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Sunday Reminder

First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton

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Sunday, January 5, 2025 at 10:15am

Worship Service: Transformation

Rev. Dr. Debra Haffner


Transformation is one of the newly adopted shared values of the UUA, also known as Article 2. As we enter this new year, join Rev. Debra in exploring what transformation means in our own lives and in the lives of our institutions and society.


Join Us On Zoom: https://bit.ly/fuusn-worship-2024-2025


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Events This Sunday

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Social Action Speaker Lunch: Providing Resources to Empower the Unhoused in MetroWest January 5, 2025 at 12pm


Everyone is invited for our monthly free lunch after coffee hour in the Alliance Room. Chloe-Rose Crouch will speak about her work as manager of operations at the Community Day Center of Waltham. Many volunteers from FUUSN support the center’s programs with their time or warm clothing and other needed supplies. Kit Ryan and Jeannie Chaisson, both former nurses, go mostly every week to take blood pressure and provide other health services. Learn More.


Help setup and clean up.

Newcomers and Visitors Coffee with the Ministers

January 5th during Coffee Hour


Are you new to FUUSN? Visiting for the first time? Come meet Rev. Debra in the Children's Chapel during Coffee Hour.

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Memorial Service for Ed Lerner

Sunday, January 5 at 3:30pm


Long-time FUUSN member Ed Lerner died on Christmas morning at the age of 92, at the side of Joan, his wife of 64 years. Ed was an active FUUSN member from the 1970s through the 1990s, including a term on the Board of Trustees. He and Joan retired to Cape Cod in the late 1990s, but rejoined FUUSN from their retirement community when Zoom services became available. Ed's daughters, Rev. Liz Lerner Maclay and current FUUSN member Jenny Lerner, and granddaughter Siena Lerner-Gill grew up at FUUSN.


Ed's memorial service will be held at FUUSN on Sunday, January 5, at 3:30pm, with a reception in the Parish Hall to follow. The family invites everyone to attend. Join us on Zoom.

Events Calendar

Sunday, January 5

11:30am-12:30pm: Reparations Task Force Meeting, Headstart Room

11:45am-1pm: Band Rehearsal, Sanctuary

12-1pm: Newcomers and Visitors Coffee with the Ministers, Children's Chapel

12-2pm: Social Action Speaker Lunch, Alliance Room

3:30-5:30pm: Ed Lerner Memorial Service, Sanctuary and Parish Hall

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First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton www.fuusn.org | 617-527-3203

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