About Our Congregation
- Our Unison Affirmation, repeated at the opening of every Sunday service:
Love is the doctrine of this church.
The quest for Truth is its sacrament and Service is its prayer.
This is our great covenant:
To dwell together in Peace,
To seek the Truth in Love,
And to help one another,
To the end that all souls shall grow into Harmony
With the Divine.
- We are Unitarian Universalists. We value our connections to our denomination, our sister congregations, and Unitarian Universalists around the world.
- We warmly welcome new friends and new members.
- We are a self-governing congregation working hand in hand with a superb professional staff to carry out our mission.
- The First Parish community is diverse, but united by strong shared beliefs.
- We seek to enable our friends and members to get involved and take initiative. We try to make it easy to understand how things work at First Parish.
- Religious education for children, youth, and adults is central to our mission.
- We welcome and support equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.
- We are an active community with a wide range of scheduled events and activities.
- We hold service to the larger community as one of our highest values.
- We are a forward-looking liberal congregation with a rich and long history.
- We communicate with one another in a variety of ways including a bi-weekly newsletter, email lists and a password-protected members' web site.
- We occupy a beautiful historic building on Lexington's Town Green.
- Our sermons are available on the web, and as a podcast.
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