News & Announcements
Thanks for a successful Socks and Underwear Drive
Mountains of socks, underwear, bras etc. are finally being delivered this week. Thanks for making our third annual drive successful go to a number of volunteers: Charlie Deavila, Diane Faissler, Sally Waite, Jim Seavey, Karen Watson, Diana Peck, and Gail Campbell....
GUU Art Gallery
GUU Art Gallery The new art gallery will be open to the public every Saturday from 2-5pm. Many, many thanks to Jay McLauchlan, Jim Seavey, Willie Alexander, and Jerry Ackerman for installing our first-ever members and friends art exhibit in the Entry House!
Garden Tours
Gardening and Garden Tours – We will be continuing our informal garden tours this summer. Dates and addresses to come once the flowers emerge! Contact Diana Peck if you would like to offer your garden for a tour. And, for those who are interested in gardening, please...
Book Discussion – Tuesday, May 30th at 7:00pm – The Years by Annie Ernaux
Our next book selection was winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature and has been shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. To allow for more folks to participate in the discussion, we will be meeting in the evening. Mark your calendars and spread...
Book Discussion Group Meeting: July 11 at 10:00 AM
Please join in the fun of reading and discussing books at GUUC. Our last book, The Years by Annie Ernaux, was well-received by most and our lively discussion was accompanied by homemade madeleines, macarons, Camembert, a baguette and bottled Perrier water. C’est...
Third Annual Local Socks and Underwear Drive Expands Scope
April 1 through 30, 2023 Everyone needs socks and underwear but you can’t buy them in a thrift store! They’re essential but too personal to be handed down. During the month of April, for the third year in a row, the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church will join...
Sermon Archive
The Right of Conscience
The Right of Conscience © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church June 15, 2025 On January 21st, 2025, the day following the presidential inauguration, there was a national prayer service held at Washington’s National Cathedral. I read through the service and it...
We Need You to Be Who You Are
We Need You to Be Who You Are © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church June 8, 2025 This week, during the parade of daily adventures that range from the absurd to the corrupt to the cruel to the merely incompetent, a memorandum from the Secretary of the Navy...
Finding Our Voices Beyond the Boundaries
Finding Our Voices Beyond the Boundaries Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church May 18, 2025 “The opposite of war isn’t peace, it’s creation.” I was reminded recently of these lyrics from the song La Vie Boheme in the musical Rent, and they struck me as relevant...
Our Sheltering Promise
Our Sheltering Promise Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 27, 2025 “This is no time for a casual faith.” One of my strongest memories of the protests against the white supremacists who showed up in Charlottesville, Virginia back in the summer of 2017 is...
Upcoming Services
Cultivating Joy as an act of Resistance, led by guest Reverend Wendy Page. Music by Steve Lacey.
Worship is in-person, or at the livestream link below. Please join us at 10am!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIeJfO72kLh-gAtZZT-QOng/live