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Channels
a weekly newsletter
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November 18, 5:30-7:30pm
Celebration Potluck
The Here for Good Team welcomes everyone to celebrate our FAB (flexible, accessible, beautiful) new spaces at First Universalist.
November 20, 10:30am
Come mark the opening of the holiday season with your community at First Universalist. Freshly baked by members and friends, we'll break our bread together during worship.
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Saturday, December 3
Evergreen Holiday Fair
Our annual holiday tradition is back with crafts and baked goods being sold along with workshops being held. Join in the festivities!
Tuesday, December 6
Preble Street Soup Kitchen
Feed our neighbors and feed your soul by volunteering to prep and serve meals at Preble Street Resource Center.
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WORSHIP
This way to the exploration of the ways that cultures clash and merge and how our personal, social, and spiritual identities can be impacted by the culture around us.
This Sunday, October 30, Claudette Ndayininahaze shares her experience of culture shock.
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OUR PROGRAMS: SUNDAY OCTOBER 30, 2016
Each Sunday at First Universalist there are opportunities for people of all ages to worship, explore, be challenged, connect, and renew. Here's our schedule for this week (click the yellow links for more information):
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WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM YOUR CHURCH?
Tues or Wed, once per month
Families-In-Action
While adults would either assist with dinner at the Preble Street Soup Kitchen (Tuesdays) or participate in the English Conversation Circles with refugees and asylum-seekers (Wednesdays), children would come to First Universalist to engage in justice work projects with staff, volunteers, and senior youth.
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Weekly or semi-weekly, TBD
Our Whole Lives for Adults
Using values, communication skills, and spirituality as starting points, this Our Whole Lives program explores sexuality issues for adults of all ages. Participating builds understanding of healthy sexual relationships and affirms diversity.
Learn more about the OWL program.
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Want to see either of these programs offered? We need 10 families for Families-In-Action or 10 adults for Adult OWL in order to make this work. Email Gwen Matthews, Program Assistant, to RSVP.
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FIRST EDITION: FINANCIAL TIMES OF FIRST U
Documents leaked from the Stewardship Committee at First Universalist contain
surprising revelations about the Hannaford card program and disagreements between committee members regarding the use of a faux-newspaper as a method on communication.
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CARE FOR A CUP OF COFFEE HOUR? 
We're relying on you - yes, you! - to make coffee hour happen. Your group, committee, or council is signed up to host coffee hour twice this year. Remember that you will need: two or more people, to arrive an hour before worship begins, and to stay to clean up after.
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WHO YOU GONNA CALL?
Gail Mills for general inquiries, financial matters, and building rentals.
Rev. Jennifer Emrich for worship, spiritual and pastoral concerns, community partnerships, and social justice initiatives.
Gwen Matthews for religious education and exploration, membership, and communications.
Jonathan Corey for worship music and choir.
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COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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If you are experiencing a crisis, including needing a hospital visit, you may call Rev. Jennifer on her cellphone: 207.356.1467 any time. Please note that Friday and Saturdays are typically her days off - Rev. Jennifer does not check email on these days, but will answer any crisis or emergency calls.
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To have your announcement included in Channels, please send an email to Gwen Matthews at
gwenatfirstu@gmail.com by Wednesday at 12pm.
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To find out more about the church, our programs, opportunities, and events:
For photos, jokes, articles, and inspiration:
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Photos in this email are courtesy of:
Creative Commons via Pixabay.com
Mariana Tupper
Gwen Matthews
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Logo and graphics are courtesy of:
Sarah Witte
The Unitarian Universalist Association
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