This on-going Adult Enrichment group meets every week on Tuesday evenings for one hour of meditation including a reading. Come, sit, listen, and meditate with us.
This is a monthly worship service our church provides for members and friends residing at the Havenwood-Heritage Heights retirement community and others interested in attending. The service is held in the Chapel on the Havenwood campus.
Are there stories and photos that have guided you in your faith? To honor and celebrate your path and life's mission statement, you can create a Faithbook at any or all of our scrapbooking events. Do you have photos that need to be organized? We share ideas, inspiration, a table filled with photo/paper-cropping tools, idea books, and stories. The most treasured gifts come from our hands and our hearts. You may bring your own supplies or use ours to get started on your project.
Sermon Title: “Charlotte’s Web”
Rev. Olivia Holmes and Kristin Nelson
In this Family Sunday service we will reflect on the lessons for relationship we are taught by our friends in the animal kingdom, aided and abetted by who knows which ones.
Rev. Beth Graham and Rev. Olivia Holmes.
Guest minister, Rev. Graham, has served as UUA's Associate Vice President for Stewardship and Development and has graciously accepted Olivia's invitation to preach.
John Warner will give a sermon entitled: Roses Are Red . . .
"An Intentional Community"
Presented by the Caring Network Committee
Members of this committee will share an exploration through their service to our church community. They will uncover how we care for one another beyond our affinity between people and our sacred shared spaces to create our intentional community. After the service, please join the Caring Network Committee as they host Coffee Hour.
Kristin Nelson and Rev. Olivia Holmes
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Led by Margaret Fletcher
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a powerful program of instruction for dealing directly with life experiences in an open, honest and affirming way. Originally developed at the U-Mass Medical School's Center for Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn, MBSR training provides a proven means for awakening to the full experience of your life, for helping people to reduce discomfort associated with physical and emotional pain, and to improve participants' ability to cope comfortably with stressors and pain that cannot be eliminated. A commitment to 45-60 minutes per day of daily meditation/gentle movement is required in order to make the program successful for participants. Details: Sunday evenings, 6 - 8:30 pm, January 17 through March 14, All-day session Saturday, March 6, 9 am to 4 pm, $25 materials fee. To inquire further or register, contact Margaret Fletcher at 759-4290, mfletcher@well-aware.org. For more information about the benefits of mindfulness, and to see comments from past participants, please visit www.well-aware.org.
Sign up for classes in Fellowship Hall after services January 31 and February 7. If unable to sign up in person, contact the church office at 224-0291 (office@concorduu.org) until Feb. 15. After that, contact the class instructor.
Led by Beck Anamin
Meets Thursdays, weekly
This class practices a broad range of postures to tone, cleanse, and relax, the muscular and nervous systems, while opening all the joints of the spine, hips, shoulders, and limbs. Mindfulness during centering, yogic breathing, postures, and the ending deep relaxation invite the subtle nonphysical benefits of yoga. It is appropriate for a range of students. The approach is sufficiently safe, gentle, and even-paced for new students, while providing experienced students with plenty of opportunity for challenge and development.
Led by Beck Anamin
Meets Thursdays weekly at 8:30 - 9:00 p.m. following Yoga
There are many approaches to and techniques of meditation, all of which share the common base of still-mindedness. Each week this program presents a new technique, a little of the philosophy and science of meditation, and aspects of practice. The presentation/discussion is followed by a 20 minute group meditation period. Students can attend either or both segments. It is planned as a half-hour program, but folks usually like to have a little discussion afterward.
The Communications Committee and a group of energetic voluteers are creating a photo directory of church members this year.
This meeting is for those interested in helping with the photography. If you're a photographer and would like to help, please attend!
Led by Julie Lombard
Bring your flash lights and snow boots (snow shoes are optional) and walk with us on a winter evening. We will enjoy seeing the world in a different light as we explore this well-beaten path by moonlight. This class is open to all ages, but children must be accompanied by an adult.
You are invited to a UU Forum and Speak Out
February 28, 2010, 2:00pm
Second Congregational Society UU
274 Pleasant St., Concord
Panel to include Rev. Mary Higgins, UUA District Executive Director and Barbara Keshan, Chair, New Hampshire Council Against the Death Penalty.
Our Spring Equinox (Ostara) ritual will take place on March 20.
If you have attended at least two of our public rituals, you are welcome to join in the planning for Spring Equinox. Helping to present rituals is a wonderful way to connect and grow spiritually. If you are interested, it's also a means to become a voting members in the Earth-Centered Spirituality Group.
The Greater Concord Interfaith Council will host a series of Lenten luncheons featuring guest speakers at St. John the Evangelist Church Parish Activity Center in Concord.
The luncheons will run from noon to 1 p.m. The cost is $6 per luncheon; proceeds will benefit the Friends of Forgotten Children.
Here's the schedule of speakers:
Feb. 25 - Jennifer Steinhauser of Bow Mills United Methodist Church.
March 4 - The Rev. Kate Atkinson of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
March 11 - Jim Kinhan of South Congregational Church
March 18 - David Lamb of Canterbury United Community Church.
March 25 - Hearshell Vanluven of St. John the Evangelist Church.
For more information, call 225-6993.