Monetary donations for Holiday Flowers are now being accepted! If you would like to contribute money to purchase poinsettias for the sanctuary, please mail in a check or drop one in the offertory during Sunday service. Be sure to write "flowers" in the memo line. Order forms will be in the Order of Service starting this Sunday.
The Music Committee is looking for members to help plan the music for Sunday services and to help organize the Jazz concert in June/July. We need someone to chair the committee and members to support it. If this sounds like something you would like to do, please send an email to: admin@uunewbedford.org.
Did you miss Sunday service? Watch it here
Upcoming Services
***Please be aware that from now on, if you arrive on Sundays after 11 AM you will have to use the Union Street entrance. This is because we do not have a Sunday Sexton.
Tonight! Please use the Union St. entrance.
Registration is not required for the Holiday Market.
Tickets are on a sliding scale with a suggested donation of $20. Registration is required for this event.
Registration is suggested for this event.
The calendar on our website shows everything happening at UUNB. Updates are shown immediately, so you will always know what is planned.
November 24: Honesty (The Tool to Repair Lies), Gratitude Potluck, Don’t Let Auntie Mabel Set the Table by Vanessa Brantley Newtons, Birthday Blessings
Save the Date: Solstice Service Hosted By Way Cool Sunday School 12/22/24 at 11 AM
The bookcase at the back of the sanctuary now has new quiet creative materials for children during service. Please return any materials after service and inform ushers that this exists for new or existing children and families. We will continue to provide materials for children to be in service if they choose.
Contact Yasmin with any questions- flefleh@gmail.com
Join the Social Justice Committee tonight at 6:00 PM in the sanctuary for a book talk with author Helena Cobban. Please use the Union St. entrance. There is no SJC Zoom tonight - join us for the book talk instead.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
There will be a meeting for volunteers interested in helping out during the Holiday Market on Friday, November 22, at 4 PM via Zoom. Volunteers are needed for the following:
Soliciting donations for the gift baskets
Putting together gift baskets
Set up the day before
Plant Table
Bake Sale/Food/ Drinks
Selling Raffle Tickets
Breakdown/clean up the day of
And More!
Holiday Market on December 7
Gift Basket Raffle
So far, we have the beginnings of the following baskets
Cooking/Italian
Murder Mystery Game and Wine
Cat
Knitting
Bridgerton
Local History
Breakfast for two
Movie Night
Pickles & Soup
Birds
If you can't shop, we will take donations of cash to purchase gift basket supplies. We made close to $600 in raffle tickets at the jazz service, and we think we can do even better at the holidays. Please have all gift basket items in no later than November 27.
START YOUR PLANT CUTTINGS!
We hope to have a plant sale again during the Holiday Market, so start your plant cuttings.
Today, November 20, is Trans Day of Remembrance
Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the lives, contributions, and humanity of transgender people lost to violence.
Anti-trans violence is an attack on human dignity and equity. Today, we hold space for the resilience, strength, and beauty of transgender communities, recognizing their right to live freely and authentically.
Trans lives matter. Trans voices matter. Trans futures matter.
We remember. We grieve. We refuse to accept violence as inevitable.
Names of individuals lost this year.
Savannah Williams, Bernardo Panteleon, Pepper Mychel Peterson, Mariah Ruby Rachel Williams, F. L. “Bubba” Copeland, Lola Laperla Ebony McDaniels, Shandon Floyd, Tiesha McFarland, Kejuan Richardson, Amiri Jean Reid, Mya Finch, Travis Stimeling
Demita Jo Armstrong, Onteris Owens-Campbell, Jesse Viviano White, Star Possum, Jermaine Golden, Meghan Riley Lewis, Zoey Flye, Madison Montana, Care Hansen, Amber Minor, Ashlei Jasmine Colgate-Edwards, Fleetwood Mars Mozee, Shelby “Lexus” Riddick-Walker, Kimbella Blackshear, Easley Jeffcoat, Tripp Schultz
Lady Fabian Sanchez, James Moen, Dana Randolph “Desiree A. DeMornay," Quin Joy, Sasha Williams, Jennell Jaquays, Sarina Mihailoff, Sasha Washington-Cohen “Sasha Fierce,”Guelila “Gigi” Iyob, Videl Lombardo, Savannah Rose Rivers Amore, Kathy “Otter” Ottersten, Robin Valentina, Forrest Douglas Buckley, Giselle Stone, Tristan Michael Bustos “Tristyn St. Clair," Kitty Monroe
Natalia Skye, Teddy Reese Curran, Erick Krouse, Noah Jackson Chase, Ellie Walsh, Nex Benedict, Emma “África” Parrilla García, Blakely Hanson, Righteous TK “Chevy” Hill,
Ashton Myles Clatterbuck, Madison Nicole Spann “Madison St. Claire,” Cecilia Gentili
Diamond Cherish Brigman, Elliot Ganiel, Fae Morganna Barbone, Aurelia A. Legassey, Alex Franco, Meraxes Medina, Ty Geissinger “Ty Holiday”
Andrea Doria Dos Passos “Maggie,” Yella Clark, Allister Matthews, Tiffany Azalea Monceaux, Tara Fable, Randy Dudley, River Neveah Goddard, Tee “Ace” Arnold, George A. Schappell
Starr Brown, Robbi Mecus, Basil Brown
Tayy Dior Thomas, Kita Bee, Kamryn “Cantrell” Smith, Jazlynn Johnson, Daelicious O’hare Mizani, Darri C. Moore, Niomi Jenkins, Michelle Henry, Saanti Bonét Valentino
Pauly Likens, M. Tapia, Lynn Conway, Liara Kaylee Tsai
Dylan Gurley, Griffin Shaun Sivret, Kenji Zemonta Spurgeon, Ev Smith, Shannon Boswell, Levi Castillo, Lily Autumn Rose, Monique Brooks
Noelle Woolley, Indiana Grayson, Vanity Williams, Tai’Vion Lathan, Jhzara “Femmie” Williams, Baxter Zachary Hawk
Kassim Omar, Liam Johns, Mahdia Lynn, Cass Trystero, Chilli Pepper, Barbie Iceland “Redd China”
Honee Daniels, Serenity Birdsong, Adela Vázquez, San Coleman, Zeta Muirgen Seraph Haber
YWCA Southeastern Massachusetts
The cold weather is coming! Help us keep our community warm by donating new and gently used winter scarves, gloves, and mittens that we will distribute through New Bedford via "Scarf Bombing!"
Scarf bombing is the act of leaving free scarves and winter items in public spaces to help people stay warm during the winter.
Items can be dropped off Donation Drop Off: M-F 9 am - 4 pm until 12/6/24 at the YWCA Southeastern Massachusetts 20 South 6th St, New Bedford, MA
Our Mission is to encourage diversity and mutual acceptance and work for positive change in ourselves and our community.
"We envision a congregation in which we practice the principles of our faith. We seek to enjoy peaceful reflection and inspiration in intellectually and spiritually satisfying church services. We aim to embrace the people and efforts of our church community by supporting our children and their programs, our committees and their goals, our staff and their efforts on our behalf, and each other."
Our Promises
Each person is important.
Be kind in all you do.
We help each other learn.
We search for what is true.
Each person has a say.
Work for a peaceful world.
The web of life’s the way.
Build the beloved community, free from racism and oppression.
First Unitarian Church in New Bedford
71 8th Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
(508) 994-9686
Administrator ext. 10
Minister ext. 13
Karen cell: (508) 441-9344
Thrift Shop ext. 12
Board Members & Officers
Steve Carmel, President
Charles Morgan, Vice President
Deborah Carmel, Treasurer
Cora Peirce, Clerk
Trustees
Committee Chairs
Staff
The Thrift Shop is open Tuesdays and Saturdays from 10 AM to 1 PM
(508)994-9686 ext.12
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