From left, Dianne Mann walks past as Nina Low and Ethan Wills give their shoeboxes to Pauline Courchesne. Pauline co-ordinates the Holiday Shoe Box Project to benefit Jubilee After School Arts Program
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Coraline played “Cello Sonata,” the Introit, on December 15, 2024.
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Deb and Dave Bonneau bag cookies as part of the Bagged Lunch Brigade on December 14, 2024.
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Music Director Matt Johnsen led a Christmas Carol Sing-Along on Wednesday evening, December 11, 2024.
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The Offertory song on Dec. 15, 2024 was “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer,” sung by, from left, Dianne Mann, Dawn Doud and Cheryl Leshay.
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The Book Group met on December 11, 2024 to discuss Kristin Hannah’s “The Women,” a novel about a young nurse following her brother to war in Vietnam in 1965.Continue reading →
The Annual Holiday Lunch with the Minister on December 4, 2024 drew a great crowd!
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Dianne Mann, left, and Mary Paradiso, center, wait for their soup to be served up by Kristen Payson on Soup Sunday, December 8, 2024. The offerings were Turkey, Cheese Tortellini and Butternut Squash.
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UUCW’s own Educator/Author/Public Speaker Wendy O’Leary held a Book Reading and Book Signing at Tidepool Bookshop on December 8, 2024. It’s OK – Being Kind to Yourself When Things Feel Hard is a children’s book which teaches little ones how to be kind to themselves during challenging times!
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The Holiday Craft and Vendors Fair on Dec. 7, 2024 provided a perfect opportunity for Vickie Cox-Lanyon to socialize her NEADS (New England Assistance Dog Services) puppy Annie. Annie moves on in a week to her final training – essentially another year where she will live on the NEADS campus and be trained to do her “job” (mobility or hearing assistance; Autism or PTSD support). For now, Annie needs to be exposed to lots of different people and situations so she’s comfortable in whatever places her person needs her to go. Annie is the second puppy Vickie has raised through NEADS World Class Service Dogs. Annie is almost a year old and Vickie got her when she was 10 weeks. Go Annie!
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Check out the new altar Holiday decoration set up by Nancy Hancock. Look closely – it’s got something special attached. The special attachment is a beautiful dragonfly, affixed by Carole Howe and Leo DaSilva, in honor of the Garden On team!Continue reading →
Beckley and Dave Schowalter bring up the Offertory plates. All photos taken during the service on December 1, 2024.
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Dawn Doud, who is in charge of Online Hospitality along with the Rev. Cheryl Leshay, conveys information from the online community.
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Linda Morse delivers the Welcome.
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The Rev. Aaron Payson holds two bowls filled with marshmallows and double stuff Oreos. He passed them around, asking the congregation to eat them with joyful presence.Continue reading →
Change for Change collection on November 24, 2024. Top, Cieanna collects from Moira Rouse. Bottom, Mason collects from Carole Howe and Melissa McKeon.
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After service on November 24, 2024, Pauline Courchesne signs people up for the 2024 Holiday Shoe Box Project to benefit Jubilee After School Arts Program.Continue reading →
November 17, 2024 was Kindred Conversations Sunday. Attendees split up into five break out groups for part of the service. In the top photo, children and youth make ‘Kindness Cookies’ for Fellowship Hour during the “Religious Exploration” session led by Robin Mitzcavitch. The bottom photo is the “RE Parents/Caregivers” session, led by Jessie Trowbridge and Kate Sweetser.
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Kindred Conversations Sunday continued. In the top photo, Vickie Cox-Lanyon and Cathy McDonough led the “Get to Know You” session. In the bottom photo, Evan Wilson and Beth Posner-Waldron led the “Social Justice” session.
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Vickie Cox-Lanyon holds up an oversized gift card as part of a skit with Ana Gregory, Auction co-chair, right. This was to promote our upcoming 2024 Church Auction, and was part of the Welcome on November 17, 2024.
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The choir, plus those who joined Matt Johnsen’s Music breakout session today, sing the Closing Hymn “Siyahamba” on November 17, 2024.Continue reading →
The choir joined hands on the final verse of “Comfort Me,” the Opening Hymn on November 10, 2024.
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Karen Stephenson joined Vickie Cox-Lanyon in passing the Collection Plate on November 10, 2024.
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Ana Gregory announces that the children packed 37 bags of Thanksgiving fixins’ on the morning of November 10, 2024. This is our annual tradition of filling Thanksgiving “Fixing” Bags for our food pantry clients.
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The Women’s Social Circle gathered at UUCW on November 9, 2024.
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The Rev. Aaron Payson delivers the Reflection “Our Service Continues” on November 10, 2024.
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UUCW has a long history of documenting services via photos and/or video. But if you’re just not feeling up to being in a photo or a video, we now have a specific pew designed for this purpose. Look for the sign designating the last pew on the left as the Video/Photo Free Zone. Please leave this pew free for those who wish to avoid being in photos or video.Continue reading →
November 3, 2024 was the final day of the ‘Love is Love’ banner relocation project. Here, at left, Jose Bezerra DaSilva gestures as his son Leo DaSilva affixes the banner to the new galvanized steel frame, in a location closer to the intersection.
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November 3, 2024 was New Member Sunday. From left, the Rev. Aaron Payson looks on as Danielle Rynczak prepares to sign the Membership Book, while Molly Cardoza, CC Cardoza, Drew Wilkin and Wesley Marshall await their turn.Continue reading →
Ken Basye stands beside the new Get Out The Vote banner during Fellowship Hour on October 27, 2024. Ken was the benefactor who generously donated the money to purchase the sign. Beth Posner-Waldron makes the sign of thanks towards Ken. Susan Crossley, another GOTV team member, is at left.
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Buzz Lightyear, also known as Desi, goes Trick or Treating for UNICEF during the service on October 27, 2024.
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With Halloween just around the corner, the children weren’t the only ones who dressed up for service on October 27, 2024. Top photo, from left, Kate Sweetser and Dawn Doud. Bottom photo, from left, Kim Napoleone, Jessie Trowbridge and Emily Stolarski.
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Jessie Trowbridge took home 8 Monarch caterpillars from UUCW’s native plant gardens. She raised them in the indoor mesh habitat seen at far left. On October 27, 2024 three of the butterflies which had emerged this past week were released to begin their journey to Mexico. Top photo, Jessie holds one of the caterpillars. Jessie and some Religious Exploration children tagged the butterflies before they were released. Bottom photo, Flora, dressed as author Laura Ingalls Wilder, gets a butterfly out from the mesh habitat, then gets ready to release it. Standing beside her, and dressed as Buzz Lightyear, is Desi.
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UUCW’s newest musical ministry, the Bell Choir, practiced on Monday, October 21, 2024. Top photo, from left, Cris Heffernan, Nancy Baffa, Meredith Newman and Fran Jewers-Langille. Bottom photo, Director Kathleen Nagy conducts the rehearsal.Continue reading →
Moira Rouse, of the Wolfson Lecture Task Force, presented Rev. Dr. David Breeden with the Wolfson Award during the October 20, 2024 service. (photos by Betty Jenewin)
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The October 20, 2024 service was the Dr. Irving & Annabel Wolfson Memorial Lecture. Here, members of the Wolfson Lecture Task Force participate in the service. Top, Pauline Courchesne delivers the Reading “Excerpt from Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman. Bottom, Linda Miller gives the Welcome and Introduction.
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Beckley Schowalter lights the table candles in preparation for the October 19, 2024 Autumn Potluck Dinner.
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A full table of delicacies awaited those attending the Autumn Potluck Dinner.
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One of the tables of people at the Autumn Potluck Dinner.
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Another one of the tables of people at the Autumn Potluck Dinner.Continue reading →
Emily Konstan, left, practices with Betty Machete and the Jumping Fleas, a Women’s Ukulele Club that meets at UUCW every other Monday. Photo taken on October 7, 2024. (photos by Betty Jenewin)
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Music Director Matt Johnsen plays and sings his own composition, “At-one-ment,” the Musical Meditation during the service on October 13, 2024.
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Vané, Manager for Community Based Intervention Services at the YWCA, speaks about the 50/50 collection on Oct. 13, 2024. The collection benefited the YWCA Domestic Violence Services.Continue reading →
