Black Friday at Church
Feeding the Spirit on the Feast Day of Consumption
Infinite Gifts in a Finite World
Friday, November 29 • 10:00 a.m. • Sanctuary
Guest speaker: Linda Barnes
Musical guest: Light of the Moon
Marketers call the Friday after Thanksgiving “Black Friday” because it is often the day that retailers first “go into the black” for the year as holiday shopping gets under way.
Unity Church’s sixth annual “Black Friday at Church” celebration offers you an opportunity to launch the holiday season with spiritual renewal, fellowship, and good cheer, instead of habitual consumerism.
Join fellow Unity Church members, families, friends, neighbors and colleagues on the Friday morning after Thanksgiving Day for a joyous, intergenerational worship service. Activities for children and families, as well as child care, will be provided.
This year we welcome guest speaker Linda Barnes, a student at Meadville-Lombard Seminary and Intern at First Unitarian Church in Des Moines. Linda is also professor of biology at Marshalltown (Iowa) Community College and an organic farmer. She initiated an "incubator" organic farm and founded the Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Agriculture Program at her workplace, which is the first to offer an associate degree program in sustainable agriculture in the Midwest.
Musical guest, Light of the Moon, performs a wide variety of songs and dance music rooted in the old time string band tradition, as well as dipping into the musical melting pot of traditional music from the American South to serve up blues, gospel and bluegrass. In addition to strings, they incorporate a wide variety of other instruments including harmonicas, tinwhistles, fifes and flutes, and the accordion.
All are welcome to this ecumenical service, a Unity Church tradition.
The service will feature a Collage of Voices reflecting on its abundance theme, “Infinite Gifts in a Finite World.” If this theme evokes a response for you, or if it brings to mind a story of a holiday gift you received that has increased in “value” to you and yours over time, tell us about it. Please email your thoughts in writing to service planning team member Hal Freshley at halfresh@q.com by Monday, November 11.
Infinite Gifts in a Finite World
Friday, November 29 • 10:00 a.m. • Sanctuary
Guest speaker: Linda Barnes
Musical guest: Light of the Moon
Marketers call the Friday after Thanksgiving “Black Friday” because it is often the day that retailers first “go into the black” for the year as holiday shopping gets under way.
Unity Church’s sixth annual “Black Friday at Church” celebration offers you an opportunity to launch the holiday season with spiritual renewal, fellowship, and good cheer, instead of habitual consumerism.
Join fellow Unity Church members, families, friends, neighbors and colleagues on the Friday morning after Thanksgiving Day for a joyous, intergenerational worship service. Activities for children and families, as well as child care, will be provided.
This year we welcome guest speaker Linda Barnes, a student at Meadville-Lombard Seminary and Intern at First Unitarian Church in Des Moines. Linda is also professor of biology at Marshalltown (Iowa) Community College and an organic farmer. She initiated an "incubator" organic farm and founded the Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Agriculture Program at her workplace, which is the first to offer an associate degree program in sustainable agriculture in the Midwest.
Musical guest, Light of the Moon, performs a wide variety of songs and dance music rooted in the old time string band tradition, as well as dipping into the musical melting pot of traditional music from the American South to serve up blues, gospel and bluegrass. In addition to strings, they incorporate a wide variety of other instruments including harmonicas, tinwhistles, fifes and flutes, and the accordion.
All are welcome to this ecumenical service, a Unity Church tradition.
The service will feature a Collage of Voices reflecting on its abundance theme, “Infinite Gifts in a Finite World.” If this theme evokes a response for you, or if it brings to mind a story of a holiday gift you received that has increased in “value” to you and yours over time, tell us about it. Please email your thoughts in writing to service planning team member Hal Freshley at halfresh@q.com by Monday, November 11.
