This Sunday, the children and youth will be doing yoga.
Please have your child dress appropriately, comfortable clothes that you can move in. If your child wears a dress please have her wear leggings.
Saturday, October 2 is the fall Habitat for Humanity Build Day for UUCiA members and friends. If you’d like to volunteer your time and talents to help build homes for deserving families in the Merrimack Valley, please join us! We will work at a construction site in Lawrence.
Volunteers with and without construction experience are welcome and appreciated. Habitat provides the tools (but you can also bring your own). Work hours are 8:30 to 4:30, and volunteers who can work till 4:30 are needed to make good progress at the site, but if one or two can spare only the morning please join us anyway. Just let us know in advance if you’ll need to leave early. (more…)
It’s not that easy being green, especially if you’re a busy, working grad student on a tight budget. Amanda Hitchins will share her thoughts, ideas and discoveries as she navigates her way through a dizzying array of environmentally friendly and socially conscious products, in her attempt to furnish her new apartment while doing the right thing for the planet. Join us for this special service on Sunday, October 3 at 10:30am.
Sunday Service, October 10, 10:30 am : Surrender to Peace. An Appreciation of Islam.This week we will be tie dying.
Please have your child bring a white, washed, cotton t-shirt to dye. It is
also fun to tie dye socks; If you can get ones with a lot of cotton in them.
Feel free to bring a pair or two. Have your child dress appropriately, tie dying is messy and stains.
If it is raining we will do another project and try again in October.
Thanks to a gift from the Women’s Federation, the UUCiA now has copies of the new hymnal (considered a “supplement” to the old one). You’ll notice them on your chairs for the first time this coming Sunday, September 26. They are light blue – teal, I suppose. They are called Singing the Journey.
Now, for those of you who are relatively new to Unitarian Universalism, you might still be learning hymns from the old hymnal (the gray one, Singing the Living Tradition). And for those of you who know the gray hymnal well, you might not want to stop singing some of the songs in there. Not to worry… we’ll be using both hymnals from this point forward. The gray hymnal is still great – but for those of us who have been singing from it since the mid-1990s, a supplement is a welcome breath of fresh air.
Sunday Service October 17, 10:30 am. The Art of Prayer: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice.
There are many ways to pray. This service will be an interactive one, with the congregation being invited into co-creating a “Visual Prayer Mandala”. Rev. D’Vorah Kelley will share her love of the creative process as a means to access the Divine – in whatever form, or by whatever name you may call it.
Sunday Service, October 24, 10:30 am Association Sunday. Celebrating 50 Years and the Future of Our Faith
Our service will feature a child dedication (for Gabriel and Julian Hidalgo). You won’t want to miss this important community ritual, affirmation, and celebration of caring for two children who are part of our UUCiA community.
After the dedication, the service will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Unitarian Universalist Association. On this 4th Annual Association Sunday, Rev. M. Lara Hoke will lead us in celebrating the 1961 merger of the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association. We will also consider the future of our UU faith.
Proceeds from this year’s special collection will go to ensuring that our faith thrives for generations to come.
