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Lent III: Unplugged 🔌

Unplugging from Busyness

Psalm 46:10

Luke 5:12-16

Rev. Leanne Walt

🔌 Lent: Unplugged | Our 2024 sermon series

We live life plugged in - to email, text messages, and social media - to work obligations, volunteer commitments, family needs, and news cycles. As faithful and good as it is to actively engage with the world, even Jesus took time to unplug, often retreating to the mountains alone after healing and serving the crowds, or getting into the boat alone after teaching the disciples. This Lent, we are following in the way of Jesus and explore ways to unplug from the rapid pace of life in order to find the quiet center.

Concert at UCC Norwell | Saturday, March 2, 7:00pm 

David Won and Timothy Steele will present You Raise Me Up, a program of sacred music by composer Mark Hayes. A freewill offering will be taken for the benefit of Ukrainian charities.

🎨Cards on a mission | Created by artists in our congregation

"All Occasion Cards" Easter cards will be available on March 3. The suggested donation is $5 per card. All proceeds go to mission organizations that our church supports.

Reserve your seat on the UCC Norwell bus for GBIO Housing Justice meeting

GBIO will stand 1,700-strong for housing justice on March 3 at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center. UCC Norwell’s RJMT has rented a bus to take up to 50 people from the church on March 3 at 1:00pm to the ISBCC in Roxbury. The bus will return to the church by 5:30pm. To register for the bus in person this Sunday, meet with Meg Clapp and Susan Domey-Allen who will be in Fellowship Hall directly after worship.

Lenten Musical Meditations | Every Wednesdays 12:30-1pm through March 27

Prayerful Stitches meeting | Thursday, March 7, 2:00-4:00pm

Our Prayerful Stitches Ministry Team will meet in our church library on March 7 and April 4. All are welcome to attend. Questions? Please email Gwen Morgan or call 781-718-6195 or email Ann Finnie or call 781-545-2663.

🌍Where on God's earth have you been? | Travel experiences potluck

When: Saturday, March 9, 5pm-8pm  

Program: Where on God’s Earth have you been?

Purpose: To connect with each other and share pictures and stories of our travels. Bring photos on your laptop, tablet, photo album, etc.

Dinner: 5pm-6pm - Bring a favorite dish to share + copies of recipes to share

Details: Slideshow in sanctuary | Find out who has been to the Arctic, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Himalayas, Africa. Four tables in FH will provide additional specific travels of members

Dessert: In Fellowship Hall, we’ll all share our photos and get to know each other.

UCC Norwell Lunch + Learn | Christian Nationalism

Join with members and friends to learn about Christian Nationalism on Sunday, March 17, 11:30am-1:00pm. Together we’ll watch excerpts from a videotaped talk by Rev. Dr. John Dorhauer, former general minister and president of the United Church of Christ, now pastor at UCC Dekalb, IL. We’ll then gather in fellowship hall for soup and small-group discussions. The Lunch + Learn is sponsored by our Church Council and the Racial Justice Ministry Team. 

Save the date! Luncheon for current Intercessory Secret Prayer Partners

Sunday, April 14 will be the “reveal luncheon” after worship when current prayer partners (for 2023-2024) find out who has been praying for them this past year. Details about this wonderful ministry and 2024-2025 signups will be announced soon

Open Arms, Open Hearts: New blog post from Rev. Leanne

📞Phone + internet upgrade complete | A thank you

Thank you to everyone for their patience as we upgraded our phones and internet from Comcast to Verizon Fios. If Emily were making an acceptance speech at the Oscars for this process, the orchestra would have to play her off because there are so many people she needs to thank who made this switch possible! Our staff is excited to have upgraded phones and a menu system allowing callers to connect directly with us. Our internet speeds have improved and the Stream Team has their own internet now to ensure speedy delivery of livestreamed services. We are still working out the kinks, so we, and especially Emily appreciates your patience and welcomes feedback or questions.

Public Meditations, Praise, + Prayer Wall

Add your meditation, praise, or prayer for the Lenten season.

Pictures for Lent | Thank you to contributions from Sue D.!

We are still open to more contributions for images for our social media Lent posts. A special shout out to Sue Diamante for her beautiful pictures that have helped us reflect and meditate on the written post and scripture posted daily. Our Facebook page is public, so no log in is required to view the posts.

This year's sermon series theme is "Lent: Unplugged." What does it mean for you to be "unplugged?" Some ideas include: stillness, prayer, reflection, listening, memory, blessings, learning, and much more!

If you'd like to share a picture for Lent, please share it in one of the following ways:

• TEXT to uccnorwellsoundroom@gmail.com (no emails, please)
• UPLOAD to this Google Drive folder
• REPLY to this email with your pictures

UCC Norwell Public Calendar

Find all of our "save the date" events and more on our public activities and events calendar!

Activities & Events include:

• Choir rehearsals
• Handbell rehearsals
• Bible study (Sunday Zoom link, Wednesday Zoom link)
• Church School (Sunday)
• "Not" Church School (Sunday)
• Youth Group (Sunday)
• Confirmation (Sunday)
• The Memory Lane Singers (23/24 Schedule)
• ...and more!