Sanctuary United Church of Christ

SoulCollage® Mini-Retreat w/Suzanne O'Neil, certified facilitator
2022-12-03 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Sanctuary United Church of Christ, 458 High St, Medford, MA 02155, USA
SoulCollage® is an expressive arts practice done individually or in community. Founded by Seena B. Frost, the method develops creativity and intuition, encourages self-discovery, and provides personal guidance. SoulCollage® meets you wherever you are on this journey called life. You don’t have to be an artist to make SoulCollage® cards. Anyone can create and enjoy this powerful practice.

About this Workshop/Mini-Retreat with certified SoulCollage® facilitator Suzanne O’Neil: With guided meditation, dreamy music, and delicious snacks, we will spend time in luxurious card-making during this mini-retreat. Come play, explore, and relax in a safe space with like-hearted souls and learn more about Council, Committee, Community, and Companion cards.
Click Here for Secure Registration and Payment (Onsite space is limited to 12; online capacity is limited to 6): $35/per person; includes Mat boards, scissors, glue, images, snack, tea, water. You are welcome to bring images if you have any you would like to use (this is optional). We will mail materials to online participants who register by November 26.
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More about SoulCollage®
SoulCollage® is an easy, enjoyable, intuitive collage process for self-discovery and community. People make their own decks of collaged cards for their personal use from found images.
The SoulCollage® method helps people discover their unique inner/outer guides and challengers, and access their own wisdom to answer their life questions. SoulCollage® is a method used in many contexts and applications.
We who are attracted to SoulCollage® are evolving. We’re creative, self-reflective, and eager to discover and balance the many parts of ourselves. We each want to be able to be the best version of ourselves we can be and contribute our gifts to others.
We are challenged, we struggle, but we always return to our basic willingness to look at what is so, to listen and to change. From that ever-evolving, empowered place of wholeness, we cannot help but contribute to and affect our worlds—our friends and families, our communities, and our fields of interest.
SoulCollage® cards are made with the simplest of tools – magazine images, scissor, mat boards and a glue stick (all provided).

See the gallery of sample cards at the bottom of the home page on the soulcollage.com website.
Learn more about making a SoulCollage® card.
Learn more about theSoulCollage® story of You: Discover your wisdom. Change your world.

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The Friday Café Closing Shift
2022-12-02 13:15 - 15:30, 2022-11-25 13:15 - 15:30, 2022-11-18 13:15 - 15:30, 2022-11-11 13:15 - 15:30, 2022-11-04 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
2022-12-02 11:15 - 13:30, 2022-11-25 11:15 - 13:30, 2022-11-18 11:15 - 13:30, 2022-11-11 11:15 - 13:30, 2022-11-04 11:15 - 13:30 | First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Committee of the Whole/Leadership Circle Meeting
2022-12-01 17:00 - 18:30, 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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Homeless Street Outreach
2022-11-27 14:00 - 17:30, 2022-11-20 14:00 - 17:30, 2022-11-13 14:00 - 17:30, 2022-11-06 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.

Sunday Morning Worship - Feel the Love
2022-11-27 10:30 - 11:30 | Onsite or Online Zoom Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84616806419?pwd=[REDACTED]
Heaven and Nature Sing: Human Beings have been singing about Jesus since the angel told Mary she would bear a son. In fact, those who were there – in the hopes and dreams and birthing of a Messiah – sang soul-stirring songs that came straight from their hearts. Join us this Advent for a sermon series about the original Christmas Carols. We will hear songs from Mary, Zechariah, and the Heavenly Host as we prepare for the coming – again – of the hope of the world. Join us to let Heaven and Nature Sing!!
Sunday Worship Themes – check out the Hillside website worship series page.
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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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 | Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Our Whole Lives (OWL) Gr. 8/9 Program
For details, full schedule, and registration
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.

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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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 | 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?
