Where is First Church in Sterling located?

First Church in Sterling is at 6 Meetinghouse Hill Road, Sterling, MA, 01564.

What time are services at First Church in Sterling?

First Church in Sterling meets Sunday at 10am. Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Church in Sterling?

First Church in Sterling in Sterling, MA is a Unitarian church.

First Church in Sterling

First Church in Sterling is a Unitarian church at 6 Meetinghouse Hill Road in Sterling, MA 01564. It is one of 5 churches in Sterling.

We seek to meet people where they are, join them where they are in their spiritual journeys, and together, to learn to love the hell out of the world.

Wheelchair accessible

6 Meetinghouse Hill Road, Sterling, MA, 01564

Service times

Sunday 10am

Phone: +1-978-422-6657 · Website: https://www.fcsterling.org/

First Church in Sterling is part of the Unitarian Universalist family of churches in The American Church Story. 16 congregations of the Unitarian Universalist family gather across Massachusetts — 82 across the United States on The Church Map.

Unitarian Universalism came from two Christian families — the Unitarians and the Universalists — that consolidated in 1961, and it asks no creed of its members today. Congregations range from those still reading the Christian Scriptures on a Sunday morning to those drawing on many traditions or none. It appears on this map because of where it came from, which is not a claim about where it now stands.

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Latest from First Church in Sterling, MA's YouTube channel: Rev. Shandi's Sermon Aug 2, 2026 (all videos).

The community around First Church in Sterling

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 10 travel more than an hour to work. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

Social Isolation: 31.1%
Depression: 25.2%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.

Churches near First Church in Sterling

Saint Richards Church — 0.1 mi away
Sterling Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.9 mi away
Hope Chapel — 1.3 mi away
Rock Church — 2.2 mi away
Lancaster Portuguese Seventh-day Adventist Church — 3.2 mi away in Lancaster, MA
Bethlehem Bible Church — 3.6 mi away in West Boylston, MA
Bethel Haitian SDA Church — 3.6 mi away in Clinton, MA
Village Seventh-day Adventist Church — 3.8 mi away in Lancaster, MA
Oakdale Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away in West Boylston, MA
The College Church of Seventh-day Adventists — 4 mi away in Lancaster, MA

More Unitarian Universalist churches nearby

First Parish of Bolton — 7.9 mi away in Bolton, MA
First Parish church — 9.9 mi away in Northborough, MA

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