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David
Loar @ The Nervous Dog, Fri 1-4
Taize service, Fri 6 pm
Williard Food Pantry, Sat 10-12
Sun 9:30 am worship service
Luke 18:9-14
Outsiders In
Core@4. Sun 4 pm
Williard Food Pantry, Tues 9-12
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Grace and peace,
A variety of things are happening
related to Fairlawn West. To copy a
phrase from AA, "take what you can use
and leave the rest."
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Visit to Eco-Friendly Church Bldg Sun
Wooster Unitarian Universalists will host us
for a tour of their bldg
This Sunday, June 24 following the 9:30 am
service a group of us from Fairlawn West
will travel to Wooster to visit the
environmentally friendly building of the
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Wayne
County. In the fall of 2006, they received
the LEED gold certification from the
Green Building
Council, the first of its
kind for a place of worship in the U.S. You
can visit their web site at
http://www.uufwc.org/leed.htm.
Feel free to join us right after the service
for the trip and tour. A team is developing
to look at how we as a congregation can make
our bldg fit more into our values and vision
in being more economically efficient and
eco-friendly.
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50th anniv of UCC and national
gathering this week
50th Anniversary General Synod meets in
Hartford, Conn.
50 years
ago at Oberlin College the vote was taken
and the merger of the Evangelical & Reformed
Church and the Congregational Christian
Churches formed the United Church of
Christ. General Synod is the national
representative gathering every two years for
the UCC. It will begin on June 22nd in
Hartford, CT. To learn more visit
http://www.ucc.org/50
and
http://www.ucc.org/synod/.
You can also get some commentary by David
Loar through his blog links in the left hand
column.
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New/Old
Worship Service to start in Aug
For 7 years we have had the Taize
service of meditation and prayer in song
on Friday evenings in the parlor. The
Taize service has a historic purpose
which you can learn more about at
http://www.elca.org/worship/faq/music/taize.html.
The last Taize service on Fridays will
be held on July 20th. Starting on
Sunday, August 5th at 11:00 am we will
begin a Taize style service with
communion in the sanctuary. The music
will be from Taize and
Iona
as
well as songs from our hymnal which will
have some more traditional hymnody and
some contemporary. We hope to develop a
four part quartet to sing the background
on the Taize music as well as some
musicians using oboe, flute, violin
and/or guitar. There will be the
reading of scripture and time of silent
meditation. The service will last
around 45 minutes.
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Personal
News
Linda Seibert is moving to
Huntersville, NC near Charlotte on July 13th
to be near her daughter's family (Jennifer
Miller).
Our thoughts and prayers are with Jim
Fisher, Marilyn Hodge and Teryl Gregor as
they each are receiving medical treatments.
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Fairlawn West UCC
2095 West Market Street, Akron, OH 44313
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