Welcome to Old Ship
The Old Ship has been located on this Hingham knoll since 1681.
Old Ship Church
First Parish in Hingham
Unitarian Universalist
90 Main Street
Hingham, Massachusetts
781-749-1679
We are very pleased to welcome you to First Parish in Hingham, which is also known as Old Ship Church. We want you to feel comfortable among us.
Our parish house is across Main Street from the meetinghouse. Its address, and our mailing address, is:
107 Main Street, Hingham, MA 02043
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
To contact the office:
Phone Number: 781-749-1679
E-mail: office@oldshipchurch.org
Sunday, January 29
"All Hooked Together" will be Ken's sermon (the title cribbed from 19th century conservationist and writer John Muir). We talk about the "interdependent web of existence" perhaps too easily – as if we really did know what it means. What does it really mean… not only ecologically, but also socially and politically? And why does it matter that we understand the realities of interdependence now more than ever?
This will be a Sunday for signing the Membership Book during the service. If you wish to sign the book, or wish to learn more about what this commitment means, please contact Sharon Prehn (prehn@verizon.net), Laura Caterer (catererl@gmail.com), or our minister, Ken Read- Brown (oldshipkrb@comcast.net; 781-749-1679.
There will be a parish meeting following the service during which we will discuss and vote on our social justice focus for the coming year or two.
Sunday, February 5
Ken’s sermon will be "The Kindness of Strangers," reflections on the many and sometimes surprising ways our hearts can open in the midst of life’s trials and tribulations.
At 12:15 everyone is invited to an "Introduction to Sound Meditation" in the Parish House parlor, led by Old Shipper Santjes Oomen.
Friday, February 10
Come to relax and renew, come for music and meditation, come to be nourished and nurtured, come to be invigorated and inspired at our second Soulful Sundown service of the year, Friday evening, February 10. The theme: "Standing on the Side of Love!" Once again our energetic wonderful guest musicians will include Matt Meyer and friends.
Gather at the Parish House at 7:00 p.m. to walk together to the Meeting House up the luminaria lit path.
Sunday, February 12
Our preacher will be Old Ship's Diane Elliott. Diane's sermon will be "Here There Be Dragons".
As many of you know, Diane was our Director of Religious Education in the early 1990s, and then went on to serve the Belmont UU congregation and Arlington Street UU church in Boston. She is currently serving our Ballou Channing District as a religious education mentor. Diane earned her Master of Divinity degree from Andover Newton Theological School.
Sunday, February 19
Our guest preacher will be Rev. Amber Beland and the sermon will be "Oh the Places We Will Go".
Rev. Beland is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist growing up in churches in New Hampshire and Vermont. She has served as the Minister for Lifespan Faith Development in our congregation in Annapolis MD and as the Minister for Young Adults in the Church of the Younger Fellow- ship a program of the Church of the Larger Fellowship. She is the co-author of a new Tapestry of Faith Curriculum on Ethics and currently lives in New Hampshire where she is getting used to the cold weather again after liv- ing in warmer climes.
Ken Read-Brown will be sharing in the leadership of the service.
Sunday, February 26
"A Larger Circle" will be Ken’s sermon. Pete Seeger wrote his story of Abi Yo Yo during the 1950s era of McCarthyism - fear-mongering at its worst. Happily we still have the story; and of course we still have the gifts of music and all the arts, as well as the deepest and best wellsprings of spirituality to bring people into a larger circle as we create inclusive, loving community - in our world which needs inclusive, loving community more than ever.
Our monthly "outreach offering" will be taken today on behalf of a good cause that will be chosen by the Social Responsibility Committee.
Childcare is available before Sunday services:
If you plan to attend the All Parish Conversation, Men's Breakfast or Bodhisattva Study Group on a Sunday morning and need childcare in order to do so, please call our office (781-749-1679) by Wednesday before the Sunday, and we will do our best to arrange childcare in the nursery for you.
Fellowship Hour
The list of folk hosting Fellowship Hour and when they are on may be accessed by clicking here.
Click here if you need suggestions (instructions) on what to do and bring for Coffee Hour.
Thursday Morning Meditation
Sitting meditation begins at 5:45 am, & again about 6:30 am , for a
half hour, we break it up with bells, walking
meditation, & a Heart Sutra chant.
If you have
any questions email Eric Cornetta,
EECornetta@mac.com or
Rob Baynes at Rob@RBaynes.com.
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