Category Archives: Latest News

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  A Regathering Update!

  Posted on July 1, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Health and Wellness, Latest News, Worship

  The Regathering Team has been meeting throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and is pleased to convey these updates to the congregation:   Summer Worship During the month of July, worship will continue on Zoom. With hearts full of cautious optimism, we are looking forward to worshiping in the sanctuary starting on August 8th. We invite people […]

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• A Note From Jake on Pronouns

  Posted on July 1, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Youth

  Dear all, I’m writing this to clarify something that viewers of last weeks pre-recorded services might have picked up on; that during the introduction to my Time for the Young, I stated that “I use both ‘she/her’ and ‘they/them’ pronouns”. If you didn’t watch last weeks pre-recorded service, then this is me officially telling the congregation that […]

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  Join us on Zoom for Worship This Sunday at 10 am (June 27, 2021)

  Posted on June 24, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

  This Sunday, the twenty-seventh, is the first of our summer services. It’s hard to explain them as different, since few of us can claim we know what normal was or if there ever will be another normal. As part of our summer services, we invite lay people to preach. Don’t be intimidated by the Reverend before a […]

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  NAMI Support Groups Serve Specific Interests

  Posted on June 23, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Health and Wellness, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Small Groups

  The number of NAMI Support Groups offered in the Commonwealth that cater to specific interests is growing. Virtual meetings help make this possible. Check the list below to see if there is one that matches your situation.   As always, NAMI’s “standard” groups welcome all and will continue to meet virtually throughout the summer. Click […]

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  Join Us for Worship This Sunday at 10 am (June 20, 2021)

  Posted on June 17, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

  We’ll offer a pre-recorded worship service this Sunday with Jesus’ calming of the storm in the Gospel of Mark as our guiding story. Rev. Will will preach with accompanying images of the Sea of Galilee to place us more fully into this dramatic story and Rev. Judy will share a Time for the Young based upon the same text. We […]

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  Join Us for Worship This Sunday at 10 am (June 13,2021)

  Posted on June 10, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

  Worship this Sunday grows out of two parables – the Growing Seed and the Mustard Seed. Jesus admits that his preferred way of sharing the Kingdom of God is through parables; thus leaving us with room for interpretation and for misinterpretation. We will explore this, we will pray, we will sing, we will listen: we […]

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  SUMMER READ: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

  Posted on June 10, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial Justice, Small Groups

  Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. She examines different caste systems around the […]

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  Racial Justice: Talk, Learn, Act — Juneteenth Programs

  Posted on June 10, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial Justice

  Juneteenth is celebrated throughout the U.S. on June 19th to recognize the end of slavery. While many people may have recently become aware of Juneteenth (a contraction of June and nineteenth), it has long been an important day in Black culture. It commemorates the announcement in Texas that slavery had ended, two and a half […]

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  Book Study: Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson

  Posted on June 8, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Environment, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach

  Wednesdays in July 10 am Postponed: Program will be rescheduled in the Fall. Reno Garden Former President of Ireland and UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, author Mary Robinson’s book, Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience and the Fight for a Sustainable Future, is described as, “Powerful and deeply humane…a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing humanitarian […]

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  Second Wednesday Bible Study

  Posted on June 7, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News

  Wed. June 9, 7- 8:30 pm On the second Wednesday of each month a few of us gather for Bible Study. The group is led by Pastor Judy and varies in number and composition but it is always congenial and faithful. The approach to scripture is not as something we were “supposed” to know all […]

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