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• May 17 - Having a Plan B

  Things don't always go the way you had intended. And the time eventually comes for backing up and reconsidering the options. Let's take a look at a problem solving model that works for most any decision you will ever need to make. Our own Ron Green is a ...

• May 10 - no Lyceum due to Ferry Beach

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• May 3 - “Family Discoveries through Genealogy”

  featuring Doris Smith, Bea Brown, and Sharon McDonald. Whether discovering pioneers, patriots or witches, genealogy reveals amazing family stories. Come hear three reports of what has been learned from scrutinizing the family tree....

• Sunday, May 3 at 10 a.m.

  Music Sunday Under the direction of Brad Conner, the First Parish choir, along with a chamber orchestra  and  soloists, will  be  presenting  excerpts  from  Franz  Josef Haydn’s  choral masterpiece  �...

• Global Neighbors Series

  Sunday April 26, 12-2 pm, and Sunday May 3, 12-2 pm This year, by an accident of scheduling, we will have two Dialogues on Liberal Religion on two successive Sundays: April 26 with Ulil Abshar Abdalla on Liberal Islam and May 3 with Rabbi Howard Jaffe on...

• Website Task Force

  Contributors: Mike Boczenowski Sandy Boczenowski Sue Ellis Ed Fields Charlie Frean Delsey Sherrill Carlton Soohoo Julie Turner Advisors: Mike Akillian Joan Bowen Carol Hamilton Steve Hanna...

• Sunday, April 26 at 10 a.m.

  "The Presence of the Past" Rev John Gibbons preaching New Member Sunday In our service on April 26, we'll be welcoming new members to First Parish and I've chosen to preach on "The Presence of the Past."  I'm not sure what I'll have to say, but I want...

• Plant Fair

  The 56th Annual First Parish Plant & Craft Fair 10 am until 3 pm  ~ Saturday May 16, 2009 on The Bedford Common (rain or shine)   Plant & Craft Fair News - Issue#1 Plant & Craft Fair News - Issue#2 Plant & Craft...

• Haunted House

  Haunted House blog: http://deadford.blogspot.com Haunted House Home www.HauntedBedford.org Find us on  and Follow us on           October 29th & 30th 2010 2010 will mark our fourth year of turning First Parish into a Haunted House. It...

• Haunted House this Fri & Sat!

  Haunted House blog: http://deadford.blogspot.com Haunted House Home www.HauntedBedford.org    Find us on  and Follow us on         October 29th & 30th 2010 2010 will mark our fourth year of t...

• Summer Services

  We’ll be open summer Sundays at 10:00 a.m. – for coffee, newspapers, informal conversation and the distribution of excess garden zucchini. Still not formal but more thematic services will begin on Sunday, July 26 when the Rev. Ken MacLean will preach ...

• Sunday, May 10 at 10 a.m.

  “How We Greet the Day” Rev. Diane Teichert, preaching In the Hoopa Indian tradition, it is said that we “hum our shadow home” in the morning, each with our own signature song. Our neighbor Henry David Thoreau wrote at the end of Walden, "Onl...

• Ferry Beach

  First Parish Annual Retreat 2009 May 8-10, 2009 The Unitarian Universalist Conference Center Saco, Maine This weekend has been a First Parish tradition for enough years that some who came here as kids, now bring their own kids!  About 175-20...

• Ferry Beach Weekend - Sign up by April 17

    First Parish Annual Retreat Friday May 6 – Sunday May 8, 2011   Each year for a weekend in May, all First Parishioners are invited to spend the weekend at Ferry Beach, a Unitarian Universalist conference center on the ocean near Saco, ...

• Music Sunday

  On Sunday May 3, 2009, the  adult  choir  will  present  excerpts  from Franz  Joseph Haydn’s  ‘Creation’ with  soloists and instrumentalists.” One of the reasons that  “Creation”  is  so  appropriate  is  because this  is  20...

• Parish Board 08-09

  Parish Board 2008-9  Back row, from left: Bob Dorer, Deb Bodeau, Judi Curcio, Merc Kane (chair), Luanne Livesay, Rev. Diane Teichert (ex officio).  Front row: Delsey Sherrill, Rich Rosenberry (treasurer), Rev. John Gibbons (ex officio). Purp...

• Parish Board 09-10

    Parish Board 2009-10  Back row, from left: Bob Johnson (Treasurer), Rev. Megan Lynes (ex officio), Diane Martin,  Joan Bowen, John McCulloch, Delsey Sherrill, Luanne Livesay.  Front row: Rev. John Gibbons (ex officio), Deb Bodeau (c...

• Annual Budget Drive for 2011

  Planning for next year is underway. One of the first steps is to develop a budget to establish  what we will be able to support financially. At the Board’s February meeting, we established a  pledge goal of $367,000 for the Annual Budget Drive...

• Sunday, April 19 at 10 a.m.

  “Patriotism as a UU Value” Ron Green, Alma Hart, Meredith McCulloch and Anne Larkin   Honestly, haven't you wondered if being a "free thinking, liberated, truth-seeking, love the journey of discovery" member of a UU congregation allows room for...

• Sunday, April 12 at 11 a.m.

  Easter Sunday Family Service “A Nest for the Egg of Us” Lisa Rubin and Rev. Diane Teichert, Worship Leaders Easter morning brings us out to celebrate new life in and around us. Gather your eggs: you’re invited to bring (lightweight) ...