Calendar
Next Issue: October 28
Deadline: 3pm October 23
Wednesday, October 22
7:30pm FC Book Group. Lib.
Thursday, October 23
6:45pm Nova Choir. Sanct.
Friday, October 24
7:00pm Youth Group Overnite.
Saturday, October 25
2:00pm E.Braucher Memorial
Service. Sanctuary.
Evening Circle Dinners.
Sunday, October 26
8:15am Nova Choir. Sanct.
9:25am Sr. Choir. Parish Hall.
12:30pm COA. Library.
Monday, October 27
6:30pm Jr; 7 Chancel/Youth.
7:00pm SAC. cl5.
7:30pm Min. Programs. CR.
8:00pm Meditation. Library.
Tuesday, October 28
7:30pm Theatregoers
Roundtable. Library.
7:30pm Worship Cte. CR.
Wednesday, October 29
7:30pm Women's Group. Lib.
Looking Ahead
Nov 6, 7, 8 & 9: Bye Bye Birdie
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This Sunday
Music: October 26, 2014
Prelude:Andante nobile
-Flor Peeters (1903-1986)
Alfa Joy Radford, organ
Offertory Duet: O Lovely Peace
-G. F. Handel (1685-1759)
Melanie Bacaling, soprano;
Irina Kareva, alto
9:00 Nova Choir: In Sweet Fields of Autumn -Melody
-Wm. Kirkpatrick arr. Betsy Jo Angebranndt (contemp UU composer)
9:00 Postlude: Voluntary No. 2
-Maurice Green
Mary Beekman, organ
11:00 Sr. Choir: Once More, My Soul -Wm. Billings (1746-1800)
11:00 Postlude: Prelude in g minor -J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Ian Garvie, organ
The flowers this Sunday are given by Richard and Jean Lyon in celebration of family and friends.
Ushers: Members of the New Connections Ministry
Welcome & Announcements:
Sara Oaklander and Catherine Claypoole
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Social Action Corner
ACTION IS OUR PRAYER |
Grow Clinic! Grow Clinic!
Why not support the Grow Clinic by celebrating an upcoming birthday, anniversary or holiday? Encourage your friends and family to make a donation to help children. Complimentary guidance provided, 617.414.7415 or lakeisha.gandy@bmc.org.
FOOD: ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MEDICINES |
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Did You Forget? It's Not Too Late... Yet... !!!
You meant to, right? But you kept forgetting. Well, the good news is that even though after October or mid-November we may not still be selling Coffeehouse Season Tickets at every Sunday coffee hour, you can still help us reach (or surpass!) our goal, get great music at bargain prices, and support ten important and grateful beneficiaries! As of October 14, we had sold 41 tickets, steadily inching past the two-thirds mark! Our goal to sell 60 (and beat last year's record by two tickets in this 30th anniversary year) means we need to sell 19 more tickets. Get your ticket as soon as you can and be a part of this big final push -- YOU'LL FEEL SO GOOD YOU DID IT! Together, we can make it the best season ever! Bring your checkbook (or cash) to the coffee hour or send your check for $99 made out to First Church in Belmont, memo line marked Coffeehouse, to P.O. Box 113, Belmont, MA 02478. For more information, Click here or go to the website. thank you all so much! |
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Musica Sacra
...under the direction of Mary Beekman, presents From the ardent pen: choral music of the Romantic era this Saturday, Oct 25 at 8pm at 1st church in Cambridge. Works of Brahms, Elgar, Saint-Saens and others reflect upon autumn, day's end, and sirens. Free parking with ticket purchase! See www.musicasacra.org for tickets or call Mary Beekman. |
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UUSC (uusc.org)
Monthly Unitarian Universalist
Service Committee Note (2)
Visit the Service Committee's new online store by going to www.uusc.org and clicking "buy." According to the marketing director," It's what online shopping should be: a carefully curated selection of ethically sourced products for sustainable living. When you shop at the Good Buy - for yourself or your loved ones - you can be sure you're spending your dollars with an organization that cares about the earth and the conditions of workers along the supply chain." And, after your purchase, check out the featured petition by clicking "take action." Learn about an issue and then "sign" your name. If you are curious about other aspects of the site, treat yourself to a visit soon. − Alice Trexler for the UUSC Committee |
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The Unitarian Newsletter
Submission Guidelines
Please submit articles for the newsletter to Susan Street in the following format:
- Times New Roman font, 10 point.
- jpeg for photos
- pdf for attached documents
- sample@uubelmont.org for e-mails.
- avoid phone numbers unless their owners don't mind them being published on the FCB website.
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First Church Office
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5 Things To Know This Week
- First Church Book Group, October 22
- Circle Dinners, October 25
- 35 Years of Boston Theatre, October 28
- Bye Bye Birdie, November 6, 7, 8 & 9
- Women's Retreat, March 13-15
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Sunday, October 26
A Time of Memory
Rev. David M. Bryce
9:00 & 11:00 Church Service
Childcare for infants and young children
(For weather-related Service and Children RE class cancellations, please check 617.484.1054 x250.)
(If you wish, bring a small picture of someone who has died to hold during the service.)
In the northern hemisphere, the days that cluster around November 1 are in several cultures the time for remembering the departed, but are also celebrated as times of at least some fear and the facing of fear. In such festivals as Samhain, Dia de los Muertos, Halloween and All Souls Day we remember those of our loved ones who have gone on to death and we celebrate their continued presence in our lives through the many ways they touched and changed us.
** Next Sunday, November 2 **
Rev. David M. Bryce preaching, Good or Evil, and Who Decides?
Sermons in text and audio format can be found at uubelmont.org/sermons |
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Reflections from Rev. David Bryce, Senior Minister
My vision of religion is that it calls us all to the table of love and community.
It calls us all to the place of welcome, of healing, of hope.
Religion should also inspire us to be better people. After a religious experience--whether in a worship service, or in a Small Group, or by myself in the deep woods--I should feel a desire to be better than I am: a better person, friend, family member, or citizen.
Religion should also motivate us to work to change the world. Because of their faith-whatever that may be-each person should be inspired to work for greater justice, greater equality and greater inclusion for all.
And religion should call us to do that in ways that build relationship and human tolerance, not in ways that bring greater strife or conflict. That is not to say that justice should be sought without confrontation or without action. But within the confrontation and within the action we should remember that our "opponents" are also people worthy of love, worthy of community, worthy of healing.
That only happens if religion encourages some level of humility within us.
Whether I believe love comes from the human heart, or comes from a divine force in the universe, or both, may I have the humility to recognize myself in the other and the other in myself, and to extend love to all. |
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Music Notes from Alfa Radford
HURRAYS & HALLELUJAHS to the Gospel Band for their exciting music on October 19. And Warm Thanks to First Churcher, Roger Brown and his Berklee College guest musicians. It was a great and glorious morning!
"BYE BYE BIRDIE" PERFORMANCES:
November 6, 7, 8, 9.
Our young thespians will amaze you!
"BYE BYE BIRDIE" REHEARSALS:
MONDAYS: Cheerleaders Reh 5:30-6:30pm
MONDAYS: Jr. Choir (K-Gr.4) Reh 6:30-7:00
MONDAYS: Upper Cast Reh 7:00-8:30pm
THURSDAYS & SUNDAYS as listed in the Weekly E Schedule sent to Upper Cast families
SATURDAYS: Jr. Reporters, Cast A Reh: 5:00; Cast B at 5:45
SUNDAYS: All-American Band, Cast B Reh: 12:30; Cast A at 1:15
ATTENTION UPPER CAST & PARENTS:
BOTH ACT I & II must be MEMORIZED! We're approaching the home stretch...
Note to EVERYONE!
TICKET ORDER FORMS available NOW. Send yours soonest!
Forms available online at the church website: www.uubelmont.org or click here for order form and/or cast list. Extra forms are available at the Church Office and various places in the church.
We're all singing our hearts out!" -Alfa |
| Children's Religious Education: It Takes a Congregation
There is a phrase, perhaps overused, that says, "It takes a village to raise a child." Whether this is an actual ancient proverb from Africa or one from the indigenous peoples of North America or some modern aphorism, whether it arises out of many places and cultures in much the same way as the many versions of the Golden Rule, there is truth in it.
When Unitarian Universalist congregations celebrate together with the parents and grandparents and other extended family members of the new young person born into that family through the ritual dedication of that child, as we did recently with Patricia Garcia's family, we are saying that not only does it take a family to raise that child to its full potential as a human being, but it is also the responsibility of the congregation, which is like a very big extended family, or a neighborhood, or a village, to raise that child with our shared values which are grounded in the Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism. It takes a congregation to raise a child.
That is why we encourage members of the congregation to engage with our children and youth, whether or not you are currently parenting any children in our program. The Children's Religious Education program is collaborative in the sense that all members are asked to contribute to the success of the program each year by learning, serving and caring for the young people in our midst. It is part of the covenant, or promise, we make when we join the congregation. It is part of the covenant we make at the time of a child's dedication, at their coming of age, and again when they bridge from youth to young adult.
In so doing, we affirm and promote the lived theology of our interdependence within the web of all existence.
~ Charlotte Lehmann, Acting Director of Children's Religious Education
Office hours (generally): Sundays 8 am-1pm and Tues/Weds/Thurs 10am-6pm. E-mail: clehmann@uubelmont.org.
Highlights from Our Religious Education Wing
Neighboring Faiths: During October, the 7th grade class has visited UU worship services here at FCB and the Arlington Street Church. October 5th, the 8th grade class visited the St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge and they will visit the Sri Lakshmi Ashland Hindu Temple on October 26th.
On November 2nd, Grades 1-6 will be learning about Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead) during their Community Sunday time. They are encouraged to bring a photo of a loved one who has died. |
Youth Group BAKE OFF
Order your holiday pies!
Apple Pie & Cran-Apple Pie: $25 each
Pies will be made with love by the youth, wrapped and frozen, so you can bake them at home. One less thing to make for Thanksgiving!
Orders must be made in advance. To order visit the youth table by the kitchen at coffee hour or email Julie Ennis at jennis@uubelmont.org.
Pick up during coffee hour on Sun, Nov 23 or Wed, Nov 19 6-7pm.
Proceeds benefit the Youth Group's Service-Learning Trip to the Navajo Nation in Arizona this February. Thank you for your support! |
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Caring Connection
The Caring Connection is a group of Church members and friends who provide support to members of our community who find themselves in some difficulty and need short-term help. Please let us know if you could use some assistance, or know of someone who would benefit from our support. You may fill out a Caring Connection card, available in the hymnal holders and drop it in the collection basket, or contact Laurie Graham at caring@uubelmont.org or Susan at the Church, 617.484.1054 x201. |
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Lay Pastoral Care Team
As members of the lay pastoral care team we are called to be present with you, members and friends, when you wish a compassionate listening ear during times of transition and stress whatever form it might take. We support those who are adjusting to change, loss, illness or death. We share in moments of celebration and happiness. We reach out to those who are unable to get out and who would like a visit. We share in situations that require a special touch of human kindness and an open ear. Please contact us if we might be of help or comfort. We count on the congregation to keep us in touch with pastoral needs of our community. - Janet Amphlett, Devon Beckett, Nancy Davis, Steve Saar, Martha Spaulding, and Tom Neel |
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WOMEN'S RETREAT
March 13-15, 2015 at the Essex Retreat Center Save your place! There are still a few spaces available so we are still taking registrations until October 24th. See our table at coffee hour for more information or contact landerson@uubelmont.org. |
THE FIRST CHURCH BOOK GROUP
Wed, October 22, 7:30pm, Library
We will discuss Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns, a powerful book that tells the story of the Great Migration of southern blacks to northern cities during the first half of the twentieth century. Here is Booklist's review of The Warmth of Other Suns: From the early twentieth century through its midpoint, some six million black southerners relocated themselves, their labor, and their lives, to the North, changing the course of civil, social, and economic life in the U.S. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wilkerson offers a broad and penetrating look at the Great Migration, a movement without leaders or precedent. A sweeping and stunning look at a watershed event in U.S. history.
The book is highly readable, beautifully written, and haunting. We think it is one you will long remember. It is, however, quite lengthy. We encourage you to read as much as you can, and if you feel you cannot read it all, suggest that you focus on the story of Ida May Brandon Gladney. Please feel free to participate in the discussion on October 22, even if you have not yet finished reading the book.
The Book Group is always open to new members and does not require a continuing commitment. Please contact Anne Stuart at astuart@uubelmont.org with questions and to confirm attendance. Looking ahead: for November we will read the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and request that participants select a Bishop poem to share with the group on November 19. |
CIRCLE DINNERS - Saturday, October 25
Will you be a host or a guest at one of this year's Circle Dinners? Circle Dinners are informal dinners held in various church members' homes. Often dinner is a potluck affair coordinated by the host. Please sign up at coffee hour to attend or host a dinner. You can enjoy an evening out while building more connections to your church community. Circle Dinners are sponsored by the Fellowship Committee. If you have questions, contact Deveaux Duckworth at fellowship@uubelmont.org or at 617.484.5365. |
35 YEARS OF BOSTON THEATRE: a Theatregoer's Roundtable led by Downing Cless - Tuesday, Oct 28, 7:30pm, Library
Calling all theatre lovers to a forum to share foremost experiences in Boston over the last three decades. Also we collectively will trace the evolution of Boston theatre from 1980 to the present and examine how it has changed. Downing will offer a few examples from his direction of environmentally and socially themed plays with Underground Railway Theater and at Tufts University where he just retired from the Drama faculty.
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