CHURCH SERVICES are Sunday mornings at 10:30, with religious education available for pre-school through high school age children. Visitors are welcome to attend the service and stay for refreshments and conversation afterward.

SUUC is located at the corner of Main and Lebanon Streets in downtown Sanford, Maine

January 29 - Houses of Healing:Lessons from Teaching in Prison - The service will be led by Rev. Angie Arndt, MS. Rev. Arndt was ordained by the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine (ChIME) in 2007 and has served as Administrator, Dean and Faculty member ever since. She is a member of the First Universalist Church of Yarmouth and is also a Worship Weaver in that community. Angie also teaches parenting and Houses of Healing at the Maine Correctional Center and is a trainer of Healing the Feeling Child for The Center for Grieving Children in Sanford and Portland. She is married with two sons in college and lives in North Yarmouth.

Attending: Rev. Sue Gabrielson, Lisa Huestis, Aileen Fortune, Deb Folsom, Deb Walsh, Janie Waterhouse, Betsy Baker, Jan Sacco

8:00   Checking In

Previous board meeting minutes.  Move to accept.  Seconded.

Shared Ministry Check In

Sue expresses how positive she is feeling – folks are stepping up.

The response of the congregation has been great – taking a lot of individual responsibility – people are being proactive.

Other board members share similar positive feelings about how the congregation is responding.

People are taking responsibility to come and support the church and take responsibility for their own spiritual needs.

Folks are spending more time after church.

The parlor upgrades help this.

Choir is supporting the services well.

Sue – we need to think about “What comes next?”  Where are we going with the ministry?

Pantries, soup kitchens distributing CFLs to Mainers

Video:
Efficiency Maine has partnered with the Good Shepherd Food Bank to distribute more than 200,000 energy saving compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs to low income Mainers.
http://www.wcsh6.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=1402765544001