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Childcare for infants and toddlers available during Sunday morning worship.

All Ages Mid-Summer Pot Luck Supper
Come enjoy time with friends and family at the mid-summer potluck supper.  We will gather in the vestry on Saturday, July 26th beginning at 6 pm.  Please bring food to share as well as tales of your summer adventures.  We welcome entrees, salads, beverages, and desserts.  Please contact Carolyn Hodges or Barb Tosti or email layministry with questions.  Sponsored by Lay Ministry and Conveners.
Update -- July 12 -- from Carolyn:
The picnic will begin at 6 PM. All ages are welcome.
Before the picnic, at 5 PM, there'll be a cottage meeting hosted by the Search Committee.
Later in the evening, there'll be a dance party.
Please bring a donation for the Arlington Food Pantry (stocks are low in the summer months). 

Adult Program on the Environmental Crisis
Members of the Green Sanctuary Committee will be facilitating a discussion of the book PLAN B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester Brown.  There will be four sessions starting on Thursday evenings in June on the 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th at 7:00.  The discussions will be lead by Bill Gardiner, David Landskov, and Emily Rankin.  Participants may attend as many as of the sessions that they want.  Lester Brown, the famous environmentalist, has written a brief but powerful analysis of our current environmental situation.  In his book he covers issues of climate change, deteriorating food and oil security, eradicating poverty, feeding eight billion people, and restoring the earth.  We will be especially eager to review the solutions that he proposes.  Twenty-five members of First Parish have already bought a copy of the book so far.  If you wish to purchase copies of the book contact David Landskov.  Please e-mail Bill Gardiner if you plan to attend any of these sessions.

Meditation continues all summer!
Please join us in the First Parish Meditation Group.  We hold drop-in groups Mondays, gather at 6:00pm and start at 6:15 (in the preschool room) and Sundays, gather at 9:00am and start at 9:10 (next door at the Senior Center at Maple and Academy St)  We sit for 35 minutes in the style of Vipassana (Insight) Buddhist meditation, and beginners are welcome. By focusing on mind/body sensations in meditation, it is possible to become more mindful in daily life.   ALSO – 2 ongoing discussion groups meet one Sunday night each month.  A waiting list is now forming to join a group.  For more information, contact Lynn Rosenbaum or email meditation@firstparish.info

New Date for Ferry Beach is October 3 – 5, 2008.

It's never too early to prepare for the Fair!
This year's coming Harvest Moon Fair will be on Saturday, November 22, 2008.  The theme will be We Gather Together and we, the co-chairs, hope to make it an event of community building, volunteer opportunity and fund raising for the church.  We'd like to expand the fair committee.  We are currently recruiting volunteers now to help with preliminary tasks like PR, sign making and general support.  We'll also need help during and prior to the fair for everything from setting up the sanctuary, moving inventory, decorating the cafe, filling in at booths on fair day, to sweeping the floor at cleanup. Also we'd like to remind everyone to start setting aside your attic treasures, blue items, old toys, unopened gifts, crafts, family jewels, for the Fair now.
Carole Kasper
Susan McCabe

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First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington
630 Massachuetts Avenue, Arlington, MA 02476
Parish Office Phone: 781-648-3799
Website: www.firstparish.info
e-mail: churchoffice@firstparish.info

Office Hours: Monday - Thursday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm and Fridays 9:00 am to 12:00 pm

 

Are you new?

If you are new to First Parish, we are glad you joined us this morning. You are invited to join us for fellowship and friendship time following the service. Representatives from the Membership Committee staff our Information Table located in the Vestry. Please stop by so that we may better welcome you and answer any questions you may have. Fill out a salmon-colored Newcomer Information sheet so you may receive a copy of our newsletter the Spire and other communications. Newcomer Information Sheets are located both at the Information Table and in the back of the Sanctuary.

Membership

You are welcome to become a member of First Parish by signing the Membership Book in the presence of one of the ministers or the Parish Clerk. First Parish has designated the last Sunday of the month as Membership Signing Sunday. The signing of the membership book takes place in the foyer. Becoming a member at First Parish means that you have found a spiritual home here and are ready to commit yourself to membership by offering your support through regular and sustained gifts of your time, energy and money as you are able. Check our announcements for the most up-to-date schedule of Signing Sunday.

Parents of Small Children

Parents of babies and toddlers who have difficulty remaining quiet during the service: please make use of our Nursery or listen to the service broadcast in the Vestry adjoining the main entrance. The ushers can direct you to the appropriate location.

Nursery & Sunday School

Our Nursery is open from 10:00 am to 11:30 am for babies and toddlers up to age 3. Sunday School for Pre-K through Grade 7 goes to 11:30 am. Children through Grade 3 should be picked up at that time. Grades 4 and up will be dismissed for Coffee/Friendship hour. High School youth and Grade 8 meet Sunday evenings from 7-8:30 p.m.

This is a Welcoming Congregation
warmly and openly welcoming to gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender people.

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