Italian Dinner Party, April 22

The Food Gang of the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches

Invites ALL MEMBER, FRIENDS AND THEIR GUESTS

to our Third Annual Italian Dinner Party

to be held on Saturday April 22, in Ministers Hall, commencing at 6pm.

The hall will be transformed into an Italian Village.

The food, as always with the Food Gang, is prepared by our own Gourmet Chefs and will include:

Appetizers: An array of delectable delights

Main: A complete Buffet! There will be a Pasta Station with a variety of wonderful sauces along with several Italian entrees including: Eggplant Parmigiana, Chicken Cacciatore, Pizza Roll and much more

Desserts: A divine spread, as usual.

Liquids:  Chianti on each table, regular wines, sparkling water, soda, juice, etc., all evening long

Cost: Yes, in addition to this being a delightful gastronomic extravaganza, this is a fundraiser for our Congregation. The cost is $30 per person.

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO:  contact the office to reserve your place and get payment to the office, both no later than Monday April 17.

Lol, Food Gang
        Harry, Karen, Henry, Pat, Diana and Frank

PS:  If you need additional information or clarification contact Frank Smith at:
fjsmithgcny@gmail.com
561-471-2814

Adult Literacy Center Seeks Tutors

1stUUPB grant recipient DePorres Place Adult Literacy Center, conveniently located at 1016 Dixie Highway, 2nd floor, West Palm Beach FL 33401 is seeking volunteer tutors. 

The usual meeting time is twice a week for 1 1/2 hours but I meet with my Haitian man for 2 hours on Monday afternoons, when it fits into my schedule.  With snowbirds leaving, the Literacy Center is seeking new volunteers.

The setting is quite ideal with individual rooms for a tutor and student/s.  There is abundant and safe parking directly across the street from the Center.  The director Judy Ireland and associate director Linda Kramer are lovely people and effective leaders.  Both Marilynn Thomas and I have been recent volunteers there.  If you have questions, I'm happy to answer them.

Shirley Bloomquist, sbloomqu@aol.com, cell: 703 307 3994

LaRose-- Second Saturday Book Group’s Last of the Season

In our last meeting of the 2016-2017 season, our Second Saturday Book Group will discuss Louise Erdrich’s novel LaRose on Saturday, April 8, 10-12+ in the Sanctuary.  The plot of this novel wraps around the lives and families of two five-year-old boys, best friends who live near the boundaries of a Native American Ojibwa reservation in North Dakota.

This year, honoring the centennial of the Pulitzer Prizes, we added to the Pulitzer fiction winners we have read in recent years by reading Marjorie Rawlings's The Yearling - 1939; James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific - 1948; and Viet Nguyen's The Sympathizer - 2016; along with 1991 finalist, Tim O’Brien's The Things They Carried. The Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction are given for Distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.

At our meeting we'll reflect on this criteria and these Pulitzer winners we’ve read, and consider how LaRose -- published to high reviews in May 2016 -- compares with these.  It already has been awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and is a finalist for the 2017 PEN Faulkner Award.  All of the 2017 Pulitzer winners and the finalists will be announced on Monday, April 10— just two days after we meet. Let’s see how we’d rate LaRose next week. Author Louise Erdrich is a notable Native American author, whose Plague of Doves was a Pulitzer finalist in 2009.  You’re welcome to join us!  

Selections for the 2017-2018 season will be announced in late summer.  Contact Dorie Maxwell for further information at doriemaxwell@mac.com or call 561-302-4204.

NewsTalk Topics, April 9

- Trump, tweets, and the media

- second thoughts on "bathroom" legislation

- Rex Tillerson - a different kind of Secretary of State

- outlines of Trump's foreign policy 

- update on the Gorsuch nomination

- what is the Trump-Russia connection?

- debt ceilings and continuing resolutions

UUA General Assembly New Orleans, 21-25 June

Order of Service, April 2

At the sound of the chime, please join in singing Hymn #188 Come, Come, Whoever You Are

Welcome & Announcements

Prelude: 2 Romanian Folk Dances

                               by Bartok

Opening Words

Lighting the Chalice Flame (in unison):

In this small flame dwell: the beacon light of lanterns guiding travelers home;
the warmth of hearth fires tended through the generations; the transforming energy of furnaces and the power and life of our sun. May these blessings -- warmth and light and life-giving energy -- be kindled in each of us.

*Hymn: # 21 For the Beauty of the Earth

Candles of Joy and Sorrow and Meditation  

Reading

Offertory:  The Fools Who Dream by Hurwitz

Affirmation (in unison) Love is the spirit of this congregation and service is its law. This is our great covenant: to dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love and to help one another.

*Hymn: # 123 Spirit of Life

Sermon:    I Pity the Fool

                     Rev. CJ McGregor

*Hymn: # 121 We’ll Build a Land

Extinguishing the Chalice Flame (in unison) We extinguish this flame, but not the light of truth, the warmth of community, or the fire of commitment. These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.

Closing Words

Postlude:  La Cinquantaine 

                          by Gabriel Marie

Gratitude & Applause

Hearing devices, and envelopes for cash pledges are available on the hymnal cart or ask
an usher.

This Week

Today: Nursery is open at 10:15am. Social Hour 11:30am in Ministers Hall. Pagans Coffee Meetup 1pm in Ministers Hall.

Monday: P.E.A.C.E. Nehemiah Action 7pm WPB

Tuesday: Men’s Group 6:30pm Dinner at La Bamba.

Wednesday: Poetry Workshop 6:30pm in Ministers Hall.

Thursday: Teaching Thursday Community Meal 6pm in Ministers Hall.  7pm Program: Bob Ashmore “Our Well Being as We Age” in Ministers Hall.

Friday: Karaoke Party - Benefit for 1^st UUPB 7pm in Ministers Hall.

Saturday: Second Saturday Book Group 10am in the Sanctuary to discuss Louise Erdrich’s novel LaRose,(Last meeting until November.) Dine Around 6:30pm at Pat Knight’s home (reservations only).

Sunday:  News Talk 9:15am in Ministers Hall  

Gratitude

Thank you to all who contribute to our service and fellowship hour each week. This week:

·        Chalice Lighter:

·        Ushers: Vangie Gruen and Nickie Albert

·        Cover Art: Larry Stauber

·        Fellowship Hour Hospitality:  Rev. CJ McGregor and Richard Keelan

Announcements

·        Next Sunday: “Letters to the Minister” led by Rev. CJ McGregor.

·        Rev. CJ McGregor Office Hours: by appointment (Please call 561-627-6106 ahead) Tuesday- Thursday 9:30am-2pm.

·        Food Items collected during the offertory are donated to the Lake Park Food Pantry,

·        Shoes and Toiletry Articles collected are donated to the Haitian Community.

  

Our Staff:

Rev. CJ McGregor, Minister

Claudia Jimenez, Intern Minister

Peilin Ko, Music Coordinator

Barbara Hatzfeld, Office Administrator

Willie Nelson, Sexton.

Crossover Concert, March 31