Follen Friday Updates
September 23, 2011
WORSHIP SERVICE INFORMATION
September 25, 2011
10:00 A.M: FAMILY WORSHIP SERVICE, IN THE SANCTUARY
This 20-minute service is for families with young children, and is crafted to engage
children between the ages of four and ten. All are welcome – please arrive early and sit
down front so your children can interact with the worship leaders!
10:30 A.M.: ADULT WORSHIP SERVICE, IN THE SANCTUARY
Of Dreams and Possibilities
Led by the Reverend Cricket Potter
Religious Education classes will meet
Nursery care will be provided
This Sunday at Follen Church
PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT GROUP
We meet every Sunday, except holidays, in the Marshman Center from 8:30 - 10:00
a.m. Everyone is invited. This is an open group that operates on a drop-in basis. No
prior notice is needed. You may come for one or many meetings, or sporadically, when
your schedule allows or you feel a particular need at a given time. Confidentiality is
maintained at all times.
For more information contact Margaret Micholet (margaretmicholet@verizon.net; 781274-9687) or Dottie Vacca (dvacca@aol.com; 781-899-1542.)
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS:
GRADE 9 NEIGHBORING FAITHS
The Grade 9 Neighboring Faiths class will not meet this Sunday, September 25.
LAST CALL FOR RE REGISTRATION FORMS!
If you haven’t already, please register your children for religious education classes.
Packets of forms are available outside of Debra Zagaeski’s office. All Follen programs
are open to everyone regardless of ability to pay; please contact Debra, Director of
Religious Education, at dre@follen.org.
Follen News and Events
UPCOMING NEWSLETTER DEADLINE
The deadline for the next print edition of the Follen newsletter has been moved back to
Sunday, October 2. Please submit brief articles and announcements to the church office
at admin@follen.org. This edition of the newsletter will cover October and early
November.
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WONDERING WHO PROVIDES THE TASTY COFFEE HOUR FOOD
EACH SUNDAY?
… we do! Each person or family in the Follen Directory is asked to provide food
approximately every year or two. There is no money in the budget for Coffee Hour
food – it is generously provided each week by all of us.
The Follen Social Events budget allows us to provide coffee and tea for all events – our
beloved Equal Exchange coffee is Fair Trade. Milk and cream is provided by Social
Events members.
Also, Coffee Hour set-up and clean-up is managed by different rotating “Coffee Elves.”
Enjoy Coffee Hour? Thank an Elf!
Willing to join us in the kitchen? Contact Caroline Walters at cwalters@suffolk.edu.
-- Lydia Swan
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EAST VILLAGE FAIR NEWS
Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1
Friday, September 30: PARTY at Follen! First Chance Fleas and Cafe!
Come to Follen from 7-9pm next Friday, September 30, and get your first chance at
Follen's Fabulous Flea Market! The East Village Fair Flea Market is open that night—but
only to Follenites. If you're reading this announcement, you're invited! Bring the whole
family!
Get the good stuff before the Flea Market opens to the public on Saturday—bikes and
skis in perfect condition, jewelry, silly kids' games, sturdy housewares, enthralling
books—and then share delectable cakes and pastries baked especially for Follen at the
First Chance Cafe upstairs in the Anne Smith Room. It's one of Follen's finest
entertainments!
The East Village Fair team is also looking for volunteers to staff the Flea Market and
Book Sales that night. Have fun talking with your fellow Follenites and help out. Please
sign up on the Follen web page (www.follen.org) or e-mail one of the Fair co-chairs to
volunteer. Thank you!
Meg Muckenhoupt megmuck@gmail.com
Greg Shenstone gshenstone@gmail.com
Chris Walters cmwalters@partners.org
We still need YOU–and your stuff– NOW!
for the East Village Fair, Saturday October 1
On Saturday, October 1, from 10am-3pm, hundreds of people will flock to Follen, ready
to spend money and have fun. We need YOU to help make our East Village Fair great!
We need more volunteers!
We are critically short of people to staff cash-raising booths during the Fair: Flea
Market, books, jewelry, and kids' games!! Our activity Chairs have worked hard to
prepare, but we need a smiling Follenite to accept every Fairgoer's money! Sign-ups
continue this Sunday, Sept 25, but even better, sign up on-line at the East Village Fair
page on the Follen site, or send an e-mail to megmuck@gmail.com
Bake! Bake! Bake!
We need bakers! Bake cookies for the Cookie Trail; muffins, cupcakes, brownies or
bars, apple crisp or pie, cakes and quick-breads for the Baked Goods table. Or desserts
for the Friday evening First Chance Café.
• Please wrap and label all baked goods. Use clear sandwich bags or cling wrap, but not
aluminum foil please. Bars and squares are best wrapped individually if large, or in
clusters of 4 or 6 of moderate size.
Cookies are best packaged in bags of 4. Chocolate chip, molasses or sugar cookies.
Clean 1# coffee cans are needed for customer self-pick collection.
• Bring donations in bag labeled “EVF” to Follen kitchen Friday evening Oct 1, or
morning of the Fair
Dig Plants!
Dig some plants and pot them! See separate article below for details. Plants can be
dropped off on lawn between church and Marshman Center any time before the Fair.
Post Flyers!
We need several people to post a few flyers around Lexington and Arlington. See any
Fair Chair this Sunday morning at Follen, or E-mail us.
Thank you from your Fair Chairs!!
Greg Shenstone / gshenstone@gmail.com
Meg Muckenhoupt / megmuck@gmail.com
Chris Walters/ cmwalters@partners.org
East Village Fair Plants
2011 Plant Donation Drop-Off Dates
Sunday, September 25-Friday, September 30: Drop off plants (see below): no
houseplants before the morning of the Fair.
Saturday, October 1 (Fair morning): Drop off houseplants before 10 am
Sunday, September 25-Thursday, September 29: Bring garden/plant related items
and tools to indoor Flea Market (please label them as gardening items).
We need your donations of labeled, potted perennials to sell at the East Village Fair
Plant Table. Please label them with the name of the plant, sun or shade requirements,
color and height if possible.
We welcome
 perennial flowers, foliage plants, and grasses
 potted ferns,
 hostas, daylilies, and irises
 herbs of all sorts
 shrubs such as rhododendrons
Perennials in pots may be dropped off between the Marshman Center and the side of
Follen. in the same location beginning September 25, and leading up to the day before
EVF.
We also welcome healthy house plants, to be delivered the morning of the Fair. We are
also asking for garden/plant related items and tools in good condition.
Gardening related items may be labeled as such, and delivered to the Flea Market in the
Community Center beginning September 25
Thank you. We look forward to your contributions.
Any questions about plant donations...call Karen at 781-674-1136, or email to
Kwatsonart@aol.com
RAFFLE NEWS
Yes, we have a pair of Red Sox tickets – great seats! - to raffle off. Here is a partial list
of other enticing items you can win in the East Village Fair Raffle:
TO BE RAFFLED FRIDAY EVENING:
- A woman’s watch from Artinian Jewelers
- Gift certificates to Avenue Deli,
- Trader Joe's Bag of Groceries,
- A one month membership to a Pilates Studio in town,
- A bottle of wine from Berman’s,
- Gift cards to Crafty Yankee,
- A bag of groceries from Tuttl Italiano,
- A gift certificate to Cake,
- A gift certificate to Ruyi Japanese restaurant
- A gift card to Rancatore's Ice Cream
- A gift certificate to Bucca di Bepo, and
- A Starbuck's gift basket.
TO BE RAFFLED SATURDAY:
- A gift card to Catch a Falling Star,
- A gift certificate to Nick's Place,
- A Trader Joe's bag of groceries,
- One month membership to Boston Pilates,
- A gift card to Rancatore's and Candy Castle,
-A gift certificate to Stop and Shop,
-A gift certificate to Lakota Bakery.
And don’t forget the Red Sox tickets: everyone will be eligible for two tickets to a Red
Sox game next year.
Thank you from your Fair Chairs!!
Meg Muckenhoupt / megmuck@gmail.com
Greg Shenstone / gshenstone@gmail.com
Chris Walters / cmwalters@partners.org
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SENIOR CHOIR OPEN REHEARSAL MONTH
It has become a tradition at Follen to make September a month of open rehearsals for
the Senior Choir. If you would like to try us out – if you love music and love singing
(whether or not you think you are any good at it!!) – if you want to join a lively and
funny and committed group of individuals – come to any of our September rehearsals.
We meet in the Sanctuary on Tuesdays 7:30-9:00 p.m. and on Sundays at 9:00 a.m. and
would love to see you there!
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SEEKING INTERFAITH GARDEN VOLUNTEERS
Follen is scheduled for only three times more to work at the Lexington Interfaith
Garden before the frost sets in. Can you help this Tuesday? Contact Janet Lane if you
can help out at 781) 862-7097 or j.f.lane@rcn.com
September 27, Tuesday 4:30-6:00 with Temple Emunah
October 11, Tuesday 4:30-6:00 with Temple Emunah
October 29, Saturday, 8:-9:30 with Pilgrim Congregational and Church of the
Redeemer
The interfaith Garden is next to First Parish Church on the Lexington Green. Carla, the
landowner, is an excellent volunteer coordinator and assumes you need direction. Go
to interfaithgarden.org for more information.
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ADULT PROGRAMS:
Feel the Spirit – Creative Journaling and Collage
This is an extension of the contemplative practice and ‘soul collage’ workshop from last
year. Plan to join us for our first meeting on Saturday, October 8th at 10:00 am in
the Anne Smith Room.
A New Way to Relieve Anxiety and Phobias
Led by John Dacey
John will explain the nature and causes of debilitating anxiety and phobias. He will briefly
explain the different methods therapists use to deal with these difficulties in women,
men and children. Finally, he will demonstrate the newest and most effective technique
for relieving these problems. The workshop will be held Wednesday, October 12, from
7:30 to 9, in the Marshman Center. Please let John know (dacey@bc.edu) if you will be
attending.
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CALL FOR ARTISTS
of all ages, media, & levels of experience
The Gallery in the Anne Smith Room celebrates the creativity of Follen’s artists—
accomplished, emerging, or accidental—in solo, shared, and group shows. We aim to
have a new show every six weeks. What time would suit you best?
Please let us (see “us” below) know if you are interested in a solo or shared show. As
for group shows, consider the following preliminary descriptions; what do have or might
create that would fit?
• Snapshot Serendipity – A group show of photographs that exceeded expectations. You
know, the ones where we say, “Hey, I really like the way that turned out.” For all levels.
Don't be shy!
• pARTicipation event – Arrive, play, create, display (date and time to be announced).
• Springing Spring – A group show in late winter to help begin the thaw.
If you would like to discuss what you would like to do, please contact Tempe Goodhue
(tgoodhue@aol.com) Ann Schauffler (aschauffler@rcn.com), and/or Jane Spickett
(jasowl@earthlink.net). We look forward to helping everyone at Follen be seen and see.
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NOVEMBER 20: THANKSGIVING SUNDAY SERVICE AT FIRST
CHURCH IN ROXBURY - Volunteers needed!
For the past 4 years we have journeyed to the beautiful historic First Parish Church at
John Eliot Square in Roxbury -- home of the UU Urban Ministry (www.uuum.org) -- to
hold our pre-Thanksgiving worship service. This year’s service is on Sunday November
20. If you have attended in the past you will recall the joyous and uplifting sense of
potential we gain by showing our support for the UU Urban Ministry with our presence
there.
Planning for this year's service is getting underway and we need help. We are looking
for the following types of assistance: transportation planning & coordination, hospitality
planning and sanctuary decoration. Please reply to Sally Cassells by email
(sally44@rcn.com) or phone (781 861 3750).
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RENEWAL HOUSE SHELTER NEEDS YOU!
Renewal House is a shelter for women and children escaping domestic violence,
operated by the UU Urban Ministry. Follen has been asked to help with 2 exciting
upcoming Renewal House events. Contact Lisa Snellings if you can help:
lisa@snellingslaw.com or 781-635-6383.
Saturday, September 24, Beyond Shelter Gathering in Roxbury
"Beyond Shelter" is a quarterly gathering for Renewal House residents and former
residents. Follen will provide a light lunch for 40-50 mothers and children, staff and
volunteers, and supplies and instructions to make tie-dye shirts. For the lunch we need
donations of drinks, sandwich makings, chips, and fruit, and for the tie-dye we need
disposable gloves, old shirts or smocks, and new white cotton t-shirts, any size.
Financial contributions are also welcome. We need 2-4 more volunteers to help at the
party. We will be carpooling to Roxbury, leaving Lexington around noon and returning
by 4.
Saturday, October 1, East Village Fair
For the last 4 years Follen has hosted Renewal House families and staff at the EVF. A
group of about 16 arrives by UU bus at around 10 am, and departs around 2 pm. Follen
provides a gathering spot in Marshman, food and game tickets, and some flea market
spending money. We need 2-4 volunteers to work in 2 hour shifts to help host these
guests.
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NOLA in November
For the past five years, Follen Church has sent volunteers to New Orleans to help in
all phases of rebuilding the city.
Our next volunteer trip will be November 5-12. This trip is for adults and college
students. [In April, youth and adults will make another trip.] We will again be joining
forces with our friends from the UU Area Church at First Parish in Sherborn, MA.
Come join us –the work will transform you as we help to rebuild homes and
community.
To sign up and/or get more information, please contact Ann Schauffler (ann.schauffler
@gmail.com -or- 781-861-7689).
About Follen Folks
Longtime Follen member Ruth Wathen-Dunn, 97 years old, passed away peacefully on
September 18 at Brookhaven in Lexington. Ruth signed the Follen membership book in
1952 and was active at Follen for decades, along with her husband, Weiant WathenDunn, who died in 1997. Plans are underway for a memorial service to be held at Follen
later this fall.
In the Broader Community
GENTLE YOGA FOR SENIORS
All levels welcome, no experience necessary.
Mondays, 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. at Hancock Church in Lexington Center.
Led by Don Weikert, Kripalu-trained yoga instructor.
If interested, please call 781-862-3887 for details.
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TOMORROW! SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, MOVING PLANET RALLY
FOR THE CLIMATE
Rally for the Climate is this Saturday, September 24 at Christopher Columbus Park
in Boston. Want to join other Follen folk carpooling to Alewife to attend? Contact
Janet Lane at j.f.lane@rcn.com.
A coalition of Lexington faith communities are also going:
We'd love to have you join a number of Lexington folks who are going to be riding from
Lexington Green to the 350.org Moving Planet rally on Saturday - September 24th.
We'll be meeting at Lexington Green at 2:00 PM.
Some folks will be riding bikes, some folks taking the T, some folks riding in Prii
carpools. The details can be found at revolutionaryride.blogspot.com. For more
information contact marksandeen@gmail.com
This event is sponsored by a number of groups including World Council of Churches,
Oxfam, 350.org and Sierra Club. The Boston rally follows a civil disobedience action in
Washington DC in late August. Protests were held in front of the White House to ask
Obama to veto the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline that would carry oil from
the tar sands of Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. 1252 people were arrested, including
people from Lexington, to call attention to the need to shift to renewable energy, and
to stop construction of the pipeline. (Go to tarsandsaction.org for more information).