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More or less
regularly scheduled meetings --
First Friday Film Festival
is THE perennial favorite. Henry Gruen picks a fine
vintage or otherwise memorable film, we all bring the food and pay 6
bucks to eat it, thereby bolstering the congregation's operating
budget. If you're one of the few who hasn't tried it, please
do. You are missing out on a great tradition.
Council
meetings are held on Sunday at
noon 9 days before Board
meetings. Council meetings are open and all are welcome to
attend. (S)
Board of
Trustees
meetings are held
generally on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7pm. Board meetings are
open. All are welcome and urged to attend. (MH)
The
Social Action Committee
meets on third Sundays at noon. - but, no meetings in
July or August.
Choir
rehearsals are held on first and third
Wednesdays of the month at 7pm (S)
Membership
Committee – meets on second Tuesdays at
7pm. (LRE) The thrust of these meetings is to focus on increasing our
church membership. All ideas are welcome and your presence is
needed.
HATS meets on the 1st and
3rd Monday of every month at 6:30 PM. (C)
The
Men's Group meets on first and third Tuesdays at 7pm. (S) - but, no meetings
in July or August. Summer
Reading / The Book
Club
Our next Summer Reading meeting will
be Sunday 17 August.
I discovered that the book I intended
to use, The Beginning of Calamities by Tom House is not as
easily available to borrow or to rent, so I'm substituting another
title altogether. I still recommend the Calamities book to
you, but you'll have to swap the few library copies.
Summer is one of Edith Wharton's most appealing
novels. Written in the midst of the World War in 1917, when Wharton
was caught up in refugee relief in Paris, she set this delicate
novel in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, where she had
earlier lived. It represents a drastic departure for the author in
depicting a rich emotional life in a simple young woman caught up in
startling impulses and responsibilities. Though set in the same
location as her more famous but far bleaker Ethan Frome,
this novel is curiously modern and represents the author's great
leap forward in the density of her characters.
I have read all of Wharton that I know about.
This one has a distinctive charm and haunting quality which is
sunnier and more inward than most of her writing in this
period.
And, for the next two
months...
September 21 - Let the Northern Lights
Erase Your Name, Vendela Vela
October 26 -
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
In November we will
resume a regular schedule when most of our Northern summerers
return.
Paul Coleman
561 635 9246
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