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***Sunday, May 26th***
This week’s Sermon is Memorial Day: Focusing and Remembering Continue reading
Prepare yourself for the Annual Meeting this Sunday by reading the 2012-2013 Annual Report.
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***Sunday, May 19th***
This week’s Service will be conducted by Young Church. Continue reading
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***This Sunday, May 12th***
Join us as Janna Maria Fröhlich speaks about the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute.
Mothers’ Day Walk for Peace
The 17th annual Mothers’ Day Walk for Peace will take place on Sunday, May 12. The Social Action Group will field a team; please contact Carol Bell at 617-372-7615 if you would like to participate or sponsor a SAG walker. Walkers may walk all or just part of the 3.6-mile route, and it will end early enough for you to make it to church as well. We will car pool from the church at 7:45 AM. See www.mothersdaywalk4peace.org for more information, including how to donate to the sponsor, Louis D. Brown Peace Institute. Continue reading
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***This Sunday, May 5th***
Please join us for our One Family Scholars Day service at 11 a.m. Founded in 1999, One Family Inc. is a nonprofit organization with a mission to end family homelessness in Massachusetts. One Family provided the link to our partners at Sojourner House, and the One Family Scholars program supports low-income single parents on their journey out of poverty to economic self- sufficiency through higher education. Our speakers this Sunday are Tammy Santiago, a One Family Scholar studying at Northeastern University, and Matthew Miller, One Family Program Officer. One Family’s goals and activities are described at www.onefamilyinc.org. See more about One Family in the ‘Ways to Connect’ section.
Communion will be offered following the service. We use grape juice for reasons of inclusion.
Young Church
May 12 the children will practice for the RE Service.
May 19 is RE Sunday the children will conduct the Service.
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Goodbye Potluck! This Saturday, May 4th from 5:30 to 7:30
Come say goodbye to Julia Terry, the congregational administrator. Her final office day is May 23rd, after which she begins a 6 week roadtrip back home to Alaska. Continue reading
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***This Sunday, April 28th***
Join us for an inter-generational service featuring poems by Young Church members.
Young Church
April 28 is an Intergenerational Service
May 12 the children will practice for the RE Service.
May 19 is RE Sunday the children will conduct the Service. Continue reading
***Goodbye!***
Julia Terry – Outgoing Congregational Administrator
Julia Terry, the congregational administrator, will have her final office day on May 23rd, after which she begins a 6 week roadtrip back home to Alaska.
***Hello to Jennifer Waddell!***
Jennifer Waddell, our incoming Congregational Administrator, has lived in (and loved) Jamaica Plain since 1989. She worked for a publishing company downtown in many capacities for fifteen years but now prefers the freedom of being self-employed.
She graduated with Honors in Photography from SUNY Purchase and she has her own small portrait photography business.
Jennifer enjoys the challenges and triumphs of raising her seven year old twins on her own; thrift shopping; novice gardening and hanging out with friends. She looks forward to meeting everyone at the First Church JP and becoming part of the community.
This Sunday our congregation will gather at 11 a.m. to grieve, support one another, and seek sources of hope in light of the ongoing tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombings. Rick Yoder’s important sermon on climate change will be rescheduled later in the Spring, as will the showing of the 350.org “Do the Math” tour film. The scheduled potluck on climate change following the Sunday service will simply be a time for us all to be together. Please join us on Sunday when we as a church family will reflect, pray, and share our hearts.
Rev. Terry Burke will lead an adult religious education group called “Focus” on the first three Wednesdays of May, starting May 1st at 7PM. The group will draw upon Arthur Boers’ book ”Living into Focus: Choosing What Matters in an Age of Distractions.”
Boers talks about “focal activities,” things we do, whether “spiritual practices” or activities like gardening or playing sports or writing, that engage and connect and focus us at a deeper level, and take us out of our distracted, wired, digital, virtual world. Please sign up by emailing the church at firstchjp@aol.com.
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***This Sunday, April 21st***
At 9:30 am, Rev Burke will lead a talk on “Elevator Pitches.”
Join us at 11 for a sermon by church leader Rick Yoder titled “Earth: Love It or Lose It.”
After the service, we will have a potluck co-sponsored by the Social Justice Committee for Earth Day, with the opportunity to discuss the morning’s sermon. At 7PM in the Parish Hall, our church is co-sponsoring with JP Forum a showing of Bill McKibben and 350.org’s “Do the Math” tour movie. The provocative hour long film will be followed by discussion. Please let Terry know if you can help out. Continue reading
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***This Sunday, April 14th***
Join us for a sermon titled, "Out of the Many, One." Our Unitarian Universalist faith is a celebration of diverse beliefs and the individual spiritual journey – the unique personal experience of the sacred. But we are also a community of congregations, joined together in a larger movement, even if it is sometimes hard to articulate just what that movement is. I believe there is a core theology that binds Unitarian Universalists together, and more importantly, I believe it holds the promise of growth even as many other denominations continue to experience decline. Our guest preacher, Kevin Carson, is a student at Andover Newton Theological School and will be graduating in May. He is the Ministerial Intern at First Church and Parish in Dedham through May 2014. Continue reading
We often speak of First Church as a kind of extended, chosen family. There is no time in the year when that feels to me more apt than at our annual Fellowship Dinner. Here we all are, enjoying the reliably wonderful food that George Wardle prepares with scout-like precision, experiencing tomato aspic, breaking bread with friends, laughing together, and singing good-night to Irene. Continue reading