“In summer, the song sings itself.”
~ William Carlos Williams
Throughout the summer, our services will explore new possibilities for meaning in religious language. Our guide will be the book Fluent in Faith: A Unitarian Universalist Embrace of Religious Language. This week's sermon is Love. Remaining sermons in the series include:
Summer Worship Series: Fluent in Faith
July 13: Covenant and Doctrine
July 20: Sacrament and Prayer
July 27: Sanctuary
A Cup of Joe
Get your July cuppa here...
Summer Choir Schedule
There will be no regular choir rehearsal during the month July. There may be 1-2 longer rehearsals/times to get together and sing as people are available.
Looking Ahead - First Friday Potluck
First Friday Potluck has been cancelled for July as it falls on the 4th. Have a great holiday weekend, and we'll see you in August!
Sewing Circle
Please remember that Sewing Circle will meet Monday, July 7th as usual, but that the July 21st meeting is cancelled.
UUFoM Day Camp
The UU Fellowship of Midland is providing their Discovery Day Camp July 28-31, 9 a.m. to noon each day, for children entering grades K-5. The theme this year is "Character Safari!" It will focus on the 6 Pillars of Character from the CHARACTER COUNTS! program and their animal representatives. Download the flyer and registration form. The deadline to register is July 13, and the cost is $15/child. For more information, contact their DRE, Vicki Wiltse, at [email protected].
RE News
The UUFCM is continuing the search for a quarter-time Director of Religious Education. The job description and application instructions are posted on our website (uufcm.org), with a link on the front page under Recent News. **Please share this job search announcement! Find it on our UUFCM Facebook page and share it with your Facebook friends!
Thank You for Your Help!
For the past few weeks, there have been some difficulties in which some people were not receiving emails sent from the [email protected] account. It appears that most of the problem has been solved - at least, there have been no new instances of not receiving the eNews. If you are still getting double emails from UUFCM, please reply to this week's eNews with just the message 'Got It'. If you get two eNews emails, please reply to both. Kirsten has developed a list of those receiving from the UUFCM account, but sends duplicates to everyone else. Thanks again for your help and your patience!
“We are much involved, all of us, with questions about things that matter a good deal today but will be forgotten by this time tomorrow — the immediate wheres and whens and hows that face us daily at home and at work — but at the same time we tend to lose track of the questions about things that matter always, life-and-death questions about meaning, purpose, and value. To lose track of such deep questions as these is to risk losing track of who we really are in our own depths and where we are really going.”
~ Frederick Buechner
More detail about UUFCM activities and shared interest groups is available on our website.
The deadline for submissions to the Order of Service Insert and the UUFCM weekly e-News is Tuesday at 5 p.m. Please send all submissions to [email protected]
UUFCM Board of Trustees for 2014-2015
President: Laura McBride (989.772.5512; [email protected])
President Elect: Annette Pratt (989.400.0173; [email protected])
Past-President: Gisela Moffit (989.772.1602; [email protected])
Treasurer: David Macleod (989.772.0595; [email protected])
Secretary: Vicki Chessin (989.463.3076; [email protected])
Trustee: Scott Daigle (989.506.5750; [email protected])
Trustee: Capalene Howse (989.488.8714; [email protected])
Trustee: Jennifer Prout (989.400.3130; [email protected])