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...

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“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. ...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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Sermon Archive

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...

Jame Baldwin: On Love and Salvation

James Baldwin: On Love and Salvation Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 15, 2026     He could have grown to adulthood consumed with hatred. In fact, he harbored great anger at the way his country treated him and other marginalized people....

To Take Back Our Land Again

To Take Back Our Land Again © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 18, 2026 As I was writing this sermon yesterday, I heard that there was a large-scale protest taking place in Minneapolis, the city most recently targeted for authoritarian control of...

Upcoming Services

Living the Ineffable, led by Jim Seavey with music by Andy Soll.

Worship is in-person or at the livestream link below. Please join us at 10am. Everyone is welcome!

Livestream link-

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