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Growth Programs

The Spiritual Growth Program provides opportunities and programs to awaken and sustain love, compassion, service and personal transformation. Our goal is to help individuals discover how spiritual practice, learning, and community service can transform their lives and move the world toward peace and justice.

Our programs are guided by a set of seven principles. One of these principles affirms our intention to accept one another and encourage each other's spiritual growth. We will not judge the path you have chosen; rather we will offer programs which will help you strengthen your own disciplines.

Spirit and Practice

The varieties of human spiritual practices are vast. Chosen carefully, the right practice can awaken and sustain, enrich and transform your life.

  • Sunday Services
  • Choir
  • Meditation
  • Participation in Religious Education (Adults and Children)
  • Rituals
  • Small Group Ministries
  • Women for all Seasons

Spirit and Community

Because we need each other, we gather for conversation, shared meals, and the simple enjoyment of good company. In this way we nourish our spirit and support each other as we experience the joys and sorrows of life.

  • Auction Dinners and Parties
  • Blue Berry Fair
  • Camping Trips
  • Ceilidh
  • Dinner for Eight
  • Friday’s at the First
  • First Tuesday Pot Luck
  • Martin Luther King Breakfasts
  • No Particular Reason
  • Potluck Suppers
  • RE Intergenerational Programs
  • Rummage Sale
  • Youth Conferences

Spirit and Learning

All spiritual growth requires an openness to learn and explore alternatives. When we welcome questions, doubts, curiosity and an open mind, our spirit grows.

  • Adult Discussion Group
  • Asset Mapping – other congregational gatherings with specific goals
  • Ferry Beach Programs
  • Guest Sunday Service Leaders
  • Guest Speakers
  • Lay Sundays
  • Life Span Religious Education
  • Music Ministry, Choir
  • New to FPUU Sessions
  • New to UU Sessions
  • Star Island Programs
  • Thematic Sunday Services: Water Ceremony, Flower Communion, Christmas Eve, Seder, Day of the Dead

Spirit and Service

Once you begin to feel your life being transformed, you become alive to your new strength and the possibility of serving others and working for peace and justice.

  • Hands Across the Aisle
  • Bon Appétit Soup Kitchen
  • Caring Connection - Outreach      Access Signup Form

  • Christmas Tree Gifts
  • Dolls for Haiti
  • Easter Baskets
  • FPUU Leadership and Committees
  • FPUU Office Volunteers
  • Fundraising for Special Programs and Charities
  • Guest at Our Table – UU Service Committee
  • Mitten Tree
  • Lyme Awareness
  • Thanksgiving Food Collection
  • Sharing Our Community Space – AA, School Around Us, New School, Men’s Clubs, Sierra Club
  • Shawl Ministry - Outreach
  • Social Justice - Outreach
  • York County Shelter Food Pantry

For more information, please contact the church at 985-3700, or just stop by!