We will observe Labor Day weekend with a service that focuses both on the importance of our work and the need to take a break from it. There will be a children's message which will be followed by a game for older children and child care for the youngest. The worship service will be led by The Rev. Tom Rosiello with Sanghee Kim, Pianist/Organist.
Childcare will be provided.
Led by our Minister The Rev. Tom Rosiello, Our Music Director, Mike Pfitzer, and our Organist/Pianist, Sanghee Kim
This morning we will explore our Unitarian Universalist History form our earliest roots to the present. " Where did we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?" These will be the questions of the morning. The story will be told through the hymns that we sing. This service is an excellent opportunity to learn more about our faith traditions and have a good time singing some great hymns, old and new. Newcomers are encouraged to attend.
Childcare will be provided.
This morning's sermon will explore some aspects of dreaming from both an Eastern and Western perspective. Most of us dream, whether or not we remember our dreams in the morning. What do we make of this experience of dreaming? Come hear some different ways of interpreting our dreams.
Rev. Dr. Judith Wright served as settled minister of the First Parish UU Northborough congregation for the past twelve years. She stepped down this June as their settled minister, and now is happily their Minister Emeritus. Rev. Wright trained as a child psychologist, and worked in this field for twenty-five years before turning to full time parish ministry. She has meditated for over thirty years, and is a UU Tibetan Buddhist, with teachers including His Holiness, The Dalai Lama and Lama Migmar, the Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University. She is the current President of the Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship.
Childcare will be provided.
This morning, join us for a fun service as some of our FPC musicians help you explore your favorite songs from folk and popular traditions. We'll sing along to songs and hymns in the popular "Rise Up Singing" book, and discuss ways in which music can connect us to the most central emotions and memories of our lives. Feel free to bring your guitar, ukulele, or any other instrument you'd like to play! All are welcome, and lyrics will be available to everyone who wishes to join in singing. Also, please email Pat Sorn (psorn@mailstarusa.com) by August 3 with suggestions for any songs you'd like to have included.
Childcare will be provided.
On Sunday, August 3th at 10:00 AM, the Harvard UU Church will host the 11th Annual Joint Summer Service with First Church Unitarian of Littleton and FPC. Aaron Stockwell, UU ministerial candidate, will lead the worship. Ted Johnson, Harvard’s music director, will lead a "pick-up" choir for the service. All singers are welcome and should arrive for rehearsal at 8:30 AM. Refreshments will be offered after the service.
NO CHILDCARE FOR THIS SERVICE
Come see the beautiful form of the t'ai chi, and hear the beautiful, challenging truth of the Tao te Ching in a summer Worship Service conducted by Michael Paladini. Congregants will be invited to try out some t'ai chi moves during the Service as they are interested and able.
Childcare Will Be Provided
So said the poet William Blake. Come hear the Parish Jazz Band explore through the medium of jazz why sad music, or music on sad subjects such as lost love, grief, and the blues, somehow makes us feel happy.
Childcare Will Be Provided
Popular guest speaker and oncology chaplain, Michael Eselun, will explore our relationship to our own stories and how we use them in the attempt to make spiritual sense of our lives.
Michael Eselun, a certified chaplain, serves as the chaplain for the Simms-Mann/UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology. He has worked extensively in oncology, hospice, palliative care and with acute psychiatric patients. He's been invited many times to speak to students, doctors, nurses, social workers, and to dozens of faith communities across the country about his work as a chaplain. He recently spoke at the national conference for Young Women Affected by Breast Cancer, and was the keynote speaker at the Promising Practices for Mental Health and Aging Conference at the California Endowment. Michael is also a co-founder and chair of a non-profit, volunteer anti-homophobia speakers bureau called GLIDE, Gays and Lesbians Initiating Dialogue for Equality. Over the last 20 years, Michael and his fellow speakers have spoken to an audience of over 150,000 students, teachers, and other various groups and agencies in the LA area about homophobia. He has a TED talk available on-line via You Tube, called “It’s Magic” and you can find out more about him at www.michaeleselun.com.
Childcare Will Be Provided At All of our Summer Services
The service will be based on the book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. We will discuss the effects on our society of the war on drugs, harsh sentencing policies, and the tentacles of the criminal justice system. The US, with 5% of the worlds population, has 25% of the world's prisoners. The rate of incarceration has gone up while the incidence of crime has gone down. The impact on the black and brown communities, where 40% of adult males are under the control of the criminal justice system, is devastating. We will share our dismay at this state of affairs and ask the congregation to help formulate actions to remedy the situation.
Childcare Will Be Provided At All of our Summer Services
Calling upon his experiences in interfaith organizing, the Rev. Mark Stringer, Minister of the First Unitarian Church of Des Moines, IA, will consider what gets in the way of UUs being “a religion which, like sunshine, goes everywhere” and will inspire us to more often be the religion that reaches out in love. There will be special music by the GA Choir with director Mary Neumann, UU Church of Reading, MA, and the GA Band.
Childcare Will Be Provided At All of our Summer Services
