Newsletter 16th December 2022
A message from our Chairman Andrew Bethune (including a paragraph from me, the “other” Andrew, i.e. the minister!)
Dear all
Please scroll down to read this email in full. Thanks!
Sunday 18 December – 4th Sunday of Advent – Carol Service
We’re hoping as many of you as possible will be able to come to our carol service. There will be carols, seasonal readings and prayers (but no mindful meditation).
Many thanks to all our volunteers, who make this a true community event – our choir (who rehearse at 9.45), our readers, musicians, and bringers of mince pies and sherry.
The Christmas tree (see photo at the end of this newsletter) was decorated on Wednesday, and Louise Walker is kindly supplying red and yellow berried holly for the hall window ledges.
Christmas cheer and conversation afterwards in the Common Room.
If you can’t join us in person, we’ll be live streaming on Zoom at the usual Sunday login:
Meeting ID: 865 8474 7084
Password: 729425
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86584947084?pwd=RHdlVWIvaG5uajcxODhqT2h5djExZz0
Message from Andrew Brown
Andrew has asked me to circulate a piece he wrote a while back in preparation for this Sunday – before we were absolutely certain we’d be able to organise a Carol Service. It seems a pity to waste it, so he’s published it on his blog, and recorded a podcast version of it as well. It’s called:
A hidden, Hidden Christian, Christmas—An Advent meditation
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-hidden-hidden-christian-christmasan.html
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1378024/11879636
Looking ahead
Christmas Eve Communion (24 December at 6.30pm)
Christmas Day Service (25 December at 10.30am)
New Year’s Day Service (1 January at 10.30am)
Don’t Forget the Advent/Christmas Appeal
Our good cause this year is Rowan Humberstone, and we invite our members and friends to support it. If you want to learn about this local Cambridge charity’s work, please see https://www.rowanhumberstone.co.uk/
To donate to the Appeal, please send your contribution to the church bank account (Unitarian Church Cambridge, sort code is 40-52-40, account number 00060218), identifying it as for ‘Rowan Appeal 2022’.
Best wishes,
Andrew
Andrew Bethune
Chairman
Cambridge Unitarians
https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org