Today's service is "Widening the Circle" led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from music director Jed Holland, worship associate Elizabeth Lewis, and members of our Widening the Circle study group. Listen to the beautiful duet "One Day" and the thoughtful reflections by the Widening the Circle group.
Today's service is "Beauty and Awe" and is led by ministerial intern Caro Barschow, with support from worship associates Vengerflutta Smith and Emma Rearick, and music director Jed Holland.
The Limits of Awakening
This is our Easter service, led by Reverend Allison Palm with support from Ministerial Intern, Caro Barschow.
Today's service is "Woven Into a Single Garment of Destiny" The majority of the service was led by UUA President Rev Susan Frederick-Gray and UU Leaders from across the country with prerecorded videos. Unfortunately, we are unable to post this wonderful service.
Today's service is "Live Each Day As If It Were the First" and is led by Rev Allison Palm. with support from Music Director Jed Holland, Ministerial Intern Caro Barschow, Bob Coulter, Tess George, Kim Steele, and Jodie Holway.
Renewing What We Share
This service is led by guest minister, Reverend Shayna Appel with support from Worship Associate Emma Rearick. The title of the sermon is "Church v. Country Club; What’s the Difference?".
Today's service is "What does it mean to be church?: Generosity & Commitment”, and is led by the Rev Patrick McLaughlin. Rev Patrick is here visiting from Manchester, NH as part of a 3-way pulpit swap. This week Rev Allison is in Milford, and Milford's minister Rev Shayna Appel is preaching in Manchester. Rev Patrick is assisted today by our ministerial intern Caro Barschow, Music Director Jed Holland, Diane Wolfe, and Pat Ladew.
Today 's service is " A Promise Breaking, Promise Re-making Faith", led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from Music Director Jed Holland, and worship associate Bob Coulter.
"Widening the Circle of Concern" - This service will explore the Widening the Circle of Concern report from our UUA Commission on Institution Change. What do the recommendations of this report mean for our congregation?
This service, led by Reverend Allison Palm with support from Ministerial Intern, Caro Barschow, and Worship Associate, Diane Wolfe, explores the role of pastoral care in our congregation and our faith. The church's Pastoral Care Associates offer their perspectives on the purpose, the process, and the value of pastoral care and explore the question, "How do we understand the congregation as a source of support and care?"
Today's service is "Fueling Our Flame", led by the Stewardship Team and Rev Allison Palm, with support from Music Director Jed Holland, ministerial intern Caro Barschow, Eileen Herring, and Brenna Woods. It takes a wide circle of support to keep our congregation. Join us to reflect on our gifts and the way we use them to fuel the flame of our congregation.
Today's service is "What Now? And What's Next?", led by our guest worship leader Matt Meyer, with support from Music Director Jed Holland, Bob Coulter, and Jodi Holway. When our plans are continually rethought, our calendars are revised, our schedules revisited, perhaps what we need are better questions for the future, instead of reaching for concrete answers. When things are changing quickly and the future is hard to predict, perhaps we can look to each other when we can’t always look ahead.
Today's service is Reproductive Justice Sunday. It is led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from Music Director Jed Holland, ministerial intern Caro Barschow, Moe Daniels, and Lindsey Sylvester. Several of the videos were provided by the UUA. In commemoration of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the ongoing fight for reproductive health, rights, and justice, we will join UU congregations across the country for a Sunday of solidarity, support, and reflection. If you would like to look at sexuality resources for families, click here: https://uunashua.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Sexuality-Resources-for-Families.pdf We apologize for the unexpected background radio music due to technical difficulties. Check out the contemplative music "All This Joy", the thoughtful song "Kids Only Matter When They're Not Born Yet" and the wonderful upbeat hymn "My Roots Go Down".
"Living in to our Principles"- What are the key ideas or principles that we go back to that help us to live with intention? We’ll hear from UU Nashua member Bob Keating about one of his touchstones and consider what it is that helps guide our lives.
In this service, led by Reverend Allison Palm and our Director of Faith Formation, Sadie Kahn-Greene, we honor Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday by exploring how we turn our good intentions into action for a better world. At the end of this service, we say goodbye for now to Sadie as she heads off on a four month sabbatical!
Today's service is "Living Deliberately", led by Rev Allison Palm, and supported by Ministerial Intern Caro Barschow, Music Director Jed Holland, Faith Formation Director Sadie Kahn-Greene, Andy Capen, and Moe Daniels. Sometimes taking time away from our everyday life can help us to reset and find new perspective. This service will explore the value of intentional time away and what this will look like for our upcoming staff sabbaticals.
Today's service is "Putting Down Intentions", led by Worship Associates Robin Trudel, Charlotte Cardone, and Emma Rearick, with support from Music Director Jed Holland, and Director of Faith Formation Sadie Kahn-Greene.
"Coziness" - When do you feel cozy? Let’s reflect on this quality of being and how it can restore us and open us to the joy and sorrow of life. A Zoom-only worship service – wear your slippers, bring your blanket and fill up your favorite mug with something warm and yummy.
This service is our Family Christmas Eve service, led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from Sadie Kahn-Greene, Caro Barschow, Jed Holland, Carl Phillips, and friends.
This is our middle Christmas Eve service, of Lessons and Carols, led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from Caro Barschow, Jed Holland, Vengerflutta Smith, and Andy Capen.
This is our 9 pm Lessons and Carols Christmas Eve service, led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from Caro Barschow, Jed Holland, Robin Trudel, and Emma Rearick.
Through story and song, we celebrate and honor the solstice with a modern solstice tale by Rev. Erica Baron. This service is led by Director of Faith Formation, Sadie Kahn-Greene and our minister, the Reverend Allison Palm. Also contributing their talents are Laurel, Abigail, Anna, Cooper, Jayden, Charlotte, Phinn, and Sabrina.
Today's service is "Finding Your Joy" and is led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from Vengerflutta Smith, Sadie Kahn-Greene, Caro Barschow, and Music Director Jed Holland. Today is the first Sunday that we opened back up to a limited number of congregation members, as well as members on Zoom. There's some wonderful music, a great wonder box story, and a great sermon!
Today's service is "What is Joy?" and is led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from Pat Ladew, ministerial intern Caro Barschow, and Music Director Jed Holland. This service is full of wonderful music, a wonderful sermon by Rev Allison, and an interview with the composer of our closing song "Peace and Joy".
"Florence Nightingale Had it Worse" - We explore the challenges of dealing with today’s epidemic, as well as broader social challenges, in the context of Unitarian Florence Nightingale’s experiences and frustrations.
This service, Led by Rev. Allison Palm with support from Ministerial Intern, Caro Barschow and Director of Faith Formation, Sadie Kahn-Greene, shares lessons of the honorable harvest from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. This service is about learning from the wisdom and lessons from the indigenous teaching of this land.
Today's service is led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from Music Director Jed Holland, Ministerial Intern Caro Barschow, and Pat Ladew.
Today's service is "All That We Let In", led by Rev Allison Palm with support from Faith Formation Director Sadie Kahn-Greene, Music Director Jed Holland, and Emma Rearick. In this service, we will explore how our personal histories shape who we become. How do we hold the heaviness of being human with intention and care? We had some technical difficulties, so please excuse the sound quality on some parts. We also left out some parts of the service as a result.
Today's service is our All Soul's Service, led by Rev Allison Palm and Faith Formation Director Sadie Kahn-Greene. Join us for our annual service of remembrance for our loved ones who have died. We will explore together how we cultivate relationship with those who are no longer with us.
"Switch It Up Sunday: Cultivating Relationship" This week we will switch it up by offering short breakout group workshops for all ages as part of the service. Each one will focus on a different aspect of cultivating relationship – with yourself, with each other, with the earth, with music, etc.
In November, activists and world leaders will gather for the international UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement. Achieving these goals will safeguard the homes and lives of millions of people. In this service, led by our Ministerial Intern, Caro Barschow, with support from Worship Associate, Andy Capen, we join with people of faith around the globe to raise our voices to affirm commitments to climate justice and an end to a fossil fuel-based economy.
Today's service is led by Director of Faith Formation Sadie Kahn-Greene, with support from Music Director Jed Holland, and the Land Acknowledgement Working Group.
Today's service is led by Rev Allison Palm with support from Vengerflutta Smith, Music Director Jed Holland, and Director of Faith Formation Sadie Kahn-Greene. How do we cultivate relationship with those with whom we disagree? What can our core values teach us about how to disagree with intention and love?
"Hugging Hope" - We are in the midst of a time of so much trauma. How do we take care of ourselves? How can connect to our bodies to find healing and hope?
Our world is in a time of rapid change in so many ways. This service, led by Reverend Allison Palm, examines the possibilities of this moment, and explores the question, "What kind of world is emerging?"
Today is our annual Ingathering Water Communion! We explore the way water connects us, talk about what it means to take the risk of being a part of a community, and welcome our new Ministerial Intern, Caro Barschow. Today's service is led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from Music Director Jed Holland, Director of Faith Formation Sadie Kahn-Greene,
Today's service is "Transforming the World Through Music", led by Paul Introcaso, with support from Eileen Herring. Celebrate our similarities and differences throughout the World with Music and Dance. Experience the power of global connection when musicians and dancers from various nations, races, ages, genders, and nationalities collaborate on songs and dance searching for Higher Ground. We are unable to post much of the music today, but it was great! The music was by Playing for Change. Please search them out at the Playing for Change Website https://playingforchange.com/
Today's service is "Best of UU Nashua Music", and is led by Anne Smith, Dan Murphy, and Emma Rearick. Come enjoy some of our best music videos from the last year and a half! We’ll share music and brief reflections on why we selected each piece. (Note: We are unable to post the video portions of the songs, but you can listen to the audio)
"Blessing of the Backpacks" - Have your backpacks, briefcases and other bags on hand to be blessed before the start of the new school/work year in this fun all-ages service.
In this service, led by Rev. Allison Palm, members of our Adult Coming of Age (ACOA) class share about their beliefs and we invite everyone into deeper reflection on the question: "What Do You Believe?" We heard from half of the ACOA class back in May and this week we hear from class members Karen Thomas and Sunrisa O'Toole.
Today's service is led by Rev Allison Palm, with support from music director Jed Holland, Elizabeth Lewis, and church members who attended UU GA: Robin Trudel, Eileen Herring, Harry Purkhiser, and Lindsey Sylvester.
Today's service is led by Robin Trudel, with support from music director Jed Holland and worship associate Pat Ladew. Are deities entities with wants and needs, exercising agency in our world? Or are they ideals and ideas that inspire and comfort us? Rather than providing definitive answers together we may discover a new perspective for considering the questions.
"Photography as a Spiritual Practice" It has been said that ‘photography trains our attention on the awesome in the ordinary.‘ This morning, Peggy and Laurie will reflect on the meaning of this in their own photography and the photography of others.
Entitled "Acts of Creation as Acts of Faith", this service combines "what is" into "what never would have been". Led by Carl Phillips, this service features creative works from members of the congregation
Today's service is led by Bob Coulter, with support from Music Director Jed Holland and Worship Associate Robin Trudel.
Today's service is led by our Faith Formation Director Sadie Kahn-Greene, Jenn Blosser, Director of Fatih Formation at the UU Fellowship in Hartford County, MD, and Jessica Harwood, Director of Faith Development and Community Engagement at the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence.
General Assembly 2021: Join us for the largest annual gathering of UUs joining in worship, led this year by the team at the First Universalist Church of Minneapolis.
This service, led by congregant Jim Bonvouloir, with the assistance of Worship Associate, Emma Rearick, honors fathers and fatherhood (as well as parents in general). We reflect on the roles and responsibilities of fathers, and how our ideas about fatherhood can evolve to meet the challenges of our world.
Today's service is our annual Flower Communion Service, led by Rev. Allison Palm. We wrap up our church year with our traditional Flower Communion Sunday, honoring our connections to one another and to the earth. This afternoon we meet from 2-4pm for an in-person drop in flower exchange, and a chance to visit the sanctuary.
All are welcome to our “Bridging Sunday” worship service, led by Rev. Allison Palm, DFF Sadie Kahn-Greene & our Bridging Youth. This service honors our graduating seniors. We’ll hear from a couple of our seniors about this transition time and reflect on transition times in our own lives.
Today's service "What Do We Believe" is led by Rev. Allison Palm, with support from ministerial intern Ben Atherton-Zeman, Music Director Jed Holland, and worship associate Dick Widhu. In this service, members of our Adult Coming of Age class share about their beliefs, and we invite everyone into deeper reflection on the question: what do you believe?
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