Title: Andover Interfaith Thanksgiving Eve Service
Location: Christ Church
Description: Please join your neighbors in thanksgiving! On Wednesday, November 25, 2009 7:30 pm Christ Church 33 Central Street, Andover. The sermon will be given by the Rev. John Zehring, Senior Pastor at South Church. A reception will follow the service
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2009-11-25
End Time: 21:00

Title: Journey Dance
Location: 6 Locke Street
Description: You are invited to Journey Dance. We will use playful and intuitive movement to discover and celebrate our inner joy. JourneyDance™ is a playful and intuitive method of using movement to discover and celebrate our inner strengths. We are all dancers, emotion in motion. We cleanse our bodies and minds with sweat and breath, laughter and prayer. We discover the anatomy of the soul. We feel our power and aliveness. We learn to love ourselves. We find balance and blessings.

Impulsed by music, using elements of theater, visualization, vocalization, guided sequences, and improvisational movement, we awaken our imaginations.
November 28, 2009
Saturday 7:00-8:30 pm
Admission $15.00 (nobody will be turned away)
Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Andover
6 Locke Street, Andover, MA 01810
No pre-registration is required.
All are welcome, our facility is wheelchair accessible.
For more information contact Sherry Lundquist at sherry_lundquist@yahoo.com
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-11-28
End Time: 20:30

Title: Full Moon Drum Circle
Location: 6 Locke Street
Description: Full Moon Drum Circle
Wednesday December 2, 7 to 9 p.m.
Admission $15.00
Join us to celebrate the full moon with drums and rhythm instruments. All are welcome, no
experience necessary. Jane Gossard will teach some African rhythms and lead the drumming.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-12-02
End Time: 21:00

Title: Book Discussion Group
Location: Home
Description: Book Discussion Group
The book group will discuss People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks on Tuesday, December 15, at
7:30 p.m. at the home of Betsy Black. January\’s book is The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson which will be discussed on Tuesday, January 19.
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2009-12-15
End Time: 21:00

Title: Sunday Service: The Miraculous and the Mundane: A Hanukkah Celebration
Location: 6 Locke Street
Description: Sunday, December 13, 10:30 a.m. \”The Miraculous and the Mundane: A Hanukkah
Celebration\”, with Rev. Lara Hoke. The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, at the most basic level,
celebrates \”the miracle of the oil\”. Specifically, after the Maccabee victory, the Temple in Jerusalem was to be rededicated, but there was only enough consecrated oil to keep the eternal
flame lit for one day. The miracle celebrated at Hanukkah is that the oil lasted for eight days –
enough time for more oil to be gathered and consecrated, keeping the eternal flame burning all the
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while. This year, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Friday, December 11. On the 13th, we will light
the Menorah and celebrate, and we will think about Hanukkah — and miracles — from a Unitarian
Universalist perspective.
Start Time: 10:30
Date: 2009-12-13
End Time: 11:30

Title: Sunday Service: Home is Where the Heart Is
Location: 6 Locke Street
Description: Sunday, November 29, 10:30 a.m. \”Home is Where the Heart Is\” coordinated by Thea Shapiro We will look at what home means to us, its comforts and discomforts, joys and pains. Think about
what home means to you and share some of your thoughts.
Start Time: 10:30
Date: 2009-11-29
End Time: 11:30

Title: Sunday Service: Bread Service
Location: 6 Locke Street
Description: Sunday Service, November 22nd, 10:30 a.m.\”Bread Service\”, coordinated by Thea Shapiro. Join us for our traditional celebration of Thanksgiving as we share bread
and stories to express our gratitude. Bring your favorite bread and tell
us about why it is important to you or just enjoy the communal sharing
of bread and memories of others. As Unitarian Universalists it\’s
important to us that everyone has access to bread–the \”staff of life\”
that represents all that sustains us. Is there a gesture of significance we
can make this holiday season by offering bread to others?
We\’ll conclude our service by sharing some soup as we sample the
breads that have been brought.
Start Time: 10:30
Date: 2009-11-22
End Time: 11:30

Title: Sharing Bread
Location: 6 Locke Street
Description: Join Thea Shapiro at Locke Street on Saturday Nov. 21, from 10 am to 2:30 pm to bake bread for Bread and Roses or bring a loaf of home made bread to the congregation by 2:30 pm on Saturday afternoon so it can be brought over to Bread and Roses in time for dinner. The folks athere are looking forward to some nice fresh home made bread.
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2009-11-21
End Time: 14:30

Thanksgiving is upon us, and gratitude is front and center. This past summer at the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly, the Rev. Galen Guengerich (senior minister of All Souls Unitarian Church in New York City) gave a presentation that greatly inspired many. I was not present for his talk, but I’ve heard so much about it that I feel like I was there. Guengerich’s presentation was called “Theology for a Secular Age”. The gist of his talk, based on what I’ve heard and read, was this: the major western faith traditions have a core theological response and religious discipline. For instance, he believes that Judaism is defined by the religious discipline of obedience to God’s commandments; Christianity by the religious discipline of love of God and love of neighbors as oneself; and Islam by the religious discipline of submission to God’s will. This brings us to the question, “What is the defining religious discipline of Unitarian Universalism?” (I would add to this the complication that we are not known for our discipline, religious or otherwise.)
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Title: Sunday Service: No Unwounded Veterans
Location: 6 Locke Street
Description: Sunday, November 8, 10:30 a.m. “No Unwounded Veterans”, with Rev. Lara Hoke.
In honor of Veterans Day, Lara will talk about what it means to serve in the United States military,
drawing on her own experience in the US Navy (and going beyond that, as well). Whether you’re a
veteran or not, we hope you\’ll join us to think bout the implications — spiritual and otherwise — of this holiday.
Start Time: 10:30
Date: 2009-11-08
End Time: 11:30