GREENFIELD — All are welcome to join Temple Israel for a traditional-yet-creative Shabbat morning service led by Rabbis Andrea Cohen-Kiener and Deb Kolodny on Saturday, May 14, at 10 a.m. The service will be held in person at Temple Israel, 27 Pierce St., and also broadcast to Zoom. See templeisraelgreenfield.org for more details.
SUNDERLAND — The last of our Country Breakfasts until September will take place this morning from 7 to 10 a.m. at Sunderland Congregational Church.
The Sunday worship service will begin at 11 a.m. Any and all are invited to join us. Due to the increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases, if you would like to join us via Zoom, please send an email to randyc1897@gmail.com for the login.
NORTHFIELD — Last week during our service, the Rev. Melissa Carvill Ziemer mentioned the song by Ghanian drummer Sol Amarifo called “Woyaya.”
“We are going
Heavens knows where we are going
But we know within.”
Inspired by these lines from a song and from the insight of Unitarian Universalist leaders, we will gather this Sunday to explore where we have been and where we are going as a community. Please consider joining us this coming Sunday for a playful, collaborative, exploratory, all-ages worship experience. We will gather at 10 a.m. in person at First Parish Unitarian. If you are joining us online, please have some creative materials at the ready including paper, pens, markers, crayons and materials for collage.
BERNARDSTON — Bernardston Unitarian Church will meet this Sunday at the 1729 Meetinghouse at 49 Church St. at 11:30 a.m. for a regular service. Leading the service this Sunday is our lay leader, Barry Deitz. His sermon topic is “Talk to the Hand: Quiet Resistance in a Loud World.”
Coffee hour starts at 11 a.m. and the service will be available to those at home through Zoom. Text your name and email to 413-330-0807 for a Zoom invitation.
Lynne Walker will provide the music this Sunday. Masks available but not presently required. Schedule updates and other information can be found at www.bernardstonunitarian.org.
GREENFIELD — All are welcome to the Sunday service on May 15, centering on, ““w”What is worthy of our worship?” Join us at First United Methodist Church, 25 Church St., Greenfield for the 10 a.m. worship service.
GREENFIELD — “When Things Don’t Go as We Expected” is Worship Leader Dan Tinen’s topic at All Souls Church, 399 Main St., at 10:30 a.m., on Sunday, May 15. “Not so many years ago, the world seemed on a positive course; one historian declared ‘the end of history.’ But we’ve seen authoritarians on the rise across the world, a pandemic, a mob attack upon Congress, and now a war in Europe. Is this a time to re-examine everything that we’ve ever believed? There were holes in our paradigm, naïve assumptions about human nature. The history unfolding before us challenges us: what can we do to make a peaceful and prosperous world?” Julia Bady will provide music.
GREENFIELD — All are welcome to join Temple Israel’s first “Shabbos Walk” event on Saturday, May 21. This full day of Shabbat gatherings will begin with services offered both at the temple and on Zoom at 10 a.m. The rest of the day will be offered at locations throughout Greenfield and includes lunch, torah study, an afternoon service, and a bonfire for Havdalah, the closing ceremony of Shabbat. Details at templeisraelgreenfield.org, or contact rabbi@templeisraelgreenfield.org
GREENFIELD — Join us at Saints James and Andrew on Saturday, May 21, at 3 p.m. for a blessing of our pollinator garden, a conversation about gardens, walking the labyrinth, tea and honey cakes. This special event is being organized by Good News Gardens Massachusetts with support from devoted parish gardeners. Good News Gardens Massachusetts is a collaborative program of the Episcopal Dioceses of Massachusetts and Western Massachusetts that aims to support agricultural ministries in Episcopal parishes across the state through planting gardens, praying for a renewed relationship with the land and our neighbors, and proclaiming God’s renewing action in our midst.
On Saturday, May 21, the Rt. Rev. Doug Fisher, bishop of Western Massachusetts, and Jimmy Pickett, student of ecology and theology and rising senior at Virginia Theological Seminary, will be visiting parishes in the Pioneer Valley for a Blessing of the Fields.