Our Vision:
We aspire to be a beacon of
liberal religion, strong community,
and transformative service,
rooted in Love.
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FP Timeline Creation:
Sunday, March 10, 12:00 to 1:30 in the Sloop Room
I hope you will join the Transitions Team and me as we line the Sloop Room with newsprint so that you will be able to fill in important moments in the centuries of history and the years/months of your history here at FP.
Some questions to consider: When did you start attending? Who were the ministers, including the interim ministers, and what were terms of service? When did you sign the membership book? How about church staff? When were any congregational moves made, buildings burnt, and/or built? What were the membership numbers, using five-year increments, going back forty years? What were the annual budgets in those years? How did the endowment rise — or fall? And more!
See you on the 10th!
Peace,
Erin
Erin, Interim Minister
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CANVASS AND CAKE!!!!
Come to church this Sunday, March 3, and celebrate our season of renewal as we explore the promise of the future!
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Transitional Committee
Introducing the Transitional team:
"Everything You Wanted To Know About Transitional Ministry But Were Afraid To Look Up in the UU Handbook"
We all have questions about how the ministerial search process is going to roll out, and how this all works, but because every church's community is unique, there is no easy answer. (Since when do UUs have easy answers?!) We are a new team in service, formally "The Committee on Transitional Ministry", to help field information and concerns. Seek out any one of us as we strive to keep information and feedback flowing between church members and our Interim Minister and the Parish Committee — we are capable of both broadcasting information out as well as providing a quiet confidential ear for your concerns.
Please join us in a family-friendly Timeline activity for the March 10, 2024, Timeline Service that will help us visualize where we've been and where we're going.
Conor , Kate, Mark, and Claire
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Anti-Racist Working Group
You are invited you all to take part in an experiential eight-part conversation series on Sundays after Coffee Hour during March, April, and May that will explore our own biases and the role we play in a white supremacy culture.
Conor
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A Month of Sunday's
In March 2024
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Canvass Sunday
Rev. Erin
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Music Sunday
Sunday, March 17, 2024
St.Patrick's Day Parade
(no service)
Sunday, March 24, 2024
This I Believe
Fenella and Rev. Erin
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Easter
Rev. Erin
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Notes from the Music Director
Thank you to Christina and Ted leading music on February 25th.
Our choral anthems this month go with our theme of Belonging.
March 3rd- More than Welcome Here by Bryan Sirchio and Richard Colligan
March 10th- Music Sunday! Cathy will sing Rescue by Lauren Daigle. The choir will sing You Are Loved by Jason Shelton.
March 17th- No service.
March 25th - Take Up the Song by Carole Etzler and
Brenda Chambers
March 31st - Easter Sunday- The choir will sing Jazz Alleluia by Thomas Benjamin.
We’ll have an “instant choir” for Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah by George F. Handel.
See you in Church,
Beth
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Happenings for the Month of March
at First Parish
Game Night
Friday, March 1, at 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at the church.
Canvass and Cake (Service and Coffee Hour)
Sunday, March 3rd, 10:30 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. at the church.
Daytime Fididdlers Crafting Group - Wednesday, March 6, at 10:00 a.m. at the church.
Nighttime Fididdlers Crafting Group - Wednesday, March 6, 7:00 p.m. at Mary Ann's house
Parish Committee Meeting
Thursday, March 7, 7:00 p.m. at the church.
FP Timeline and Transitional
Committee
Sunday, March 10, at 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. at the church.
Finance Committee
Tuesday, March 12, at 7:00 p.m. at the church.
Daytime Fididdlers Crafting Group - Wednesday, March 13, at 10:00 a.m. at the church.
Nighttime Fididdlers Crafting Group - Wednesday, March 13, 7:00 p.m. at Eileen's house
Erdman
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. at the church.
Religious Education Committee Meeting (Zoom)
Erdman
Friday, March 15, 2024, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. at the church
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Book Reading-
Who Is Jo March?
Friday, March 15, 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. at the church.
Blue Boat CoffeeHouse
Saturday, March 16,
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the church.
No Service
Sunday, March 17, 2024 Due to
St.Patrick's Parade
Daytime Fididdlers Crafting Group - Wednesday, March 20, at 10:00 a.m. at the church.
Nighttime Fididdlers Crafting Group - Wednesday,
March 20, 7:00 p.m. at Mary Ann's house
Social Justice Committee
Over Zoom. Thursday, March 21, 2024, at 7:00 p.m.
Anti-Racist Working Group
Sunday, March 24, 2024
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. at the churh
Daytime Fididdlers Crafting Group - Wednesday, March 27, at 10:00 a.m. at the church.
Nighttime Fididdlers Crafting Group - Wednesday, March 27, 7:00 p.m.at Eileen's house
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Social Justice News and Denominational Affairs
March Special Collection
On the first Sunday of March, 3/3, the donations to the plate will benefit The UU Urban Ministry (UUUM). Located in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, their mission is to work across race and place to dismantle racism and white supremacy culture and to advance racial, economic, & social justice. Their work focuses on these areas: Safer Shelter and Workforce Development Programming; Academic Development; Arts and Humanities Programming. Donations also can be made online at any time during the month of March either:
Via the First Parish website under the One Time Gifts option and specifying “UUUM” in the notations box.
Through the UUUM website.
Special Collection Totals
These are the totals collected for the social justice causes for the last 4 months:
December - Scituate Food Pantry $425
January - NeighborWorks Housing Solutions $254
February- Black Lives Unitarian Universalist (BLUU) $262
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International Transgender Day of Visibility Sunday March 31
This day marks a time to celebrate trans and non-binary people, and to raise awareness of the discrimination faced by the community worldwide. It also provides an opportunity for trans and non-binary people to feel seen through positive and realistic representation and for allies to learn more about how they can stand in solidarity.
The FPUU Social Justice Committee will host Coffee Hour on Mar. 31 to observe Trans Visibility Day and will provide positive messages, resources, and suggestions for ways to support transgender and non-binary people. One such way to show support is to attend the Salem Arts Association exhibit below, “This is Trans.”
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This is Trans: A Photography Journey of Awareness and Love - The Salem Arts Association presents a photography exhibition by Mx. NV Gay March 2 through April 6. A reception with the artist is scheduled for March 23, 6-8 pm. Salem Arts Association is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 12:00 – 6:00 p.m. If you are an individual who is trans-identified, you can be part of a free portrait session with the artist/photographer Mx. NV Gay on March 23 and 24 from 11 am - 5 pm. You will receive a free portrait and be included in the ongoing "This is Trans" exhibit across the country.
For more information see the Salem Arts Assoc website.
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Register for UUMass Action Virtual Advocacy Day!
When: Tuesday March 26 from 10AM-4:30PM
Where: On zoom!
Join UU Mass Action for the annual Virtual UU Advocacy Day to live out our values and support the campaigns by taking action together! Participants will meet with legislators about five key campaign issues, all of which are grounded in furthering racial justice in MA. As we near the end of the 2023-34 legislative session, this will be a critical moment to show up together as UUs, grounded in our faith, and let our legislators know which bills - out of the thousands that are filed - we care the most about.
Check out some of the new programming for this day! You can see the status of bills that are the focus of UUMass Action’s advocacy efforts..
Other UUMass Action campaigns and meetings and actions in March:
UUMass Action Gathering for a Ceasefire
UU Mass Action is trying to facilitate a space to come together as congregations, congregants, and community to take action for a ceasefire in Gaza. If interested please email Rev. Jo and if there is enough interest they will schedule a meeting in March. They hope to host a space for break-out groups, sharing a congregational resource being created by a group of ministers, and to have space to be together, collaborate, and act.
March UU Immigration Justice Team - Online Tuesday, March 12, 12-1pm. RSVP
March Climate Justice Team - Online March 20, 5-6pm. RSVP
UU the Vote 2024 launch - Thursday, March 14th,
Ellen, Social Justice and Denominational Affairs Committee Chair
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Game Night Friday, March 1st, 2024,
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
On Friday, March 1st, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., there will be a Game Night at the church. Game Night is hosted by Conor. Come enjoy the night and bring a game or two that you like or a deck of cards.
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Book Launching Party
You are invited to a launch party/book reading of a new novel Who Is Jo March? taking place in the Sloop Room on Friday, March 15. In this metafiction, Lin imagines what might have happened if Jo, the heroine of Little Women, had acted on a wish she often expressed in Louisa May Alcott's book--to be a boy. What if she and Laurie had run away to Civil War-time Washington D.C. to visit Jo's ailing father, and stayed and stayed to earn their living as actors? While there "Joe" interacts with historical figures ranging from President Abraham Lincoln to John Wilkes Booth, and rewrites her relationship with her family and her best friend Laurie.
The event will start at 6:30 Friday evening with a light supper. At 7:00 we'll segue to a brief talk on Who Is Jo March?, and passages from the book read by Lin and Jonny. If you'd like to read the book ahead of time you can order it from Amazon through Lin's website. Signed paperback copies will be available at the event, with profits to go to the church.
Lin
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Blue Boat Coffeehouse
All hands on deck for the Blue Boat Coffeehouse!
March 16, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Open to the public
Announcing our 4th annual sober-St-Paddy's Day event to benefit South Shore Peer Recovery—and our 15th overall Blue Boat! We have not held the coffeehouse since Covid. Please invite your musician friends (of any age) to get on the set list, and invite your music-loving friends to attend, and shamelessly solicit brownies and cookies! This is an incredibly fun family-friendly event, open to the community. Donations are suggested on entry, refreshments are for sale, and proceeds always go to a local non-profit.
This is not open-mic. Musicians, please contact Ken, or to volunteer please contact Kate.
Kate
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Fididdlers
Fididdlers meet every Wednesday, 10-12 pm at the church and Wednesday evenings from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. pm. All are welcome to attend one or both Wednesday events. No experience necessary. Come for great conversation and snacks! Please call/text for more information.
Eileen
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Spring Plant Sale
The spring plant sale will be on Saturday, May 11th, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. please mark your calendars. If you grow vegetable plants by seed, please consider doubling your tomato, cucumber, and pepper seeds to give to the plant sale. Also, as the weather warms up and you are out and about in your gardens, please look for perennial gardens that can be divided for the sale.
Eileen
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Members and Friends Directory
Our Directory is regularly updated. Please check to make sure your entry is up to date. Notify the Administrator if changes need to be made.
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March Monthly Calendar 2024
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