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Sunday, February 05, 2012

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Sunday, February 05, 2012

Worship Service (9:00 am)

First Parish Blood Pressure Clinic (10:00 am)

First-Sunday Blood Pressure Clinic

As part of the Parish Wellness program, on the first Sunday of each month (Sep. - June) you will find another Blood Pressure Clinic between services – 10:00-10:50. Look for Nurses Gaye Carpenter and Diane Brown-King to be set up.

It’s a good idea to make a list of all the medications you take, over-the-counter (like vitamins and/or low-dose aspirin) as well as prescriptions--and bring it with you. Any questions? Our parish nurses will be glad to answer them. The visit only takes a few minutes, and the people are friendly--so you’ll get a relaxed BP reading. We also have those magnetic “pockets” for you to put on your refrigerator in case of emergency--with a form to fill in with medications and allergies and such, as well as other flyers of interest. If you’ve had your BP checked here before, bring your card with you so it can be updated with Sunday’s reading.

Worship Service (11:00 am)

Mystery Friends Sign-ups At Both Coffee Hours (10am) + (12:00 - noon)

Thursday, February 09, 2012

Short Stories Discussion Group (9:30 am)

Please Join the Short Stories Group This Season!

The First Parish Short Stories Group will begin a new season on October 20. We meet most Thursday mornings in the Common Room from 9:30 to 11. The new book is the Best American Short Stories, edited by John Updike. The book is available on amazon.com. Use the church website (uubedford.org.) Click on “Shop to Support First Parish.” We will start with “Zelig” by Benjamin Rosenlatt. The discussions are lively and mostly relevant and we welcome all who care to join us!

FP Choir Rehearsal (7:30 pm)

Join the First Parish Choir!

Have you thought about joining the adult choir? Rehearsals for the adult choir are on Thursdays at 7:30-9:00 p.m and the choir sings on average a couple of times a month. We’ve got some terrific plans for this coming year including an “Italian” Christmas Eve service and a Music Sunday that will be a salute to the music of “The Beatles”. If interested, contact Brad Conner, FP Music/Choir Director.

Friday, February 10, 2012

FP Serves At LTLC (5:30 pm)

Please join us at the Lowell Transitional Living Center at 5:30 PM on the second Friday of each month. (Car pooling may also be available from Bedford.)

Contact Info : Sandra Ferreira

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Peace & Justice Talk: “An Insider’s Look At Iran” W/ John Schuchardt, Co-director Of The House Of Peace In Ipswich (7:00 pm)

John Schuchardt, co-director of the House of Peace in Ipswich, will report back on his recent fact-finding and friendship mission to Iran in a talk “An Insider’s Look at Iran” in the Common Room on Saturday, February 11, at 7 pm. Presented by First Parish’s Peace and Justice group, the talk will be preceded by a simple potluck supper at 6 pm; the requested donation for adults and children is $5 per person.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Worship Service (9:00 am)

Worship Service (11:00 am)

Valentine Concert (4:00 pm)

GERSHWIN, WITH LOVE
Music of the Gershwins and their contemporaries
Sunday Feb. 12, 4:00pm

The Music Committee presents a candlelight
concert of Jazz Age music, follwed by an elegant Chocolate Rhapsody dessert buffet!

Songs by George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin and others ("I Got Rhythm", "Embraceable You",

"Cheerful Little Earful", "I Can't Get Started", "The Man I Love", "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" and more) will be performed by Ben Sears and Cynthia Mork, accompanied by Brad Conner on piano, Nathan Kimball on cello, and Dean Groves on drums.

In the concert's second half, pianist Igor Lovchinsky will perform virtuoso arrangements of Gershwin songs by Earl Wild, topped off with the fabulous "Rhapsody In Blue". A reception featuring elegant chocolate desserts and other delectables, will follow in the Common Room. Don't miss this most
glamorous Valentine affair!

Suggested donation at the door:

Adults $20, Seniors/Students $15.
Proceeds to benefit First Parish.

A special collection will be taken for Bedford's Habitat for Humanity project.

Url: http://www.uubedford.org/community-life/music/666-featured-event.html

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Short Stories Discussion Group (9:30 am)

Please Join the Short Stories Group This Season!

FP Choir Rehearsal (7:30 pm)

Join the First Parish Choir!

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Worship Service-One Service Only Today (10:00 am)

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Third Tuesday Dinner (6:00 pm)

The Third Tuesday Dinner is a catered meal held in the Common Room at First Parish at 6 p.m. on the Third Tuesday of each month, September through May. Cost is $8/adult, $4.50/child under 12. Set up and clean up are a communal effort; every adult is responsible for one or the other, and kids help out where they can. It is an event of fellowship, to forge connections within and across generations. Please RSVP to Joan in the office (office@uubedford.org) by 9 a.m. on the Monday preceding the meal to give her your headcount and let her know whether the adult members of your party will be on set up or clean up crew. (We are always short of clean up crew.) If you don't like being surprised by the catered meal and/or have food allergies, please feel free to bring your own meal (including dessert, if you wish), but still contact Joan to make sure our headcount is accurate for chairs.
Hope to see you there!

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Short Stories Discussion Group (9:30 am)

Please Join the Short Stories Group This Season!