Rev. Burke writes:
This week my Wednesday Worship Class featured Ellen McGuire, our Music Director, speaking to us about hymns, music, and how music fits in the flow of our worship service. Thanks Ellen!
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11:00 a.m. Church Service: Join us for our regular Sunday service.
Religious Education: Pageant rehearsal! Please have your lines memorized.
12:30 p.m. Congregational Meeting: Please join us for a short meeting to discuss the draft mission and vision statements developed based on the work that we did at our Saturday, November 5 congregational retreat. The Standing Committee has recommended that the congregation vote to ratify those statements.
A note from the Standing Committee:
Most of the space within our Church and Parish Hall feels as if it belongs to all of us. We count on each other to set up chairs and put them back, to organize what’s chaotic, clean what’s messy, and provide what’s needed. There are a few areas within the Church that are more private, such as Terry’s office, the choir loft, and Mick’s storage space. These areas are under one specific person’s supervision and we ask that you seek that person’s explicit permission before doing any cleaning or rearranging. Thank you for your cooperation.
Our Visioning conference the weekend of November 5 brought fifty of us together to imagine and plan our church’s future. In the excitement and enthusiasm of our meetings, we resolved to move ahead with the development and implementation of a strategic plan as quickly as we can.
The meetings held at the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry Church in Roxbury produced a plethora of ideas and commitments. We will be forming task forces to identify and implement specific proposals, working with existing committees and staff members in areas such as our building, social media, religious education, and outreach to new members.
[After the jump, minutes of the October 18, 2011 meeting of the Standing Committee.]