Entries by Craig Harris

Ministerial Search Committee Update

The Ministerial Search Committee has been working on your behalf throughout the summer, and things will really get rolling in the fall. We have prepared a congregational survey that will give us guidance, and will help ministerial candidates know who we are. There will then be Search Parties where we can talk directly with you. […]

Soul Matters Registration

An updated Soul Matters registration form is available for anyone interested in joining Soul Matters in the fall. Anyone who is already part of a Soul Matters group need not re-register. Check the church website to learn more about this popular program. Please contact Dotty Gardler and Brian O’Leary if you have questions or if […]

Summer Sanctuary Flowers

Have you seen some of the beautiful flower arrangements in the front of the sanctuary during the Sunday services? There are still Summer Sundays available for a donation of flowers from your garden, a favorite plant, or purchased flowers you arrange! Pick a Sunday between now and September 29, then contact Ruth Hendry to reserve […]

Mr. Blue Sky

Jeff Lynne wrote a song that conveys a positive message of hope and happiness. The meaning can be interpreted two ways: the joy of a rainy day ending and the sun coming out; or metaphorically, seeing the light at the end of a difficult time. Hear now as the Electric Light Orchestra performs Mr. Blue […]

Ministerial Search Committee Update

The Ministerial Search Committee is working on your behalf throughout the summer. We recently went over our plans with a representative of the UUA Transitions Team. We are preparing a congregational survey that will give us guidance and help ministerial candidates know who we are. There will then be cottage meetings where we can talk […]

Write Letters to Get Out the Vote

Want to help get out the vote in November? Jeannette Lynch has hosted three Vote Forward letter-writing parties so far this summer. Another one is scheduled for August 13, from 1 to 3 pm. Come and connect with members and friends! The goal of the Social Justice and Community Outreach Council was originally to write […]

Summer Sanctuary Flowers

Have you seen some of the beautiful flower arrangements in the front of the sanctuary during the Sunday services? There are still Summer Sundays available for a donation of flowers from your garden, a favorite plant, or purchased flowers you arrange! Pick a Sunday between now and September 29, then contact Ruth Hendry to reserve […]

Fourteenth Amendment

On July 28, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. Among other things, the amendment was meant to provide the protections of citizenship to the roughly four million formerly enslaved people of the South as well as free Blacks in the North and “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.” The […]