Sunday, November 1st, 5–6.30 pm FUSF front yard Lantern Walk 2025 FUSF’s annual lantern walk is a magical tradition designed to help humans big and small to welcome the darkness of this time of year.  Let’s embrace this big, natural change together with joy.  Bring a lantern, or use one of ours. We will gather, light our lanterns, sing songs, and go for a walk together around the FUSF grounds.  Afterwards, we will enjoy community

The Midnight Library Friday, November 6, 7 pm Join us as we discuss this great book—discussion is likely to be lively! Childcare is available. Consider bringing a snack to share, labeled with ingredients for allergies. Email nicole.harter@fusf.org or bobbi.gerlits@fusf.org for questions!

Sunday, November 8, after service Want to get to know other members and friends in a casual fun atmosphere? Plan to join the FUSF community in cleaning up our building and grounds. Grab your work gloves, rakes, leaf blower, tree trimmers, and community spirit to ready our spiritual home for the coming months. Whether you can stay for an hour or three, your help is greatly appreciated. There will be inside and outside chores. This is not

Saturday, November 14, 6–9 pm Our last Game Night was so much fun, we’re doing it again! All ages welcome and encouraged to join in the fun. Bring your favorite game to share. Join a game with old friends and new.  If you want to learn a game that you’ve heard about but never played, let the Connections Team know! Light snacks will be provided. You can also bring something to share! Questions?  Contact the Connections Team.

Tap the play button to listen to the narration. First Universalist Society in Franklin enjoys an eleven and a half acre campus. While much of the land is preserved in its natural woodland state, we do enjoy our landscaped grounds and the special places that offer us spiritual respite. If desired, you are invited to walk around the backside of the building. Beyond the woods is a vernal pool that is visible during the winter

Tap the play button to listen to the narration. The Pine Grove is a three-acre woodland. It offers us a wonderful natural setting for our religious education programming and to gather and share community while surrounded by the sights, sounds, and smells of nature’s splendor. Within the pine grove is a stone labyrinth, an ancient spiritual tool with one path leading to the center and back out again. It is a sacred space where one

Tap the play button to listen to the narration. You have just walked along the Thomas Lazinski Memorial Pathway which provides handicapped access from the parking lot to the Memorial Garden. The path was one of several Eagle Scout projects done on the grounds. Members, friends, and local businesses helped make this path a reality. These projects fulfill the Scout’s desire to help create something beneficial, meaningful, and permanent for their community.    The Memorial Garden

Tap the play button to listen to the narration. You have entered FUSF’s Peace Garden located near the entrance to our meetinghouse. Here, a peace pole and its nearby bench offer us not only a place to relax under the birch trees, but a reminder of our ongoing mission for peace. Growing native plants is essential for supporting pollinators and birds. Our community started this native plant garden in 2024 to help create a sustainable,