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Weekly Newsletter: April 18

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CHURCH HAPPENINGS

***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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Weekly Newsletter – April 11

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CHURCH HAPPENINGS

***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 →

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Fellowship Dinner Remarks by Andrea Fleck Clardy

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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 →

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Weekly Newsletter – March 21

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CHURCH HAPPENINGS

***This Sunday, March 24***
Our Palm Sunday sermon, Earth Passion/Passover, will be given by Rev. Terry Burke. Please join us. Continue reading →

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Weekly Newsletter – March 14

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CHURCH HAPPENINGS

***This Sunday, March 17***
Our preacher this week, Janet Parsons, is a candidate for the Unitarian Universalist ministry and a seminarian at Andover Newton Theological School.  She is a longtime member and lay leader at the Winchester Unitarian Society, and an administrator at Follen Community Church in Lexington.  Janet enjoys every aspect of church life, but especially values worship, community gatherings, and social justice work.

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Easter Food Baskets

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On Sunday, March 24th, the Social Action Group at First Church Jamaica Plain UU will be delivering Easter Food Baskets to Sojourner House, the family shelter that the congregation has partnered with.

Up to 9 homeless families live at Sojourner House as they transition into permanent housing.  Sojourner house also operates a food pantry which serves the resident families, “graduate” families in the  neighborhood around them.   See www.sojournerhouseboston.org  for more information.

The Social Action Group asks members and friends to help by bringing food to the church for the Easter Baskets (canned goods any time,  perishables to be brought in the morning of the 24th-  leave food in the marked rear pews).

Suggested items include: Hams, sweet potatoes, potatoes, packaged mashed potatoes, macaroni & cheese, canned fruit or vegetables, packaged dinner rolls, applesauce, cake mixes, fruit juices, Easter candy, coffee, tea, hot Chocolate. Please do not feel confined to these items.

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Weekly Newsletter – March 7

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Choir Rehearsal tonight at 8!

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CHURCH HAPPENINGS

***This Sunday, March 10***
Don’t forget to spring forward! Set your clocks ahead so that you are here on time for a sermon titled “The World is Speaking to You” by our DRE, Kimberly Wootan Continue reading →

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