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The Settled Minister Search Committee is deeply appreciative to all participants in the September 17th Holy Conversation in which we discussed our various belief systems. The resulting information was not only interesting, it will be very helpful to us as we prepare First Church's Congregational Record. Thank you so much.
The Ministerial Search Committee,
Dr. James A. Robinson, Chair
Dr. Ivan Cotman
Sharlene Gage
Marilyn Mitchell
Kathe Stevens
We've been busy working over the summer to improve First UU's Constitution and By-Laws based on comments and suggestions made at the May Congregational Meeting and at other times. We will have two informational meetings after church to review the revisions and give everyone a chance to make further modifications. The dates for these two meeetings are on Sunday, Oct 29 and Nov 12 at 12:30 PM. Please come and make your opinions heard.
Sally Borden, Earl Harvey and Mary Lou Malone.
On a related note - I would like to know if there is interest in a Covenant on Black America. For more information please see Rhonda Rodgers during coffee hour.
It is getting too cold to have garage sales but we have some nice items for sale:
You can make an appointment for a private sale if you would be interested in any of these things.
Entertainment books are for sale at $20 each with $4 going to church budget. Sold at coffee hour. See Margaret Beck
The First UU Choir welcomes and invites all interested musicians to share the
joy of music making. No audition is required. The Choir generally rehearses
on the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Sunday mornings 9:30 – 10:30 am. Please
join us October 22, 29, November 5 and 12 to prepare for our November 12th performance.
For more information please contact Gwen Foss, Choir Director at gwenfoss@netrek.net.
This tradition was started here in our Sanctuary by our music director, Todd Ballou in 2003 and has continued every other year. This year the 1st Congregation of Ann Arbor has generously offered to host the UU Choir Festival of Southeast Michigan on Sunday, February 18 at 3:00 pm. The 1st UU Church of Ann Arbor is located at 4001 Saline-Ann Arbor Road. Musicians from all eight UU churches in our area gather for an amazing concert of music and fellowship, including lots of congregational singing. For more information, please contact Sarah Albright at skalbright@sbcglobal.net or the 1st UU Church of Ann Arbor at 734-665-6158. Now is a great time to join the 1st UU Choir of Detroit to be a part of this event.
We will be having our annual Thanksgiving Potluck on Thanksgiving Day at 2:00 in Memorial Hall. Plan to arrive with your food contribution at 1:30. For more information or to make a reservation, contact Linda Darga.
From Faye Colling:
Each year before I leave for the winter, I line up groups to accept the responsibility for coffee hour each month. This year and into 2007 we thank these groups:
What do volunteers do? You work with Leonard who makes the coffee and gets the pots ready, set the tables with juice and goodies. You purchase the cookies, fruit and or vegetables, a lemon for the tea and half and half. You will be reimbursed for this from the coffee hour fund.
This past June while at GA, I introduced myself during a workshop and identified my church affiliation in order to ask a question. Afterwards, the Rev. Brendan Hadash of the St. Johnsbury, Vermont Universalist church approached me. He explained that for a long time a photo of a mystery church had hung at his church. About five years ago, Rev. Hadash was at a GA and saw a photo exhibit of old Universalist churches at a UU historical Society booth. He found a picture of the church taken from a different angle and so he was able to identify that the mystery photo in his church was the old Universalist Church of Detroit.
Rev. Hadash asked me if I thought First Church would like to have the photo. I said, yes! And we thereafter began exchanging some interesting emails.
Rev. Hadash has found a possible connection between our two churches. In 1928-1929 Dorothy Spoerl was Director of Religious Education at Detroit Universalist Church under Frank Adams. In 1934-35 her husband, Rev. Howard Davis Spoerl, was minister of the St. Johnsbury Vermont Church. Rev. Hadash suspects that this picture might be something that Dorothy brought back from Detroit. Or that she may have used the excuse of a Universalist convention to go back to Detroit for a visit. Here's a link to more information about Dorothy: http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/spoerl.html.
From March 10-18 2007, pause, reflect and meditate in the land famous for the light, art, food, museums, galleries, crafts and the Natvie Indian and Spanish cultural hertage. Being in historic Santa Fe is a surefire remedy for today's stressful lifestyle. Visit the two most important Indian sites in New Mexico: Anasazi cliff dwellers (1100's) and Chaco Canyon, major center of ancestral Puebloan culture (850-1250). See the landscape that inspired artist Georgia O'Keeffe and do an experiential art project. Walk a labyrinth at Ghost Ranch. Experience a Native Sweat Lodge. Soak in the waters at Ojo Caliente. Meditate at sunrise on a mesa or at sunset in the desert.
Led by Rev Wayne Waler (leads and teaches meditation) and Beverly Carr of Neighborhood UU Congregation in Toronto. See www.nuuc.ca for details.
October 22nd at
4:00 P.M
Fellowship Chapel
7707 W. Outer Drive Detroit, MI 48235
2500 people are gathering in unity to “Repair the Tear” in Michigan. First UU has been challenged to turn out thirty people for the rally. Show your support and sign up with Mildred Robinson or Janet Thompson to attend. First UU needs representatives at three planning meetings for the MOSES Public Rally in the next three weeks. Alicia Biggers and Mary Lou Malone have the details. The Bioneers volunteers will meet with Mary Lou Malone and Charlene Evans after church on Sunday, October 15, 2006.
