Welcome Back Everyone!  Sunday School is back in person this year!! Church starts at 10:30, and we will be meeting during the church service and head downstairs after the Message for All Ages around 10:45.  Registration is rolling and can be completed at any time. Registration Link:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQOe5r9Vrq3mvRsPLXYSRb6Xpcl-uhLg5ChzswG2ZVuPqiJQ/viewform?usp=sf_link This year we are Exploring Beyond Our Walls.   Every day our children are often faced with difficult decisions and situations.  We have agreed as a group to really try to understand and learn our Seven Principles, and through the year we will be collecting gems that will represent our learnings through moral tales. 

Rev. Peter Connolly preaching As Unitarian Universalists, we value our individuality, our freedom to be the authors of our own destiny.  But we are also each a part of an interdependent web of community.  How do we reconcile these potentially conflicting roles?  Special music will be provided by a Chalice Ensemble.

Opportunities to Help Get Out the Vote Are you concerned about the health of our democracy? Would you like to be able to do something about it? Social Justice is joining other UU churches in sponsoring a letter-writing campaign to get out the vote. We feel that it is imperative that everyone who would like to vote has the opportunity to do so. It is also important that people who feel their vote may not matter understand that it does. In pursuit of these ends, we are sponsoring six letter writing sessions at the church. The dates and times are

The Book Discussion Group, led by Carleen Loper, meets the third Monday of every month to discuss a variety of book genres. The selection for September is Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson.  Contact Carleen at Carleenml@aol.com for more information.

CUUPS Mabon Ritual Monday, September 19 7:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall The Wheel of the Year has turned again, bringing us to Mabon, the Second Harvest. We also celebrate the Fall Equinox, one of two times each year when the hours of sunlight and darkness are equal. This night we stand on the threshold, reveling in the bountiful harvest while looking ahead to the fallow times soon to follow.  Mabon asks us to consider all the dualities in our own lives: light and dark, male and female, good and evil, lack and abundance, grief and joy, love and fear. 

In the Parish Hall

In the Parish Hall

Rev. Peter Connolly will be in the office.

Please submit your information for the Order of Service to office@uumiddleboro.org by 12:00 noon.

All members and friends are invited to attend the Parish Committee meeting. The link for this event will be sent by email to UU Updates subscribers.

In the Sanctuary

Just This Sangha meets virtually (via Zoom) nearly every Friday evening from 6:00 to 7:30 for silent meditation and sharing of our practice experience.  From a Buddhist, particularly Zen, perspective, we focus on bringing practice to daily life; exploring letting go of our usual habitual reactivity and opening to our selves and others as we actually are.   Not a drop-in group, we do welcome potentially new members to join us for a few sessions to see if the group is a good fit.  Contact Tom Tanguay at Thisjustthis@gmail.com for more information.

Opportunities to Help Get Out the Vote Come have some fun, sociability and great munchies while working to further justice and strengthen our democracy. We have a letter writing campaign in conjunction with the UUA and Vote Forward to turn out as many voters in the November elections as possible. To date we have written almost 500 letters. Can we make it to 1000 by the end of Oct.? Maybe we can with your help. The letters are mostly prepared. You simply write a small note in addition to the prepared letter about why you vote and sign your first name.

We will continue scheduling weekly ½ hour vigils on Saturday mornings from 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon. In addition, we will be offering training to help us respond to folks with strong opinions.   If you are interested in standing with us but would like the training first, please add your name, but put an X in the first column. All are invited to join in. Sign up for training and/or the vigil by visiting Vigil Sign-Ups.