This Week at The First Church: May 14-20

[Allison Palm]

Check out descriptions and all our programs at http://uubelmont.org/adult-programs/

The Women’s Retreat – Senexet House, Woodstock CT, June 1-3 – DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS TUESDAY, MAY 15!
Women of all ages from The First Church are invited to our annual women’s retreat weekend on a lake. There are individual and group activities both indoors and out, quiet time by the fire, and good meals with someone else doing the cooking and dishes. We make everyone feel truly welcome. Accommodations are shared--mostly in doubles. Participation is limited to 30. Car-pooling is fun and essential due to parking constraints. Cost is $185 per person (which includes 2 nights & 5 meals). Contact Allison Palm at ap...@uubelmont.org for a registration form. Partial scholarships are available.

Monday

Meditation - Rob Cosinuke, Mondays, 8-9 pm,Church Library 


Tuesday

The Quilters' Group and Knitting Circle - Gladys Unger and Eva Patalas, Tuesday nights at 7:30 pm, RE Class #3


Wednesday

Buddy Group - Wednesdays 9-11am, Library (bring your own favorite morning beverage)

Active Retirement
Next Meeting: Wednesday, May 16, 7:30pm. Classroom 5
Join a group of congregants who are newly retired/semi-retired/dreaming of retirement or dreading retirement to see how they are thinking and acting on this new phase of adult life.  

Thursday

Science & Spirituality
Edwin Taylor & Ken Bernstein
We are a group engaged in exchanging thoughts on ideas in science and their influence on our spiritual lives. Each meeting is (usually) independent of previous meetings; therefore, one may join the group at any time without experiencing loss of continuity. The subject readings for each meeting will be agreed upon at the previous meeting and be posted in the Unitarian and sent by e-mail to all who request them.
Meetings are held at 7 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month at the conference room of the Church.
For more information contact Edwin at eta...@uubelmont.org, 781-646-7775. To register contact Ken atklbe...@uubelmont.org, 617-489-3118

Coming Up!

Book Group to discuss Lily King’s Father of the Rain on Wednesday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Library
Lily King’s Father of the Rain, 2010 New England Book Award winner for fiction, comes highly recommended by two Book Group members.  Publisher’s Weekly provided this description, “[King’s] third novel, narrated by the clear-eyed daughter of an alcoholic father, follows their evolving relationship. The opening scene-- with 11-year-old Daley and her father wreaking delirious havoc by streaking naked at a martini-fueled pool party in the sleepy Boston suburbs-- brims with Daley's love for her father and desire for connection with him, but is also tinged with the repercussions of a charismatic man divorced from the role of parenthood . . . King's latest is original and deftly drawn, the work of a master psychological portraitist.” Please come join us!

 The Book Group warmly welcomes new members and returning members at any time, whether you have finished reading the book or just begun.  We meet on the fourth Wednesday of most months. If you have questions about the Book Group, please contact Anne Stuart atast...@uubelmont.org.