News & Announcements

Christmas Eve Service – 7p.m.

Christmas Eve Service, Dec 24, 7pm. Please join us for a retelling of the traditional Christmas story with scripture, contemporary readings, and lots of music. We will sing Silent Night by candlelight at the end. Everyone is welcome! This service will be livestreamed...

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Socks and Underwear report to the congregation

Socks and Underwear report to the congregation

Socks and Underwear report to the congregation Thanks in large part to your generosity Pathways for Children received over 100 pairs of socks, over 80 underwear and over 30 hats and gloves. Younity recvieved over 100 pairs of socks, over 100 underwear and over 50...

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Friday Morning ‘Mug Up’ beginning October 18th.

With the cooler weather and shorter days now upon us, we are offering an opportunity to gather on Friday mornings for conversation with a cup of hot coffee or tea. Come to chat about whatever is on your mind. Bring your knitting or other handiwork if you'd like. Or...

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Socks and Underwear Plus – October

Socks and Underwear Plus – October

This year's Socks and Underwear drive is now in October due to our Church year calendar changes. Because of the season we are adding Hats and Mittens, So: 'Socks and Underwear Plus' is our new name. Holly Tanguay and Jim Seavey are co chairs, assisted by Kate Ruzecki....

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100-Mile Potluck Picnic

Sunday, Sept.15, 2024 after church.. 100 Mile Potluck Picnic celebrates the Allee restoration! Bring an appetizer, salad, main dish or dessert to share, made with ingredients grown & created within 100 miles west of Gloucester or from the sea. As Yo-Yo Ma wrote in...

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Sermon Archive

To Speak Out Against Kings

To Speak Out Against Kings © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 29, 2026     By 1980, El Salvador was overrun with paramilitary groups: death squads, who roamed the country assassinating people in the name of “traditional values”, and “law and...

Making the World Come Alive

Making the World Come Alive © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 15, 2026     Most years I dread the month of March. It’s not really winter, and not quite spring. The clean brightness of the snow recedes and leaves mud and dead leaves and gray...

The Beginning of Devotion

The Beginning of Devotion © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 8, 2026     In one of his most famous passages explaining his decision to live alone in the Concord woods for two years, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “I went to the woods because I...

To Live Like a River Flows

To Live Like a River Flows © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 22, 2026     People often wonder how a minister creates a sermon. Frankly, the minister often wonders this herself. But people tend to be curious about the process: how we find...

Upcoming Services

Joint service at GUUC with Rockport and Essex.  10am.  Everyone is welcome!

Worship is in-person, or at the livestream link below.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIeJfO72kLh-gAtZZT-QOng/live