Reimagining Church Together!
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E-NEWS
on June 10, 2020
Congregational Church of Weston, UCC
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Last week, I assured you that I was settling into the parsonage, and had been amply supplied with fresh baked bread and super chunky peanut butter. This week, I write to tell you that I am finding my way around Weston quite well. I've been walking, running, and biking the trails, becoming more and more adventurous each day. Yesterday, Even allowed myself to get a little bit "lost" out there before finding a spot I recognized and making my way home. What a gift this place is!
I am going through the process of becoming "placed" here in Weston. I don't know that we use this word in this way all that often, but it seems fitting. Becoming placed means becoming accustomed to a place, learning its intricacies, allowing it to seep into your bones. It means learning the ins and and outs, the nooks and the crannies, the shortcuts and the lingo. It's how we come to belong somewhere.
With so many plans on hold this summer, places seem different. Many of the things that make a place, the people and the traditions, have taken a back seat. All that remains is, well, the places! I wonder where you're being (re)placed this summer. Your porch? Maine? The Cape? Beyond? I'd love to hear from you, and would welcome photos of the places you're belonging to in this season. I hope some of you might send me an email (bob@wellesleyvillagechurch.org) to share a snippet of the places that are speaking to you.
Wishing you peace in place,
Bob
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ONLINE WORSHIP THIS SUNDAY
, July 12
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Join us for worship this Sunday, as we worship this summer with Wellesley Village Church. Worship goes live at 9am on Facebook and YouTube, followed by coffee hour on Zoom around 9:45am. Sharon Kuhn will be playing a Musical Offering on fiddle.
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Directly following the 9am worship, there will be a Zoom coffee hour around 9:45am.
Zoom Coffee Hour link:
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Did you miss last week's service?
Cathy Liddell played a beautiful lute piece and Ed Broms sang the first solo of the summer layering project piece, I Love the Place Your Glory Abides. You will see more voices added in to this piece as the weeks go by.
Did you sign up to join a musical collaboration? It's not too late to join a musical number for a summer worship service! Email
ed@wellesleyvillagechurch.org
to express your interest in participating in summer worship music.
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Artemis Brewer
Charlotte Brewer's daughter is coming home today!
Artemis Brewer arrived 5 weeks early at 9:06 a.m. on June 25, 2020. She was 6lbs, 3 oz and is very healthy aside from being pre-term. She stayed at the special care nursery for a couple of weeks to make sure that she's fully ready before she goes home, and today Charlotte and John get to bring her home. Thank you for those who signed up to bring meals for the new parents!
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Meals for the new parents
Would you like to help the new parents with some meals as they transition to having Artemis at home? We are looking for 3-5 volunteers to sign-up to bring the Brewer's a meal or two over the next few weeks. Please email sharon@wellesleyvillagechurch.org to express your desire to help. Please put "Artemis Brewer" in the subject line, and include your name and contact info (cell phone # of whoever would be dropping off the meal). The Brewer's live in Waltham.
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Reminder: new email addresses for
JILL & RICHARD EDENS
Please note that the @WestonUCC.org email addresses are no longer valid. Please update your email contacts to:
Their cell phone numbers will continue to be our primary phone numbers:
- 919-357-3914 (Jill)
- 919-357-3913 (Richard)
Jill & Richard Edens have moved from the parsonage to 154 Chestnut St, Unit 9, Lowell, MA 01852.
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Summer Worship Music at WVC Online
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The Musical Offering
An invitation to you from Associate Director of Music, Ed Broms
Friends,
I am pleased to invite members of the congregation and beyond who would care to share an offering of their talents in worship services coming up over the summer. I am hoping to feature weekly musical (and other artistic) offerings from our illustrious and industrious community at the Offering time of the services – remotely for now. (The Musical Offering idea is named after the famous work of Bach.)
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Book Study with Bob Feeny
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Looking for summer reading? Join Pastoral Resident Bob Feeny for a series of book discussions focusing on racism, and specifically aimed at answering the question,
“what can I do about racism?”
Building on June’s discussion of
White Fragility
, we will read
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
by Austin Channing Brown in July. And, in August,
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi.
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July & August
Sundays, 9am -
Summer worship with Wellesley Village Congregational Church
During July and August, the Wellesley online worship “premieres” at 9 am. It can be viewed any time after that but it premieres at 9am which means pastors and staff are available via chat during the service.
Sept 13
Pentecost 15 Worship CCW Resumes
Cathy Liddell will be CCW’s liaison to an advisory committee at Wellesley that is discerning how to live and worship in a time of pandemic.
Jan 9 “Let’s Talk” with the Rev. Mariama White Hammond
This conversation with the Rev. Mariama White Hammond on the social justice ramifications of climate change had to be postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tragically the pandemic has only underscored the relevancy of this conversation. Why are black and brown people disproportionately displaced and affected by climate change and what can be done? More information to come.
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