This Week in RE, 6/21

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This Week June 21 – Flower Communion and Goodbyes to Merill Comeau, Brian Chenowith and Rachel Baker

 

Summer Services and Childcare

Please Register Online for 2015 – 2016 RE and choir programs

Mark Your Calendar - Homecoming Sunday, September 13

This Week June 21 – Flower Communion and Goodbyes to Merill Comeau, Brian Chenowith and Rachel Baker

          10:00 a.m. – Service 

 

Children of all ages are welcome in the Sanctuary.  There is no RE programming or childcare.

This was a beautiful service last year.  We are hoping that families will come and be part of this special service.   Brian Chenowith will lead the congregation though the traditional Unitarian Flower Communion created by Norbert Capek [1870-1942], who founded the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia. Please bring a flower or two to contribute to the service. The flowers may come from your garden, a field, or the roadside. One interpretation of the flower communion states, “Our common bouquet would not be the same without the unique addition of each individual flower, and thus it is with our church community; it would not be the same without each and every one of us. Thus this service is a statement of our community. By exchanging flowers, we show our willingness to walk together in our search for truth, disregarding all that might divide us. Each person takes home a flower brought by someone else—thus symbolizing our shared celebration in community. This communion of sharing is essential to a free people of a free religion.”

During the service and at coffee hour, the congregation will say goodbye to Brian Chenowith, Ministerial Intern, Merill Comeau, Interim Director of Religious Education, and Rachel Baker, Director of Membership and Communications.  The Women’s Parish Association will host a special coffee hour in the Debby Greeley Herb Garden immediately after the service.

 

 

Register Online for 2015 – 2016 RE and choir programs

Please remember to register for RE and choir programs for the 2015 – 2016 church year.  Registration is online and you are able to register for both RE and Children’s Choir with the same form.  The First Parish in Concord, Religious Education and Children's Choir Registration 2015 - 2016 is available on the First Parish homepage.  Click on the yellow RE Registration button to get started. http://www.firstparish.org/cms/

 

  

Summer Services and Childcare

Children and youth are welcome to join their families in the sanctuary for worship during the summer.  In lieu of staffed childcare, family members may accompany a restless child to the vestibule where there will be storage bins filled with age appropriate activities.  Please remain with your child(ren).  Family members are welcome to make themselves comfortable on the rocking chairs or sofa and listen to audio of the service as their children play.  Audio of the service is also provided in the downstairs hallway, parlor and Parish Hall if this is a more comfortable place for you and your child(ren).

Mark Your Calendar - Homecoming Sunday, September 13

Mark your calendars!  Homecoming Sunday will be on Sunday, September 13.  Homecoming marks the beginning of our new church year and will be celebrated with an intergenerational service.  RE programming will resume on Sunday, September 20.  

Happy Summer!