Opportunities to Support Outdoor Worship
Worshipping outdoors is a tremendous opportunity to experience the beauty of God’s creation in a new way. It’s also an opportunity for new ways to participate, as there are different needs for set-up, clean-up, hospitality and tech support when we are outdoors. Each Sunday, we need:
- Help setting up sound and video equipment and breaking it down;
- Help setting up chairs, water table, etc;
- In-person greeters;
- Zoom chat greeters and monitors to alert us to any sound or video issues;
- Cookie bakers and popcorn makers (or cheese slicers or whatever) for an informal fellowship time.
If you are able to help with any of these, please contact Debbie.
Framingham Pride 2022
Saturday, June 4 at 3:00pm
Memorial Building Plaza, 150 Concord Street
Join our community as we celebrate Pride Month with our neighbors at Framingham’s annual progress flag raising ceremony. Debbie Clark will be the emcee! Learn more at framinghamma.gov/Pride .
Help create our herb garden!
Christian Explorers have started their summer herb garden in front of Jonathan House. Each Sunday, we’ll look for God in nature as we weed and water the garden after worship. If you have an herb or a small flowering plant you’d like to share, bring it on Sunday morning or contact Karen Nell and we’ll add it to our garden. Our harvest will go to A Place to Turn.
Congregational Meeting
Sunday, June 12 at 1:00pm on Zoom
Join us for some important updates and opportunities to provide feedback. The agenda will include two main items: an update from the organizational structure review team, with congregational input about the core values that will shape our structure; an invitation from Justice and Love in Action (formerly Wider Mission) to review the racial justice commitment we voted upon last year, assess how we are doing and ask what we might focus on in the coming year. Please join us for this important opportunity to be together in community.
Quilts for Kenya!
Our winter service project to make blankets for the Sunrise School, a center for children with autism and other developmental challenges in Mumias, Kenya, continues. Eight quilt tops are now in the process of being machine quilted. Once they are quilted, they will be finished with binding by our team of sewers. Then we’ll send them off with our blessings to be hand-delivered to the school in Kenya in July. Thank you to all the many hands who cut and sewed, tied fleece squares and crocheted!
Framingham Juneteenth Fest 2022
Saturday, June 18, 2:00-7:00pm at Farm Pond
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/RSVPJunet
Celebrate Juneteenth at Farm Pond in Framingham! It will be a time of education, enrichment, and empowerment as we commemorate an important moment in American History. There will be food, music, games, raffle and face-painting. Bring your own chair or blanket. The event is free but advance registration is requested.
SPECIAL OFFERING FOR JUNE
Freedom Gardens of Buffalo
This month’s special offering is to support the Freedom Gardens of Buffalo, New York. To quote the current post from this program’s fundraising page:
Buffalo Freedom Gardens was started in 2020 as a rapid, community-led project to address the dual threats of systemic racism and the COVID-19 pandemic in Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Now we have to respond to the added trauma following the mass shooting at TOPS on Jefferson by a white supremacist terrorist on May 14. This hateful act took ten lives from our beloved community and shattered many more. TOPS on Jefferson was the only full-service supermarket serving our predominantly Black community on the east side. We have been living under food apartheid before the shooting and now we need to again summon our strength and resilience to make sure our people are fed, nourished, and loved while we heal.
Freedom Gardeners receive cedar raised or standing beds, organic soil, organic seedlings and gardening tool kits as well as mentoring by other growers of color all at no cost.
Please join Justice and Love in Action (formerly Wider Mission) and the Green Team in this important effort to support the Black community of Buffalo in the wake of this tragedy, one garden at a time.