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Vote for the 2024-2025 Share-the-Plate Organizations
Each month, First Universalist gives our third Sunday offering away to a community organization doing good work in Rochester. And you all are invited to choose which organizations the church will support this year! Please cast your vote by Friday, May 31! Here is a link to vote: https://forms.gle/1ZqaRyzuzCsST96i9
Wanted: Delegates for this year’s General Assembly!
The UUA General Assembly will be held virtually this year on June 20, 21, 22, and 23. Our congregation is entitled to have three delegates represent us. Delegates attend business meetings and “are empowered to vote their conscience” in these sessions. The Nominating Committee is looking for people interested in being Delegates this year. The Board of Trustees has authorized payment of registration fees. If you are interested in being one of our delegates, please contact Nancy Gaede! The Nominating Committee will forward the names gathered to the Board of Trustees, to be included in the voting at our Annual Business Meeting in June. Please get your name to Nancy by this Sunday, May 26. Info about GA, including the schedule, can be found at uua.org/ga.
Tuesday, May 21 | Drop-In Discussion: Diaries of Ordinary People from the Past
Over the years, Janus Mary Jones has accumulated and read diaries of 19th and 20th-century people. She will introduce to you a melancholy 1840s carpenter from Lockport, NY, a sickly Livingston County teenager of 1868, a migraine-suffering lawyer from Northern Pennsylvania in the 1890s, a Philadelphia high school girl of the 1920s, and a rural Orleans County homemaker of the 1950s. Discussion will follow on what can be learned from the lives of these average people who took the time to record their thoughts and experiences. Drop-in Discussions meet via Zoom on Tuesday nights from 6:30-7:30pm. Look on the First Universalist homepage for details and a link, or click the Zoom meeting link in this blurb title!
Thursday, May 23 | Eastman at Washington Square: ECMS Honors Finale
Eastman at Washington Square Concerts take place on Thursdays at 12:15 to 12:45pm in our sanctuary. May 23 is ECMS Honors Finale: Enjoy the final concert of the season, featuring the amazing young high school graduates from the Honors Program at the Eastman Community Music School. Admission is free!
Sunday, June 2 | Annual Congregational Meeting!
Our Annual Congregational Meeting will be on Sunday, June 2 after the service. This provides us the opportunity to live into our 5th Principle: The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large. Again, this year we will have a hybrid meeting to include everyone either online or in person. We meet each year to approve our budget and appoint our leaders. Full participation of our membership is important! Childcare will be provided.
Sunday, June 2 | In-Person Drop-In-Discussion - Open Forum & Planning Meeting
We’ll discuss topics for coming meetings, whether or not to continue the in-church meetings through the summer, and anything else that is on our minds. Held at 9:15am in the Chalice Room, led by Phil Ebersole.
Sunday, June 9 | Used Book Sale
The library’s last Super Sale will be held on Sunday, June 9, during Coffee Hour. You will be able to buy a bag of used books for only $1.00. Bags will be provided. Check out the newest donations and stock up on reading material for the summer!
June 14, 15, & 16| UU Gathering of Men
Men of the congregation: If you are anticipating going to the UU Gathering of Men (Mark's Men's Gathering) it is time to log on to the Camp Unirondack Website (unirondack.org/), select calendar, click on Mark Men’s Gathering, and select register. Any questions? See Tom Williams or Bill Elwell!
Sunday, June 16| Annual Church Picnic!
The church picnic will be held on Sunday, June 16, 2024, from 1-4pm. The location is the Longhouse Shelter in Seneca Park (it is handicapped accessible, with bathrooms nearby). Please bring a dish to pass! A map will be posted in church. If you need a map or directions, please contact Karl Abbott. Additional details in the May and June newsletters.
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