News & Announcements
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...
“Gloucester Speaks – Bearing Witness” – May 17, 7pm
In the sanctuary, on the big screen, a one hour and 45-minute documentary by Shep Abbott, covering the history and contemporary maritime industry of Gloucester. Tickets $10 at the door. Parking Note: There will be no parking on the allee due to renovations. ...
Spring Book Discussion Group
Our next read, "The Bill of Obligations" by Richard Haas, will also be our springtime GUUC Common Read with a discussion on Friday, May 31. Join us for a potluck at 5:30 and book discussion at 7pm. The book is easily available, inexpensive, not a long read, and vital...
March Book Discussion
Next Book Discussion Join us to read and discuss member JoeAnn Hart’s new book High Wire Act and Other Tales of Survival, on Wednesday March 13 at 1 p.m. in the social hall. The author will be our honored guest. Some copies are available from members.
Adult Programs – Introducing Our Spiritual Life
This month Reverend Janet is beginning a weekly offering of different spiritual practices. For now, the time will remain the same each week - Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome, and this is intended to be a drop-in whenever you are available. It's also a...
GUUC Gallery Jan 27 & Feb 3
A pop up exhibition of photographs taken in Meghalaya India in 2011 and 2013 by Jim Seavey will be open through the next two weeks during the regular Saturday hours (12 TO 4) at the GUUC Gallery, 10 Church St. Gloucester. Arrangements for a private viewing can be made...
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
Gloucester UU joins Rockport and Essex for worship this Sunday at First Univ of Essex, or on Zoom.Sunday August 23rd 10 am Stronger Together with Rev. Tess BaumbergerJoin us for a service about how we can be stronger by working together, using the symbols of spinning threads and weaving tapestries. The service will include a simple ritual, poetry, and meditations on the power of collaboration.To join us via Zoom please visit uuessex.org and click on the Zoom link. If you’re coming in person, there is some street parking or you can use the municipal lot. Coming from Gloucester you would go past the church and take your first left onto Martin Street, then go left again on Shepherd Street. Please know the central spots in the lot are reserved for boat and trailer parking during the summer. If you go up the stairs at the end of the lot, you can cross the parking lot and make your way to the church.