The Hospitality Committee wants to thank everyone who contributed to the successful Thanksgiving potluck luncheon on Sunday. People brought food, washed dishes, and the Sunday School kids decorated tables with place settings and flowers! We all created a festive, warm, and welcoming meal.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. -Melody Beattie

I know, you never intended to be in this world. But you’re in it all the same. So why not get started immediately. I mean, belonging to it. There is so much to admire, to weep over… Do you need a prod? Do you need a little darkness to get you going? Let me be as urgent as a knife, then, and remind you of Keats, so single of purpose and thinking, for a while, he had a lifetime. Mary Oliver

This is a quick "Welcome back!" newsletter. We will be back to the official editions of The Compass next week. I am always looking for interesting news, guest articles, and photos for the newsletter. Please send submissions to admin@uunewbedford by Mondays at 12:00 PM for the weekly Wednesday edition.

Join us for a two-part book discussion of Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, adapted and illustrated by Joel Christian Gill. Copies of the book are available for those who wish to participate.

Last full newsletter of the church year! Karen's last day in the office is June 26. She can be reached on her cell for pastoral care. She...

I've Got a Song! A Living History & Stories from the McCarthy Era, with a Q&A following the Service. “They believed in a better life for the working class. They were among the first Americans to perceive the fascist threat of Hitler’s Germany. But as anti communist hysteria swept the country following World War II, people in the communist movement found themselves either denying their principles or defending them....

This Sunday, June 1, we welcome guest, Matt Meyer with his sermon titled, "Holy Curiosity." Join us for service of song and silence, grounding ourselves in ritual and reflection. We’ll breathe deeply, letting go of what has not served us, and invite each other back to love.

This Sunday, May 25, we welcome Jerry Rooney from the Whitfield-Manjiro House as our guest speaker for Social Justice Sunday.

Join us this Saturday, May 17th, at 7 PM, in UU New Bedford's beautiful sanctuary for a concert with October Road - A Tribute to James Taylor.

Are you a new member or someone who would like to meet other members? The Board of Trustees is hosting a new members dinner on April 26 at 5 PM in the Parish House. The board will provide dinner, drinks, and dessert.

We are celebrating Earth Day this Sunday, April 13, with Mary Lou from "Be the Solution to Pollution."

It's easy to get tricked, taken for a ride, convinced that joy is a possession.

Executive Director of the YWCA, Gail Fortes, is the guest speaker this Sunday, March 30, 2025.

Sunday, March 23, Rev. Karen LeBlanc

Last chance to get tickets to Aoife Clancy & Eddie Dillon!

It is my sad duty to report that our church member, Lisa Regan Durr, passed away peacefully on February 2, 2025, surrounded by her large...

Week Three - Water is Life Mní Wičóni. Water is life.  This sacred truth, which echoed around the world as the Standing Rock Sioux Nation...

Living love through the practice of inclusion. Just saying the word “inclusion” conjures it up: The primal hunger to belong.

The UUA’s “Side with Love” 30 Days of Love Event is an “annual month of spiritual nourishment, political grounding, and shared practices...