Category Archives: Outreach

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  September Environmental Justice Newsletter

  Posted on September 2, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Environment, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach

  Submission for FCC Environmental Justice Newsletter 090221

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  SEPTEMBER 12 – Summer Read Discussion – Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

  Posted on August 30, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Justice, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Small Groups

  Many church people have read the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson this summer. It is a unique view into the origins of racial strife in the United States. Using that perspective, Wilkerson leads us in identifying the aspects of caste that we live out today. Julianne Zimmerman will lead us in a discussion about the […]

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  Third Thursdays from Racial Justice

  Posted on August 18, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Justice, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach

  Racial Bursitis August 2021   “With depth comes freedom.”   I am getting over a sore shoulder.  I began to carry tension in both shoulders in January and within a day or two the old bursitis showed up.  My shoulder can do some things, but it has trouble with certain movements and some transitions.   When my […]

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  Repair Cafe Winchester

  Posted on July 26, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Community, Environment, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Volunteer Opportunities

  Saturday September 25th 9:30am to 12:30pm Dear Friends, We are looking for a few more repair experts from 9:30am to 12:30pm on Saturday September 25th. We have a handful of eager volunteers and we are looking for a handful more. This is our first Repair Cafe and we hope to have a fun and engaging […]

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  Third Thursdays from Racial Justice

  Posted on July 15, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Justice, Latest News, Outreach

  Thursday, July 15, 2021 We get it: racial justice is a heavy and complex topic, laden with centuries of grief, horror, guilt, and despair. Facing into it can feel overwhelming, painful, even hopeless. And anyway, what role could we as a relatively small, privileged, predominantly white suburban Protestant congregation possibly have in redressing systemic racism, individually or collectively?   […]

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  SUMMER READ: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

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

  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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  Environmental Justice Newsletter: May 2021

  Posted on May 27, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Environment, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach

  May 2021

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  The Heartbreak of Myanmar

  Posted on May 10, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Justice, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach

    Many of you will remember that I visited Myanmar for the first time in 2011, conducting and witnessing my way through vast sections of the country. At that time, and for a few years after, this church was instrumental in providing much-needed funds to Myanmar’s children and young adults, assisting with life-giving education, food, […]

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