WEST PARIS — Please join us as we gather on Sundays at 9 a.m. for informative and inspiring worship services, that can be contemplative – calming the mind and spirit. Refreshments following the service. All are welcome.
November 5, “To Go or Not to Go,” led by the Worship Service Committee. Why we do or do not go to church.
November 12, “Good Enough,” led by Marilyn Hammond, who has spoken at our church many times. Marilyn is a member of the South Paris Universalist Church. She will be talking about looking at finding joy, meaning, and satisfaction in the life you’ve already got and the ‘you’ you already are.
November 19, “Gratitude,” led by The Rev. Linda Couture. She will focus on how we are grateful and include some words about Veteran’s Day and Thanksgiving. Rev. Couture is a licensed pastor in the United Church of Christ, Maine Conference. She is the pastor at the West Paris Mission Congregational Church UCC. Linda is a creative person and loves to be outside in nature as much as possible. She offers creative workshops that combine creativity and connection to the Spirit within us! She and her husband have three grown children and seven grandchildren.
November 26, “Poetry,” led by Maine’s Poet Laureate, Julia Bouwsma, who lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine, where she is a poet, homesteader, editor, teacher, and small-town librarian. Bouwsma is Maine’s sixth Poet Laureate, serving a term from 2021 to 2026, and the author of two poetry collections: Midden (Fordham University Press, 2018) and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review, 2017), both of which have received the Maine Literary Award for Poetry Book. Bouwsma has taught in the Creative Writing department at the University of Maine at Farmington and currently serves as the Library Director for Webster Library in Kingfield, ME.
For more information about the church and services, please contact Marta Clements, at 674-2143, mclements96894@roadrunner.com, To learn more about the Unitarian-Universalist Association, visit http://www.uua.org/.
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