13th, 2022

"P.T. BARNUM"

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS CLOCKS ONE HOUR AHEAD

Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Landrum

Join us for this special service full of circus fun, but also full of complexity.  Circus pioneer P.T. Barnum was a complicated figure… and a Universalist.  What do we do with this Universalist forefather who some say lifted up people out of poverty, yet others see as someone who exploited his performers? 
 
We are no longer requiring advance registrations for in-person worship.  We are requiring masks (covering both the nose and mouth) and social distancing in our building.  Thank you! 
 
Join by video: https://tinyurl.com/fpcfebmar
Meeting ID: 933 6431 4909
Passcode: 01775
Join by phone: 1-929-205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

ORDER OF SERVICE: CLICK HERE

LARGE PRINT ORDER OF SERVICE: CLICK HERE


 

Sunday, March 6th, 2022

"An End to Policing? Imagining Possibilities"

Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Landrum

The UUA General Assembly recently passed an Action of Immediate Witness that included the goal of police abolition. What are the possibilities and limitations of this idea? How can we reimagine the future of justice and community life? Recommended reading – Rev. Cindy will be drawing from the UUA’s Common Read book for 2021-2022, Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment by Zach Norris, and we may be having events later in the year to discuss the book. 

A copy of the text of this sermon may be found here: https://www.fpc-stow-acton.org/sites/default/files/oos/2022-03-06%20-%20Policing%20Sermon.pdf

We are no longer requiring advance registration to attend in-person worship in our sanctuary.
 
Join by video: https://tinyurl.com/fpcfebmar
Meeting ID: 933 6431 4909
Passcode: 01775
Join by phone: 1-929-205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

ORDER OF SERVICE: CLICK HERE

LARGE PRINT ORDER OF SERVICE: CLICK HERE

Sunday, February 27th, 2022

"THE ENDEMIC NATURE OF LIFE"

Lisa Fagerstrom, Lay Leader

Within the past month or so, there has been talk in the news of moving from pandemic to endemic when describing COVID-19. This service will explore this changing perspective and how life itself is "endemic"--something that is always with us to experience and move through, with an invitation to embrace its "lifey-ness" in our daily living.
 
We are no longer requiring advance registration to attend in-person worship in the sanctuary.
 
Join by video: https://tinyurl.com/fpcfebmar
Meeting ID: 933 6431 4909
Passcode: 01775
Join by phone: 1-929-205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)
 
ORDER OF SERVICE: CLICK HERE

LARGE PRINT ORDER OF SERVIICE: CLICK HERE

 

Sunday, February 20th, 2022

"UNIVERSE UNFOLDING"

We are no longer requiring advance registration to attend worship in the sanctuary.

Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Landrum
9am in the sanctuary; 11am in the sanctuary and online
 
Writer Max Ehrmann once stated, “You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”  To celebrate the birthday of Galileo Galilei (February 15 1564) we’ll look at the ways the universe is still unfolding and we’re always learning more. 
 
We are no longer requiring advance registration to attend worship in the sanctuary.


Join by video: https://tinyurl.com/fpcfebmar
Meeting ID: 933 6431 4909
Passcode: 01775
Join by phone: 1-929-205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)
 
ORDER OF SERVICE:CLICK HERE

LARGE PRINT ORDER OF SERVICE:CLICK HERE
 

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