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Circuits, the FUSS weekly e-mail update: the last 4 issues
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| FUSS Circuits |
News & Events
Aug 26th - Sept 1st 2008 |
Dear Members and Friends!
Welcome to Circuits, the FUSS Weekly Email Update! Here you can find information on the upcoming Sunday Service and the most current news, updates and events at the First Unitarian Society of Schenectady. Please send your Circuits items to Susan Stedge. The deadline is Mondays at 5pm. For more information, click on this link to the Circuits submission guidelines, email Susan or call the office at 374-4446. Circuits will also notify you when the most current issue of Circles is published. |
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| Sunday Service 10:30AM |
August 31st There will be no service this week due to the Holiday Weekend. Sunday, September 7th Ingathering Sunday and Water Communion
The Rev. Priscilla Richter and Melissa MacKinnon, DRE
We come together as one intergenerational community following a summer which I hope was restorative for each of  you. We ask you to bring a small amount of water representative of your summer travel or experiences to join in our common vessel that symbolizes our unity as a community. We combine music and story along with our annual Water Communion.
Music: Bill Flanagan, banjo and guitar; Peter Gernert-Dott, bass;
Members of the Junior Choir, and from The Society Choir |
| Church Office is on Vacation 8/27- 9/3 |
| The Church office will be closed from Wednesday, August 27th thru Wednesday, September 3rd. Susan Stedge in the office will be on vacation. The September 1st, 5pm deadline for Circuits still applies! |
| A Finance Note |
| If you didn't receive a Quarterly Report on your pledging in July, it was because your pledge was paid in full leaving a zero balance due. This decision was made in the interest of saving on the cost for postage. Normal distribution will resume with the Quarterly Report that will be sent in October. |
| APC Would Like Your Suggestions! |
| The Adult Programs Council is currently planning a double-feature fall movie night, with a kid-friendly movie early in the evening, followed immediately by an adult movie. In addition, the APC is scheduling topics and speakers for Coffee, Cocoa, and Conversation. We would like your help in deciding which movies to show and which topics to have at CC&C. If you have any suggestions for movies or CC&C topics and speakers, please take a few seconds and share them with us by clicking HERE. |
| EBWA - August 28th |
Annual Potluck and Book Sharing Discussion!
Join us for an informal sharing of books you have enjoyed reading and recommend. Meet at the usual time (about 6 pm) in the dining room. No need for reservations, but bring your own table setting and a dish to share. Beverages will be provided. Questions? Call Judy Clough at 393-1876. |
| Women's Alliance Resumes 9/4 |
The Women's Alliance resumes its monthly luncheons on September 4th at noon. Plan to come for lunch and to hear Judy Farrell talk about the Amusement Park at Rexford. Please contact Barbara Horgen at abhorgen@aol.com if you haven't been contacted. For more info, refer to the full article coming out in the September Circles!
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| Attention FUSS Families |
| If you have children ages Birth-3 and plan on utilizing the nursery during this year's services, please contact Cheri Hart at gentilcc@nycap.rr.com to register your child. The nursery will be open beginning Sunday, September 7th. |
| September 14th - RE Open House! |
| September 14th RE classes start with an RE Open House 9:30 am - 10:15 am in Waters House. Come for a light breakfast, check out the classrooms, meet the teachers, register your child or youth. Following the service we will have our traditional coffee hour at Waters House! |
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| Church Office Hours |
 Monday - Friday 8:30am - 4pm For more information call: 518-374-4446 Phone 518-374-4452 Fax |
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| First Unitarian Society of Schenectady | 518-374-4446 | 1221 Wendell Avenue | Schenectady | NY | 12308 |
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| FUSS Circuits |
News & Events
August 19th - 25th 2008 |
Dear Members and Friends!
Welcome to Circuits, the FUSS Weekly Email Update! Here you can find information on the upcoming Sunday Service and the most current news and events at the First Unitarian Society of Schenectady. Please send your Circuits update items to Susan Stedge by Mondays at 5pm. For more information, click on this link to the Circuits submission guidelines. Circuits will also notify you when the most current issue of Circles is published. |
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| Sunday Service 10:30AM |
August 24th Canaries in the Coal Mine The Rev. Priscilla Richter
Canaries in coal mines provided strong warnings of dangers. What are some of the uncommon canaries that, if we paid attention, could give us warnings of how our society behaves? Music: Polina DeCarlo, piano There will be not be a service Sunday, August 31st due to the Holiday weekend. |
| Social Action Council Collection |
| The Different Drummer Café is the recipient of the Social Action Collection this Sunday, August 24, 2008. The Different Drummer Café provides a safe environment, off base, where soldiers can meet, talk, and find resources that the military cannot provide. Your donation this Sunday will directly support the vital work of the Different Drummer and is tax deductible. For more info see www.differentdrummercafe.org |
| Church Office on Vacation 8/27-9/3 |
 The Church office will be closed from Wednesday, August 27th thru Wednesday, September 3rd. Susan Stedge in the office will be on vacation. The September 1st, 5pm deadline for Circuits still applies! |
| Ingathering Sunday and Water Communion |
| Sunday, September 7th we come together as one intergenerational community following a summer which I hope was restorative for each of you. We mingle the waters we have gathered from our summer adventures and celebrate all that our church community means to us. We combine music and story along with our annual Water Communion. Don't forget to bring a small amount of water from your summer. If you forgot to collect some at a meaningful place or time, bring some symbolic water anyway! |
| EBWA - Thursday, August 28th |
Annual Potluck and Book Sharing Discussion!
Join us for an informal sharing of books you have enjoyed reading and recommend. Meet at the usual time (about 6 pm) in the dining room. No need for reservations, but bring your own table setting and a dish to share. Beverages will be provided. Questions? Call Judy Clough at 393-1876. |
| Women's Alliance Resumes |
| The Women's Alliance resumes its monthly luncheons on September 4th at noon. Plan to come for lunch and to hear Judy Farrell talk about the Amusement Park at Rexford. Please contact Barbara Horgen (abhorgen@aol.com) if you haven't been contacted. For more info, refer to the full article coming out in the September Circles! |
| Women's Alliance Board Meeting |
| The Women's Alliance Board will meet at The First Unitarian Society on Tuesday, August 26th at 10am in the Emerson Room. |
| Membership Committee |
| There are still openings to sign up for the guest table and to be hosts to visitors at coffee hour Sundays! Please email Millie at milliefitz@worldnet.att.net with your availability. |
| SUMMER READ |
FUSS SUMMER READ: Close out your summer reading with an entertaining mystery novel set in our own Adirondacks! In The Bleak Midwinter, by Julia Spencer-Fleming, is the first novel in the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery Series and a winner of six awards for best first novel. It is available at The Open Door Bookstore at a 15% discount. Take a moment to enjoy the delicious irony of our Summer Read title, dive in, and then join other readers for discussion in the lovely FUSS gardens on Sunday, August, 24 at 9:30 AM. Rain location is the Fireplace Room. More information is available at
www.fussonline.org/APC/index.shtml#BookRead Still have questions? Email stephanie.feinberg@gmail.com.
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| Summer Office Hours |
July and August 2008 Monday - Thursday 8am - 5pm For more information call: 518-374-4446
Phone 518-374-4452 Fax |
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| First Unitarian Society of Schenectady | 518-374-4446 | 1221 Wendell Avenue | Schenectady | NY | 12308 |
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| FUSS Circuits |
News & Events
August 12th - 18th 2008 |
Dear Members and Friends!
Welcome to Circuits, the FUSS Weekly Email Update! Here you can find information on the upcoming Sunday Service and the most current news and events at the First Unitarian Society of Schenectady. Please send your Circuits update items to Susan Stedge by Mondays at 5pm. For more information, click on this link to the Circuits submission guidelines. Circuits will also notify you when the most current issue of Circles is published. |
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| Sunday Service 10:30AM |
August 17th Reality Check The Rev. Priscilla Richter
Messages from a summer of great good challenges and growing - reflecting on life as of August 2008.
Music: Nick Manning, jazz vibraphone |
| Sunday, August 24th Collection |
The Different Drummer Cafe, a coffeehouse serving the soldiers,and their families, stationed at Ft Drum, is in need of a large coffee urn, mugs and other coffee supplies. Along with your generous donation on Sunday, August 24th, consider donating that old urn or some decorative mugs as well. Social Action Council will mail them to Different Drummer. Check out www.differentdrummercafe.org
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| Circles Deadline August 15th |
 Email your Circles submissions to Stephanie Feinberg at stephanie.feinberg@gmail.com by August 15th for the September issue of Circles! |
| August Men's Lunch |
| Our next lunch is scheduled for Thursday August 21st at 11:30AM at Castelo's Restaurant, 183 Nott Terrace in Schenectady. Please email John Wilkinson at Wilkinsonsjj@aol.com or call 785-0094 no later than August 19th if you plan to attend. Contributions will be collected for the Soup Kitchen. |
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| Summer Office Hours |
 July and August 2008 Monday - Thursday 8am - 5pm For more information call: 518-374-4446 Phone 518-374-4452 Fax |
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| First Unitarian Society of Schenectady | 518-374-4446 | 1221 Wendell Avenue | Schenectady | NY | 12308 |
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| FUSS Circuits |
News & Events
August 5, - August 11, 2008 |
Dear Members and Friends!
Welcome to Circuits, the FUSS Weekly Email Update! Here you can find information on the upcoming Sunday Service and the most current news and events at the First Unitarian Society of Schenectady. Please send your Circuits update items to Susan Stedge by Mondays at 5pm. For more information, click on this link to the Circuits submission guidelines. Circuits will also notify you when the most current issue of Circles is published. |
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| Sunday Service 10:30AM |
| August 10th We Gather in Strength
The Rev. Priscilla Richter
This Sunday we will hold a special service to give voice to the various feelings and issues that the tragedy at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville has generated. Families and children are welcome at this service.
Music: Paula Shaw and Gary Griffiths |
| August Caring Community |
| Lay Pastoral Visitors have received special training in pastoral care and can address spiritual or other concerns in a time of crisis. For requests for food, transportation, or other such needs, call the Caring Coordinator. The August Caring Coordinator is Kendra Pratt; email her at kpratt1@nycap.rr.com or call 399-4200. The Lay Pastoral Visitor is Pat Kerton; email her at Patriciak54@aol.com or call 393-4477. |
| The FUSS-BUG Call! |
 Please respond; former, new and potential FUSS-BUGs to the July FUSS-BUG letter no later than August 10th! Call or email: Lisa Angle (370-3582, FEKEGA@aol.com ) or Frank Feiner (377-9448, ffeiner@nycap.rr.com ). |
| FUSS Summer Read |
FUSS SUMMER READ: Close out your summer reading with an entertaining mystery novel set in our own Adirondacks! In The Bleak Midwinter, by Julia Spencer-Fleming, is the first novel in the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery Series and a winner of six awards for best first novel. It is available at The Open Door Bookstore at a 15% discount. Take a moment to enjoy the delicious irony of our Summer Read title, dive in, and then join other readers for discussion in the lovely FUSS gardens on Sunday, August, 24 at 9:30 AM. Rain location is the Fireplace Room. More information is available at
www.fussonline.org/APC/index.shtml#BookRead Still have questions? Mail stephanie.feinberg@gmail.com. |
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| Summer Office Hours |
 July and August 2008 Monday - Thursday 8am - 5pm For more information call: 518-374-4446 Phone 518-374-4452 Fax |
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First Unitarian Society of Schenectady | 518-374-4446 | 1221 Wendell Avenue | Schenectady | NY | 12308 |
 
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