Get Inspired

Whether you want to be a part of a community or just want quiet moments to look within yourself, services at FUSW can provide you with thought-provoking sermons, a communal sharing of many different individual perspectives, music, humor, and a community of warm and caring adults, youth, and children.  FUSW is served by a minister who promotes the inherent worth and dignity of every person, the free and responsible search for truth, loving committment to Earth and the exploration of both ancient and contemporary wisdom. 

An enduring and cherished tradition at FUSW, lay-led services offer a unique opportunity to explore your own ideas and share them with the congregation. Each year our lay-led services are created, developed and presented by Program Groups comprised of FUSW members and friends.  Each group starts the process with a pot-luck dinner to get acquainted, select a theme, and determine who will take on the various responsibilities for putting on the service.  These collaborations result in dynamic and creative services that not only cover topics of interest to the group but inspire our congregation as we strengthen our feeling of community through service to each other. Whether you're a newcomer or a longtime member, Program Groups are an excellent way to become involved in our activities and to meet new people.

Summer Services are a rich tradition at FUSW.  Like Program Groups, Summer Services are lay-led, but are usually presented by individuals or smaller groups of two or three people.

Sing and rejoice by joining FUSW’s Coffee Hour Choir, an all-volunteer intergenerational group, presenting music of many styles from many different cultures, both sacred and secular, including folk and world music.  Although the choir has a "drop-in" policy--the only commitment necessary is to attend at least one of the rehearsals for a particular choir service--we recommend attending rehearsals as often as you can.  The choir sings at both services, once or twice a month, and at holiday services.  

Come join us most Sundays at 10:30 am in the Meeting Room.  On days that we sing in the services, those of us who can meet at 9:45 in the RE Wing to rehearse and sing at the end of the 9:30 service, followed by a 10:30 rehearsal before we sing the 11:15 service.  We always sing early enough in the service that the RE teachers and assistants, children and teens in our choir community will be able to get to class on time.

Our music director is Richard Slade, and our accompanist is Diane Guernsey.  Read more about our music staff.