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— First Church News and Announcements
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Thursday Weekly: June 5 - 12
Tonite Choir potluck and rehearsal at Tim's house at 6:00PM (for choir only)
Spring Fair sorting and pricing 6:30 at the church!!
Sunday, June 8: Last "regular" church service of the fiscal year and until September.
Terry Burke preaching: To Spin or Not to Spin 11:00 AM. We will also welcome all of
our church members who are new this year.
NOTE: There will be NO church potluck/picnic!
Last RE class of the year! We will have a special Children’s Chapel, and then create an
“art exhibit” of some of the work we’ve done in RE this year, to be on display at coffee hour.
There will be pizza and soda for a treat at the end of the hour.
FOOD PANTRY: Reminder, this Sunday is the second Sunday of each month, which is
when we take food to Sojourner House family shelter in Roxbury. This is the Sunday
that you can bring in fresh foods as well as food that is canned or boxed. And
remember the food in the food pantry is not only for Sojourner House but also for
neighbors who come in needing food. Your continued help is greatly appreciated.
The Social Justice Committee
Calling All Tables! We Need You! The Yard Sale needs tables of every size and
LOTS OF ‘EM! We need tables for display, for cashiers, for BBQ Diners…if you
have a table WE WANT IT! We’ll even give them back to you at the end of the sale.
Transportation assistance can be arranged. Email me at alice.phoenix@fmr.com.
Join Mass Bay District as we celebrate Gay Pride! The District has registered to
march in the Parade on Saturday, June 14. We'll gather first at the 11:00 a.m.
worship service held at Arlington Street Church, UU. Or look for the large blue
MBD banner at the front steps of the Arlington Street Church at 11:45 a.m. and
we will process to the parade together.
VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED on Sunday, 22 June 10-11:30 a.m. to make
sandwiches for the homeless poor. Please join members of the Social Justice
Committee in preparing luncheon for 150 persons. See sign-up sheet on
table near pulpit in the sanctuary.
Thank you! Marshall Hawkins and David Parke.
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Please join the South End Center for a BOOK SIGNING AND RECEPTION
on Wednesday June 11, 2008 from 6:30 – 8:00pm with Dr. Kenneth Edelin,
M.D., author of Broken Justice. The event will take place at United South End
Settlements’ Harriet Tubman House.
Broken Justice is the true story about Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin, a young, black
doctor who arrived in Boston in 1971 to do his residency training in
Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston City Hospital. In April 1974 he was
three (3) months away from completing his residency when he was indicted
for manslaughter by a secret Grand Jury. The indictment concerned an
abortion he performed on a 17-year old girl, and the alleged victim was her aborted fetus.
Dr. Kenneth Edelin is Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston
University School of Medicine. He was also Chair of the Board of Planned
Parenthood Federation of America.
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The Defining Moment for Climate Change with Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben, author, educator, environmentalist
Sunday, June 8th, 7:00pm
Read Bill’s most recent article on Alternet.org
As a part of our continuing series on climate-change, join the Jamaica Plain Forum
for a conversation with Step-It-Up! global warming activist, Bill McKibben after the
Bikes Not Bombs Bike-A-Thon and 1st annual Green Roots Festival.
Bill McKibben is an environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global
warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic
engineering. Well known for his lead role in the Step-It-Up campaign, Bill comes
to the Jamaica Plain Forum to share his experiences organizing mass-climate
action from the ground to Capitol Hill.
Bill has written a dozen books, including The End of Nature and Deep Economy:
the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. In March 2008 The Bill
McKibben Reader, a collection of 44 essays on various topics, was published.
He is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times,
The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review
of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He is also a board member and
contributor to Grist Magazine.
In late summer 2006, Bill helped lead a five-day walk across Vermont to demand
action on global warming. Beginning in January 2007 he founded stepitup07.org
to demand that Congress enact curbs on carbon emissions that would cut
global warming pollution 80 percent by 2050. With six college students, he
organized 1,400 global warming demonstrations across all 50 states. Step It
Up 2007 has been described as the largest day of protest about climate change
in the nation’s history. A guide to help people initiate environmental activism in
their community coming out of the Step It Up 2007 experience entitled Fight
Global Warming Now was published in October 2007.
Rhythm and Muse will have Bill’s books available for purchase at the event. To
purchase books beforehand, please visit Rhythm and Muse at 470 Center St.
in Jamaica Plain.
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STOP! If you've already read the blurb on the yardsale send earlier today, do not
read any further--just volunteer--otherwise read on!:
Headline: Spring Fair Looms - Volunteers form massive response to help!
Our Spring Fair Yard Sale is this Saturday. OMG! Almost here and we need
help!!!! We had some great response to our email on Tuesday, THANK YOU.
We still need many folks to help with preparation
TONIGHT! We need your help this evening with sorting and pricing. Start time
is 6:30. Alice Hawley is tonight's Sorting/Pricing Captain and She Needs You!
We need volunteers to help with Sorting/Pricing on Friday (Captain Larry Zaborski),
This is the final big push! I hear a rumor that Pizza makes an appearance…
Are you an early riser? Great! Join us for set up on Saturday Morning.
There will be folks there from 7:00 AM on! Let me know what time you can get there!
No One Should Have to Cashier Alone! Still need some folks for sales!
We need three cashiers for the morning sales shift from 9:00-12:00.
Starting time is 9 to help get the stations set up.
We need three cashiers for the afternoon sales shift from 11:30-2:30.
A little overlap for orientation and lunch getting.
We need five cashiers for the wrap up sales shift from 2:30 to 4:30.
A little past close to help with breakdown of the sales stations.
Hone your bargaining skills! Let me know which shift you want.
CLEAN UP. We need Clean Up Helpers!
Many hands make light burdens. Join us for the most important part
of the Fair - CLEAN UP! (Captain Laurie Corkum) Begins at 4:00
Are you new to First Church? This is a great way to jump in and get
involved and to get to know your fellow Church members. It's also a
great way to have lunch with a friend (Mmmm BBQ!), and where else
can you get a fossil, a tie dyed baby romper and a copy of Hop on
Pop at the same place?
Flyers? YOU BETCHA! Attached is the flyer. Help is needed getting
the word out. Personal email list? SURE, WHY NOT! Send out the
flyer to your e-friends.
Let me know how you can help! Email me at alice.phoenix@fmr.com.
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Sunday in the Sanctuary at 11 a.m.
6 Eliot Street,
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
(617) 524-1634
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