News & Announcements
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...
Book Discussion January 17
"The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride. Discussion will be Jan 17th at 1:00PM in the Williams Room.
Book Discussion Group- Dec 6
The book discussion group will meet on Wed. Dec. 6 at 10 a.m.in the WIlliams Room (1st floor). The book chosen is The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. It’s fiction. Anyone is welcome.
Holiday Fair and Middle St Walk- Dec 9
Holiday Fair and Middle Street Walk - Saturday December 9 On Saturday December 9 we will hold our Holiday Fair in conjunction with the Middle Street Walk. Fair hours will be 9 AM to 1:30 PM in our downstairs fellowship hall. We will be having a cookie walk, and...
Religious Education Resumes September 24
We are happy to welcome Kiana DuBose back with us on Sunday mornings, beginning on September 24. Kiana will be offering children's programming for elementary aged children and up downstairs in our Fellowship Hall.
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
A New Song for America, led by Reverend Janet Parsons with music by Steve Lacey. Our theme for September is Beginnings. What might a new beginning look like for the United States?
Worship is in-person or at the livestream link below. Please join us at 10am. Everyone is welcome!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIeJfO72kLh-gAtZZT-QOng/live
WEATHER CONCERNS
We are watching the predicted storm closely but it's too soon to decide whether Sunday's service will need to be cancelled or moved onto Zoom. We will send out a Constant Contact update either Saturday evening or first thing Sunday morning: watch your inboxes! If the service moves onto Zoom, the link will be included in that email.
Above all, please decide always to do what is safest for yourself!