A Late Valentine to You!

What a wonderful week – from meeting with interfaith leaders from across the state, and two from the national InterFaith Alliance, Washington DC office, to our InterFaith service with exquisite music led by our Beth Beyers, and beautifully delivered by our pianist Noe Baladad and by our choir, to our New Member Orientation!

We have nine new members!
We have five new children!
And I think another beloved is joining today!
Our beloved community’s growth is so precious to me.
With each new person in our congregation, we grow stronger in our support of peace and goodness in our world.
Theresa Moorleghen, Leanne MacIntire of our membership team, and Catherine Graham, our VP (and much more), and I met with our wonderful new members over carrot soup lunch. We shared about our faith and our church, and we heard about their experiences with UU and what they seek in our church.

We will formally welcome them at our “InGathering” in our March 1st service.
Please be there to celebrate:

• Lauren Staiger with children Katherine and Jonathan
• Zak Fraser, son of Rev Bob Fraser our minister from 1985-95, and son of Catherine Graham!
• Megan Casey
• Margaret Foulkes
• John-Paul Chaisson-Cardenas
• Angelica Cardenas-Chaisson
• Jaclynn Sebado-Eitel with children Jack, George, and Anna
• James (Jimbo) Eitel (with those same kids!)

Recent members who will be welcomed in our InGathering:

• Rick Pittaway
• James (Jim) LoPresti
• Diane Divita

Are you a member who has not yet been welcomed in an InGathering?
If so, please email me so we may “gather you in” formally, in celebration, even if long after joining.

Mahalo to each of you for all you do!
Rev. Deborah