Sanctuary United Church of Christ

OWL Gr. 8/9 Program
2022-11-20 18:30 - 20:30, 2022-11-13 18:30 - 20:30, 2022-11-06 18:30 - 20:30, 2022-10-30 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Our Whole Lives (OWL) Gr. 8/9 Program
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Sanctuary UCC and Hillside Community Church are proud to offer to the wider community Our Whole Lives (OWL), a comprehensive sexuality education class for 8th and 9th graders. The program equips teens of all genders with accurate, age-appropriate information and skills to help them lead sexually healthy, positive, and responsible lives. Grounded in a holistic view of sexuality, OWL addresses a wide range of topics including body image, relationships, social media/internet, sexual orientation, gender identity, sexually transmitted infections, contraceptives, pornography, and cultural influences on sexuality. OWL is secular in content and contains no religious doctrine*.

Pop-Up Food Pantry - Thanksgiving Themed
2022-11-20 15:00 - 17:00 | Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford, MA 02155, USA
All are welcome to drop-by to pick-up Thanksgiving-themed foods for yourself, your neighbor, or to distribute to a Micropantry.
The first 30 guests will also receive a $25.00 Stop and Shop Gift Card!
If you help care for a Micropantry – please be sure to come get some supplies! If you cannot make this day and time, please email Wendy@sanctuaryucc.org to make other arrangements.

Homeless Street Outreach
2022-11-20 14:00 - 17:30, 2022-11-13 14:00 - 17:30, 2022-11-06 14:00 - 17:30, 2022-10-30 14:00 - 17:30 | 1555 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
The Outdoor Church is a church for chronically homeless men and women in Cambridge, MA.
Every Sunday afternoon, a team of volunteers distributes sandwiches, juice boxes, socks, and toiletries around Harvard and Central Squares in Cambridge.
If you are interested in or have questions volunteering, please contact Rev. Tom at pastor@hillsidemedford.org.

Food Distribution - Thanksgiving Food Drive
2022-11-20 14:00 - 17:00 | Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Sign-Up to Help!! We need 3 to 5 volunteers to greet and help our neighbors and micropantry operators load their cars with collected nonperishables when they come for pickup at Hillside.

Food Collection - Thanksgiving Food Drive
2022-11-20 12:00 - 14:00 | Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Sign-Up to Help!! We need ~10 volunteers and 3 vehicles to collect food bags left out on porches around the Hillside.

Sunday Morning Worship - Feel the Love
2022-11-20 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-11-13 10:30 - 11:30 | Onsite or Online Zoom Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84616806419?pwd=[REDACTED]
Thanks and Giving: How do we develop the practice of gratitude and thanksgiving to God so that we might lead a life of generosity? Thankfulness is not an occasional act but a lifestyle of intentional and spontaneous appreciation that leads us into the presence of God and empowers us to be grateful in all circumstances. Join us for this two-week series designed to generate an overflow of goodness and generosity.
For more about this Sunday’s Worship Theme – check out the Hillside website for the current worship series.
Sanctuary and Hillside worship together every Sunday. You are welcome to attend the service onsite @ Hillside Community Church, 144 North Street, Medford (Vax & masks expected) or online via Zoom or facebook live.
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The Friday Café Closing Shift
2022-11-18 13:15 - 15:30, 2022-11-11 13:15 - 15:30, 2022-11-04 13:15 - 15:30, 2022-10-28 13:15 - 15:30 | First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Sign Up with the Friday Cafe Here.
Friday Cafe offers opportunities for in-person volunteers on Fridays, to serve the meal and help distribute clothing. Vaccination and masks are required, and doors and windows are open for ventilation, so bundle up! Please visit our online signup if you would like to volunteer in-person.
CONTACT: Rev. Kate Layzer, Director
EMAIL: kate@thefriday.cafe

The Friday Café Opening Shift
2022-11-18 11:15 - 13:30, 2022-11-11 11:15 - 13:30, 2022-11-04 11:15 - 13:30, 2022-10-28 11:15 - 13:30 | First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Bag Distribution - Thanksgiving Food Drive
2022-11-13 12:00 - 14:00 | Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Sign-Up to help! We need 10 to 20 volunteers to help distribute 1000 bags to homes throughout the Hillside neighborhood. Included with these bags will be a note inviting the recipient to fill it up with Thanksgiving-themed non-perishables and leave it out on their front steps the following weekend.

Community Meal - All Are Welcome
2022-11-06 11:30 - 12:30 | Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Tailgate Table Potluck Theme!!
Following worship we will enjoy a community meal to which all are welcome.
Sign up to bring a dish for the Tailgate Table!!
If you are able – please bring a nonperishable food item for the micropantry ministry.

Sunday Morning Worship - Feel the Love
2022-11-06 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-10-30 10:30 - 11:30 | Onsite or Online Zoom Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84616806419?pwd=[REDACTED]
The Liturgy of Politics: This four-week series, explores the way faith shapes a holistic life for the people of God. We are all shaped by the political forces in our lives and we need the habits and practice of faith and community to balance those forces. The church has powerful resources—corporate worship, Scripture, personal spiritual disciplines, and historic practices—for addressing the power of political (and cultural) idolatry. Negotiating a faithful and loving way forward in our politics may not require an entirely new strategy but a return to the historic practices of the global church.
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Sanctuary and Hillside worship together every Sunday. You are welcome to attend the service onsite @ Hillside Community Church, 144 North Street, Medford (Vax & masks expected) or online via Zoom or facebook live.
For more about this Sunday’s Worship Theme – check out the Hillside website for the current worship series.
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Faith and Film - Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022-11-04 18:30 - 21:30 | Sanctuary United Church of Christ, 458 High St, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Mrs. Harris Goes to Parish, Directed by Anthony Fabian

American artist, Susan Watkins observed that “Clothing is our most intimate environment.” We all get dressed, but how often do we think about what our clothes say?

This screening and discussion of a “Delightful comedy about the many meanings of the clothes we choose to wear and what these choices say about our lives and values” will give us that opportunity.

Bring a snack or wine to share!
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More about the film from the Spirituality and Practice review:
“Every day we make choices about what to wear. Our clothes communicate to the world information about our age, sex, and class. They reflect our mood, personality, origin, occupation, tastes, and erotic yearnings. They indicate whether we are comfortable conforming to societal standards. Clothing creates community, signaling that we belong to a particular group. In turn, it can create borders and boundaries between people.
To change clothes can be an important way to change one’s way of being in the world. Clothing doesn’t just shape identity. It reveals our identity to the people we meet. We all get dressed, but how often do we think about what our clothes say?

Committee of the Whole/Leadership Circle Meeting
2022-11-03 17:00 - 18:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82581670394?pwd=[REDACTED]
All are welcome! Gather online ONLY!

Sanctuary UCC Annual Meeting voted to implement a Committee of the Whole Model of Governance; wherein all members and partners of Sanctuary UCC are now “elected” to do the work of the Leadership Circle. Here is the Mission and Ministry Plan that will guide that work this year.
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 for the October 06 Meeting

Create an agenda at the beginning of the meeting (so bring your ideas) as we seek to implement the 2022.2023 Mission and Ministry Plan;
Elect officers (Moderator, Vice Moderator, Clerk);
Review day/schedule/time going forward for the Comm of the Whole meeting.

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The Liturgy of Politics Discussion Group
2022-11-02 19:00 - 20:15 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82038297118?pwd=[REDACTED]
Come discuss the book and our sermon series!! 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM (Online via Zoom)
About the Book and the Sermon Series: The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor by Kaitlyn Schiess
As we enter into a divisive and difficult election season, we need resources that remind us who we are, direct our loves back to God, connect our loyalties to our values, and motivate positive political action in the world. Purchase/About the Book – Well-founded, big-hearted, and wise, this is a book that could make a world of difference.”

Liturgy of Politics Discussion Guide (PDF)
Practices for Election Season
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More: “With biblical grounding, theological depth, and the spiritual urgency of a next-generation leader, Kaitlyn lays the groundwork for a better, more faithful approach to political engagement.”
“If all of us are formed by our practices, and politics is a kind of practice, how then are we as disciples of Jesus Christ being ordered through our political participation to the love of neighbor? That is the important question Kaitlyn Schiess has posed in The Liturgy of Politics.”
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Make Dot Art - Feel the Love
2022-10-30 11:30 - 12:30
Gather with your neighbors (and your neighbor’s kids) to share a nosh, make some art, and celebrate the Halloween weekend with color! No experience is required!!
Dot art is a really easy painting technique that makes use of dots of color that visually blend together. This mandala technique for abstract art is downright fun – and relaxing.
We will have coffee and bagels for this community connecting activity during Fellowship Hour after worship.

Sanctuary & Hillside @ Chamber of Commerce Trick or Treat
2022-10-28 15:00 - 17:00 | Sanctuary United Church of Christ, 458 High St, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Stop by to say hi and share some treats. No tricks are required.
