Tuesday, June 6, 2017

This Week, June 6, 2017

Dear Folks,

May the Spirit of Pentecost still be stirring our souls and setting fire to our faith!

My prayer day is this Thursday, June 8.  If you have a joy or concern you would like me to raise up, please let me know.

This Sunday, June 11, is an exciting Sunday! We will be celebrating Children's and Robert Wilson Sunday and Confirmation. I have been planning very hard to keep this service as close to one hour as possible, but, if it does get later and you do need to be somewhere else, please feel free to leave if needed.  

The 2017 confirmands are:  Sam  Bracchi, Samantha Chase, Cathleen Higgins, Spencer Keith, Megan McCarthy, and Jenna Melanson. Congratulations and blessing to these amazing youth!

We will have two special music offerings: for the Prelude, Nancy Williams will be playing a movement from Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata". Nancy is a hearing health advocate who delivers keynotes and workshops on living with and making music despite hearing loss. She has spoken to thousands across the United States, often playing the piano during her appearances. She is also founder and president of Auditory Insight, a strategy and marketing consulting firm to companies solving hearing loss. She has a moderate to severe hearing loss and in 2012 debuted in Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall for a masterclass performance wearing her hearing aids.

Our Postlude will feature our own Aaron Corcino!  

The scripture for Sunday is Matthew 28:16-20. The sermon is "Confirming our Faith".

Following worship, please be sure to join us in Fellowship for a cake honoring our confirmands and ice cream provided by Gertrude Wilson celebrating Robert Wilson Sunday and Dairy Month!

Sunday, June 18 is Graduate Sunday. If you or your child has graduated from an institution of learning, please let Karen Boroski, the office manager, know so we can include their names in the bulletin and Belfry.

Let us pray. O God, be with the people of Orlando, of Kabul, of London, of anywhere that violence rears its ugly head. Help us, O God, not to react with hate and violence ourselves, by rather to work how and where we can for peace, justice, and equality.  Amen.

In Christ's love,
Rev. Lucille

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