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First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton

March 10, 2024

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Surrender and Change

Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 10:15am

Rev. Parisa Parsa

We often think of change as something we are responsible for initiating, controlling, and completing. Attending to transformation, however, requires an interesting relationship between active work and letting go. How can practices of surrender help us arrive at the transformation we seek?

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Events This Sunday

Religious Exploration

Pre-K-4th Grade: The Lord's Prayer

5th-8th grade: FUUSN members share their spiritual journeys

4pm: 4th-6th Grade Owl

By-Laws Committee Meetings on Proposed Amendments

March 10, 11:30am in person, March 12, 7pm on Zoom

Join the By-Laws Committee to learn about proposed By-Laws amendments to be voted on at the 2024 Annual Meeting. These amendments relate to term limits for officers not already subject to term limits as well as updating the use of pronouns. These meetings are unrelated to the UUA Bylaws presentation on March 7th.

A Zoom link for the March 12th meeting will be sent out on the Business List a few days before.

Racial Justice and Reparations Task Force presents:

Carl W. McCargo, M.S.

Sunday, March 10, 11:30am

Alliance Room and Zoom

Carl has been a UU member in Springfield, MA for 38 years and is a long-time member of the Unitarian Universalist for A Just Economic Community (UUJEC). Carl’s UUJEC “Task Group for Reparations” in 2022 wrote “Anti-Racism and Reparations via Restorative Justice.” His task group has developed a six-part curriculum entitled “Next Steps Into Anti-racism and Reparations.”

He will speak on society’s “isms,” such as, racism, sexism, classism. He will describe perspectives that speaks to the legitimacy and need for reparation and voices that address how we can change that consciousness that created and gave rise to our chattel enslavement history. Finally, he will describe his 6-part workshop which will provide strategies for beginning the healing from that past legacy of crimes against humanity.

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In Memoriam: Florence May Walker

We extend our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Florence May Walker, who passed away January 26, 2024 at the age of 84. Florence held her wedding reception at FUUSN on Oct. 26, 1974, and she began attending FUUSN services with her daughter, Andrea Walker, in 1977. Read her full obituary here.

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FUUSN Contacts

Rev. Parisa Parsa, Interim Minister
Fran Clancy, Office Administrator
Devin Shmueli, Director of Family and Community Ministries
Anne Watson Born, Director of Music Ministry
Jenise Aminoff, Communications and Technology Coordinator
Lay Minister On Call for March: Cris Goldsmith, 617-340-9299
Care Crew contact, Sheila Ardery, 617-564-1769

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