This Week In and Around the Meeting House

This Week In and Around the Meeting House January 28 - February 3, 2019

This Week In and Around the Meeting House

January 28 - February 3, 2019

This past Monday, January 22, many of us went to the Summer Street Church at 6 pm for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. service supported by the Interfaith Council and African Meeting House. Rev. Linda, as part of the Interfaith Council, put together and organized the program. Everything else was pure magic. Charity Grace Mofsen read a stirring and fierce rendition of MLKs Letter from Birmingham Prison. Kimal McCarthy, Associate Director of the African Meeting House, wondered what would change if MLKs words were part of everyday life, part of what characters in TV commercials say to one another, part of our daily lexicon. The New Life Ministry dancers did a moving dance performance full of grace, anger and love.

The event ended with song and yelling out of hallelujahs and amens. For just a moment, it felt like we were one people, not divided by race, belief or history but united by these very things in our recognition and understanding of interconnection and praise of difference.

America is not a melting pot where people go in one way and come out all the same. We are a country and island of diversity where each expression of difference must be valued, learned, welcomed in order for us to be who we are: many, brilliant, multiple.

May this Monday find you able to accept the difference that lives within and celebrate the difference that makes this country strong.

View the Order of Service for the even here

Are you doing something that reflects one of our Seven Principles? Send us a photo for a chance to be featured in our Monday E-Blast!

Click here to hear last week's sermon "The Untethered Soul" by Rev. Linda Simmons

Calendar of Events
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Wednesday, January 30
Faro de Luz, 5:30 pm, Hendrix Hall

Thursday, January 24
Food Rescue Meeting, 11 am, Activities Room
Choir Practice, 5:15 pm, Hendrix Hall

Saturday, January 26
Crafting Group, 10 am, Lora Stewart's House
Memorial Service, 11 am, Hendrix Hall
Faro de Luz, 5:30 pm, Hendrix Hall

Sunday, January 27
Sunday Service & Coffee Hour, 10:45 am, Hendrix Hall
Drumming Circle, 1:30 pm, Activities Room
Faro de Luz, 3:30 pm, Hendrix Hall

This Week's Sermon:

"The Ripple Effect of the Housing Crisis on our Community"
Tucker Holland and Brooke Mohr

Nantucket's shortage of housing that is suitable, stable and affordable to year-rounders presents a multitude of issues for our community which has a ripple effect on us all. Everyone knows someone who has struggled to find or hold onto housing.  The question is: What is the best way to solve this challenge on Nantucket? What is our obligation as community members?

Tucker Holland and Brooke Mohr of Ripple Effect Nantucket will join us to talk about ongoing efforts to address the housing crisis, to answer all your housing-related questions and to tell you how you can get involved.  For a review, please watch the Ripple Effect video

Music with Barbara Elder and the UU Meeting House Choir

Religious Exploration with Leyah Jensen & Sherlly Morocoima

Sunday, February 3rd, 10:45 am, Hendrix Hall

ANNOUNCEMENTS

SouperBowl Party
Everyone’s invited to a pot-luck SouperBowl party at the Stewarts at 61 Madaket Road on Sunday, February 3^rd, starting at 6PM.
Soups will be provided, BYOB and snacks to share.
Equal screen time for football and PuppyBowl, plus plenty of socializing.
Questions? Contact Lora at
978-729-4026 or Lora@PLPDD.com.

UU and Friends Crafting Group

Saturdays 10am - 12 pm

The craft group has met their scarf knitting goal for the Children’s Village orphanage. Thank you to everyone who participated. This Saturday they will be meeting at Lora Stewart's.

Contact Kat Robinson Grieder at 508-332-0818 or tuckernuckat@gmail.com with questions.

The next meeting of the Drumming Group will be Sunday, February 3rd from 1:30 - 3 in the Activities Room

On Saturday, February 2nd there will be a memorial Service for Marcia Wasserman at 11 am in Hendrix Hall

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

— Maya Angelou

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