Welcoming Congregations

Welcoming Congregation LogoThe Welcoming Congregation Program is a completely volunteer program for Unitarian Universalist congregations that want to take intentional steps to become more welcoming and inclusive of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.

First launched in 1990, the program grew out of an understanding that widespread prejudices and ignorance about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people existed within Unitarian Universalism, which resulted in the exclusion of LGBT people from our congregations.

Today, just over 60% of Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations in our two districts are recognized as Welcoming Congregations. To read more about this program, click here.

Clara Barton District congregations certified as Welcoming Congregations (in order by town location):

  • UU Society of Amherst (MA)
  • The First Parish Church in Billerica (MA)
  • Brookfield UU Church First (MA)
  • Religious Society of Carlisle (CT)
  • First Congregational Society Unitarian, Chelmsford (MA)
  • First Parish Church of Groton (MA)
  • UU Unitarian Society of New Haven (CT)
  • Unitarian Society of Hartford (CT)
  • Harvard UU Church (MA)
  • Unitarian Church of Marlborough & Hudson (MA)
  • First Church UU of Leominster (MA)
  • First Church Unitarian Littleton (MA)
  • Shoreline UU Society UU Society: East, Manchester (CT)
  • UU Church in Meriden (CT)
  • The First UU Church of Milford (MA)
  • First Universalist Society in New Haven (CT)
  • All Souls UU Congregation in New London (CT)
  • Unitarian Society of Northampton & Florence (MA)
  • First Parish Church UU in Northborough (MA)
  • First Congregational Parish Unitarian in Petersham (MA)
  • UU Society of Greater Springfield (MA)
  • Unitarian Fellowship of Storrs (CT)
  • First Parish Church UU of Stow & Acton (MA)
  • UU Church Greater Bridgeport (CT)
  • The Universalist Church of West Hartford (CT)
  • First Parish Church United of Westford (MA)
  • Mattatuck UU Society in Woodbury (CT)
  • UU Church of Worcester (MA)
  • First Unitarian Church in Worcester (MA)

Massachusetts Bay District congregations certified as Welcoming Congregations (in order by town location):

  • UU Congregation in Andover
  • First Parish UU of Arlington
  • First Parish in Bedford
  • The First Church in Belmont
  • First Parish Church in Beverly UU
  • Arlington Street Church (Boston)
  • First Church in Boston
  • First Parish in Brookline
  • First Parish in Cambridge (UU)
  • First Parish in Concord
  • Northshore UU Church in Danvers
  • First Universalist Church of Essex
  • First Parish in Framingham
  • Independent Christian Church Universalist in Gloucester
  • UU Church of Haverhill
  • First Church in Jamaica Plain
  • UU Follen Church Society in Lexington
  • First Parish in Lexington
  • First Parish in Malden
  • Universalist UU Church of Marblehead
  • First Parish UU UU Church of Medford
  • Melrose UU Church
  • First Parish in Milton
  • UU First Parish in Needham
  • UU First Religious Society in Newburyport
  • First Unitarian Society in Newton
  • The North Parish of North Andover
  • United First Parish Church (Unitarian) in Quincy
  • UU Church of Reading
  • UU Society of Rockport
  • First Universalist Society in Salem
  • UU Area Church at First Parish in Sherborn
  • First Parish of Sudbury UU
  • UU Church of Greater Lynn
  • First Universalist Society of Wakefield
  • First Parish in Waltham UU
  • First Parish of Watertown
  •  The First Parish in Wayland UU Society of Wellesley Hills
  • Theodore Parker UU Church in West Roxbury
  • Winchester Unitarian Society