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Spotlight On: King's Chapel's 333rd Birthday!
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This Sunday, June 16th, King's Chapel celebrates it's 333rd birthday! Please join us after each service for a festive birthday celebration! This is also a time where we get to share memories of the year with friends, before everyone leaves for summer travels.
After the Morning Light service, our final before fall, we will have the final Church School session of the year. We have a few crafts planned to bring to life the readings and themes from the last few weeks of church. It is our hope that many of our youngsters will be available to celebrate one last session before going off for a happy and safe summer vacation!
Additionally, thank you to all who have made this Church School year a success. We had the most amazing volunteers for both of the big events, Easter and Advent Crafts, as well as throughout the weekly sessions. An additional note of thanks to all who helped support the Confirmation program. Finally, thanks to our kiddos for being a source of light and renewal for the community.
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From the Sabbatical Minister
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This week King's Chapel will be celebrating their 333rd anniversary. I know we generally celebrate institutional anniversaries in 5 year or 10 year increments, however every anniversary gives us cause to remember and celebrate with cake. A third wedding anniversary gift is usually leather to demonstrate the durability of the relationship. If the three hundred and thirty-third anniversary were to represent durability, the gift would have to be made of granite or marble of which we have plenty in the walls of King's Chapel. In many ways durability is what King's Chapel has plenty of. Having survived a rebellions and civil unrest, hurricanes and blizzards, fluctuation in memberships and comings and goings of leadership and ministers, King's Chapel remains a durable institution. To be around for 333 years gives us hope that it will be around another 333 more. I am excited to celebrate this anniversary with you. I hope to see you in worship. Rali
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Labyrinth Walk and Potluck Lunch | June 22 | 10 AM - 1 PM
Proceed, [the] Way will open. ~ Quaker Saying
We hope you'll join us! ~ a gathering of King's Chapel friends at the home of Dick and Cynthia Perkins at 333 Red Acre Road, Stow, MA. We'll discuss the nature and history of the labyrinth through the ages and in different countries, then review the simple guidelines for this walking meditation. After we walk, we'll take time to share reflections and thoughts before our luncheon.
If this is new for you, please join us; if you've walked a labyrinth before, please join us! Unlike a maze, you cannot get lost, you follow the one path inward to the center, rest there, then follow the same path out. People often bring a question, offer a silent prayer, or find a new insight into the journey.
Please contact Cynthia Perkins if you have questions and to coordinate the potluck lunch at
cbhperkins@earthlink.net . Contact Laura know if you'd like to come -
Laura@kings-chapel.org and mention whether you can offer a ride or need one. More information and directions will be sent when you sign up.
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Habitat Build Out| Saturday June 29
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King's Chapel is looking for a group of volunteers to help build a house with Habitat for Humanity. The build will take place in the Boston area (likely Dorchester) on Saturday, June 29th from 9:30 AM to 3 PM. There is a suggested $40 donation to Habitat, but anyone is welcome. Contact Emmanuel Genovese for more information or to sign up- (617) 738-6367 or emanuelg1@verizon.net.
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Summer Barbecues | July 17 and August 14 | 6 PM | In the Parish House Garden
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 Join us in July and August as we celebrate together the joys of summer. Come and see friends old and new, and join the summer fun!
The July gathering will be hosted by the Hospitality and Membership committees; the August by the ARE and CAC committees.
Main dish and beverages are provided. Guests are asked to bring side dish, salad or dessert. RSVP to
laura @kings-chapel.org if you can attend, and let us know what you will bring.
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Sunday, June 16
333rd Birthday of King's Chapel celebrated
Saturday, June 22
10 AM
| Labyrinth Walk at Perkins' Home in Stow
Saturday, June 29
Habitat Build
Saturday, July 13
1-5 PM |Makanda Project, UUUM (10 Putnam Street, Roxbury)
Wednesday, July 17
6 PM | All Parish BBQ at the Parish House, hosted by Hospitality and Membership Committees
Saturday, August 10
1-2 PM|
UUUM Roxbury History Tour 10 Putnam Street. (Tours are every Saturday in August. CAC Chair Amanda Pickett is attending the August 10 1:00 PM Tour. To join her on this occasion or to register for a different Saturday in Aug, please register
here:
1-5 PM | UUUM Makanda Jazz Project
Wednesday, August 14
6 PM | All Parish BBQ at the Parish House, hosted by the Adult Religious Education and Community Action Committees
Sunday, August 18
10-11 AM | Sandwich making for
common cathedral
12:30 PM | Worship on the common with
common cathedral
Saturday, September 14
1-5 PM | UUUM Makanda Jazz Project
Sunday, September 15
Homecoming
Sunday, September 29
12:30 - 2 PM | Boston Athenaeum
Special tour for Kings Chapel of the Kings Chapel Library Exhibition
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On Saturday, a group of King's Chapel community members and their friends marched in the 49th Boston Pride Parade. It was a beautiful day for a beautiful event, with mild weather and brilliant sunlight. We were proud to join record number of joyously decorated cheering, whistling, and trumpeting marchers and supporters in celebrating and supporting the LGBT community. Thank you to everyone who marched, cheered, watched, helped organize or simply sent good thoughts from afar!
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This June marks King's Chapel's 333rd Birthday! Throughout the month of June, the History Program will highlight key moments and people who shaped the church over the past 3 1/3 centuries. Special talks and drop-in programming will explore historical "3s," and staff will share how King's Chapel has celebrated major milestones over the years, including the 1886 bicentennial and the church's 250th birthday in 1936.
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Morning Light | 9 AM
- Rev. Rali Weaver, preaching
- Skip Lewan, piano
- The Rev. Joy Fallon, Senior Minister
- The Rev. Rali Weaver, Sabbatical Minister
- David Waters, Minister for Education and Membership
- Heinrich Christensen, Music Director
- Amy Meyer, Lay Reader
- David Wheeler, Lector
- Michael Bergeron, Head Usher
- Sylvia Soderberg, Usher in Charge
- KC Dalton, Todd Lee, Betsy Peterson, Ushers
- Clark Aitkins, Verger
The Readings:
- Psalm 8
- Proverbs 8: 1-4, 22-31
- John 16: 12-15
The flowers on the Chancel table are given by Gretchen Horton in loving memory of her father, Bob Horton.
At the communion rail following the service, Todd Lee
will greet those interested in learning more about King's Chapel.
After the service, please join us for punch on the bricks, hosted by Becky Wittenburg.
Each Sunday, 10% of the plate collection will go to our Community Action strategic partners:
common cathedral, the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, and the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministries, to do works of mercy, justice, and healing. All cash and checks not specially designated will be considered a plate offering.
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The choir will be back this Sunday for a birthday visit to sing Philip Stockton's heartfelt In My Father's House, as well as Carson Cooman's Bless the Lord, and Heinrich's take on Psalm 8, entitled Excellence. The organ voluntaries are based on the Lutheran chorale version of the Gloria, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, in 4 settings by Bach, and one by Lebanese composer Naji Hakim.
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12:15 PM, 58 Tremont St.
June 18
Xuan He plays the C.B. Fisk Organ
Bach, Dupre, Schumann
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Tuesday Morning Meditation | Tuesdays 7:30 AM| Little Chapel
An early Tuesday Morning Meditation meets in our beautiful Little Chapel at 7:30 to 8:30 AM each Tuesday, including approximately a 20 minute meditation. We explore and experiment a bit, so if you have some ideas or are a little adventurous, this brief coming side by side with others in your church community may bring some welcome fun, joy and/or peace to your day. This is for "drop-in" participation - no long term obligations. Never meditated before? Drop by and give it a try. Feel free to contact Gary Riccio at
gary.riccio@me.com, or Stephen Courtney at scourtney@scixstudio.com for more details.
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Volunteer: Sign up for Hospitality
Anyone can help!
Enter your email address and select a spot to fill. New volunteers may choose to co-host with a buddy.
Questions? email hospitality@kings-chapel.org
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We are grateful to those who provide for flowers each week, during our Morning Prayer service.
If you would like to give flowers in honor of a loved one, please contact Anne Sexton, chair of our Chancel Committee at annewsexton1@gmail.com . The cost for an arrangement is $85; a check can be mailed to the Parish House, indicating the date you have chosen and the inscription you would like.
We have the following dates open for the remainder of the year:
JUNE 30TH
JULY 21ST
SEPTEMBER 8TH, 29TH
OCTOBER 20TH
DECEMBER 1ST, 8TH, 15, 22ND, 29TH
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Contributing to Between Sundays
Our e-newsletter is sent each Thursday afternoon. Want something in Between Sundays? Feel free to email administrative.assistant@kings-chapel.org with a written piece and/or pictures before Wednesday at 5 PM.
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Accessibility Assists
Our beautiful Georgian sanctuary was designed by Peter Harrison and completed in 1754. To make our services and programs more accessible, one of the box pews has been made wheel-chair accessible. Ushers are available to assist those wheelchair users to that pew. Additionally, we have installed an accessible bathroom on our main floor. An usher can direct you to the vestry.
A sound system has been installed in the sanctuary of The Chapel to amplify the sound during worship services. Hearing assistance devices are available for your use. Please see an Usher for assistance.
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