Sanctuary United Church of Christ

Sanctuary Sunday Spiritual Circle (Morning)
2025-04-20 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-04-27 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-05-04 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-05-11 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-05-18 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-05-25 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-06-01 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-06-15 08:30 - 09:30 (America/New_York) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82882360638?pwd=[REDACTED]
Sanctuary UCC Sunday Spiritual Circle – for prayer, care, reflection, and connection.
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Sanctuary Sunday Spiritual Circle (Evening)
2025-04-20 17:30 - 18:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82882360638?pwd=[REDACTED]
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Our Whole Lives (OWL) Grade 7/8 Session (Possible Make Up)
2025-04-27 16:30 - 18:30 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States
2024/2025 Grade 7/8 Program Details and Registration.Program Calendar here.
Honest, accurate information about sexuality changes lives. It dismantles stereotypes and assumptions, builds self-acceptance and self-esteem, fosters healthy relationships, improves decision-making, and has the potential to save lives. For these reasons and more, we are proud to offer Our Whole Lives (OWL), a comprehensive, lifespan sexuality education program.

Art & Soul Circle : Room to Breathe
2025-05-02 18:30 - 20:30 | Arts Collaborative Medford, 162 Mystic Ave, Medford, MA, United States
Step into a circle shaped by color, courage, and contradiction. Room to Breathe is more than an exhibit—it’s a deeply human outcry. From Elaina Bates-Egan’s bold, visceral paintings to the textured layers of collage and print from twelve powerful artists, this show invites you into a space where rage and grief meet resilience and hope.
In this Art & Soul Circle, we’ll gather—not to rush past what hurts—but to make room for it. For the breath you didn’t know you were holding. For the stories that need to be witnessed. For the fierce and fragile places in us that are still seeking healing.
Come ready to reflect, share, and reclaim your breath in community.
🌀 Open to all | Donate what you can | RSVP appreciated
Because art doesn’t just hang on walls—it lives in you.
About the show from Arts Collaborative Medford: Room To Breathe is not just an exhibition—it is a collective exhale, a testament to the power of art to heal, protest, and imagine new possibilities. Driven by the charged and bright abstract paintings of Elaina Bates Egan and featuring 12 artists working in collage and printmaking, these artists transform emotion into action, offering space for reflection, resilience, and renewal.
Featuring Paintings By:
Elaina Bates-Egan
Collages & Prints By:
Stephanie Todhunter
Jacob Leidolf
Uma Edulbehram
Grace Drugge
Gina Yu
Carlos Villamil
Joseph Luongo
The Blocktivist
Dominique Butori
Abaigeal Wright
Dominique Litif-Nelson

All Hands Meeting - Committee of the Whole/Leadership Circle
2025-05-06 19:00 - 20:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82581670394?pwd=[REDACTED]
Committee of the Whole/Leadership Circle Meeting
All are welcome! Gather online!
Did you miss last month’s meeting? Here’s where you can find minutes from previous meetings. (https://medfordchurch.org/minutes/)
Here’s the Recurring Agenda:

Recruit Note Taker
Check on/create agenda
Hillside Partnership/Meger Process
Ministry Reports
Review schedule/time for the next Comm of the Whole meeting.

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Opening Reception - MPS Exhibition
2025-05-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Arts Collaborative Medford, 162 Mystic Ave, Medford, MA, United States
Add an 'art & soul circle' component to the reception

Backyard Brunch Church
2025-06-01 11:30 - 13:30 | 105 Brooks Street Medford MA
Bring some brunch potluck! (to the Parsonage @ 105 Brooks Street, Medford)
We’ll share backyard worship, communion, and Oneness.

All Hands Meeting - Committee of the Whole/Leadership Circle
2025-06-03 19:00 - 20:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82581670394?pwd=[REDACTED]
Committee of the Whole/Leadership Circle Meeting
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Did you miss last month’s meeting? Here’s where you can find minutes from previous meetings. (https://medfordchurch.org/minutes/)
Here’s the Agenda:

Recruit Note Taker
Opening Prayer
Highlights “State of the Church”
Next Steps for Sanctuary
Vote: Proposal for Annual Meeting (June 2025 or….??)

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Interfaith Sakadawa Celebration
2025-06-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Kurukulla Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies, 68 Magoun Avenue, medford
Kurukulla Center and Tibetan Association of Boston are delighted to host a Sakadawa Interfaith Celebration where we will come together in celebration and prayers for world peace and harmony. It is a special occasion where we invite friends from all faiths and backgrounds to join us in prayer and reflection.
In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, we call the month of the fourth full moon following Tibetan New Year “Sakadawa.” We believe that during Sakadawa the result of all our actions — positive and negative — are greatly increased. Therefore, it is a time to be especially virtuous and diligent in our activities, to practice our faith well, and to benefit others. The full moon of Sakadawa is when the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and passing are observed.
This year we will especially dedicate and pray for those who have died, become ill, or have experienced hardship in other ways, both in the United States and around the world.
Each year the collection of distinguished guests, together with those participating by being in attendance, create an event that inspires hope, faith, love, peace, and tolerance. The celebration will have a lasting effect in your heart, providing strength and determination, to be the change in the world that we want to see.

Sanctuary Sunday Soul Circle (8:30 am)
2025-06-08 08:30 - 09:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82882360638?pwd=[REDACTED]
Breathe. Breath. Belong.
“There’s a wind that seeks to gather what’s been scattered. That wind has a name: Love.”— Padraig Ó Tuama
Whoooooossshhhh. A sound, a feeling, a force of presence. Come Holy Spirit, come. We’ll gather this Sunday with wind in our hearts and fire in our bones to remember the story of the first Spirit rush. With storytelling, poetry, prayer, and song, we’ll ask: What does it mean to be moved—and moved together—by breath that both comforts and compels?
Join us for Pentecost Sunday to sit in the swirl of Spirit—breath, breeze, and belonging.
Sanctuary UCC Sunday Spiritual Circle – for prayer, care, reflection, and connection.
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am2pm Peer Mentor Training
2025-06-08 15:00 - 18:00, 2025-06-22 15:00 - 18:00 | Grace Episcopal Church, 160 High St, Medford, MA, United States

Juneteenth Flag Raising and Celebration
2025-06-18 16:00 - 18:30 | medford city hall, 85 George P Hassett Dr, Medford, MA, United States
Please join us as we raise the flag and clelebrate Juneteenth on Wednesday June 18th, 4pm – 6:30pm at Medford City Hall. Bring your dancing shoes and share a meal with old and new friends. Musical segment produced by Down By Riverside ft. Willie J. Laws band and catering provided by Work Hard Eat Good.
This event is free and all are welcome. This event is also made possible with generous support from the MVP Medford Connects grant. ASL interpreter services have been requested. Feel free to share the flier with others.

The program will include a keynote address, poetry by the city’s poet laureate, music, and food.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joyya Smith, Vice President for Diversity, Access and Inclusion at Suffolk University.
Poetry: Vijaya Sundaram, the city’s poet laureate.
Music: The Glen David Andrews Band.
Food: Provided by the Neighborhood Kitchen.

Juneteenth Exhibition & Community Panel
2025-06-19 18:30 - 20:30 | 162 Mystic Ave, Medford, MA, United States
Free | Open to the public
In partnership with Resilient Sisterhood Project and Neighborhood Birth Center
Details here: https://artscollabmedford.org/events/juneteenth-exhibition-community-panel

Sanctuary Sunday Soul Circle
2025-06-22 08:30 - 09:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82882360638?pwd=[REDACTED]
What if the Silence is the Answer?
“Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.” —Gordon Hempton, acoustic ecologist
Elijah ran to the mountain expecting a dramatic answer from God—but what came was silence. The kind that hovers in thin places—where the veil between the spiritual and physical grows sheer, and the presence of God feels achingly near.
Soul Circle seeks that space. A place to rest, to listen, and to let the silence speak. We’ll walk with Elijah through the wilderness of burnout and fear, and discover that even in the quiet, the Holy is not absent—it’s drawing near.
If you’re seeking clarity, comfort, or just a pause from the noise, come. Be nourished with story, reflection, prayer, and presence. Come and listen for the whisper in your own life, and leave reminded: even in your lowest moment, you are never alone.
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am2pm Youth Service Program
2025-06-26 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-27 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-28 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-29 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-30 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-07-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States

Sanctuary Sunday Spiritual Circle (Morning)
2025-06-29 08:30 - 09:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82882360638?pwd=[REDACTED]
Nine Kisses. One Wild Spirit.
“Kisses are the messengers of love.” – Proverb (medieval)
What if the Spirit’s gifts were not apples and oranges, but intimate gestures of love? This Sunday, we explore the “Nine Kisses” of Galatians—joy, peace, patience, and more—as signs of the Spirit’s passionate touch in our lives.
Come breathe, reflect, and connect in community as we share stories, song, and soul-deep yearning for a love that transforms. All are welcome in this circle of grace.
Join us this Sunday because the fruits of the Spirit are not commodities but intimate, relational gestures—transformative expressions of divine passion lived out in community.
Sunday Circle (8:30 am online only)
With love,
Rev. Wendy Miller Olapade
Pastor
Sanctuary UCC Sunday Spiritual Circle – for prayer, care, reflection, and connection.
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Special Congregational Meeting - All Hands Meeting - Committee of the Whole/Leadership Circle
2025-07-01 19:00 - 20:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82581670394?pwd=[REDACTED]
Special Congregational Meeting
Committee of the Whole/Leadership Circle Meeting
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CALL TO SPECIAL CONGREGATIONAL MEETING – ONLINE ONLY
Dear Sanctuary UCC Members and Partners,
You are called, and your presence and participation are faithfully requested at a Special Congregational Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, July 01, 2025 at 7:00 pm via Zoom Meeting; the access for which is listed below.
Given the unexpected ending of the Hillside/Sanctuary partnership and merger negotiations (on March 23, 2025); and the need for further spiritual discernment as well as practical negotiations about our mission, ministry, and operations, the Sanctuary Leadership Circle proposes the following agenda for this Special Congregational Meeting (in place of the July All Hands/Leadership Meeting):

Vote to move the 2025 Sanctuary Annual Meeting (normally held “no later than the first Sunday of July”) to be held no later than the first Sunday of November;
Vote to extend through the six month period of July 1, 2025 through Dec. 31, 2025 for the purpose of Sanctuary operations

The monthly budget allocations in place for FY2025 Budget;
The Leadership/Bylaw Adjustments approved for FY2025 (Committee of the Whole Model & Suspension of Committees)
The Lead Pastor’s Contract.

Vote to engage in further planning and discernment through this period so as to complete the Annual Meeting and decision making called forth from that process.

We appreciate your attention and ask that you join us for this important meeting.
With blessings,
The Leadership Circle/All Hands Meeting
Call to Meeting on Website
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