If you are here to be still: YES
If you’re here to be stirred up: YES
If you’re here to speak your truth and be heard: YES
If you’re here in search of healing, meaning, belonging, beauty or back up: YES
If you’re driven by a holy impatience to change your life, or the world around you,
and are seeking collaborators, co-conspirators, companions on the way: YES
If you don’t know why you are here.  YES
Whether joyful, reluctant, hungry, mad, or weary--if you are here, and wherever you are,
God says “yes” to you
Join Us - All Welcome
Sunday, September 11, Homecoming Sunday
Homecoming Sunday is an opportunity to catch up with each other after a summer of comings and goings 😎 🏊 🐚 🌻. It also marks the beginning of our new church year.

8:30 am - Choir rehearsal in the sanctuary. Want to join in? Contact Amir.
10:00 am - Worship service in the sanctuary
11:00 am - Coffee and conversation in Fellowship Hall or on the front lawn, weather allowing ... and enjoying the new show in The Donald Gallery
Sunday worship is also streamed on South Church's Facebook page at 10 am. Services are archived in the video section of our Facebook page.
Looking Ahead
September 18, during church: Stewardship Sunday
September 18, 7-8:30 via Zoom: Spirituality Group. Interested? Contact Dorothy.
September 24, 11 am: Wedding of Danielle Ciardullo and Mike Flick. All welcome! Congratulations!!
September 25, after church: Congregational Meeting
October 2, during church: Church School begins (see below)
October 16, in the afternoon: New Member Class: Contact Margery if interested.
October 23, during church: New Members welcomed
Choir News
South Church Choir returns on Sunday, September 11. We embrace many different styles of music -- from Handel to Schumann to spirituals to Dolly Parton to Peter Gabriel to Katy Perry. If you enjoy singing and making music as an ensemble, please join! Rehearsals are on Sunday mornings at 8:30am in the sanctuary. To join the choir email list or to ask any music-related questions (like, what's a hemidemisemiquaver?), please email music director Amir Khosrowpour.
Spirituality Group News
The Spirituality Group meets via Zoom from 7 to 8:30 pm on the third Sunday of each month. Contact Dorothy Muller to be added to the list or if you have questions. They will start the season by finishing Mirabai Starr's Wild Mercy, and then choose where to go next.
FIND THE FULL CALENDAR HERE
Giving & Receiving
Your support sustains our worship and service opportunities, music and arts programs, and more.
Happy Birthday Betty!
Happy Happy Birthday to our most senior member--Betty Perkins, who has turned 97!! 🎉 🥳 💝 🙌 🎂 
Deacon Maria Harris and Minister Margery Rossi had a great bday visit with Betty. "We sang to her and toasted her with our cupcakes," said Margery.
Betty Perkins
Sunday children's program
Faith & Justice Learning Lab
Our Church School for children in grades K - 5 begins October 2! It's called the Faith & Justice Learning Lab and it uses a vibrant curriculum that has been custom-made for our children. Read more. If you have children K - 5, register them here. All welcome - please also share this with families you know.

We also need one more teacher to join Chris Cole-Olsewski, Marie-Louise Miller, Lenore Person and Laurie Pyburn, for the first 12-week session. Stipend available. Want to join the team? Contact Lenore.
Faith, Justice & the Arts
The Donald Gallery
Kathleen McCarthy Udoff's show If You Are Quiet: An Artistic Journey for Joy, Discovery and Nature, opens at The Donald Gallery on September 11. Udoff's photographs and collages delve into the simple beauty that surrounds us in the natural world. MORE
at the Donald Gallery
Dobbs Ferry Food Pantry
Local kids have been contributing to the Pantry over the summer. Our teenage volunteers are heading back in school and we’ll miss all of their enthusiasm and energy. Huge thank yous to Kat, Fran, Aden, Nicholas, Eli, Holden, Ella, Henry, Ryan, Ava, Devin and Claire. MORE
teens volunteer with Pantry
The LAB
Does this room look familiar? A few times each year, Fellowship Hall is transformed into a performance venue for teens, by teens. This Friday, September 9, 7-9 pm, the Open Mic is a rock concert open to all of us. Come be surrounded by beautiful sounds. MORE
The LAB Open Mic
Roots & Wings
You'll never pass through South's campus in the same way again after exploring it with wild edibles enthusiast and Roots & Wings steering committee member Greg Rosen! Tuesday evenings, 5:00 - 6:30 pm | September 20, October 18, November 15. MORE
foraging for a salad
Community News
Zion Episcopal Church celebrates historic designation
Sunday, September 18 at 2:30 pm: Zion Episcopal Church in Dobbs Ferry, NY celebrates being included on the New York State National Register of Historic Places as an Historic District.
Common Ground @ South Church
Saturday, September 24, 7:30 pm: Common Ground Concerts kicks off their 20th season with ROBINSON & ROHE, the duo of American songwriters Liam Robinson (banjo, accordion, vocals) & Jean Rohe (guitar, vocals). MORE
Benediction
Go forth with the compassion of Jesus, the companionship of the Holy Spirit and the creative love and justice of God.
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