A Special Guest Joins Us at 10:45AM Sunday
This Sunday, we continue our monthly theme, “Where Do We Come From?” with a very special guest: The Rev. Nihal Attanayake, the Director of the Faith in Action Department for the UU Church of the Philippines, and member of the Executive Committee of the International Council of Unitarian and Universalists. Rev. Attanayake will tell the story of how Universalism was born in the Philippines, and invite us to contribute to the building of the Quimada Dormitory, the church’s economic justice project. Rev. Rosemary will join us as worship associate, and a special collection for the dormitory project will follow the sermon. Our 5 pm Soulful Sundown will feature our popular Jazz Vespers service. We look forward to seeing you Sunday!
“The Guys on the Wall”
The Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt
What a busy Sunday this is! We’re celebrating not only the new members who are joining us today, but the members and ministers of days gone by, and thinking ahead to the future of our ministries. At worship, we’ll be talking about some of the people who helped to create Fourth U. They live with us in tangible ways; in fact, you walk by memorials to them every day you’re here. The bronze plaques we look at without seeing include names of people foundational to our faith. Do you know Edwin and Thomas, Charles and Frank, John and Julia? We’ll introduce you to them, to their work and their witness—and we’ll welcome our newest members too. Our worship begins at 10:45 am.
Later, after you’ve had coffee and cake, join our church leaders for our next Mission Statement Workshop at 12:15 pm. Many of you have written and posted your dreams for our congregation on the mission statement boards. This afternoon, we’ll be refining those dreams into the first draft of mission and vision statements that will guide us in the months and years ahead. Finally, our Soulful Sundown worship ends the day at 5 pm with a hymn sing conducted by our UU seminarians. We look forward to seeing you Sunday!
Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt
Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt
