ends and beginnings...

* print and color as you wish! *

 

Note: This Sunday, January 1st, 2012 

there is no Formal CRE, but feel free to enjoy the pipe cleaners, games and music and Rebecca's Sermon!

Also, super important note! And Very Exciting!!!
We are going to be building a city together!

We need:

legos, 

boxes of all sizes, 

Christmas lights, 

mailboxes, 

etc..

A more complete list to come soon and more details about this project!

In the mean time, check out this little town! see below

12.24 in Darkness- Hope

Calling all Polar bears,
Ladybugs, Farmers,
Babies, Owls, birds and more!

 
Come dressed up as one of those animals or bring in a stuffed animal of one if you have one.

We need all of you for a special sharing of 

"On The Night You Were Born"!

Arlington Street Church, Boston MA

5pm - Christmas Eve

The Snow is coming! So in this dark time of the year!

Make a Flake ~> http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/

12.18 Stories, Snows and perhaps some Snow

Stained Glass Window @ the Unitarian Church in Ann Arbor MI

Traditional Polish Paper cutting "Chalice Star" by Laura Evonne Steinman

This Sunday, here's the Sneak Preview!

Stories about Darkness, Birth, War, Bells and Magic!

Songs about Bells, Snow, Peace and more!!!

If you had a story to tell with one of those theme with this Holiday Season what is yours? 

And what would your Song be!

I'd love to hear about it this Sunday morning. 

Come Find me!

Mitten Tree Sunday!

Please bring in Men's 

Gloves, Scarfs and Hats for our 

Friday Night Supper Program Guests!

 Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Teresa

grateful gifts

Grateful Gifts!   

"psychologists say it is often the giver, rather than the recipient, who reaps the biggest psychological gains from a gift"  <- What is that all about? Lets share our thoughts about this on Sunday!

grate·ful/ˈgrātfəl/ Adjective: Feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness; thankful. gift/gift/ Noun: A thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present

We will be making scarfs for those in need as the weather becomes colder. They will be  hung on our mitten tree next Sunday ( Dec 11th) and then given to the:
Friday Night Supper Program Guests @ ASC!

As we express our gratitude, 

we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, 

 but to live by them.   ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

(lets think about this as well..., what do you live by this Holiday Season?, 

how do you express your gratitude? )

Mad Thankfulness

Example:

This Sunday at ____________(place), I shared my __________(noun) about my  ______(size)

Thanksgiving ___________(noun) and it was ____________( adjective)  and __________ (adjective).

  What a better was to spend the Sunday after Thanksgiving then writing and sharing our silly stories about Thanksgiving!

 Norman Rockwell's Cousin Reginald Catches the Thanksgiving Turkey (1917) Copyright © 1917 The Country Gentleman and Curtis Publishing Company

weaving together

Weaving our :

thoughts, wishes, differences;

all together!

Rebecca Froom our Intern Minister @ Arlington Street Church

will be sharing her time and thoughts with us about WEAVING! -

weaving as part of our Principles!

Come join in, as we hear with our hearts, 

and weave with paper and yarn and fabric with our whole bodies. 

We'll be weaving placemates this time for the ones,

we will be sharing our Thanksgiving Feast with.

Take to spinning to find peace of mind. The music of the wheel will be as balm to our soul. I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life. The charkha (spinning wheel) is the symbol for nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based." - Mahatma Gandhi