A service led by The Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Kathy Kerns – For all its trouble, most of us believe life is an incredibly precious gift. We want future generations to have the opportunities we have had to create lives of meaning and purpose. We want them to be well. This morning we will consider the ways we can help create enduring legacies of love.
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Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? OH there you are!
Hi, it’s that time of year again. We are gearing up for our Thanks 4 Giving Auction and we are Calling all Volunteers!
Are you curious about this Thanks 4 Giving Auction you’ve been hearing about? Do you want to know more about it? Do you have some time and the inclination to help out?
If you answered YES to any of these questions then we want you! To volunteer for the Thanks 4 Giving Auction that is!
We are gearing up and we can’t do it alone. We need able bodies and minds to help us prepare and set up for this gala. Can you set up tables and chairs? GREAT we have an up”lifting” job for you. Can you bake a dessert? GREAT we have a yummy job for you. Can you pick up food the day before or the day of the auction? GREAT we have a job that will be right up your alley…or Acorn Alley! Can you sell tickets at Sunday coffee hour? GREAT the Thanks 4 Giving Auction tickets sell faster then the pancakes at pancake breakfast! Can you help clear off silent auction tables when they close? Great but keep it on the down low…it’s silent after all! Can you use a computer and check in guests at the Thanks 4 Giving Auction? GREAT we’ve got your number…well actually we don’t that’s why we are asking for it now! Give us your number, your email, your name and any and all ways to reach you and we will put you to work!
AND the best part is you can attend the Thanks 4 Giving Auction for FREE. Yes you heard us…FREE!
Volunteer jobs fill up quickly, so let us know right away if you are interested in helping out and having lots fun in the process. Please contact Trish McLoughlin, Auction volunteer coordinator.
Meg Milko
Thanks 4 Giving Auction Chair
P.S. We need baskets for people to package their donations in for the auction. Please drop them off on Sunday’s at the Thanks 4 Giving Auction table in Fessenden Hall.
A service led by The Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Dani Beale – What are the possibilities and limits of forgiveness? What impact does forgiveness have on the forgiven? What impact does it have on the one who offers forgiveness? How do our choices to forgive or withhold forgiveness echo down the generations? Come join us in reflecting on these worthy questions.
Quote by Paul Boese Feb.19, 1967
Photo by Kprateek88 (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), via Wikimedia Commons
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Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? OH there you are!
Hi, it’s that time of year again. We are gearing up for our Thanks 4 Giving Auction and we are Calling all Volunteers!
Are you curious about this Thanks 4 Giving Auction you’ve been hearing about? Do you want to know more about it? Do you have some time and the inclination to help out?
If you answered YES to any of these questions then we want you! To volunteer for the Thanks 4 Giving Auction that is!
We are gearing up and we can’t do it alone. We need able bodies and minds to help us prepare and set up for this gala. Can you set up tables and chairs? GREAT we have an up”lifting” job for you. Can you bake a dessert? GREAT we have a yummy job for you. Can you pick up food the day before or the day of the auction? GREAT we have a job that will be right up your alley…or Acorn Alley! Can you sell tickets at Sunday coffee hour? GREAT the Thanks 4 Giving Auction tickets sell faster then the pancakes at pancake breakfast! Can you help clear off silent auction tables when they close? Great but keep it on the down low…it’s silent after all! Can you use a computer and check in guests at the Thanks 4 Giving Auction? GREAT we’ve got your number…well actually we don’t that’s why we are asking for it now! Give us your number, your email, your name and any and all ways to reach you and we will put you to work!
AND the best part is you can attend the Thanks 4 Giving Auction for FREE. Yes you heard us…FREE!
Volunteer jobs fill up quick so let us know right away if you are interested in helping out and having lots fun in the process.
Meg Milko
Thanks 4 Giving Auction Chair
A service led by The Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate MaryLou Holly – The more I learn about the formation of the universe, the more astonishing it seems that we are here. Our earth is a living legacy of an extraordinary confluence of cosmic events. Come discover again what Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow call The Great Story of humanity’s common creation. Come consider again your part in tending the legacy we hope will continue to evolve for countless generations to come.
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Please join us for Spiritual Cinema on Saturday, September 15 at 7:00 PM. We will watch the motion picture, “Creation: How Darwin Saw the World and Changed It Forever” (2009). The movie is 108 minutes and will be followed by a short discussion of some of the topics raised by the movie. Dan Flippo has volunteered to screen the movie in his home and has room for at least 14 people. Please click his address for a map or directions: 2650 Easthaven Drive, Hudson, OH 44236. Please RSVP to Dan at [email protected].
Please consider reading the following related article from UUWorld prior to the movie night:
“Natural faith: How Darwinian evolution has transformed liberal religion” by Rev. Dr. William R. Murry, former president of Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago
Our next movie will continue some of the themes brought up last month when we watched “Contact”. The movie “Creation” focuses on a similar conflict and synthesis of science and religion. The movie focuses on the conflict Charles Darwin’s research causes with his own faith and his wife’s. The film is based on “Annie’s Box,” a biography penned by Darwin’s great-great-grandson Randal Keynes using personal letters and diaries of the Darwin family.
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
? Charles Darwin (1859). On the Origin of Species
More than 150 years after its publication, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and its theory of natural selection remain the subject of much debate; the divide between those who accept Darwin’s ideas as incontrovertible science and those who consider them blasphemous may be wider now than ever. Released in 2009, director Jon Amiel’s Creation goes right to the heart of the matter–indeed, right to the heart of Darwin himself. As portrayed by Paul Bettany, the Darwin who has returned to England following his voyage aboard HMS Beagle is a man for whom “deeply conflicted” is a barely adequate description. Well aware his theory is “perhaps the most powerful idea ever to occur to a human mind,” he is caught between the scientists who insist that he has “killed God” and the religious conservatives, including his wife Emma (Jennifer Connelly), who counter that his very soul will be in peril if he finishes and publishes his book. What’s more, he is haunted, sometimes literally, by the death of his favorite child, Annie (seen in frequent flashbacks), and its effect on his marriage–in fact, it is this personal angle that dominates the film. But while the toll his work has taken on his health, his faith, his family, and his very sanity is obvious, he also knows that it is far too important to ignore. Creation is not a documentary; liberties have been taken, and there are multiple sequences, including Darwin’s nightmarish fever dreams, that are clearly the invention of the filmmakers. But Bettany and Connelly, who are a real-life couple, are both superb; the cinematography is gorgeous; and various scenes illustrating the notion of “survival of the fittest” in nature are riveting (there won’t be a dry eye in the house when Darwin tells his dying daughter about the fate of an orangutan captured in Borneo). And while the tone of the film would seem to favor science over religion, the DVD includes numerous bonus features in which both sides have their say. This one is not to be missed. –Sam Graham
Our annual Ministry Fair will be held in less than two weeks! Committees and groups through out the church are all encouraged to attend by setting up a table and sharing their goals and information. This event will be held after first AND second service and refreshments will be served. I know the times have been changed around, but this is the official time. If you have any questions please contact me! Thanks!
If your committee or group is planning to participate please contact me and let me know!
-Julie Lineburgh, Trustee for Fellowship
We will soon be asking you to think about donating something to the auction, which will be held on Saturday, November 3. Put it on your calendar! You don’t want to miss it!
Themed baskets are a BIG part of the silent auction. Some themes from past auctions are book club books basket, Beckwith’s basket, soup basket, wine basket, West Point Market snack basket, game basket, Browns basket, Indians basket….the possibilities are endless. Right now we are asking for empty baskets that can be taken by donors and filled. Bring them in and leave them at the auction table in Fessenden Hall beginning Sunday, September 23.
And……Thanks 4 Giving!
Early Bird Breakfast Fellowship hour last Sunday was a pleasant experience for all who came. We will meet again at 9:15 this coming Sunday (and many more Sundays to come) for fellowship and a light breakfast in Fessenden Hall prior to the 10:00 am service. Homemade muffins, cheese, eggs, fresh fruit and congenial conversation – a great way to start your Sunday. If 9:15 is to early for you, come a little later. Just be sure to give yourself enough time to enjoy your meal and be upstairs before the service starts at 10:00.
Led by The Rev. Melissa Carvill-Ziemer and Worship Associate Kristina Spaude – At last year’s auction of goods and services, Beverly Cole purchased the opportunity to select a topic for one of our Sunday services. This is that service! After a lifetime of teaching in public schools, Bev has been deeply dismayed by the tragedy of school shootings. While not at schools, the horrific shootings this past summer have many of us thinking again about the terror and heartbreak of shootings in our society. Why is this happening and what can we do to try to help shape new legacies of peace? In addition, during the Time for All Ages, we will commission and thank the many volunteers who will be teaching, facilitating and advising our children and youth in our religious education program this year.