This year we will commence holding our annual auction in the fall instead of the winter, so get ready to participate in our most important fundraiser in just seven weeks! We’d like to make our event extra-special and fun for everyone. Ideas and suggestions? Please pass them on to Waverly Ford, Waverlyuu@gmail.com, or Jane Hardy, janewhardy@gmail.com. And, be thinking … Continue reading UUCR AUCTION SET FOR SAT, NOV 18!
GREAT NEWS! Our contract with the Reverend Susan Carlson Browning has been signed by all parties. Rev. Browning will officially commence her half-time ministry at UUCR on July 1st and will be delivering her first sermon for us on September 17th. She will be preaching on the first and third Sundays of most months, and plans to hold regular pastoral … Continue reading Contract with new minister!!!
Diane explains, “Unless it is TRULY unbearably hot (or if we have thunderstorms), I plan to lead an exercise of Shinrin-Yoku in UUCR’s Memorial Woodland. I attended a guided “Shinrin-Yoku” recently at Adkins Arboretum, and could feel all of the calming and healing effects for the rest of the day and into the week. So I am … Continue reading August 27, Diane Shields, “Shinrin-Yoku.”
The UUCR Board is pleased to announce the selection of Rev. Sue Browning as our next minister. Sue has been serving the Easton UU congregation for the past four years as half-time minister, and she is excited to expand her Eastern Shore ministry to now include Chester River. This opportunity gives us not only a … Continue reading BOARD SELECTS NEW MINISTER
YARD SALE DATE SET: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 With your help, this will be another fun and successful event. NOW: Get out a box and start filling with your gently used items. If each of us added one item a day of our “no longer needed stuff,” a good collection it would be! WHAT SELLS? Tools, furniture, … Continue reading YARD SALE DATE SET: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
Please post your name on the SUMMER SESSIONS SIGN-UP sheet on the white bulletin board. Please write in your name for a selected date even if you have not decided on the discussion/title. These very informal lay-led summer sessions in the past filled up causing disappointment for some members and friends. Make haste to sign … Continue reading June 4th, 10 a.m Our informal Summer Sunday Discussions Begin
There will be no potluck dinner for May, as no one was able to volunteer this month. However, Diane Shields and Kevin Brien will be our hosts for June and Alice and Bill Lindsay our hosts for July. Thanks, all you hosts and hostesses out there! Our potlucks are always grand.
Building Bridges is a program started last year after the workshop that was held in Chestertown about racism (I can’t remember the exact name of it, but I can probably find out). Some members of the Mount Olive AME church and the Unitarian Universalists of the Chester River attended that workshop, and wanted to do … Continue reading Trip to Museum of African American History
