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Northshore Unitarian Universalist Church is a dynamic, creative congregation, providing an inclusive and welcoming spiritual home for all. We are guided by principles that promote caring relationships and the active pursuit of social, racial and environmental justice. | | |
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Don't forget to "fall back" Saturday night
for
Daylight Savings Time.
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Sunday Service
November 6, 2022
10:30 a.m.
In-person service and on Zoom
"Navigating Transitions"
Rev. Carol Strecker speaking
The only thing that we can really count on is change. It’s just the way life is. We have no idea what’s coming, nor can we bend the future to our will. In truth, we live our lives in the interim, betwixt and between life and death.
What we can do is learn to navigate transitions, the inner process that accompanies change. Moving from endings through a liminal time when things that were no longer are, and things that will be, are not yet — and embracing the possibilities for new beginnings. Becoming more conscious of this process can help us let go of what was, without grasping prematurely for something new.
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Creating A Congregational Covenant - together!
Congregational Conversation
Nov. 6th at Noon
In person and on Zoom
Please plan to stay after the service for an important congregational conversation where we’ll continue the process of creating a congregational covenant; the promises we want to make to one another about how we want to be together.
During the Sunday Service on October 16th, we began this process when I invited those attending to begin to think about those promises. They included:
- To listen and respect each other
- To be honest
- To encourage each other
- To engage with each other in the work of the church
- To be curious about each other
- To try to understand others more fully, without presumptions or rigid expectations
- To disagree with compassion and respect
- To be supportive and appreciative
- To seek creative solutions to difficulties*
- To have open eyes, minds and hearts
- To be open to new ideas and ways of doing things
- To welcome and embrace change as a way to learn and grow
- To forgive each other and ourselves
- To welcome newcomers
This is already an amazing list! Can you imagine what Northshore Church would be like if we all strived to keep these promises? They really say that the way we do things is just as important, if not more so, than what we do together.
We’ll review all your suggestions on the 6th. Those of you who haven’t had an opportunity to add your ideas, will have an opportunity to do so. Together we’ll create a list of the most important promises we want to include in Northshore Church’s covenant. The Board will take that list, create a draft covenant and present it to you, the congregation, for feedback. My hope is that you’ll have an opportunity to affirm Northshore Church’s Congregational Covenant by the end of the year.
See you in church, Rev. Carol
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Sunday Service
November 13, 2022
10:30 a.m.
In-person service and on Zoom
"Tools for the Journey"
Rev. Carol Strecker speaking
Unitarian Universalism draws many sources for inspiration including our direct experience, the wisdom of world religions, the teachings of science and Earth-centered traditions. Many of these sources can offer us wisdom and strength for the journey as we navigate change in our lives and in our world. This service of readings, musings and special music will explore some of these sources as tools for the journey that can help us navigate change.
David Coffin will lead us in some traditional songs in our service. Known in the Boston area as the Christmas Revels Master of Ceremonies. He spends the good weather months singing chanteys on a Music Boston Harbor Tours. Coffin has a bass-baritone voice and plays various types of recorders and whistles, in addition to archaic instruments like the shawm, rackett, or gemshorn. He comes from a musical background. His father, Reverend William Sloane Coffin, studied to be a concert pianist with Nadia Boulanger in Paris; his grandfather was pianist Arthur Rubinstein, and his great-grandfather was Polish conductor Emil Młynarski.
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Sunday services Zoom link
https://zoom.us/j/95156904873
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Update from the Ministerial Search Committee | |
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Many thanks to all who responded to survey by the extended deadline!
The survey responses on paper are now being added to the online responses. Our immediate task is to now analyze your responses to better portray the interests and concerns of our congregation. This analysis is important feature of the Ministerial Search Packet that will introduce Northshore Church to potential candidates.
Our next task is to participate in the Beyond Categorical Thinking program that the UUA provides for churches in the search process. The Search Committee and the Northshore Church Board of Directors are expected to participate. But members of the congregation who are interested are also invited to attend. This workshop will guide how to be “open” to all candidates, in spite of obvious, or subtle, preconceived notions of who we might be looking for as our ideal minister.
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Save the Date
Beyond Categorical Thinking program
(a ZOOM meeting)
Saturday, November 19
9:00 am-12:30 pm
Pre-registration is needed
If interested, please let us know by sending an email to
Bo Batty bbatty@comcast.net
AND
Click on the link below for the “Concerns and Benefits” form to register with UUA.
the Concerns and Benefits Wufoo form.
We hope you will join us!
Chair Julie O’Meara, Bo Batty, Beth Blanchard, Jeri Kroll, and
Terri Hansen
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Music notes from
Georgia Bills
Northshore Church Director of Music
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A Ritual Sword Dance for the Solstice Service in December
I would love to have a group dance a traditional Morris sword dance as part of our celebration.
I have been teaching this dance to teenagers for many years (we use wooden swords), it is a very stunning and satisfying dance to learn. It can be danced with 6 people (or multiples of 6). It is a series of stylized movement that only needs a basic sense of rhythm and is danced at a steady walk with a series of easy movements. It is a group of 6, no partners. With adults it can easily be learned in two to three 30-minute practices.
If you would like to learn this lovely tradition, please contact me at gbills01915@gmail.com
While your calendar is out, mark Sunday, December 11th when
Tim Deik, trumpeter will fill the room with his beautiful sound.
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Social Action Committee
Food Donation Day
We will be at the church on Saturday, November 12 from 10 am to 12:30 pm collecting food for the Danvers Food Pantry. Canned items, peanut butter, pasta, rice, paper products such as paper towels and toilet paper, cereal, and food donations are all welcome.
Sewing Machine Needed
Antoinette, our refugee friend from the Congo who now lives in Gloucester, wonders if anyone has a sewing machine they no longer use. She would like to be able to mend her children's clothes. Please contact Jean Koulack-Young at 978-587-2935 or email at jeankoulackyoung@gmail.com
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Sunday Strolls
This fall Bob Ferris is the coordinator of the Sunday Strolls, and is looking for people to suggest locations, to lead strolls, and to join in the fun.
Rejoin your friends face-to-face and join us for Sunday Strolls.
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