IF YOU ARE NEW AND PLANNING TO VISIT
Questions? Or want to stop by the church for a non-Sunday visit?
Just call our church office (781-729-0949) or email us at church office
The office is open Monday - Friday from 8:30 am - 4:00 pm and there is voicemail in the evenings and on weekends.
Our Sunday worship services are at 10:30 a.m.
All are welcome! Every Sunday there is a service with reflections or sermon, music, readings and a time for meditation. Every Sunday there is childcare and from September to June we have a Religious Education program for preschool to middle school as well as childcare for infants and toddlers. Dress is casual to Sunday best.
Please come to explore, to worship and to participate in our programs and other activities.
The Winchester Unitarian Society
The Winchester Unitarian Society is a strong and vital congregation with a long history of fellowship and active community involvement. Our Sunday morning worship services are the heart of congregational life. All members including our children are together in the sanctuary at the beginning of each service. Early in the service our children are invited to the altar for an interactive session of story telling. The children then leave with their teachers to attend religious education classes.
Music is an important component of our services and we are fortunate to have two talented musicians on our staff directing our adult choir and children’s chorale.
We have many active adults dedicated to the Society, skilled in organizational thinking, management, and event planning. Our ministers and volunteer members extend our ministry to the infirm and bereaved in their homes or nursing facilities. We have established an adult religious education program and a very active social outreach program that includes tutoring disadvantaged youth in the inner city and multiple projects on the Gulf Coast to aid the post Katrina reconstruction. We recently received the Bennett Award for Congregation Action on Human Justice and Social Action for our Katrina-related projects. We have an active program with our partner church in Transylvania with annual visits of members and recently a group of our teens to Romania. We are planning to have a group of Romanian youth visit Winchester in 2008.
We are congregation that has a long and strong commitment to youth. Our youth ministry includes a high school youth group (WUSYG) which has 60 members, with some coming from outside of church families. We also offer a Coming of Age program for 9th graders, F8th in Action for 8th graders (original to our church), and OWL for 7th graders. This ministry is a source of enormous pride, led by and extraordinarily able director, who has been with us for 12 years.
By unanimous vote, we became a Welcoming Congregation in 1998. We have an active Welcoming Congregation Committee to help us maintain a focus on inclusiveness and diversity.
We are fortunate to have dynamic ministers and an excellent staff to coordinate our wide variety of programs but the strength of the congregation is the diverse membership of intelligent interesting individuals who have respect for independent thought and a strong belief in the importance of liberal religion in a community.
The Winchester Unitarian Society was founded in 1865. After the original wooden church was destroyed by fire in 1897, our Gothic Revival style sanctuary was completed in 1899. Built of Weymouth seam granite, it has been described by the Winchester Star as “an ornament to the parkway.”
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