First Parish Voices Worship Service, Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 10:30 am Gathered Side By Side The Reverend Lara K-J Campbell Coffee Hour provided by Membership & Properties – Andrea Rohde & Barbara Conner Church Office hours: The church office is open Monday thru Friday from 9 am to noon Rev. Lara hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9am to 4pm Weather cancellations: Channel 6 TV, the Website/Facebook and a message on the church voice mail. Herve’ Contents: You may select an item to go directly to it Weekly Updates! ..................................................................................................................................................... 2 Friday Night Movie Series........................................................................................................................ 2 New Member Welcome Sunday ............................................................................................................... 2 Sunday Morning Discussion Group ........................................................................................................ 2 Connecting Circle...................................................................................................................................... 3 Next Sermon and Soup Book Discussion – 3/15/15 ................................................................................ 3 Song Swap – Song Sharing ....................................................................................................................... 3 Maine Mud Madness – Let’s Wake Up Spring!! ................................................................................... 4 March No Particular Reason Women's Potluck Dinner ....................................................................... 4 April Circle Dinners ................................................................................................................................. 4 Installation of Our 26th Minister ............................................................................................................. 5 Help! Installation of our 26th Minister .................................................................................................... 5 Operation Creation ................................................................................................................................... 6 Fund Raising Proposal - IRISH GARDEN SHED ................................................................................ 6 Profound Readings .................................................................................................................................................. 7 Where I’m From Poem – Jackie Allaire-MacDonald............................................................................ 7 Funding Opportunities! ........................................................................................................................................... 9 Spiritual Growth Opportunities! ........................................................................................................................... 10 1 Weekly Updates! Friday Night Movie Series February 27, 2015 Red Gold Saving Beautiful & Pristine Bristol Bay, Alaska Winner of the best documentary at the Telluride Film Festival, this film chronicles the efforts to stop the proposed Pebble open pit mine (gold, copper, molybdenum) at the headwaters of two of Alaska's richest salmon rivers. Following the film, Lindsay Newland Bowker, environmental risk manager for Bowker Associates, An independent nonprofit which provides analysis on key issues with potential for massive Environmental impacts in Maine (the proposed mine on Bald Mountain, for example), will comment on the film and conduct the Q&A. 6:30 - dessert and coffee, tea 7:00 - Film followed by discussion Brought to you by the Social Justice Committee and Maine Sierra Club ALL WELCOME Gathered Side by Side: New Member Welcome Sunday March 1, 2015 We hope that all of you can join us on Sunday March 1st when we will be welcoming six new members and three rejoining members into our congregation. This will also be an opportunity to celebrate our whole church community. It is a time for all of us to renew the covenant that we have made with each other. Please try to attend this special service as we publicly recognize these nine members of our church. Sincerely, Andrea Rohde, On behalf of the Membership Team Sunday Morning Discussion Group The March line up for the Sunday Morning Discussion Group is: March 1st Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols March 15th Nietzsche - Achieving Authenticity Anyone who is interested is welcome to join us at 8:30 am. Questions? Contact Ruth paws8@roadrunner.com 2 Looking for more personal connections at church? Want to further your spiritual development? Consider joining a Connecting Circle (info meeting is now Sunday, March 1st, after church, in the library) First Parish’s new Connecting Circles are about gathering with a small group of adults for spiritual journeying, increasing sacred awareness, and sharing personal experiences. Circles are structured to allow members to connect more closely with themselves and each other than can be accomplished at larger church functions. Two Circles are launching in March. Both Circles will be held at church and will run through June. Sign up on the sheets in Parish Hall. Circle A - Friday, March 20th. 7pm (1st and 3rd Fridays), and Circle K - Sunday, March 22nd. 5:30pm (2nd and 4th Sundays) Next Sermon and Soup Book Discussion – 3/15/15 Rev. Lara will preach on March 15, 2015 on The Selma Awakening and her experience at the 50th Anniversary commemoration of the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March. Those interested are encouraged to read the book in preparation. However, all are welcome, even if you haven’t read the book. The Selma Awakening: How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Changed Unitarian Universalism Editor: Mark D. Morrison-Reed The foremost scholar of African-American Unitarian Universalist history presents this long-awaited analysis of the denomination's civil rights activism in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Selma represented a turning point for Unitarian Universalists. In answering Martin Luther King Jr.'s call to action, they shifted from passing earnest resolutions about racial justice to putting their lives on the line for the cause. Morrison-Reed traces the long history of race relations among the Unitarians and the Universalists leading up to 1965, exploring events and practices of the late nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century. He reveals the disparity between their espoused values on race and their values in practice. And yet, in 1965 their activism in Selma—involving hundreds of ministers and the violent deaths of Rev. James Reeb and Viola Liuzzo—at last put them in authentic relationship with their proclaimed beliefs. With rigorous scholarship and unflinching frankness, The Selma Awakening provides a new way of understanding Unitarian Universalist engagement with race and offers an indispensable new resource for anyone interested in UU history. $18 at the UUA Bookstore - http://www.uuabookstore.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2088 Also available as an eBook in the Amazon Kindle Store and on Google Play. Song Swap – Song Sharing The Second Friday of every month Next Song Swap is Friday, March 13th Time: 7:00pm- 9pm, In the Chapel The joy of making music and having fun is our goal at this informal gathering, open to all. All levels of experience are valued and enjoyed. Acoustic instruments only please. Listeners are Welcome. Light refreshments will be served. - A $3 donation is requested. FMI please contact: Rich Gaito, 985 -7412, captgaito@gmail.com or Bruce Childress bruce@bcpipes.com 3 Maine Mud Madness – Let’s Wake Up Spring!! Dinner, Entertainment and a Silent Service Auction March 21st at 6:30 In Maine, there are actually five seasons. This fifth inserts itself between winter and spring during the months of March and April when all of the accumulated snow melts at once. Known as "Mud Season," it is a time of change as the landscape prepares itself for a new season of growth. Let’s celebrate the end of winter and the arrival of spring with family and friends by sharing an evening of dining, entertainment and a Silent Service Auction! This year we are limiting the auction to parties, gatherings, services and gift certificates (i.e. dinners, breakfasts, tea parties, painting rooms, carpentry, landscaping, gift certificates for boat trips, restaurants, etc.) Please consider offering a few hours of your time and talent to the auction. Find attached an Item Donation Form – you will also find them on the bulletin board – Current Events. Please return them ASAP to the Completed Form folder on the bulletin board – Deadline for submission is March 13! For More Information: Dean Meggison - dmeggison@roadrunner.com 985-0074 Sally Keene – sjpk@roadrunner.com 985-8044 Jeannie Meggison – jmeggison@roadrunner.com 985-0074 March No Particular Reason Women's Potluck Dinner At the home of Norma Johnsen When: Friday, March 20 @ 6:15PM Where: Sea Road, Kennebunk Phone: 985-5840 April Circle Dinners Circle Dinners will be scheduled in the month of April. Sign up sheets are available in the parish hall as of March 1st. Be a host or a guest. Hosts prepare the main dish and guests bring salads, sides and desserts. Circle Dinners are a great way to get acquainted with your fellow UU's in a relaxed home atmosphere. Don't miss out! Nancy Ann 4 Installation of Our 26th Minister Help! Installation of our 26th Minister Home Hospitality needed for April Installation Weekend. We are very excited to install Lara as our new minister on April 26. The Committee on Ministry is looking for people willing to provide home hospitality for out of town guests attending the event. We are looking for the weekend of April 24-26. If you have a bedroom or two please contact Margaret Jones before March 22 at margaret.jones51@gmail.com Thanks. 5 Operation Creation Please join us Friday’s @ 1 PM in the Library Bring your knitting, sewing, scrapbooking, painting or any other hand work you enjoy I will put on a pot of tea and we can create while enjoying the company of our church friends FMI please contact Nancy Dorn at ndorn@gwi.net Fund Raising Proposal - IRISH GARDEN SHED Presented is a proposal for your consideration of an opportunity to provided additional income for our church. The project would entail the construction of an 8' x 10' Classic Post and Beam Irish Garden Shed and the wherewithal for its completion, to be raffled in conjunction with our Blueberry Fair of 2015.The value of the completed shed would be +/- $4,000.00. The raffle would have a limited number of tickets sold at an amount per ticket to be determined. E.g.: One hundred tickets sold at $100.00 per ticket would yield $10,000.00, or whatever... Solicitation for building materials from a local supplier in consideration for advertising access for the project is proposed. Labor for construction of the shed to be provided by church member volunteers is proposed. Location of the construction to be determined. Organization, development, funding and actualization of the requirements necessary for the successful completion of the raffle to be provided by church member volunteers. If you are interested in supporting or participating directly in this proposed project, if we proceed, please contact: Tom Dunn at 207-641-2733 or tfpdunn@maine.rr.com 6 Profound Readings Where I’m From Poem – Jackie Allaire-MacDonald I am from paper from Gel Pens and Sharpies from Crocs and Silly Bandz and other colorful hunks of plastic. I am from blue blue carpets and tiles, and counters and sky robin egg, sea spray, periwinkle and teal sometimes lively and busy, sometimes blank and dull. I am from the pussy willow bush from the climbing tree that leaned against it’s stump rotting and dying, but supporting little feet for so long. If a tree falls near the driveway and noone is around to hear it does that soften the sting of it’s loss? I am from pizza on Fridays, caroling at the monastery, and family game night charades. From Julie Margaret Allaire and Daniel Mendon MacDonald who are the reason my last name is sixteen letters long plus a hyphen. I am from the happy fault of singing too much and the discouraging one of always being late. From leather aprons and homemade chicken soup. From ¨Go play outside¨ to ¨She’s melting, she’s melting!¨ when my sister ducks out of the rain. I am from a place where you can believe what you want and no one can tell you not to from a place where each person is important where I can recite our covenant because I’ve heard it so often. From where I learned to sing and talk to adults, to teachers, to crowds. 7 I am from Dover and Gilford, New Hampshire a New Englander, by blood and spirit and the state I write on envelopes and the way I pronounce ¨syrup¨ the right way, like Sir, you’re up. From Albania and Canada from Scotland and England from places I only dream of visiting. I am from the girl scout troup my Grandmother led that all three of her kids (including my dad) were part of. From the way that my Great Uncle lived in his childhood home after his sister got married, after his brother died young, after his father finally passed on, all by himself until last week when he packed up the house, box by box all by himself and moved out. I am from the top of our piano on which my framed and smiling face stands among those of my family. From the long wooden swing gathering dust in our cellar dust that obscures my once vibrant memories of it hanging in the barn that belonged to my grandparents. I am from that barn, old and beautiful. I am from my middle name, ¨Page¨ spelled like the part of a book that is responsible for 90% of all my procrastination of everything, ever. I am from paper which inspires an endless list of words but can only hold so much forcing each poem to come to an end. Note: This beautiful poem was shared by Jackie at the Sunday Service 2/22/2015 “The Future Isn’t What it Use to Be”. 8 Funding Opportunities! ClynK Bottle Redemption What is that sound you hear early Sunday mornings in the back hall? And ever wonder why you see members carrying wine bottles around? FPUU not only recycles, but we turn in "Maine labeled" bottles and cans for money. We have a Clynk deposit barrel in the kitchen. If you have more than you can carry, take home your very own green bag. The new Clynk bags are in the black filing cabinet to the right of the stage behind the back curtain Here is the Clynk website for more information: https://www.clynk.com Do you shop at Hannaford? One of our biggest, easiest fundraisers is right at your fingertips, with no cost to you! Who? What? Why? How? YOU! A Hannaford card you use to prepay for groceries, through First Parish, then use it like a debit card when you shop. For every dollar you spend at Hannaford, they will give us 5% back. Register for a refillable Hannaford card most Sundays, with Gwen Vesenka, at the Welcome Table. She will take checks for under $500. Refill your card any week, by dropping off a check in the slot of the office door. How again and when? 1- Each week before Thursday 2- Write a check to FPUU Kennebunk and write the last 4 digits of your Hannaford card in the memo area. 3- Place in an envelope labeled "Hannaford" 4- Put it in the cute little silver slot on the office door. 5- Voila! On Friday, your money will be transferred to the card. Gwen Vesenka sends out nice emails reminding us each week of collection and transfer of the money. 9 Spiritual Growth Opportunities! Embracing Aging: Moment by Moment group meets twice a month for discussion and reflection. You may attend on a drop-in basis if you wish. Remaining dates are: Weds. Feb 25, Mar 11 & 25, April 15 & 29, 6:30 – 8pm in the Chapel. Please join us, it is free and open to all. FMI please contact Jaylene Summers @ 985-7412 or jsummers@roadrunner.com Women for All Seasons: 2nd and 4th Tuesdays from 6:30 -8:30 p.m. Celebrate the cycles of nature and the season, share and discuss, get to know other women in the congregation. We meet the second and fourth Tuesdays from September through June. For more information please contact Kathe 985-6194 and Annie 4680541. All women are welcome. Free Meditation: Wednesdays from 5-6:30 p.m. Silent meditation sessions in the Chapel with optional walking meditation in the Sanctuary. All are welcome. Early Morning Yoga: Thursday from 7-8:15 am: Start your day with a moderately paced Hatha Yoga class led by Patrick Conner, M.A., RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher). Come whenever you can – no attendance commitment. All experience levels are welcome. Wear comfortable clothes that allow movement. Bring a Yoga mat and props if you have them – there will be mats available to borrow. All adults and teens are welcome. Donations accepted. Adult Choir: Rehearsals on Thursdays from 7-8:30 p.m. and 2 Sundays per month. All are welcome! An affiliated group “Ripples of Peace” Buddhist Sangha: Tuesdays, 5:15- 6:45 p.m. in the Children’s Chapel – Beginners Welcome! Please bring cushions and/or mat for comfortable sitting – Chairs will be available. A Sangha is a community of friends learning and practicing the teachings of the Buddha. Our weekly gatherings begin with sitting and walking meditation followed by reading from a Buddhist teacher. The Sangha is an open gathering – come when you can, you are always welcome. Contact Sally Keene 985-8044, sjpk@roadrunner.net for info. FPUU STAFF/LEADERSHIP MINISTER: The Reverend Lara K-J Campbell………………….........207-985-3700 (church) RevLaraCampbell@gmail.com ACTING DIRECTOR OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Jacky Peters……....................................kbkuu-redirector@gwi.net MUSIC DIRECTOR: Rev. Charles Grindle……………………………...........................................interfaithchap@gmail.com ADMINISTRATOR: Barbara Boscia............................................................................................................... ....kbkuu@gwi.net BOARD OF DIRECTORS: CHAIR: Herve’ Lavoie.…............................................................................................. ...........hervae@roadrunner.com VICE-CHAIR: Ruth Stackpole………………………………………….………………..…...paws8@roadrunner.com CLERK: Paula Moulton……………………….…………………………….………..waltpaula1958@roadrunner.com TREASURER: Oliver Payne……………….……….............................................……………………….oep@gwi.net Jeanne Meggison……………………………………………………………..................….jmeggison@roadrunner.com Molly Hoadley…………………………………………………………............................…..mollyhoadley@gmail.com Karen Banning................................................................................................................ ................kedlouise@yahoo.com 10
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