For better resolution, click here and choose “watch in high quality” This past Sunday’s “Blessing the Animals” service was a great success, as all manner of cats, dogs, parakeets and even fish visited Northshore to meet the Rev. Frieda Gillespie, as well as each other. Please enjoy this video of highlights from the service.
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Today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It is a time of introspection, repentance and new beginnings. If you have the day off today, I hope you have planned some deep rest and renewal. You can learn more about this holiday and its traditions here. We all make mistakes and wish we could change [...]
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Adults and children are invited to a blessing ceremony for any and all animals brought to our service on Sunday, September 28, at 10:30 a.m. This is our first “blessing of the animals” event, and it will be conducted by our minister, the Rev. Frieda Gillespie. “All manner of creatures are welcome that can be [...]
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Church member Michele Chausse profiles the Rev. Frieda Gillespie and Fred Mills, our new director of religious education (DRE), in this week’s Danvers Herald. Michele notes that Rev. Gillespie is only our third settled minister, having succeeded the Rev. Ed Lynn, who retired in 2005 after 33 years. As Michele also writes, our first settled [...]
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The Salem News today publishes a profile of our new settled minister, the Rev. Frieda Gillespie. The story, by Kelsey Klerowski, describes Frieda’s journey from successful computer consultant to minister and adoptive mother. Klerowski writes: As a child, Gillespie attended a Unitarian Universalist church, but stopped going after high school. In 1998, she walked back [...]
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Click here or on photo for Flickr slideshow Five members of the Northshore UU Church headed up Mount Monadnock on a cool, clear late-summer morning this past Saturday. Helen Brandt, Maureen Duram, Dan Kennedy, Jeri Kroll, and Jodi Smith hiked the Dublin Trail up the north side of Monadnock, a less-crowded alternative to the more [...]
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“It Is Diversity That Creates Community” will be the topic of Rev. Frieda Gillespie’s sermon this Sunday, September 21, at the Northshore Unitarian Universalist Church. Frieda’s her talk will pose some challenging questions: How can we claim to embrace diversity if we don’t reveal our beliefs to one another? Can we be community if we [...]
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The UUA’s Commission on Appraisal is charged with reviewing Article II of the UUA Bylaws every 15 years. This probably seems obscure, but the article includes the Principles and Purposes that you have no doubt seen many times. The Commission asked for and received lots of comments from the UU congregations about the original version [...]
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Our new director of religious education, Fred Mills, and our minister, the Rev. Frieda Gillespie, will speak about “The Heart of Religious Education” at our service this coming Sunday, September 14, at 10:30 a.m. This will be a great opportunity for families to hear about Mr. Mills’s vision for our Religious Education Program. The service [...]
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