June 20-26, 2021 Weekly Update

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WEEKLY UPDATE |June 20-26, 2021

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June 20, 2021 | 10:00am

Beach Service and Lemonade Fellowship

Rev. Dr. Victoria Weinstein

Join us for our Annual Beach Service!

Gather at Fisherman's Beach for a service at 10am (with your chairs). Service followed by a Lemonade and Fellowship outdoors at church where we will install a new, inclusive Pride Flag.

[Fisherman's Beach is that little beach down on Humphrey Street in Swampscott that has a pier and launching ramp, next to the Swampscott Yacht Club. There is a parking lot and street parking.]

June 27 - Save the Date!

General Assembly Virtual Worship Service

Join UUs in worship! Details to be announced.

Director of Community Life and Learning

Meet Chris Scheller

UUCGL's New Director of

Community Life and Learning

Click here to view Chris' video (then click on the video at the bottom of the screen under the opening photo of Chris).

UUCGL Annual Report 2020-2021

UUCGL Annual Report 2020-2021

Our Annual Meeting was held Sunday, June 6. If you missed reading our Annual Report, it is still available here.

UUCGL Stanley School Task Force

UUCGL and the

Stanley School Project

Some of you may have seen news articles in the Lynn Item, Swampscott Reporter and WickedLocal about the Stanley School project and our church.

If you have questions or concerns about these articles or anything else relating to the project's impact on the church, please feel free to contact Doreen Hodgkin, Sarah Cecil, or Mark Vander Linden directly, or send a message to the task force at our new email address: stanleytaskforce@uucgl.org.

Programming at UUCGL

Help Our UUCGL Garden Grow!

Attention gardeners and veggie lovers! Trinidad planted UUCGL's summer garden and now we're looking for folks who want to help maintain it and share in the harvest. Volunteers are needed starting the week of May 30. For more information or to sign up for a week of garden care please visit https://tinyurl.com/UUCGL-Garden2021 or contact Mary Gatlin at mary.c.gatlin@gmail.com. Thank you!

UUCGL End of Year Financial Matters

UUCGL Fiscal Year Ends June 30

Pledge Payments

The church’s fiscal year ends on June 30. Please have your payments for this fiscal year in to the church by the close of day on Tuesday, June 29. If you still owe on this fiscal year’s pledge commitment, and you are not able to fulfill your pledge until July, please note in the memo line that it is for fiscal year 2020-21.

There are three easy options of paying:

Send your check to the church (101 Forest Avenue, Swampscott, MA 01907).
Set up a bill-pay system with your bank and have the check sent to the above address.
Donate online. To donate online, click here for our website and click “Donate” in the upper right-hand corner. After you fill in the information page, click “Submit.” You will then be offered options to pay through your PayPal account, if you have one, or through your credit card.

Thank you for your support!

Reimbursement Requests

If you have outstanding check requests for reimbursement, please mail them to the office with appropriate receipts and committee/ministry team chair approval by June 29 or email the request and scanned receipts to the business administrator at emuller@uucgl.org. Thank you

UUCGL Community Connections

Can You Help My Brother's Table?

My Brother’s Table has made the headlines recently with the news that they will purchase the building they operate out of from the City of Lynn. After years of renting, the organization will have the ability to renovate in ways that better serve the community.

If you have been reading the Update throughout these pandemic months, then you’ve read about My Brother’s Table brown bag meal program!

MBT’s response to the pandemic was to assemble a network of volunteers who work from their homes. These off-site volunteers assemble lunch and dinner bags to supplement the hot foods that MBT prepares and serves every day. This program will be continuing throughout the summer months, the Table will not be reopening for in-house dining and will continue to provide to-go meals.

There are lots of openings in their summer calendar for brown bag donations. If you are interested in working with other church members to assemble lunch or dinner bags OR if you are interested in supporting this work with a monetary donation or a food donation, we would like to hear from you.

For more information about MBT please contact Deb Boggs, Clare Campbell, or Michael Celona. To find out more about our efforts for local food pantries and our Social Justice Ministry Team activities, please go to our website page at https://www.uucgl.org/socialjustice.