Your Religion News: Nov. 6, 2021 – The Recorder

Published: 11/8/2021 10:19:36 AM

GREENFIELD Andrew Baker is the worship leader on Sunday, Nov. 7, at 10:30 a.m., at All Souls Church, 399 Main St. His sermon is Engendering Spirit. Baker, will explore the personal quest for spiritual identity. Can the fullest expression of our particular singularity help each one of us to step beyond our tribal identities and unite to do big things together? Come and let us find out together. Music will be provided by The Kensington Duo, with Harry Seelig, piano, and Katherine Baker, violin. They will be playing violin-piano sonatas by George Frederick Handel.

BERNARDSTON Sunday, Nov. 7, the Bernardston UU Congregation will meet in person for vaccinated members. Masks are required. Dan Tinen leads the service the first Sunday of each month. Coffee hour starts at 11 a.m. and the service begins at 11:30 a.m. The service will also be on Zoom. For a Zoom link, text your name and email to 413-330-0807.

Tinens topic: Letting Loose vs. Bottling Up.

Tinen said, Many people have problems directly confronting the people or things that trouble them. When is it time to speak up, and when is it best to hold your tongue? Finding the right method, time and place to be the squeaky wheel is crucial for emotional and organizational health; it also depends on cultural factors were not always aware of.

Music will be provided by Lynne Walker.

NORTHFIELD Educating Our Society will be the topic at First Parish of Northfield, Unitarian, this Sunday at 10 a.m. Lay reader Dan Tinen will lead the service. Tinen says of his sermon, A good education forges new, unfamiliar paths in your brain and prunes away the false connections you mightve already made. We are in a world that demands lifelong learning from childhood through old age, but what lessons should we teach in our schools, churches, and in the media, and why?

Religious education will be led by Jennifer Smith. The older youth will work together to bake a take home coffee hour treat and then enjoy some game time together. Masks are required for indoor activities. Parishioners will gather in the church sanctuary wearing masks and with socially distanced seating, ventilation and air filtration. In addition, the service will be cast via Zoom to home participants. To obtain the Zoom link, send an email to fpnorthfieldma@gmail.com.

NORTHFIELD All are welcome to join Trinitarian Congregational Church, Northfield, Sundays at 10 a.m. We will begin worship indoors on Nov. 7. Covid guidelines will be observed. For more information, contact the church office at 413-498-5839.

Also, please join Trinitarian Congregational Church for its annual Hollyberry Fair today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The church is at 147 Main St.

SUNDERLAND The church worship service on Nov. 7 will begin at 11 a.m. The Gospel is Jesus' story of the poor widow's donation to the Temple treasury, and the sermon asks the question if we are really listening. All are welcome.

A breakfast will be served at the church on Saturday from 7 to 10 a.m. Takeout or eat in. And the Serendipity Shoppe will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; masks are required.

GREENFIELD The Interfaith Council of Franklin County is inviting all to a gathering on the Greenfield Common at 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 14. There will be a brief Thanksgiving observance with music, conversation and a focus on gratitude. That will be followed by a turkey meal to go.

Our theme for this year is I am not alone. You are not alone. We are not alone. We hope that you will join us on the 14th.

Trinity Church Shelburne Falls (which is four denominations), St Johns Episcopal Church in Ashfield, the Federated Church of Charlemont, The Congregational Church of Ashfield, the Congregational Church of Buckland and Shelburne Congregational will offer a Thanksgiving Ecumenical Service not in person but on YouTube. Three of the churches will send recordings of their choirs singing a Thanksgiving hymn. One pastor will offer a message. Others will offer a Call to Worship, an Invocation, Prayers of the People and a Benediction. The text is from the Letter to the Colossians 3: 12-17. If you would like a link to the service when it comes online (Tuesday Nov. 23), you can write to the Rev. Marguerite Sheehan at msheehan222@gmail.com

BUCKLAND The Silver Bell Bazaar at the Mary Lyon Church on Upper Street in Buckland, will take place on Saturday, Nov. 20, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Vendors and tables will be located downstairs in the church and in the nearby Buckland Public Hall. There will be hand-sewn items, a large variety of handmade crafts, plants, birdhouses, cards, jewelry, watercolor paintings and prints, bake sale, and so much more. There will also be a bag raffle, the Monday Nighters quilt raffle, other raffles, and a silent auction. Lunch will be served beginning at 11:30 a.m. (Please be advised that due to Covid regulations, this might change).

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Your Religion News: Nov. 6, 2021 - The Recorder