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May 5th Labour’s Legacy Rev. Victoria
Service Leader: Lyla Miklos Musician: Jeff Druery
May 1st is the International Day of the
Worker, and this Sunday, we look at the contributions
people who work have made to our lives – from weekends to
the eight hour workday, from benefits to vacations, from
on-the-job safety to child labour laws. Much we take for
granted was earned the hard way, and forgetting this
legacy put us in danger of losing much we hold dear. Jeff
Druery is a Spiritual Director, musician, and co-founder
of Student Open Circles campus ministry
(www.StudentOpenCircles.com), working with students from
diverse spiritual backgrounds at McMaster University,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada since 1995, engaging them in
service, discussion about spirituality, social justice.
May 12th Our Czech Heritage: Flower Communion
Rev. Victoria Service Leader: Jennifer Askey
Musicians: Choir Norbert Capek, a Czech
national, came to Unitarianism while living in the United
States. Returning to Prague in 1921, he pledged to spread
the faith in their homeland. He founded the Liberal
Religious Fellowship, where the minister wore no robe, the
sanctuary was cleared of decoration, and the congregation
sang no hymns. To express their spirituality, Capek
created the Flower Communion, where members shared flowers
as a symbol of the uniqueness of each individual and their
coming together in communion to share their uniqueness.
Please bring flowers to church to day as we recreate this
ritual in our faith community.
May 19th Living From Sunday to Sunday: Money
Rev. Victoria Service Leader: Paul Hawkins
Musicians: Susan Gudgeon and students At its
core, money is about options – the more you have, the
better your choices. But it isn’t always that easy, since
money can become so inextricably bound up with our sense
of self-esteem, self-worth, and success. Whether you have
too much or too little, money takes up a lot of our time,
getting it or keeping it or trying to figure out what to
do with it. This week we talk about the role of money in
our lives.
May 26th Celebrating Grandmothers to
Grandmothers Speaker Dorothy Johns Service
Leaders: Members of Blooms for Africa Musicians:
Members of First Congregation Seven years
after being inspired by the gathering of African and
Canadian grandmothers at the International AIDS Conference
in Toronto , Blooms for Africa (BFA) has raised well over
$100,000 in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s
“Grandmothers to Grandmothers” Campaign. Members of Blooms
for Africa, along with Dorothy Johns from Grandmothers of
Steel, will share this remarkable Grandmothers to
Grandmother story. Two additional Hamilton Grandmother’s
groups with members from First Unitarian will join us for
this service: Grandmothers of Steel and Grandmothers of
Hope (Mabibi wa Tamma)
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