Sunday, September 16th

The second Sunday of the 2007-2008 year was marked by a sermon by Rev. Tom Schade entitled Silent Majority. It has been posted at the "Words Said Here" Blog.

The children had their first classes of the year. The Youth Group especially continues to have a very large turnout.

The second Sunday of the fall season has traditionally been a time when members of First Unitarian of Worcester and members of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Worcester retreat together to Ferry Beach in Maine. Vice-Moderator Liz Gustavson went on the retreat this year and sends this report:

About 40 people from First Unitarian joined the UU Church of Worcester (Holden St.) on the weekend of September 14-16, 2007 to Ferry Beach, a UUA camp and conference center on the shore ofCasco Bay in Maine. There was time to relax, to take walks on the beach, to do the Polar Bear dip, to eat very well, for the adults to have a cocktail hour, sharing dips, chips and beverages and to build community within our congregation and theirs. Everyone was assigned tasks, either cooking or cleaning up from a meal and then on Sunday, a general cleanup of the area. An energetic group of kids put on a talent show on Saturday, which was folleowed by a bonfire. Kids got glow sticks and looked like fireflies running around in the Grove. Families with small children enjoyed the improved playground area. It was a pleasant, fun and peaceful time.