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Welcome to First Unitarian in New Bedford – a church entering its fourth century with a commitment to honor our past and embrace the future.
We seek to create a community of peace and inspiration, where every individual feels welcome, and can find a safe harbor for engaging in religious dialogue and spiritual growth.
Our spiritual lives also actively engage New Bedford’s challenges – in racial, social, and economic justice, in finding ecological sustainability, and in ensuring a place for education and the arts. This is reflected in our worship and our religious education programs, as well as by our participation in improvement initiatives of New Bedford’s voluntary public service groups and neighborhood associations.
We are guided by our mission – to encourage diversity and mutual acceptance, and to work for positive change in ourselves and in our community. In our relationships with one another we seek to realize the ideals of our covenant:
We come together as a religious community upholding freedom of conscience,
right relationship, and the inherent worth of all people.
We value our diversity and pledge to care for one another in the spirit of compassion, to speak and listen to each other with respect, and to promote justice and kindness in the world.
We welcome you into our family.
Sunday Worship Services at 11:00 a.m.
June 20, 2010
The Story of the Flower Communion
Rev. Dr. Robert Ross
Music by Randy Fayan
Learning about the Labyrinth
Your first visit to our congregation? Here's what to expect.
We value our differences of age, gender, race, class, national origin, sexual orientation, physical ability, and theology. Our bylaws specifically state: "Any person of any gender, age, race, color, national origin, or sexual orientation who is in sympathy with the puprpose and program shall be eligible for membership in the church." Contact us: 
At right: Everett Hoagland, member of the congregation and former poet laureate of New Bedford, reading one of his poems at a celebration of First Unitarian's 300th anniversary, January 18, 2008.
Mail: First Unitarian, 71 8th Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
Phone: 508-994-9686
Office: M-F, 9-1 (closed Jul/Aug)
Email: NBU718@aol.com