Unitarian Universalist Area Church

First Parish in Sherborn, MA

Sunday Services: 10:30 am
Child Care Available

Senior Youth Group – Service Trip To West Virginia

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Our Senior Youth Group under the leadership of India Wood, Youth Coordinator, and Rev. Heather Concannon, assisted by Youth Group Advisors, Peter Gormley and Mike Zarin, are in West Virginia for a service trip with the UU College of Social Justice. The West Virginia program is both a service trip and an educational program, that teaches youth about environmental and economic justice using the coal mining industry as a case study. India has … [Read more...]

Environmental Action Group

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Written by Kate Bosco More than thirty people took a journey together one Sunday in January, from chilly Sherborn to the beautiful south Pacific. Peter Gawne, an aquarist from the New England Aquarium, brought the voyagers to the secluded Phoenix Island Protected Area. The visitors marveled at pristine waters, colorful reefs and fantastic schools of tropical fish. And they returned to Sherborn within an hour. Gawne’s talk was sponsored by … [Read more...]

Service and Justice Ministries

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Salvation Army Dinner - Written by Kate Bosco - It’s a rainy night in Framingham, the day before Christmas Eve. Inside the Salvation Army community center on Concord Street, things are ramping up to dinner. There’s not much of a crowd inside tonight. About thirty people are in the gym next to the Salvation Army’s kitchen. Another dozen or more are huddled outside the entrance, waiting for take-out boxes. Volunteers from the UUAC are crowded … [Read more...]

Service and Justice Ministries

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Family Promise Hosting Homeless Families with Family Promise by Kate Bosco With a scarcity of affordable housing, homelessness has become an increasing problem in our community. Our church community is helping in a very personal and immediate way by hosting homeless families with Family Promise Metrowest. In 2003, Barbie Breer and Joan Hunter-Brody began working with other churches to build the network. Five years later, nine churches opened … [Read more...]