iSpi - September 20, 2018
WEEKLY CALENDAR

Sunday, September 23 – Outreach Sunday
Handchime Practice, Skylight Room 9:30-9:50 am
Morning Service, Church School & Babycare 10 am
Sermon: 450 Years of Religious Tolerance
Outreach Sunday collection will benefit our partner church in Kadacs, Transylvania
Coffee Hour, Parish Hall 11 am
Helen Fogg Service Committee, Fogg Parlor 11:30 am

Monday, September 24
AA, Parish Hall 8:30 pm

Tuesday, September 25
Tai Chi, Parish Hall 9:15 am
First Parish Knitters, Fogg Parlor 9:30 am
Parish Committee, Fogg Parlor 6:30 pm
Ballroom Dancers, Parish Hall 6:30-8:30 pm

Wednesday, September 26
Order of Service & iSpi announcement deadline 9 am
Ballroom Dancers, Parish Hall 6:30-8:30 pm

Thursday, September 27
Staff Meeting, Church Office 10:30 am
DA Forum, Parish Hall 7:30-9 pm
Choir Rehearsal, Skylight Room 7:30 pm

Friday, September 28
Trumpet lessons, Parish Hall 3-7 pm

Saturday, September 29
Scrapbookers, Parish Hall 8 am-9 pm
OWL Overnight, Fogg Par., Skylight Rm. & Parish Hall 9 am-…

Sunday, September 30
OWL Overnight … -9 am
Handchime Practice, Skylight Room 9:30-9:50 am
Morning Service, Church School & Babycare 10 am
Coffee Hour, Parish Hall 11 am

For more information on any of the events at the James Library and Center for the Arts, please contact them directly at 781-659-7100 or visit their website.


REV. LISE'S OFFICE HOURS

Tuesdays and Thursdays 10 am-1 pm
Fridays 2:30-5:30 pm
While these are her scheduled office hours, pastoral emergencies will take priority. You are welcome to contact Rev. Lise to schedule an appointment.


COMMUNITY EVENT

Come learn more about “Question 3” on this fall’s ballot with a free forum entitled: “Yes on 3! Let Me Be Me!” and learn why transgender rights should be upheld in the state. The event will be held on Thursday, September 27 at 7 pm in the Community Room at the Scituate Public Library, 85 Branch Street. A small panel will discuss the impact of this human rights issue and there will be a Q & A session to follow. Accessible parking is available.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Committee on Shared Ministry (COSM) (current members Debbie Chase, Bernie Gardner, Betsy Gordon, Ellie Handleman, Marie Miller, and Derek Sulc) want to remind you that we are interested in your feedback regarding how things are going at church. We are here to help if there is a conflict. We’d love to have a conversation about what is going well and what could be improved. We also check the suggestion box (in the form of the “no strings attached” guitar outside the sanctuary) regularly.

Sign-up sheets for worship volunteers have been posted under the TV in the Parish Hall for the 2018-2019 church year. If you would like to host coffee hour, create a pulpit arrangement or act as an usher, please sign up!  You can also sign up by contacting the Church Office.

We will be producing an updated church directory this fall. This will be text only- no photos. Representatives from the Membership Committee will be at Coffee Hour over the next few weeks with a list of names and addresses. Please check and make sure your info is up to date. You may also contact Hope in the Church Office to update your listing.

Handchime practice will be each Sunday morning from 9:35 until 9:50 in the Skylight Room. All young people are invited to join the group and become part of our church music program. You will play chimes for “Go Now in Peace” every Sunday. You will also play an introit to begin the worship service some Sundays. As well, we will start learning music for the holidays.  

We hope many of you will donate items for a themed gift basket which will be sold at our all-church fund-raiser, the Holiday Fair, the Saturday before Thanksgiving. YOU provide the items, and we help you attractively wrap them in a basket with materials which we provide. Then, you will write out a tag telling what is in the basket. Baskets in the $20-$45 range sell best. Age-specific baskets for kids or small beauty baskets (particularly for teens) sell well. We will have a list of past baskets at Coffee Hour each Sunday before the fair. You can sign up at Coffee Hour! If you would like to donate money for or toward a basket, one of our happy basket makers will buy and make the basket for you! Please see Bev Gardner or Noel Constantino with any questions.

Here at First Parish of Norwell we have much to be thankful for and much to give to the world beyond our doors. Our Helen Fogg Service Committee will hold its first meeting this church year on Sunday, September 23, at 11:30  in the Fogg Parlor. We welcome new members to join us as we look for ways to help our world. We plan Outreach Sunday topics, decide where the money in our budget should go, support social action groups like the Partakers prison ministry and the Mass. Bail Fund, coordinate a Community Dinner in our Parish Hall the 2nd Wednesday every month (be sure to come to our next dinner on October 10), and present programs on current topics such as climate change, LGBTQ+ issues and prison reform. We also coordinate the wonderful collection of gifts for children in foster care each December. New members expand our ideas and bring new enthusiasm to the committee. Please join us this Sunday and help us decide what to do with all that we have right here at FPN!

The Role of District Attorney & Our Criminal Law System
When: Thursday September 27, 7:30 - 9:00 pm
Where: our Parish Hall
District attorneys are the most powerful people in the criminal law system. They decide who gets charged with a crime and determine how most criminal cases are resolved. How much do you know about the role of the DA and the impact they have on people's lives? You're invited to join us at this event and learn more! The featured speaker will be Whitney Taylor, Political Director & #DADifference Leadership Team, ACLU.


First Parish of Norwell, Unitarian Universalist | Phone 781.659.7122
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