On Sunday, May 11, Rev. Garrett Pogue will be leading a chapel class session on the pacifist origins of Mother's Day. The class will look at the original Mother's Day proclamation written by Julia Ward Howe in 1870.

Chapel class begins at 9:00 am every Sunday and is open to all adults in person or on Zoom. The password for Zoom access is 461025.

Join us on Tuesday, May 13 at 6:00 pm for a night of beautiful music and delicious food at Plymouth Congregational Church. Immerse yourself in traditional hispanic/latino music and food all in an affirming and welcoming place. This event is your opportunity to relax and enjoy a sensory experience that will uplift your spirits. Don't miss out on this unique blend of music and culinary delights! The concert is free and open to the public...reservations required, and seating is limited...a freewill offering will be received.

For more information, or to reserve your spot, click here.

Are you curiously watching the American Sign Language interpretation during worship? Join Cassidy Cwierthia for this introduction to worship signs. Learn to recognize some common religious signs, and join along in signing the Lord’s Prayer and common songs at 7 pm on Wednesdays in the Chapel. All ages are welcome!

The May '25 Bell newsletter is coming soon. If there is an article or information you'd like included, please send it to Zach Heimach (wzh@plymouthfw.org) by May 16.

In the aftermath of recent wildfires, the Southern California Nevada Conference of the UCC is in need of clean-up kits, and the Peace & Justice Committee is asking for your help with this project. Through a matching $250 grant from the UCC, and a grant from the Emma Feigly fund, all the supplies have been ordered, and we only need to assemble the kits.  

Saturday, May 17th from 10:00 am-1:00 pm is the date set for this task, which will take place in the Folsom Room. Once assembled, these kits will be delivered to those who need them in California. So if you begin to see pallets in the Folsom Room, rest assured that they will not remain there long. Please join us if you can.

Please join us after church on Sunday, May 18, for our annual ice cream social to mark the end of the program year and to celebrate the coming summer season. Cake and ice cream will be provided by the Congregational Life Board. All are welcome!

From the Puritan Pilgrims first settlement, they interpreted their life in this country through the lens of the Bible – the ‘New Israel.’ This has become a secular civil creed that uses biblical language and symbols, the heart of American exceptionalism and manifest destiny, now projected onto Israel and its special relationship to the US. American exceptionalism, Israeli exceptionalism, America’s manifest destiny, Israel’s manifest destiny – ONE! Dr. Michael Spath traces this history from the nation’s earliest days to the present. The program will take place in the Plymouth Church Folsom Room on Thursday, May 22 at 6:30 pm and is free and open to the public.

All programs are live-streamed and posted as a video a few days after the event, all on the ICMEP YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@inCMEP/videos

The Women's Book Study will not be meeting in May while we organize our reading for the following six months. However, you may be interested to know that the books we have chosen are the following:

Girl Braiding Her Hair (Marta Molnar), The Women (Kristin Hannah), The Girl Who Said Goodbye (Heather Allen), The Tobacco Wives (Adele Myers), Doppelganger (Naomi Klein) and The Kingdom, The Power and the Glory (Tim Alberta).

We welcome anyone identifying as a woman to drop in for one session or many as you are interested. We meet in the Amistad Room at noon on the third Tuesday of each month.