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— This Week at First Church
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Thursday Weekly: May 20 - 27
Choir Rehearsal TONIGHT 8:00PM
Sunday at First Church, May 23: Long time church leader, Penny Wells, will be preaching this Sunday. She has been president and executive director of Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) since 2000. Her sermon is entitled Teen Times.
The Annual Meeting follows the service at 12:30PM. If you will not be present and would like someone to vote for you, please contact Joel Peterson at joelqp@earthlink.net
NOTE: We still have outstanding pledges. We can't do this without you! PLEASE, send in your pledge!
FUN IN THE SUN AND SOCIAL JUSTICE TOO! On Saturday, May 22, we will work at The Food Project's farm in Roxbury from 10 AM until 12:30 PM. Everyone 12 years old and older who can pull weeds, hoe, plant, etc. is welcome and should bring a bag lunch. The Food Project provides free or low-cost food to homeless shelters and low-income buyers and also provides training in urban agriculture to inner-city youth. See www.thefoodproject.org to learn more. We will meet at church at 9:30 am on May 22 and carpool to the farm. All of us who have done this in the past have enjoyed the experience and learned a lot, so please join us! Please let Linda Olmstead know if you can attend: lindaolmstead@hotmail.com --The Social Justice Committee
Sunday Night aLive is May 30: Please join us for our monthly alternative worship service, Sunday Night aLive, taking place May 30, PM – PM in the Parish Hall. The theme this month is “Exploring Speech and Vocalization.” Mollie MacKenzie will be preaching the homily and singer/songwriter extraordinaire Jim Scott (who has written songs that are in our hymnal!) will be providing the music. We eat dinner together following the service, and childcare is provided. If you'd like to cook a dish for the event, please contact Marshall Hawkins at marhawkins@comcast.net. This will be our final SNaL service of the church year, so if you haven't checked it out yet, now’s the time!
Directing your money where you want it to go: When you write out a check to First Church please use the memo line of your check to direct it to the specific fund you want it to go to. If you're check is for a pledge, make sure you notate which fiscal year it is for, e.g., "2009-10", or "May Pledge" . If we receive a check with no notation, it is considered "non-pledge giving". Thank you!
The UU Church of Bowling Green Kentucky, where our long time member Peter Connolly is minister, was recently damaged by flooding. If you'd like to contribute to their building fund, please write a check to UUCBG and mail it to the church (PO Box 300186, JP 02130) or bring it by on Sunday. Terry Burke and Carl Scovel will be participating in Peter's installation service this Sunday, which is continuing as planned.
Sunday, JUNE 13th Welcoming Breakfast 9:30 AM: Every Sunday there is a welcoming table. So if you want to know about the welcoming breakfast, stop by the welcoming table!
Annual yard sale/craft sale/barbeque Saturday, June 5! There are bargains and books at the yard sale indoors, and beautiful crafts on the front lawn and, of course, our famous barbeque lunch. We need help with donations for the yard sale, set-up and clean-up, cashiers, folks to work on barbecue, etc. We're eager to fill up the front lawn with vendors. We invite people selling hand-crafted items so it’s a great opportunity for that creative friend of yours - so please get the word out. Abby Krueger can hand you an application, or your creative friends can e-mail JPCraftsFair@yahoo.com. (please bring plastic bags when you drop off items for the yard sale--we need them for our customers)
Donation Information: You can drop off your donations of “gently used items” (no clothes, please) for the yard sale on Sundays, May 23 and 30, in the basement, and any evening from May 31 to June 4 in the sanctuary.
Steering Committee: Alice Hawley, Abby Krueger, Laurie Corkum, Jane Kenschaft, Cathy Baisley, Wilfrido Espanola. We’d love to have you join us! Talk to any one of us for more information.
Food Pantry: We need your help! We will, for the first time, be open through the summer. Please donate canned goods and non-perishable food. We can always use basic items such as tuna, pasta, soups, and toilet paper. Items can be left in the large black bin in the entryway or in the back pews. Cash donations are also welcome. Checks can be made out to First Church with the notation "food pantry". The Food Pantry is open on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month, 11 am-1 pm. Thanks!
Had Slaves: A Reading, Discussion, and Book Signing with Poet Catherine Sasanov at Jamaicaway Books, Friday, May 21st at 7 pm
Written out of Sasanov’s discovery of slaveholding among her Missouri ancestors, and the fragmented evidence left behind of the 11 men, women, and children held in their bondage, Had Slaves pieces together lives endured from slavery to Jim Crow across a landscape lost beneath big box stores, subdivisions, and tourist sites. Avoiding Gone With the Wind stereotype, Sasanov takes her readers to slavery’s less expected locale: where big house means log cabin and plantation is a small grain farm with tarantulas mating in the corn. An unflinching look at a stumbled upon past set in motion after finding the words, Had Slaves. Questions about the book, Catherine’s research into slave genealogy, and the unlikely locale and owners of her family’s slaves, will also be taken at the end of the reading. A limited number of books will be for sale; if books run out, but you wish to purchase one, speak with Catherine after the reading. For more information about Had Slaves, see Jamaicaway’s interview with Catherine Sasanov at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDiReS2Vb9A
Jamaicaway Books
676 Centre Street
Jamaica Plain
http://jamaicawaybooks.com/
617-983-3204
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