Sunday Service

May 7 , 2023

10:30 A.M.

Join us in the sanctuary or via Zoom

Creativity Workshop

George Bernard Shaw said, "You use a glass mirror to see your face. You use works of art to see your soul." Come and celebrate the creative arts at this hands-on workshop. Write haiku, arrange flowers, collage, or paint "message rocks". Answer that creative impulse! Those of us joining the service remotely can use the time to write or work on a creative project at home. 

Sunday Service

 May 14, 2023

10:30 A.M.

Join us in the sanctuary or via Zoom

"The Art of Mothering"

Rev. Carol Strecker Speaking

Mothering is an art that transcends gender and genetics. This morning we’ll celebrate mothers and mothering; all the ways we nurture and are nurtured by others throughout our lives.

To attend the Sunday service via Zoom,

please go to the Northshore Church website nsuu.org

& click on "Join Service."

Please mark your calendars

with these important dates !

Sunday, May 21

11:45 A.M. until 1:00 P.M.

Annual Meeting of NSUU

(A quorum is required to approve all actions)

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Sunday, June 4

11:45 A.M. until 1:30 P.M.

Celebration in honor of Rev. Carol Strecker

Catered Barbeque

Musical Entertainment

&

Contra Dancing with "Ragtime Jack"

He’s "Ragtime Jack" Radcliffe, and you don’t want to miss him when he comes to town.

Now a resident of Massachusetts, with roots in Virginia and Tennessee, Jack, brings his piano, guitar, fiddle, voice, wit and wisdom with him wherever he goes.

Jack has been performing for more than 40 years. He was a fixture on the coffeehouse circuit in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. His band 'The New Viper Revue' pushed the genre envelopes of blues, folk, country, rock 'n' roll and jazz from 1972 -1976. Jack resumed his solo career in 1977, then teamed up with reed player Al Oliveira in 1983, as half of “The World’s Smallest Big Jazz Band.”

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Social Action

MAY 21^ST FOOD DRIVE

As you make your way to the church annual meeting, we ask that you bring items to donate to a FOOD DRIVE for the Danvers People-to-People Food Pantry. We will be collecting food items in our fellowship hall. Items needed include: paper products (paper towels, napkins, toilet paper), brand name cereals, crackers, peanut butter, pasta, jarred sauce, soups, school lunch snacks. Monetary donations may be made in the form of a check made out to Danvers People-to-People Food Pantry.

OPERATION TROOP SUPPORT

A basket in fellowship hall awaits donations of items for troops such as personal care products, snacks, cards, gum, tuna fish, work socks, games, books, package soup, peanut butter, mac/cheese, Chef Boyardee.

TRANS INCLUSION VIDEO SERIES

Our video series has concluded but our work has not. We had a great turn-out and many enthusiastic discussions and ideas emerged as to how we can all make our already Welcoming Church even more welcoming. We look forward to having more discussions and participation as we continue our Welcoming Renewal Program.

Refugee Update

Our friends from the Congo are so appreciative of the generosity you have shown them over the years since their arrival in the U.S. They are all doing well. Isaac, the dad, now has his license, a car, and a regular job. The three boys who came here as teenagers have graduated from high school, one is now working and two are in college. Antoinette's older children are doing well in elementary and junior high school.

Recently Gunilla Eriksson-Lopez and I brought Antoinette donations of gently used women's clothing. She and her two older daughters were thrilled with their new outfits, however Antoinette mentioned that she still needed clothing for her sons and three-year-old daughter. If you have any gently used clothing you would like to donate, their sizes are:

•      Precious (male) - shoes men's 9.5, clothes men's 14 or 16, medium or large

•      Garry – shoes boys 4, clothes 12

•      Tim – shoes boys 2, clothes 8

•      Bella – shoes toddler 10, clothes 5T

Antoinette told me she had gone to a thrift shop in Gloucester and found tee shirts selling for $17, which of course she could not afford. Gunilla has volunteered to drive her to Savers where she can find reasonably priced clothing, and Antoinette gratefully accepted the offer. The Social Action committee would like to collect some funds for her to use on this shopping trip. If you would like to make a small donation to help this family, please contact Jean Koulack-Young, 978-587-2935 or jeankoulackyoung@gmail.com.