Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Franklin, New Hampshire

Join us for our “Christmas Around the World” service at 6pm on December 24.  All are welcome, including the littlest children!   We love visitors.

December 10 at 4 pm

Free and Open to the public.

December Newsletter

Friday, December 2 ~ Poinsettia Delivery

Friday, Decemberer 2 at 6 pm ~ Your help is needed to set-up for the craft fair and cookie walk, i.e. move RE back toward the Parlor to make room for the vendors and to decorate for the holidays. Please join us to decorate and share a pot luck dinner starting at 6pm or even sooner if you want to get a head start with the decorating. Hope to see you there.

Saturday, December 3, 9 am to 2 pm ~ Craft Fair and Cookie Walk.

We need your cookies! Yes, your cookies! he success of the Cookie Walk is dependent upon having cookies to sell. For the last two years, the options have been small. If everyone could contribute 3 dozen of 3 different kinds, we would be fine.

Help will be needed at the conclusion of the event (Saturday 2 pm) to get things back in order and to return RE back to a workable space for Sunday morning.

Thank you all in advance for your help and support. – Susan Haines

Sunday, December 4 at 10 am ~ Rev. Brendan Hadash will present “Life is a Balloon Ride.”

Sunday, December 11 at 10 am ~ Rev. Ken McKusick will present “The Dark Night of Our Souls” ~ As daylight shortens and winter approaches, we spend more time without light as the Earth enters a time of rest and renewal. Beyond seasonal affective disorder, periods of deep personal pain, loss and despair are often referred to as the dark night of our souls. How can we find rest and renewal during these times?

On Sunday, November 27 at 10 am Kathlene Fleckenstein will present “The Religion of Consumerism – How Much is Enough?”

Friday, December 2 at 6 pm ~ Potluck and decorating of the Fellowship Hall. Let’s share some food and have some fun. All invited!

Friday, December 2 ~ Poinsettia Delivery

Saturday, December 3, 9 am to 2 pm ~ Craft Fair and Cookie Walk. Cookies can be brought to the Meetinghouse Friday night or early Saturday morning.
Items are needed for the Community Table.

Saturday, December 10 at 4 pm ~ Santa Lucia Tea. Anyone wishing to help with entertainment (read, dance, sing, etc.) should contact Gail Morrison

On Sunday November 13 at 10 am Rev. Kent McKusick will present “When Things Fall Apart.” The Buddhist nun Pema Chodron writes, “We live in difficult times. One senses a possibility they may get worse.” How might we bring order into our disordered lives?

On Sunday, November 6 at 10 am Johan Anderson will present a sermon in two parts – He will start by telling us more about the UU congregation in Laconia so we can all get to know each other better. The more spiritual part is titled “Bless My Soul,” and is a discussion about how the concept of a soul works for this particular UU.

Johan has been Chairman of the Laconia UU Parish Committee for the past three years, having joined the congregation in 2003, when he moved to the Lakes Region from Connecticut. He has been a teacher and corporate trainer and now substitute teaches in the Gilford schools. He does community theater and sings in the Pemi Choral Society. He also coaches Special Olympics skiing and dabbles in local politics.

Don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour!

On Sunday, October 30 at 10 am, Kathlene Fleckenstein will present a Samhain service.

On Sunday October 16 at 10 am, the Rev. Bredan Hadash will present “Reflections on the meaning of ministry (on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of my ordination)”

The Rev. Kent McKusick will be holding office hours this Thursday from 10 am to 2 pm.

On Sunday, October 9 at 10 am Rev. Kent McKusick will present “We Begin Again in Love”