June 3
Speakers:
Rev. Nina Grey
and Danielle Gerrior

The Learning Community:
Generation to Generation: Religious Education Sunday

Today in an uplifting celebration of word and song, we will honor and celebrate our learning community, all who teach and learn from each other in the life of our church. Our young people and choir will sing and we will all lift our voices in joyful song. Adam Green will provide special music.

Danielle Gerrior and Rev. Nina Grey will offer a dialogue homily on the significance of religious education, and we will acknowledge our children and youth in the RE program, our adults who are participating in adult religious education, and leaders and facilitators of lifespan religious education. We will recognize 8th grade and 12th grade milestones, say farewell to our R.E. Assistant, Matt Hartgering, and those Meadville Lombard students who are going off to ministries and internships.

June 10
Speakers:
Rev. Nina Grey
and Danielle Gerrior

The Flower Communion:
A Unitarian Universalist Celebration of Community

Bring a flower to our annual celebration of Flower Communion! We hear the story of the Rev. Norbert Capek, Unitarian minister in Czechoslovakia, founder of the Flower Communion, and martyr for our faith's principle of the inherent worth and dignity of every person. We gather our diverse and varied flowers into beautiful bouquets, symbols of our unity. Our young people bear the flowers from hand to hand as we each receive a different flower from the one we brought. This is a beautiful and joyful service for all ages.

During this service we will offer our thanks and best wishes to Danielle Gerrior as she completes her service as Director of Religious Education and prepares to leave for a new position in Lexington, Massachusetts. The Social Hour and Picnic, in Danielle's honor, following the service is co-hosted by the Board of Trustees and the Religious Education Council. See more news about the picnic elsewhere in the newsletter.

June 17
Speaker: Dr. Terry Mason

The Men's Group

Father's Day celebrations have occurred in this country since the beginning of the 20th century. However, it was not until 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson made Father's Day a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday in June and even then it was not until 1972, during the presidency of Richard Nixon, that Father's Day was established a permanent national observance. Regardless of its origins Father's Day is known as the day that we have set aside to honor the men who have made a difference in our lives. It is in the spirit of Father's Day and brotherhood that Dr. Terry Mason, Commissioner of Health for the City of Chicago, and the Men's Group of First Unitarian Church, will lead our worship on this third Sunday of June.

June 24
Speaker: Jim Moir

Wile E.'s Spirit

For Native Americans, the Coyote deity is an enduring symbol for the energy and power found in life and nature. Coyote is both a positive and negative example with important cultural significance. Jim Moir has long appreciated Coyote, but knows that he needs a symbolic figure more appropriate to his own cultural and social background. For Jim, Wile E. Coyote represents at least some of Coyote's spiritual ideals, while also embodying aspects of modern, western society.

Jim Moir is a third year student at Meadville Lombard Theological School. He has spoken here twice before.

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