You are invited to the Installation of Rev. Hillary Collins-Gilpatrick as Minister at the First Universalist Church of Yarmouth on Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 4:00 pm. Learn more and RSVP.

Are you a Board Geek in hiding? We bet some of you are! Think of it this way: many new UU's have said to themselves upon discovering the UU faith, "I was a UU all along, I just didn't know it!" Maybe you're a future Board Member and just don't yet know it!

Our First U Board of Trustees will have one open At Large seat for the upcoming church year which begins on July 1. We hope to fill that seat at our annual meeting in June. If you are interested or would like to know more, please contact Joanna Landsman at jslandsman@gmail.com.

The church elevator is temporarily out of service. The Buildings & Grounds Committee are working with an elevator tech to address the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope that if this poses a barrier for you that you'll join the service on Zoom.

Have you wondered about the historical context behind the horrors we are all watching unfold in Ukraine? We have an Eastern European historian in our midst! Cathy McKenna will give a brief lecture about the historical origins of the latest crisis in Ukraine Wednesday April 27 at 7:00. Bring your questions!

Cathy has studied eastern Europe for the last 30 years. She began as a Russian literature major at Princeton, spent much of the middle 1990s in Russia and then shifted her focus to the history of eastern Europe. For the next ten years she studied eastern Europe at Georgetown University while spending summers in Zagreb, Cracow and Warsaw. She received her Ph.D. in Early Modern European History 2012, having written a dissertation on the political culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After six years of lecturing at Georgetown and other area schools, she left DC to move to Maine. She is currently finishing up her manuscript Liberty's Double Edged Sword: The Rise and Fall of the Polish Republic and will be teaching a course on the history of Ukraine at MECA this fall.

Annie Cook and Diana Hansen have an apartment available for rent in the area. It's a loft style apartment, small but beautiful. Everything is included, heat/ac via a heat pump, and parking for one car. $ 1,200/month. For more information, please contact Annie at annmarioncook@gmail.com.

On Wednesdays from 12:00 - 1:00 pm Rev. Hillary will be holding an outside drop-in space at our church picnic tables. All are welcome to come by and check-in. (Weather permitting.) Throughout the week, Rev. Hillary will be holding office hours for individual conversations. These conversations can be on Zoom, over the phone, or in-person. Please reach out to Rev. Hillary directly to schedule a conversation, firstuminister@gmail.com. Note that Rev. Hillary is not available to meet on Saturdays and Mondays.