Chime Notes - June 2025

Chime Notes news & updates

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June 2025 | Issue 126

Upcoming Events

Sunday Worship this month

June 1-8-15-22-29

Father's Day

June 15, 2025

Juneteenth Holiday

June 19, 2025

Annual Meeting*

June 22, 2025

*Please note: If you are responsible for any report, please submit them to Spencer in the office by no later than June 20, 2025. Thank You!!

In addition to our in-person worship, we will continue to use ZOOM to broadcast the 10 AM Sunday Worship Service, which is also streamed to Facebook Live and YouTube.

Coffee hour is after worship, in Clarke Hall, with fans moving the air.

Many thanks to our team of ushers and coffee hour hosts.

Please let Janet Fischer know if you would like to be an usher or coffee host on an upcoming Sunday.

Coffee and Conversations

is run by lay leaders, and is a time of discussion and reflection about the day's scripture. We meet at 9:10 on non-Communion Sundays, and finish by 9:55.

Meeting dates for June are:

June 8-15.

After this time, we will be taking a break for the summer months.

Father's Day

The first Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910.

In 1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson issued a proclamation that recognized Father's Day.

In 1972, President Nixon signed legislation designating the third Sunday of June as Father’s Day.

(britannica.com)

We also honor those in our lives who have taken on the roles of fatherhood:

uncles, friends, grandfathers, foster and adoptive fathers,

and even moms!

For more information

on how and when

Father's Day originated,

click here.

Congratulations to our Graduates!

Spencer Reames, Swampscott High - will attend Rochester Institute of Technology

Nina Johnson, Marblehead High - will attend Stanford University

Kiki de Melo, MassArt (December)

Lauren de Melo, UMASS Amherst

Nick de Melo, UMASS Amherst

Calvin James, Jr., UMASS Lowell

Quinn Perkins, Hamilton College

Spencer Perkins, North Shore Community College

If there are more details to be shared about your favorite graduate, please email me so I can include them in next month's Chime Notes. Pictures are also happily accepted!

Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed.

The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years

after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday.

On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday.

For more information on the history of Juneteenth, click here.

Mission moments

Bruce Whear (center) presented Missions checks to Gary Barrett (left), Development Director of Lifebridge and Robyn Burns (right), Executive Director of Salem Pantry at a recent Salem Rotary meeting.