The Unitarian Universalist Church of Wakefield is a gathering place for some of the most interesting, most alive, most caring people in town. We say no creed and impose no belief test, welcoming people of any theological persuasion, occupation, ethnicity, and lifestyle.

We open the church year the first Sunday after Labor Day with a water communion, where everyone is invited to bring a sample of water collected from places they visited during the summer. This water from all over is an appropriate symbol, for we draw our spiritual sustenance from the deep wells of Christian, Jewish, Unitarian, Universalist, pagan, Buddhist, humanist and other religious traditions, and lift up the right of individual conscience in the big questions of life.

Along the way, we have a lot of fun, from the Halloween Party to the Winter Solstice Service to the Christmas Pageant to a Maypole on the Town Common. We have a very active Sunday School, adult and junior choirs, a monthly coffeehouse and other concerts, occasional lay-led services or guest preachers, plans for a contra dance and opportunities for service and spiritual growth. Our church building is the oldest still standing in Wakefield, and our congregation was gathered in 1813.

I was called to serve as minister here in 1999, and have been touched by the way that this congregation has opened their hearts to this recovering lawyer from South Carolina. We follow a fairly traditional service format, but I am apt throw in a poem, song or tune on banjo, fiddle, or concertina from time to time to keep things lively.

I hope you will come and check us out if you're looking for a church home in Wakefield.

Blessings,