Our Annual Spring Yard Sale will be held on Saturday, May 25th. We will be collecting items for the sale and needing help before, during, and after the sale. Please contact Susan Haines (sdhaines@earthlink.net) if you’d like to help or have questions.

Committees and Committee Chairs,
Please be thinking about your End of Year Annual Reports! The Annual Meeting is being held a week earlier this year on June 2nd so please have your reports in by May 19th. Reports needed: Minister’s, Parish Committee, Buildings & Grounds, Music & Worship, Religious Education, Caring Committee, Community Assistance Fund, Treasurer’s, Trustees of the Trust Fund, and Nominating Committee. Thank you.
Cindy C., PC Clerk

Sunday, June 2 ~ UUCF Annual Meeting: The annual meeting will be held on the first Sunday in June this year, June 2nd, after the service at 12:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided and there will be daycare. All UUCF members are eligible to vote on the major decisions for the year including the budget, lay led services and continuing with a minister. Have questions? Ask a Parish Committee member. They are Joe Schmidl, Cindy Clarenbach, Sheryl Anderson, Howard Amsden, Kim Donovan and Gail Morrison.

Friday, April 26 – Unos Dough Raiser

On Sunday, April 28 at 10 am Drew Moeller will present “Wrestling with the Blessing.”

Sunday, June 2 ~ UUCF Annual Meeting: The annual meeting will be held on the first Sunday in June this year, June 2nd, after the service at 12:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided and there will be daycare. All UUCF members are eligible to vote on the major decisions for the year including the budget, lay led services and continuing with a minister. Have questions? Ask a Parish Committee member. They are Joe Schmidl, Cindy Clarenbach, Sheryl Anderson, Howard Amsden, Kim Donovan and Gail Morrison.

Sunday, June 2 ~ UUCF Annual Meeting: The annual meeting will be held on the first Sunday in June this year, June 2nd, after the service at 12:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided and there will be daycare. All UUCF members are eligible to vote on the major decisions for the year including the budget, lay led services and continuing with a minister. Have questions? Ask a Parish Committee member. They are Joe Schmidl, Cindy Clarenbach, Sheryl Anderson, Howard Amsden, Kim Donovan and Gail Morrison.

Sunday, June 9 at 10 am Rev. Anita will present her last sermon for our congregation and pianist Martha Shepp will join us for the last time as our musician.

At 10 am Rev. Dr. Anita Farber-Robertson will present “Good Information.” Following the service, there will be a congregational meeting to discuss our hopes and plans for the future of our community.

Monday, April 15 at 6:30 pm ~ Parish Committee Meeting

Monday, April 1 at 7 pm ~ Music and Worship Committee

On Sunday, April 7 at 10 am Rev Brendan Hadash will speak about Sebastian Castellio, the father of Unitarianism

April 14 at 10 am, Rev. Dr. Anita Farber-Robertson will present a sermon. At 8:30 am
there will be a canvass pancake breakfast. After worship we will gather for a
congregational conversation about who you are, what you love, and what you
want for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Franklin. We will affirm
what is here that we cherish, and dream about what can be.

April 21 at 10 am Louise Proctor will present a service.

April 28 at 10 am Drew Moeller, minister at the Unitarian Universalist Society in Laconia, will visit our pulpit.

Read our April Newsletter for more information about happenings in our congregation.

Please also read our March 2013 Newsletter for more information about upcoming events

Friday February 15 at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm ~Coffee House, featuring local acoustic guitarist Don Bartenstein playing folk and classic Americana.
Don is very active in the local music scene and can often be heard playing at open mics in Concord, Bristol, and other surrounding towns. His music can be heard at http://www.reverbnation.com/donbartenstein.

Don will be followed by Trio Dolama: one piano, one cello, one violin.  The trio plays nouveau tango, locally composed jazz, spirited classical, and beat poetry-Bach inventions.

Doug Kendall (cello) is a Latin teacher at Holderness School. He’s been a member of the Lakes Region String Quartet since 1985.

Larry Blaine (violin) is a professor of mathematics at PSU who relates his music expertise to mathematics in his “Math and Humanities” classes.

Martha Shepp (piano) is an expressive arts enthusiast, graphic designer, and musician who believes that all the arts belong together.

Come Have Your Ear’s Tickled. We will serve homemade desserts, maybe something new this time, but definitely chocolate covered strawberries. We will offer a selection of teas and coffees. $10 admission covers it all

On Sunday, February 17 at 10 am Vince Ribas will present a service on Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution.  (This is a change from the schedule announced in our newsletter.)  Soup and Bread Sunday.  Anyone willing can bring Soup and Bread to share with the fellowship.  All are invited to eat!

Monday, February 18 at 6:30 pm ~ Parish Committee

Friday, February 22 ~ Uno’s Dough Raiser

Sunday, February 24 at 10 am, Drew Moeller (minister at UU Society of Loaconia) will present a service from our pulpit.

Please read our February Newsletter for more information about upcoming events.