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Sunday Service 10:00 am
October 6, 2019
Worship Speaker-Nicaraguan Dance Troupe & Michael Boudreau
Musician-Janice Luce, Greeter-Kathy Ketchum
Title– Meet the Daughters of Corn Dance Troupe
Bio-Compas de Nicaragua is a NH 501c3 non-profit organization that has worked in Nicaragua for over 20 years. Compas supports two projects, Women in Action, a group of 40 women who live and work in an impoverished settlement of Managua, and a farmer’s coop in La Paz. Compas also organizes service learning trips to Nicaragua and dance tours that bring youth from their programs to the US to perform dance and carry out cultural exchange.
Topic– This will be a dynamic service! The dancers will be sharing about their trip to the US, and about what it is like to be a young person in Nicaragua. They will share some dancing and will also teach those in attendance a few dance moves as well. There will even be an opportunity to learn a song from the group!
Worship Speaker-Nicaraguan Dance Troupe & Michael Boudreau
Musician-Janice Luce, Greeter-Kathy Ketchum
Title– Meet the Daughters of Corn Dance Troupe
Bio-Compas de Nicaragua is a NH 501c3 non-profit organization that has worked in Nicaragua for over 20 years. Compas supports two projects, Women in Action, a group of 40 women who live and work in an impoverished settlement of Managua, and a farmer’s coop in La Paz. Compas also organizes service learning trips to Nicaragua and dance tours that bring youth from their programs to the US to perform dance and carry out cultural exchange.
Topic– This will be a dynamic service! The dancers will be sharing about their trip to the US, and about what it is like to be a young person in Nicaragua. They will share some dancing and will also teach those in attendance a few dance moves as well. There will even be an opportunity to learn a song from the group!
October 13, 2019
Worship Speaker– Bob Wilson
Service Associate-Nicole Gratton
Musician– Heather Webster and Chris Nicotera, Greeter-Nancy Engels
Title– Experiences from Cristosal in San Salvador
Worship Speaker– Bob Wilson
Service Associate-Nicole Gratton
Musician– Heather Webster and Chris Nicotera, Greeter-Nancy Engels
Title– Experiences from Cristosal in San Salvador
October 20, 2019
Worship Speaker-Lucy Cannon-Neel
Service Associate-Karen Hennig
Musician– Janice Luce, Greeter-Sheila LaPoint
Title– American Indian Belief and Traditional Practices
Bio-Lucy Cannon-Neel is the former Chair of the Vermont Commission of Native American Affairs. She currently is the Title VI Indian Education Coordinator for the Nulhegan Band of Coosuk Abenaki Nation covering Orleans Central Supervisory Union and North Country Supervisory Union. Lucy lives in Holland, Vermont.
Topic–Both American Indian tribal and Christian religions play an important role in the lives of many American people. What values and cultural practices from the American Indian tribal traditions are imbedded and blended into our modern belief systems?
Worship Speaker-Lucy Cannon-Neel
Service Associate-Karen Hennig
Musician– Janice Luce, Greeter-Sheila LaPoint
Title– American Indian Belief and Traditional Practices
Bio-Lucy Cannon-Neel is the former Chair of the Vermont Commission of Native American Affairs. She currently is the Title VI Indian Education Coordinator for the Nulhegan Band of Coosuk Abenaki Nation covering Orleans Central Supervisory Union and North Country Supervisory Union. Lucy lives in Holland, Vermont.
Topic–Both American Indian tribal and Christian religions play an important role in the lives of many American people. What values and cultural practices from the American Indian tribal traditions are imbedded and blended into our modern belief systems?
October 27, 2019
Worship Speaker-Nancy Bird Pellegrini
Mini Service Associate-Nancy Engels
Musician– Janice Luce, Greeter-Karen Hennig
Title– Sabbath, Bucking the Culture
Bio– Reverend Nancy Bird Pellegrini received her Master of Divinity Degree from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC and was ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister in 2013. She previously had a 20-year career as a military analyst at the CIA. Rev. Pellegrini and her husband recently
moved back to Hanover, NH from Charleston, SC where she was serving as the Chaplain at the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, and the Assistant Minister at the Unitarian Church in Charleston. She is currently pursuing further chaplaincy training at Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center.
Topic–Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel states, “There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.” We will explore how keeping Sabbath is a form of resistance to our culture of busyness and anxious production.
Worship Speaker-Nancy Bird Pellegrini
Mini Service Associate-Nancy Engels
Musician– Janice Luce, Greeter-Karen Hennig
Title– Sabbath, Bucking the Culture
Bio– Reverend Nancy Bird Pellegrini received her Master of Divinity Degree from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC and was ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister in 2013. She previously had a 20-year career as a military analyst at the CIA. Rev. Pellegrini and her husband recently
moved back to Hanover, NH from Charleston, SC where she was serving as the Chaplain at the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, and the Assistant Minister at the Unitarian Church in Charleston. She is currently pursuing further chaplaincy training at Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center.
Topic–Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel states, “There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.” We will explore how keeping Sabbath is a form of resistance to our culture of busyness and anxious production.
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The mission of First Parish is to sustain a safe home for our spiritual growth and to support each other as we put our beliefs and principles into action.
1st Principle: The inherent worth and dignity of every person
