Sunday Service, January 20, 2019

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Linda Pallay

Sunday, January 20   
The Good Place      Lay Speaker: Emily Quarles-Mowrer   

NBC’s show about the afterlife posits that there is a cosmic accounting office that tracks our every action, assigning and removing the points that determine our eventual destination: either the good place or the bad place. In this season of resolutions to do better this year, what do we lose and what do we gain when we focus on “the good place” rather than the place where we are now?


Please join us after the service for our Third Sunday Potluck. 

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Sunday Service, January 27, 2019

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Linda Pallay

Sunday, January 27  
A Lawyer Enters the Phone Booth… A Preacher Emerges    
Speaker: Reverend Dave Hunter   
Dave’s quasi-autobiographical reflections on
what it means to be a UU minister.

Please join us after the service as we celebrate Albert Jenkin as a long standing member of UUFP

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UU Fellowship, Where U can be U

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Linda Pallay

UPCOMING DATES:  JANUARY 2019

Choir: Most Sunday mornings: 9:30 AM: contact our membership chair for information: membership @uupottstown.org

Simply Sitting Every Monday evening at 7:30 PM in the library. Visitors are always welcome. Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation is offered on the first Monday of each Month.

Yoga: Every Thursday evening in the Sanctuary 7:00 PM, small fee each session

HAPPY NEW YEARS!

January 1st: Labyrinth Walk: 1–4 PM.
January 9th: Committee Council: 7:30 PM.
January 11th:  Friday Night Chews/BYODD: 6:30 – 8:30 PM: Topic TBA.
                               Bring Your Own Dinner and Drink. 
                           Join us for lively and meaningful conversation.
                                          All are welcome.
January 13: Welcome To Our New Ministers! Social Hour: 11:40 AM.
                          Getting to Know You: Welcoming Revs Kerry and Dave
January 20: 3rd Sunday Pot Luck &  Albert Appreciation Day!! 11:30 AM.
January 27: Board Meeting:  12:00 PM.

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In Memoriam

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Linda Pallay

We remember Ruth Daly. A long time member who joined our fellowship with her husband Jim in 1987. Ruth passed away on October 26th . She would have been 91 years old on the following Monday, October 29th.

We would also like to acknowledge the recent passing of Nick Pine, a UUFP choir member and friend of our fellowship. Nick passed away on Tuesday, November 20th at the age of 72. Our condolences to their families– They will be missed…

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President’s Message: December 2018

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Linda Pallay

President’s Message

This past month has been a productive time for UUFP.  I’m happy to announce that the Board and the Reverends Kerry Mueller and Dave Hunter have contracted at least through June 2019 for part-time ministry and pastoral services. We feel fortunate to have found this gracious and thoughtful couple to help and work with us as we meet the challenges of ministry to ourselves and our Pottstown community, while we continue to grow and flourish as a Fellowship in these interesting times.

The Reverends Mueller and Hunter and the UUFP Board met on Saturday, November 17th for the Board’s semi-annual retreat where we got to know each other a bit and developed goals for the next year. Ahead of new goals, we reviewed the status of the goals we’d set for ourselves last winter. We found that we have accomplished an impressive number of those goals.  We:

• Created a Ministry and Worship plan to carry us forward after loss of ministry. Thank you, Linda P., Lisa J., and Mary R. for researching new ministry and laying the groundwork for the affirmation process.

• Carried off an encouragingly successful pledge campaign. Thank you, Linda K. who initiated that project and kept it humming.

• We installed a beautiful new hardwood floor in the entire RE wing .Thank you, Jon P., Frances P., Mary R., Rick D. and everyone who contributed to the funding of that project.

• We gave our sanctuary a beautiful blue facelift (Thank you, Mary R. and helpers).

• We’ve added a pianist and a bookkeeper/office manager who freed us from some tasks so that we can reinvest our energies in other tasks that build our community.

Thanks to congregational financial support! A new ministry of hope and peace and a long list of accomplishments — like holiday gifts for our beloved community!

Next month I’ll review the new goals in the January Sojourner. There are plans afoot for a program or event for our Ministers and the whole Fellowship to get to know each other better. We’ll trim our holiday tree after Sunday Service on December 2nd, celebrate Christmas with a children’s Christmas Eve service, and step into 2019 on the right foot with a New Year’s Day Labyrinth walk.

With love and wishes for a wonderful holiday season, Miranda

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Sunday, December 2, 2018

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Linda Pallay

Sunday, December 2, 2018      The State of Immigration in the United States

Speaker: Elizabeth Kiester, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Albright College

Lay Leader: Allan Pallay

Dr. Kiester will provide a brief explanation of the different types of immigrants and a short overview of immigration policy history. She will then discuss the current status of DACA immigrants; children who were brought to the US by their parents without documentation and have lived here their entire lives but remain undocumented and living in the shadows of our society. She will be happy to answer questions pertaining to the detention crisis at the Southern border as well as migrant caravans.

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Sunday Service December 9, 2018

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Linda Pallay

Sunday, December 9, 2018

Latkes or Hamentaschen?                 Rev Kerry Mueller

Come celebrate Hanukkah, with stories of courage and kindness, light and miracles. We will learn something of the origins of this holiday and of its theology, meanings, and especially its food traditions!

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Friday Night Chew: December 14, 2018 @ 6:30 PM

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Linda Pallay

The next Friday Night Chew!

Featuring an engaging debate video and our own live discussion about whether religion is truly a force for good in the world ~ All are welcome!

This is the 2nd of a series of Friday Night Dinner & Discussion events!
Bring your own dinner and utensils! We’ll provide the discussion topic! Share an evening of food for body and soul.

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Sunday Service December 16, 2018

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Linda Pallay

Sunday, December 16, 2018

Here We Come A-Wassailing             Speaker: Emily Quarles-Mowrer

When my mother was a very little girl, someone asked her what she wanted for Christmas. She smiled up at them and said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” As disconcerting as that sentiment sounds when voiced by a small child that is what Christmas-time is about for many of us — a chance to share the love and joy of the wassail cup. We give to people we love, to people we see daily and to people we will never meet, but who will nevertheless be touched by the goodwill we have sent out into the world. Join us as we feel the blessing of giving. 3rd Sunday Potluck will follow the service

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No Service Sunday December 23, 2018

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Linda Pallay

Please attend our Christmas Eve service on 12/24/18 @  4 PM.

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