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Now Is The Time To Really Show First Church Spirit!
At 40 Coffeehouse Season Tickets sold and 25 to go, we are about to enter the home stretch of reaching our goal! We KNOW together we will step up in the final two months of our 30th season and complete the drive to our holy grail, the sale of that 65th ticket: - for the hundreds of deeply appreciative clients of our worthy beneficiaries
- for great music (were you lucky enough to catch either of those spectacular first two shows????)
- for warm shared fellowship
- for the deep satisfactions of supporting this great cause and model program with the easiest and most efficient social action contribution you will ever make!
Come be a part of it! 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 First Church in Belmont, 404 Concord Ave., P.O. Box 113, Belmont 02478. Join your friends in the First Church family to help achieve this important social action goal! Many thanks!
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Sunday Worship - November 8
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Sermon: Let's Talk About Death
In our culture we too often set death aside, as if ignoring it will make it go away. Surprisingly, that does not work. So let's talk about death and let's talk about talking about death.
- Rev. David Bryce preaches.
Prelude: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit: Sinfonia
J.S. Bach (Mülhausen, 1708)
Dylan Sauerwald, organ
11 a.m. Anthem, Senior Choir: Sing to God
Jane Marshall (1924 - ) Offertory: Melanie Salisbury, soprano soloist Postlude: Voluntary IX in G major
John Stanley (London, 1754)
Dylan Sauerwald, organ
- Services at 9 & 11 a.m.; childcare is provided.
- Sunday, November 15: Rev. Mary Margaret Earl, Senior Minister and Executive Director, UU Urban Ministry
- Sermon archive: uubelmont.org/sermons
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From the Senior Minister,
Rev. David Bryce
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Belmont Interfaith Thanksgiving Service
This year the Belmont Interfaith Thanksgiving Service will be held here at The First Church in Belmont. The service will be on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, November 22, at 7:00 p.m.
The "pick-up choir", which will be led by Ian, will be composed of volunteers who show up an hour early, at 6 p.m., for a quick rehearsal.
(We usually have the most recent addition to the clergy group provide the sermon, so that will be someone other than me.)
I have always felt that interfaith cooperation was the perfect setting for Unitarian Universalists to support and be present for. We are, after all, a rather theologically eclectic bunch.
I have been part of the Belmont interfaith clergy group since I arrived in 2009, and I have found them to be a wonderful, welcoming and mutually supportive group of people.
Over the years individuals within the group have ranged from evangelical Baptist to Humanist (me); it has included Christians of many stripes, Jews and Baha'is. Even though I, as part of the Humanist wing of our tradition, stand out from the theological grounding of the rest of the group, there has never been conflict or dispute between us.
That is as it ought to be. With respect for each other's religious faiths and theologies, we come together in mutual support and service to our congregations and to the community.
The Interfaith Thanksgiving Service is one of the ways in which everyone in the community of Belmont can bridge differences and join together for worship or service.
I would love to see a good turnout from this congregation, with a warm welcome for us to our fellow pilgrims in the journey of the spirit.
See you then, I hope.
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I attended the recent "Progress Since Laramie" community dialogue on inclusion at Belmont High School (BHS), which is part of programming related to the BHS Performing Arts Council's (PAC) production of "The Laramie Project" ... Click here for more. |
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Help our youth go on their biennial Service Learning trip through these Youth Group Fundraisers. Click below for details!
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The Fall Adult Programs Brochure is here.
Adult Programs continuing discussions on end of life issues:
- The Conversation Project, Sunday, Nov. 8, 12:30 p.m., Library
- Facilitated by Rick Hawkins
New Program:
Programs co-sponsored by Social Action Committee:
- The Tiny Village of Izotalillo - Sunday, Nov. 15, 12:30 p.m., Library
- "Growing Up Trans"- Thursday, Nov. 19, 7 p.m., Parish Hall
Ongoing Programs:
- Caring for Older Adults - Thursday, Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m., Conference Room
- Fiber Arts Fellowship - Thursday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m., Cl. #4
- Science and Spirituality - Thursday, Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m., Conference Room
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The Social Action Committee sends an update from the UU Urban Ministry:
- Sunday, November 8: the 2015 Mendelsohn Lecture at 3 p.m.
- Calling all UU Teens! Join with the Roxbury Youth Program for "Environmental Justice in the City"
- Details on these, and more, at uuum.org.
- Circle Dinners start November 7 ... Circle Dinners are informal get-togethers held in members' homes ... will you be a guest or a host?
- November & December are "Start the Day Strong!" at the Grow Clinic. Especially needed are:
- infant rice cereal
- cold and hot non-sugared cereals
- Flintstone chewable vitamins
- Polyvisol with Iron liquid vitamins
- Belmont Unitarian Alliance presents "Living with Wildlife," lunch and lecture, November 18
- UUSC Monthly Service Team Note ... click here to visit the UUSC's monthly focus, environmental justice.
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