Sunday Service

May 21, 2023

10:30 A.M.

Join us in the sanctuary or via Zoom

"Feeling Your Right Size in the Universe"

Rev. Carol Strecker Speaking

As the days lengthen, the light and warmth of the sun beckon, calling us out into the natural world. As we take to the waterways and trails, many of us feel a sense of both of the power of nature and of our place in it - feeling just our right size. 

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Following the Service

Annual Meeting of NSUU

Sunday, May 21

11:45 A.M. until 1:00 P.M.

(A quorum is required to approve all actions)

Sunday Service

May 28, 2023

10:30 A.M.

Join us in the sanctuary or via Zoom

"Remembering Well"

Rev. Carol Strecker Speaking

This service will provide space for stories of love and loss, strength and resiliency in the face of adversity. There are lessons in these stories about the value of remembering well in a world where change, loss and love are the nature of life. 

To attend the Sunday service via Zoom,

please go to the Northshore Church website nsuu.org

& click on "Join Service."

From the Board...

NORTHSHORE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CONGREGATION

SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2023 AT 11:45 AM

AGENDA

• Call to Order: Chris Ruggles, Moderator
• Thank yous/acknowledgements and status of our search for a Minister and Music Director: Andrea, Kaiser, Board Chair
• Congregational Review of the 2022-2023 Financials: Bob Ferris, Treasurer
• Congregational Vote to approve taking a maximum of $20,000 from the permanent funds to balance the 2022-2023 budget.
• Congregational Review and approval of the Board-recommended budget for 2023--2024 that includes withdrawing approximately $40,000 from permanent funds: Bob Ferris, Treasurer
• Congregational Vote to approve the Slate: Audrey Merkle and Maureen Duram

               Jason Beringer as Moderator (one-year term)

               Astrida Cutter as Treasurer (one year term)

               Lynette Gray as Clerk (one-year term)

               Jean Koulack-Young (three-year term)

               Loring Bradlee (three-year term)

Hal Morse, Susan Haas, and Kathy Ulman are continuing to serve.

Retiring from Board: Andrea Kaiser, Bob Ferris, Marcia Lassar, Chris Ruggles

• Other Business
• Adjourn

PROXY VOTES AT THE ANNUAL MEETING ON MAY 21, 2023  

After reviewing the requests received for proxy voting at the Annual Meeting will be accepted. Anyone wishing to vote by proxy must identify a member of the church as proxy and to put that request in writing to the Moderator of the Board, Chris Ruggles. The proxy vote will then be accepted. If you have any questions, please contact Nancy in the office.

NSUU LIFTS MANDATORY MASK MANDATE

At its meeting on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, the Board reviewed the decision by

the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to lift the mask mandate as of May 11, 2023. 

Going forward, masks will be optional, and we will continue to provide masks for those who request them. The sign on the door will be changed to reflect the new policy!

Please mark your calendars

with this important date!

RSVP's required by May 25th.

Sunday, June 4

11:45 A.M. until 1:30 P.M.

Celebration in honor of Rev. Carol Strecker

Catered Barbeque

Musical Entertainment

&

Contra Dancing with "Ragtime Jack"

He’s "Ragtime Jack" Radcliffe, and you don’t want to miss him when he comes to town.

Now a resident of Massachusetts, with roots in Virginia and Tennessee, Jack, brings his piano, guitar, fiddle, voice, wit and wisdom with him wherever he goes.

Jack has been performing for more than 40 years. He was a fixture on the coffeehouse circuit in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. His band 'The New Viper Revue' pushed the genre envelopes of blues, folk, country, rock 'n' roll and jazz from 1972 -1976. Jack resumed his solo career in 1977, then teamed up with reed player Al Oliveira in 1983, as half of “The World’s Smallest Big Jazz Band.”

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SUMMER CIRCLES SERVICES AT NSUU - 2023

This summer, NSUU is trying something different than in past years. Rather than scheduling summer services, this year we hope to gather in “Summer Circles.” These are designed to blend some basic Sunday service elements with a group discussion centered around a topic of the presenter’s choice.

There are eight (8) available summer Sundays. We will have as many Summer Circles as we have volunteers to lead them. And so, we need to know in advance who may wish to help facilitate, and on which Sunday they would like to do so.

Please note: With limited exceptions these Summer Circles will be held IN-PERSON ONLY. This will allow our hard-working technical team to have a bit of a summer break. If Zoom participation can be coordinated for a given service, it will be offered also.

 Please email your proposed service description to the church office (NSUU@verizon.net) and to Jennifer Revill (Religious Services Committee) (jenrevill@aol.com) on or before June 15, 2023 so that it can be included in the summer newsletter and Good Things Are Happening. Be sure to include the date for your service along with your title and description.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Social Action

MAY 21^ST FOOD DRIVE

As you make your way to the church annual meeting, we ask that you bring items to donate to a FOOD DRIVE for the Danvers People-to-People Food Pantry. We will be collecting food items in our fellowship hall. Items needed include: paper products (paper towels, napkins, toilet paper), brand name cereals, crackers, peanut butter, pasta, jarred sauce, soups, school lunch snacks. Monetary donations may be made in the form of a check made out to Danvers People-to-People Food Pantry.

OPERATION TROOP SUPPORT

A basket in fellowship hall awaits donations of items for troops such as personal care products, snacks, cards, gum, tuna fish, work socks, games, books, package soup, peanut butter, mac/cheese, Chef Boyardee.

PRIDE ACTIVITIES IN JUNE

Danvers Pride: On Thursday, June 1^st, Danvers will have a Pride event. Starting at 3:30 with a flag raising at Danvers Police station, at 4 pm a flag raising at the town hall and a festival on the library lawn at 5 pm. NSUU will be manning a table at the festival so please come to show your support and drop by the table.

North Shore Pride Parade: Saturday, June 24^th, NSUU will be participating in the Pride walk in Salem carrying our banner. Please consider joining us. Line up for the walk begins at 10:30 am (details to follow). Following that is a festival on the Salem Common.