Correction! Spring Fair raised $600 — not $500
WORSHIP SCHEDULE
All worship services begin at 10:00 AM
June 5th TED and Response by Steve Wills
“Blood and Gore, choosing sides in the coming Energy wars.”
June 12th Annual Meeting at 10:00 AM — no worship service this Sunday.
We welcome newbies to our Annual meetings.
FYI, only members can vote.
June 19th “Religious Beginnings in Massachusetts.” by Christopher Coyle
Held at the Athol Historical Society, 1307 S Main St, Athol, MA 01331
the large yellow building above the street.
followed by Strawberry Social at the Athol Historical Society
June 26th “Bloom Where You Are Planted and A Summer Solstice Flower Communion”
Rev Marilyn Richards
The time of the Summer Solstice is the beginning of reliably warm weather, abundant food and good times ahead. All will be well again, we know.
The Flower Communion is a Unitarian Universalist communion service. Everyone is asked to bring a flower. Any flower you would like. We celebrate diversity. Please bring whatever flower you like. For example, little children often like to bring dandelions which are added to the vases. We will have a vase and small bowel to collect the flowers brought to the service on the marble topped table in the Chapel. When the service begins, the flower vase and bowl are placed next to the chalice on the table during the service. At the end of the service, everyone takes a different flower home. There will be extra flowers for those who forgot.
July 3rd TED and Response by Steve Wills
“July 4th and the Right to Choose Your Own Bathroom”
EVENTS
Our church’s Annual Meeting will be June 12th at 10:00 AM.
Strawberry Social will be held on June 19th, after Chris Coyle’s worship service at the Athol Historical Society.
Board of Management‘s first meeting of the Church Year will be on Sunday, June 26, 2016 after coffee hour
IN CLOSING
from On This Day In Unitarian Universalist History (author: Frank Schulman)
Year 1579
Francis David was brought to trial at Gyulafehervar in Transylvania. He was sentenced to imprisonment in a nearby dungeon until his assumed death on Nov. 15, 1759. No body was ever found.
Year 1652
John Biddle was arrested while leading Unitarian worship in London, England. He was exiled to the Scilly Islands and granted a pension by Oliver Cromwell, the lord protector of England.
Year 1803
William Allergy Channing was ordained as a Unitarian minister at the Federal Street Church and Society in Boston (now the Arlington St. Church). He was a famous preacher, who’s statue still sits opposite the church in the Boston Public Garden. Channing served this church from 1803-42, it was the only church that he ever served.
and our quote for the day:
“Half of getting there is having the confidence to show up and keep showing up.”
Sophia Amoruso
