All-Parish Meeting Sunday

When you enter a church, you can usually tell if the Holy Spirit is alive in the place. I am grateful and happy to say that week after week, month after month, year after year, the Spirit is alive and kicking at United Parish — in our music, in our programs, in our collective life. Where Her winds are actually blowing us has not always been clear. Nor did we really need to know. We just enjoyed Her fresh breeze among us.

At the beginning of my sabbatical three years ago, I saw a sign in Provincetown that said “We can’t direct the wind; but we can adjust the sails.” For the past three years, we’ve been doing a lot of sail-adjusting, with some dynamic, creative, thoughtful, leadership from our members. Specifically, we’ve been figuring out how to adjust to the outlandish costs and capital needs of our big, beautiful, cranky old building and how they require us to think creatively about the future. And we are starting to get some real movement.

What is clear in all of this is that we are called to serve. Called to serve God by serving our neighbors. We do that now with about 1,000 people going through our doors every week. And we are leaning into more robust ways of doing that.

On Sunday, we will move down to Willett Hall for summertime worship and we’ll celebrate the “wonders and signs” happening among us, to quote Acts 2. As usual, we’ll vote in a new slate of leadership and we’ll approve a budget for fiscal year 2026 (July-June). And we’ll hear from our UPLIFT Team (United Parish Leading into Future Transformation) and others about how the Spirit is blowing us in new, exciting directions.

Come one, come all, come and hear what God is doing in our midst. It’s exciting. It’s transformational.

In faith,
Kent