Worship will feature the Youth Mission Trip to Appalachia.  We will also celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Eliot Church becoming an Open and Affirming Congregation.

Annual Meeting following Worship.  The 165th   Annual Meeting of the Eliot Church of Newton will be held on Sunday, May 23, 2010 following Sunday worship.  We will consider and vote the budget for the coming year, learn about the first phases of the Strategic Plan of the Implementation Task Force, and address other busisiness.

Two Eliot members are scheduled for surgery soon and we would like to provide some meals to them during their recuperation.  The meals, and the good wishes from those who deliver them, are a wonderful tonic for folks recovering from illness or surgery.  Martha Totten will be having a hip replacement operation on May 19 along with some arthroscopic work on her knee.  She expects to come home the following weekend (May 22 or 23).  Connie Stubbs had so much fun during her first knee replacement operation that she is having the other knee done on June 2.  Although meal schedules aren't set yet, please contact Susan Nason at nasonse@aol.com if you could help out with either or both.

The 36th Annual Newton Mayor's Community Prayer Breakfast will be held on Wednesday, May 26, in the McElroy Commons at Boston College.  The program will begin at 7:30 AM.  Doors open at 7:00 AM.  This Year's Guest Speaker will be Governor Deval Patrick.   The theme this year is "Thirteen Villages...One Community."