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Upcoming Sunday Worship Services

The Sunday Worship Services and Religious Education Program begin at 10:30 a.m. starting September 11, 2011.


 

 

 

January 1:                      Happy New Year!                                                                  Tracey Robinson-Harris

This morning’s intergenerational service will be a simple one with songs and sharing, readings and reflections.

 

January 8:                      99 To 1: Overcoming The Odds Of Wealth Inequality                        Chuck Collins
“We Are the 99 Percent” became a rallying cry of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Who is the 1 percent and the 99 percent? How can we build a healthy more equal society?


Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and co-editor of Inequality.org, a web resource about wealth and income inequality.

 

Our guest musician this morning is Molly Johnston, playing viola de gamba.  There will also be a women’s vocal ensemble performing Iraqi Peace Song.  Annie Giddings is our storyteller today.

 

January 15:                     Stone Of Hope                                                                     Tracey Robinson-Harris
Today, we honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy of passion and persistence for justice.  The sermon theme “A Stone Of Hope” is a metaphor from Dr. King’s I Have A Dream speech.  Guest At Your Table boxes will be collected – please bring yours with a check inside made out to UUSC for the amount of your donation. The choir will be singing this morning, and our storyteller is Annie Giddings.

 

Conversation With The Minister

Social Justice:  UU And You

This extended Conversation With The Minister (from noon to 1:30) explores the many ways we contribute to the work of justice and how Unitarian Universalism supports, encourages and renews us along the way.

 

January 22:                     I’d Rather Do It Myself                                                       Tracey Robinson-Harris
This sermon explores the complex combination of authority, democracy, individualism within Unitarian Universalism and how hard it can be for us to authorize others to act on our behalf or in our name.  Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote eloquently about “self reliance.”  How has this notion shaped us for better and for worse?  This morning our storyteller is Annie Giddings.

 

January 29:                    Lap Number Two                                                                                  Dan Hotchkiss

The first lap, fresh and seductive, makes the morning news. The last lap makes the sports page with the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. The second lap, quieter and calmer, is where adrenaline leaves off and perseverance gets its test. Starts and finishes get more attention, but we live most of our lives in Lap Number Two—and three, and four, and five. In this second year of ministerial transition, Dan Hotchkiss, FUUSM member and longtime UU minister, will offer some reflections about Lap Number Two.  This morning the choir is singing, and Marilyn Thayer is the storyteller.

 

 

CASH IN THE PLATE

The cash contributions in the offertory plate for November
will go to:


Middleboro Area Assistance Coalition Winter Emergency Fund
to support families in shelter housing at the Days Inn.

 
In keeping with our commitment to make a monthly donation of all cash in the plate to a social justice or social service agency
whose work reflects our Unitarian Universalist principles, recipients included:

2011-2012 Church Year:

the Minister's Discretionary Fund
CaringBridge
Conway House

    2010-2011 Church Year:

the Minister’s Discretionary Fund,
the Soule Homestead,
the Association Sunday Fund (UUA),
the Sacred Heart Food Pantry,
the Salvation Army’s Good Neighbor Energy Fund,
the Habitat For Humanity Of Greater Plymouth,
the Middleborough YMCA,
FUUSM youth who attend a UU camp,
Second Chance Cat Shelter and Middleboro Dog Shelter,
and the Home Base Program.

During the 2010-2011 church year, our congregation received over $4,000 cash in our offering plate.  Thank you for your generosity!

 


 

Large print hymnals, plus hearing assistance devices, are available.
Nursery care is provided.  Bring a friend!

 

Our worship services are videotaped and broadcast over local cable television on Comcast channel 9 and Verizon channel 34,
usually at 4:00 p.m., on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Joys and Sorrows are excluded.

 

 

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