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The NSUU Church gardeners at Endicott Garden wanted to share this note that they received from the People-to-People Food Pantry, it reads:
Thank you so much for the delicious variety of veggies and herbs you supplied our families with this summer and fall. A true treat for all.
Be Well, Your Pantry Friends
Next spring, we will be growing
the Danvers Red Onion. Yay! Onion Town.
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Sunday Service
November 20, 2022
10:30 a.m.
In-person service and on Zoom
"Voice Still and Small"
Rev. Carol Strecker speaking
November 20 is “Transgender Day of Remembrance”, an annual observance that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. We honor their memory by lifting up the importance of living authentically in a world that would sometimes rather we ignore that still, small voice within that tells us who we are — who we need to become.
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Sunday Service
November 27, 2022
10:30 a.m.
In-person service and on Zoom
“In Gratitude for Peace”
Joint Northshore Unitarian Universalist Service of Thanksgiving
This recorded service is an offering from clergy from Unitarian Universalist congregations on the North Shore. The theme for this year’s service is peace; the sources of inner peace as we turn inward this time of year, even in the midst of the external pull to be busy and over-extended.
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Sunday services Zoom link
https://zoom.us/j/95156904873
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Update from the Ministerial Search Committee | |
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Beyond Categorical Thinking
Saturday, November 19
9:00 am-12:30 pm
We would love to have you join the Search Committee and our Board of Directors at the “Beyond Categorical Thinking” workshop, a ZOOM program that the UUA provides for all churches that are searching for their next ministers.
This program will help us be “open” to all candidates without unintentionally falling into subtle, discriminatory biases.
We look forward to seeing you on ZOOM!
The Search Committee:
Julie O’Meara, Bo Batty, Beth Blanchard, Jeri Kroll, Terri Hansen
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Registration
for
Beyond Categorical Thinking program
(a ZOOM meeting)
Registering for the program is a
two-step process
One: Send an email to Bo Batty bbatty@comcast.net so we know you are coming.
Two: Click the link on the NSUU.org website: “BCT Workshop Concerns and Benefits form” or clink on the direct link button below to complete the UUA survey. It will provide information that our UUA facilitator will use to best meet the needs of our congregation.
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Listening Circle
Sunday, December 11,2022
12 noon
This is such an exciting time for Northshore Church! The Search Committee has been hard at work collating information from the Congregational Survey and Cottage Meetings for prospective ministers. But before we can move full steam ahead, there were a few comments of concern related to our past that we want to address before we can move forward.
Specifically, there are still unresolved feelings related to the Rev. Julie Lombard’s departure. To that end Rev. Carol has offered to facilitate a “Listening Circle” to give people an opportunity to share their stories in an open, non-judgmental and respectful manner and to talk about how to move forward together. We can’t fix the past, but we can demonstrate our care for one another by listening to each other's truths and finding ways to walk together into the future in love.
Please join Rev. Carol and the Search Committee on December 11th at noon in the sanctuary.
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From the Northshore Church Board of Directors...
Click on the button below for your copy of the October 2022 Board Minutes
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Music notes from
Georgia Bills
Northshore Church Director of Music
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A Ritual Sword Dance for the Solstice Service in December
Be a part of history! The "magic" of the dance only works with SIX people. With dancers four, five, and six still to come forward, we are halfway to having a traditional Morris Sword Dance. Be a part of Northshore Church’s Solstice Service on Wednesday, December 21!
The dance is a series of patterns that are WALKED by the six dancers to create a FINALE that is stunning and mystifying. This group (not partner) dance only requires that you walk in rhythm and follow easy directions. You will find success, wonder, and joy, in this fun (and ancient) ritual dance. Let me know if you can be dancer #4, #5 or #6. Please contact me at gbills01915@gmail.com
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Tim Deik (Trumpet) a Boston trumpet freelancer, will join our Northshore service on December 11th to brighten our souls and fill the room with the exciting sound of brass.
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Social Action Committee
Food Donations
Social Action wishes to thank everyone who came to church on November 12 and donated food for the Danvers Food Pantry. Your contributions help to provide food security in our community. Notice that there is a basket in fellowship hall for continued support of this program. At this time, it is best to bring only canned items, not boxed. Financial contributions in the form of a check made out to Danvers Food Pantry can also be given to any member of the Social Action Committee.
Operation Troop Support
This is a special appeal for the following items to be donated for Operation Troop Support. Items include white work socks, fleece throw blankets, peanut butter crackers, soups, mac and cheese, hygiene products for men and women. These items are to support troops who are spread out throughout the mid-east. Items are needed by DECEMBER 4th there will be a big holiday packing at St. John’s Prep on 12/5. You can bring them to church or call Barbara Haight for a pick-up at 978-729-5422.
Holiday gift-giving for refugee families
We are again supporting our refugee friends from the Congo and Ethiopia with $25 gifts via two options:
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Come to the Sunday Holiday Swag-Making Workshop on December 4th and choose a name from the Giving Tree. You will have the opportunity to make a simple origami box to hold your gift (optional).
- Choose a family member by signing up on-line (available soon). Go to Social Action, Refugees and Immigrant families and click on Gift sign-up button.
Antoinette from the Congo repeatedly communicates how she appreciates the love and support from our church family and says, “We love you.” The family works hard to budget their money and our contributions help. Money is preferred to toys so she can best determine their needs. Since arriving in Gloucester 5 years ago, two of her brothers have graduated high school and gone on to college.
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Holiday Swag-making Workshop
We are planning our annual Holiday Swag-making Workshop after the service on Sunday, December 4th.
Due to this summer's draught, my usual sources of greens have diminished. If anyone has access to spruce or fir greens, please let me know. I am available to come and cut them or pick them up.
Please email me at tke.swan@comcast.net.
Thank you,
Tracee Kneeland
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Thanksgiving Meals
Click on the link below for a list of area Thanksgiving meals.
Thanksgiving Meals
Feel free to forward and help distribute this list far and wide.
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America’s “best-preserved Puritan town”
Ipswich, Massachusetts was founded in 1634 in an area the Native Americans called “Agawam,” and is America’s best-preserved Puritan town. The historic neighborhoods of Meeting House Green, High Street, the East End, and the South Green are well-preserved streetscapes of 17th to 19th-century residences. Opposition by the people of Ipswich to a tax imposed in 1687 is commemorated in the seal of the town of Ipswich, with the motto, “The Birthplace of American Independence 1687.”
NSUU Sunday Strolls
Sunday, November 20th at 1:30 PM
Let’s meet at the EBSCO parking lot on Union Street in Ipswich across from the Richdale’s. We can take a stroll along the Riverwalk and vist some of Ipswich’s oldest homesites. Dog friendly. We can finish up at Zumi’s for some great coffee or Ice Cream. More info call Bob Ferris at 978-660-7437 or email: bobferris1949@gmail.com
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Current Composting Project Ends
Ever since we began collecting food scraps at church to be picked up by Black Earth Compost (summer, 2019), we have been challenged to find a reliable way to keep the collection area litter-free.
The NSUU Board has voted to discontinue composting service with Black Earth. We will stop our service of collecting food scraps at church and remove the compost container from the kitchen as well as removing the Black Earth compost bin.
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