The Unitarian Universalist Church of Manchester welcomes you to our next Sunday Service! May 31st we continue our theme of Awakening Curiosity with a service lead by Rev. Kali Fyre. Service starts at 10am, followed by coffee and community hour in Fellowship Hall.
Announcements
Flame And Chalice Remodel – Volunteer needed
A few of our online spaces are changing this year, including our website! In preparation for our website redesign, we are changing how our newsletter works. Currently, it uses pages from the website to create articles. This won’t work when we switch to the new uumanchester.org. We are moving to a separate service, so that we can run it independent of the website. With this change, we are able to give it a fresh new look with a few tweaks in how articles are submitted! Going forward, the newsletter articles need to be under 250 words, will have a 3 week maximum display time, and announcements and articles submitted have to be in by Thursday at the latest to work with our admin’s schedule. The Flame and Chalice will be going out on Fridays, as our admin doesn’t work Saturdays after June 6th. While the admin is going to be putting out our newsletter for the time being, this is a volunteer position. If you would like to learn how our newsletter works and be trained on how to manage it, please email admin@uumanchester.org for more information.
This Week In RE
This month’s theme is Awakening Curiosity. This month has been all about exploring how awakening our curiosity is a bridge to “other worlds.” This week, we are exploring how curiosity is a bridge to a world with wiser people. And as we do this, we will have a chance to lift the language in our UU Value Purpose Statement that calls us “to foster a life of curiosity” as well as our traditional UU Belief that “no one has the whole truth”
Found In Kitchen
A variety of kitchen items and a large cooler were found when cleaning Fellowship Hall. They are on the Lost and Found table to the left of the dining room entrance. If not claimed, help yourselves.
Yard Sale
Our annual Yard Sale has been scheduled! Join us September 12th from 8am to 2pm for a fun day of selling old items, finding new treasures, and raising money for our church. Volunteer opportunities and setup times will be announced soon, so stay tuned if you’d like to volunteer to assist with set up or run tables!
Show Your UU Colors
UU Manchester T-Shirts will be on sale during coffee hour at a discounted price. Adult T-Shirts: $15, Youth T-Shirts: $10. These are UU Manchester original designs and have not been available for several years. Proudly wear your UU Manchester T-shirt all summer long! Cash or check preferred.
Pride Volunteers Needed!
Pride Festival is coming up and UUCM needs volunteers! The Parade/Festival is June 27 from 11am to 5pm. We will need people to march in the parade, help with festival table setup and tear down, and manning the table in two hour increments. Further information will be provided as information is provided by Manchester True Collaborative.
If you are not able to participate in this year’s UU Manchester Pride 26, but wish to offer support to our effort, the Board has approved our reaching out to our members for support. We will have an Amazon Wishlist of things we would appreciate to have to make this year’s Pride event a success!
Disability Pride Tabling Opportunity!
On July 26th, there will be a Disability Pride Event in Dover, NH. Details are still being worked out by the head organizer, but this week they reached out to our Administrator to see if we would like to host a table for the event! If anyone is interested in running a UU Manchester table in Dover, please email Tess Bloodrune at admin@uumanchester.org. If you are willing to give rides to the Disability Pride event after Sunday services, please also contact Tess to arrange car pooling opportunities.
Communications Team Volunteers Needed
Our office admin has been busy drafting a communications policy and doing prep work for a small team to be able to take over managing social media. We are looking for a volunteer to handle coordination between media platforms, someone who is willing to work on the weekly newsletter, and someone who is comfortable with various social media platforms to make regular posts to our pages. If you would like to volunteer with our Communications Team, please email or talk to Tess!
Share The Plate Update
Each week, we pass around our offering plates as part of our services. A portion of the offering we share with local community groups, organizations, and other various businesses that we vote on each year. This quarter so far we have shared:
January: NH Community Bail Fund, $498.50
February: Meals on Wheels of Hillsborough County, $797.05
March: Equality Health Center, $589.75
Topics: Worship