Sunday, December 16 at 9AM in the Community Room
“A Christmas Carol Celebration”
Rev. Dr. Cynthia Landrum with Ann Sadler
Unitarian Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was published 175 years ago this week! Come join Rev. Cindy and Ann Sadler for a celebration of this Christmas story that would forever change how we view Christmas.
Past Services
Sunday, December 16th, 2018
9am Service above in the Community Room 11am Service in the Sanctuary-Mummers Play
Sunday, December 9th, 2018
Rev. Dr. Cynthia Landrum will be preaching.
Sometimes this season can be a difficult one, whether due to seasonal affective disorder, losses in the family, conflict, loneliness, or many other things. This Sunday we’ll honor those feels and talk about how to cope with the holiday season when you’re feeling blue.
Sunday, December 2nd, 2018
5:00 PM Special Christmas Vesper Service in the Sanctuary-Child care Available
This year's annual Holiday Vesper Service at FPC will welcome our new settled minister, The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Landrum, to Stow with a program titled Christmas in New England.
The service will feature music by New England composers, including Daniel Pinkham's interesting and iconic Christmas Cantata, Gwyneth Walker's Rejoice! for choir, brass quintet, and piano, and some of your favorite carols, hymns, and readings from this area.
Our FPC Adult Choir will be accompanied by Sanghee Kim on the piano and organ, and we will be joined by a brass quintet of students from Boston University for the performance.
As always, attendance is free, a musical and spiritual gift to the congregation and the greater community during this holiday season. All are welcome. CHILD CARE AVAILABLE
Mike Pfitzer, Music Director
Sunday, December 2nd, 2018
Rev. Dr. Cynthia Landrum will be preaching.
Mystery and wonder are inherent in the Christmas season, but sometimes as we grow up we lose the sense of the magical possibility of the holidays. We’ll reclaim a little bit of that awe on this Sunday.
Sunday, November 25th, 2018
ONE SERVICE AT 11AM
Our Unitarian-Universalist religious heritage compels us to address the important, widespread, and complex social issue of domestic violence. This special service, created and led by FPC's Domestic Violence Awareness Group, will focus on what is now a problem of epidemic proportions in our country and in our communities. Ben Atherton-Zeman, a nationally recognized public speaker who has given presentations and performances dealing with gender-based violence in 46 states and 12 countries, will be our guest speaker.
A member of FPC, Ben is now studying at the Boston University School of Theology.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2018
7:00pm IN THE SANCTUARY
Our vespers this month will be a solemn recognition of the Transgender Day of Remembrance, where we toll our bell and read the names of those transgender people who lost their lives in acts of violence this year. Come and share your support for the transgender community as we bear witness in love
Sunday, November 18th, 2018
THANKSGIVING SERVICE~INTERGENERATIONAL
Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Landrum
At our intergenerational Thanksgiving service we will break bread together and celebrate the season of harvest. We will also distribute UUSC Guest at Your Table boxes and talk about what it means to be a “welcome table.” The bread we share is baked by FPC youth, who will also participate in the service. At the end of each service we will invite people to gather outside to place our transgender pride flags on our lawn in recognition of the upcoming Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Sunday, November 11th, 2018
Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Landrum will be preaching.
Carl Sagan (whose birthday was November 9) said, “We are made of starstuff.” This service will explore outer space and our place in the cosmos.
This service will also include a recognition of veterans.
Sunday, November 4th, 2018
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS~SET CLOCKS BACK ONE HOUR
We call ours a “democratic faith.” Why is democracy a religious value? Where is the line between religion and politics? How do we live our faith and keep separation between church and state? In the tradition of the “election sermon,” our minister will share her thoughts. The Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Landrum will be preaching.
Sunday, October 28th, 2018
The Rev. Tom Rosiello and The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Landrum
All Souls Day is a day we remember all of those who have gone before us, and especially those we love whom we’ve lost in the last year. For this service you are invited to bring a photo or a memento to place on our altar of remembrance. This year we will also have small stones we invite you to place on the altar, onto which you can write the name of a loved one, or feel free to paint or otherwise decorate a stone to bring and place. After the service, the stones may be taken home or placed in a designated location in our garden.
We’re delighted to welcome back our minister emeritus, The Rev. Tom Rosiello for this service, who will co-officiate the service with our minister, The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Landrum.
