Upcoming Services

Photo by Mark Bailey
Photo: Mark Bailey

As a community that welcomes diversity, we are dedicated to exploring various religious traditions and ideas in our Sunday services and various special services throughout the year, such as celebrations of the Solstices, Christmas, Passover, and more.

Each week, we strive to embrace the value of human expression with stories, sermons, music, and art.

All are welcome.

Join us Sundays at 10am in person or on Zoom.

To contribute to the Sunday collection, click here.

Our May worship theme is: Hope is up to all of us.

Sunday, May 17, at 10am

Coming of Age

First Parish Youth

Join us on Zoom

This unique service led by the youth who have been in our year-long Coming of Age program will be an uplifting experience as always. Come hear from our 9th and 10th graders about what they believe and value.

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Sunday, May 24, at 10am

Symptoms and Causes

Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger

Join us on Zoom

This Sunday’s topic is chosen by the 2025 sermon auction winner. We will examine the Trump phenomenon and ask, to what extent is Trump the author of the changes (one might say calamities) we see around us, and to what extent is he the symptom of other longstanding stresses, strains, and dysfunctions in American life that are now manifesting? Is he the cause or the symptom? Both? And then, what do we do?

Sunday, May 31, at 10am

Celebrating Our Multigenerational Connections

Rev. Annie Gonzalez

Join us on Zoom

This month’s theme is “hope is up to all of us” and in this all ages service we will celebrate the adults who make our children and youth programs possible along with our senior youth bridging into young adulthood. Come find hope in the community connections found at First Parish in Bedford.

Congregational Announcements

To submit a Friday email and/or Sunday bulletin announcement

Submissions are due at NOON on Wednesdays.

Past Services

2025–2026: The overarching theme for this worship year is “Hope.” 

May 2026
“Hope is up to all of us.”

  • Sun. May 10: Follow the Goosebumps (Rev. Ali Jablonsky)
  • Sun. May 3: Music Sunday: All Ages Service (A Tribute to the Artistic Diversity of the United States)

April 2026
“Hope is freedom.”

  • Sun. April 26: Let the Storm Rage On (Rev. Annie Gonzalez)
  • Sun. April 19 (Earth Day Service): Freedom and Interdependence (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger and the Environmental Justice Committee)
  • Sun. April 12: I Call That Mind Free (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger)
  • Sun. April 5 (Easter Services): Traditional (9am), All Ages (11am)
  • Fri. April 3: Tenebrae (Good Friday) Service (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger)

March 2026
“Hope is a verb!”

  • Sun. Mar. 29: On Loneliness (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger)
  • Sun. Mar. 22: It Matters What We Do: All Ages Service (Rev. Annie Gonzalez)
  • Sun. Mar. 15: Tea Parties and Mud Ball: Stewardship Sunday Service (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger)
  • Sun. Mar. 8 (International Women’s Day Service): Hope Is Not a Lottery Ticket (Eileen Campbell, International Justice Mission)
  • Sun. Mar. 1: Call and Response: Process Theology, Hope, and One Tiny Barking Dog (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger)

February 2026
“Hope is about winning the imagination battle.”

  • Sun. Feb. 22: Awe and Everyday Wonder (Rev. Jo Murphy, Executive Director, UU Mass Action)
  • Sun. Feb. 15: Minneapolis, Part Two (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger)
  • Sun. Feb. 8: Making Our Dreams a Reality: All Ages Service (Worship Team)
  • Sun. Feb. 1: Give Them Not Hell, But Hope (Rev. Annie Gonzalez)

January 2026
“Hope is a leap into the unknown.”

  • Sun. Jan. 25: On Lowering the Temperature (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger)
  • Sun. Jan. 18: To the Light of Human Conscience (Rev. Annie Gonzalez)
  • Sun. Jan. 11: My Phone, My Frenemy (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger)
  • Sun. Jan. 4: A Vision for the New Year (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger)

December 2025
“Hope is a gift.”

  • Sun. Dec. 28: Make Space for Hope – Burning Bowl (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger)
  • Wed. Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve Services): Family (3:30pm), Traditional (8:00pm)
  • Sun. Dec. 21: As We Await the Dawn (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger)
  • Sun. Dec. 14: Regifting Hope (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger)
  • Sun. Dec. 7: A Mixed Bag (Rev. Annie Gonzalez)

November 2025
“Hope looks like not giving up.”

October 2025
“Hope is knowing you are enough.”

  • Sun. Oct. 26: Ancestors Memorial Service: All Ages Service (Worship Team)
  • Sun. Oct. 19: What Is Too Much? (Rev. Annie Gonzalez)
  • Sun. Oct. 12: All That Can Be Saved (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger)
  • Sun. Oct. 5: Enough and Never Enough (Rev. Jamie Hinson-Rieger)

September 2025
“Hope is openness.”