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Our mission: To create and sustain a welcoming and caring community that embodies our UU principles, inspires spiritual growth without dogma or creed, and promotes and serves racial and social justice.

Palm Sunday: Can it Speak to Us UUs?

March 24 @ 10:30 am-11:30 am

Valerie Fontaine presenting

Please join Valerie in an exploration of potential lessons and revelations that might hold meaning for our lives today.  Special music will be provided by Dan Hotchkiss.

This morning we welcome Valerie Fontaine to the pulpit.  Valerie is a longtime member of this church and sings with the Chalice Choir.  She is also a member and past chair of the Music Committee and was instrumental in having the handicapped accessible door installed.   

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Welcome

If you are looking for a spiritual home, come in and experience our open minds, open hearts, and open doors. For over 125 years, the First Unitarian Universalist Society has been serving individuals and families in Middleboro and surrounding towns with great music, meaningful and thought-provoking sermons, and opportunities to give back. We are committed to spiritual growth and lifelong learning with religious exploration that promotes creativity, integrity, and compassion.  We work together to build a world that is more loving and more just for all people.

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A Note from the Minister

My friends in South Central Kentucky have been posting pictures of flowers, crocuses and daffodils, on their social media pages for weeks now.  Here in southeastern Massachusetts, we’ve been watching the snow melt ever so slowly over that same period of time.  Now February has come to an end, and March holds the promise of Spring, a real Spring “with flowers and everything” as the youngest among us might say.      By the end of the month, Spring will have made real progress.  There will be more light in the day each and every day, earlier sunrises and later sunsets.  We will be encouraged to look

Music Musings in March

On April 6, we have a unique opportunity to hear a world-class jazz concert right in our church! Our former music director, Jeannie Gagné, will be joined by Stan Strickland, Bruce Gertz, and Alberto Netto, all globe-trotting Berklee jazz artists. Anticipating our jazz concert, I’ve been thinking about Leonard Bernstein’s lectures to young people about music. He debunks the idea of “Classical Music” as static, long-haired, boring, or (worst yet) DEAD. He defines Classical Music as composed European music from about 1750 to 1820. Before that, historically, were Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music. After Classical were the Romantic, 20th and 21st century periods.

Religious Exploration in March

Please consider joining us for one of our RE classes.  We have a nursery with two babysitters each week for young children and infants as well as a Religious Exploration class for children.  We are a small but mighty group and welcome all newcomers.  If your children are older, we have a youth group bi-monthly on Sunday evenings.  All our children this year are “Building Bears of Wholeness” and collecting badges that support our values.  There are always new bears for newcomers no matter the age or how long they join us!

Social Justice in March

Our team has been researching how our congregation can maximize its impact on the critical 2024 elections. We’ve reviewed non-profit organizations that can help us increase both voter turnout and knowledge of the issues voters need to know when casting their votes. And on the first Sunday in April (4/7), we will present opportunities that we believe can offer all of us effective ways to become engaged and have a significant impact on our democracy at local, state and federal levels. 

Cash in the Plate for March

Our congregation’s March Cash in the Plate (CIP) will be donated to Brockton based Health Imperatives that has as its mission “to improve the health and well-being of low-income, vulnerable people in Southeastern Massachusetts.”  Because March includes a fifth Sunday this year, the proceeds of the CIP that day (3/31) will be given to the Mashpee based Native Land Conservancy, a Native led land conservancy that is working to purchase additional land to expand the conservancy.

A Note from the Search Committee

I have learned that some parishioners are concerned about the congregation’s role in selecting the new minister.  The contract minister process is very different from the settled minister process.

Can You Help?

Middleboro resident and business owner Jim Lane and his wife were on a very well-deserved cruise when a fire broke out and their house burned down. His home and all their possessions were destroyed in a 2:00 a.m. fire on February 24 here in Middleboro.  In addition, one of his young daughters died.  They now have nothing … and are homeless.