December 26, 2021

• Bill Duston
• Cindy Malley
• Jen Jaksa
• Monica Pilman
• online worship
• potpourri
• Time for All Ages

An annual tradition! The Deacons led a service of sharing.

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December 24, 2021

• Bill Duston
• Cindy Malley
• David Grober
• Monica Pilman
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• Christmas
• nativity
• Time for All Ages

Our (hybrid) Christmas Eve Service was a little different this year! We started out inside, then ended outside by the fire pit so that we could have some singing. It was lovely!

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December 5, 2021

• Carolyn McCreary
• Cindy Malley
• Monica Pilman
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Roger Price
• Thea Shapiro
• agnosticism
• Christmas
• nativity
• online worship

During “red light” conditions, we worshiped online-only. Guest preacher and FCU deacon Cindy Malley discusses what Christmas means to her as an agnostic.

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November 28, 2021

• Andrea Price
• Bob Williams
• Cindy Malley
• Jen Jaksa
• Martha Childs
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Roger Price
• Hanukkah
• Judaism
• online worship

During our “red light” conditions, we worshiped online-only. We discussed who we might be in the Hanukkah story.

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November 21, 2021

• Bill Duston
• Cindy Malley
• Larry Kaylor
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• gratitude
• thanksgiving

We did something a little different this year. Because of “yellow light” Covid-19 conditions, we could not do our traditional Cornbread Communion. Instead, the Deacons and I used menti.com to have folks share something that made them feel grateful.

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November 14, 2021

• Cindy Malley
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Sara Cope
• ancestors
• Learning Up
• Macdellar Sons of Grace Preparatory School
• white supremacy culture

I explore the Soul Matters theme “holding history”, thinking about ancestors. Share-the-Plate was for Macdellar Sons of Grace Preparatory School in Ghana, via Learning Up.

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October 31, 2021

• Cindy Malley
• Karen Tucker-Barisano
• Thea Shapiro
• presence
• showing up

Our wonderful Director of Religious Education Thea Shapiro delivers the homily.

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September 12, 2021

• Cindy Malley
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• ingathering
• Water Communion

This was our first-ever “hybrid” (in person and live streaming) service, kicking off the 2021-2022 “church year”.

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June 20, 2021

• Cindy Malley
• Karen Tucker-Barisano
• Laura Semple
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Susan Palmer
• Thea Shapiro
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• Father's Day
• Flower Communion
• online worship
• Time for All Ages

In our final “regular church year” worship service for 2020-2021, we celebrated Flower Communion, our outgoing RE Chair, our incoming DRE, and Father’s Day!

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May 2, 2021

• Brian Tarbox
• Caprice Tarbox
• Cindy Malley
• Lori Grant
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• The Journey West
• The Ramayana
• Buddhism
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• Hanuman
• Hinduism
• online worship
• story
• Sun WuKong
• Taoism
• Time for All Ages

This was “Monkey Sunday”! I talked about my two favorite mystical monkeys, Hanuman and Sun WuKong, and what we might learn from their stories.

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