2012-13 Special Sundays and Celebrations
Sunday morning worship services are at 11 a.m. each week, and Rev. Bruce Southworth is the Sunday preacher unless a guest is noted. Throughout the year, we have the following special celebrations or themes.
SEPTEMBER 2012
9 – Homecoming
16 – High Holy Day Sunday
23 – Pipe Organ Rededication
30 – Dr. Dan McKanan, Emerson Professorship, Harvard Divinity School
Activities Fair during Fellowship Hour
OCTOBER 2012
21 – UN Sunday - "The United Nations in the Twenty-First Century: Can It Work?"
John Washburn, Community Member and former State Department and
UN Secretariat officer.
NOVEMBER 2012
11 – Divali Sunday Hinduism’s Festival of Lights
18 – Thanksgiving Intergenerational Service
DECEMBER 2012
2 – Holiday Crafts Fair (12:15 p.m. to 3 p.m.)
9 – Rev. Dr. Mark Morrison-Reed Hanging the Greens
16 – Holiday Party during Fellowship Hour
24 – 4:30 pm – Christmas Eve Candle-Lighting Service
7:30 pm – Handel’s “Messiah” Concert Service
30 – Kwanzaa
JANUARY 2013
20 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday
FEBRUARY 2013
10 – Guest Black History Month - Bertha Lewis
24 – Guest Black History Month - Dr. Kimberly Blockett
MARCH 2013
10 – Harriet Tubman Cantata – Gerald A. Brown, Choir, & Rev. Bruce Southworth
17 – Women’s Sunday – Community Women
29 – Tenebrae
30 – Seder 4:30 p.m. (advance reservations required)
31 – Easter - and New Member Welcome
APRIL 2013
MAY 2013
5 - Action for Justice Sunday
26 – Wesak (Commemorating the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death)
JUNE 2013
9 – Religious Education Sunday and Picnic
Congregational Meetings
September 16 – Bylaws review
November 18 - Quarterly Meeting
January 27 – Annual Meeting
April 7 - Quarterly Meeting
May 19 – Budget Hearing
June 2 - Quarterly Meeting