Calendar – Congregational Church of South Dartmouth, UCC

High School Youth Group

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Oct 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

High School Youth Group: Come and join the fun! October 20th, from 7:00-8:30, Gaga Ball and Ice Cream.

Fall Thrift Sale – November 1st and 2nd

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Nov 1 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Fall Thrift Sale on November 1^st and November 2^nd: After much positive feedback over the past month, the 2019 Fall THRIFT Sale is scheduled! The dates will be Friday, November 1, and Saturday morning November 2. At our Thrift Sale we will sell Men’s, Women’s, Children’s and Infant’s clothing; Jewelry, Accessories, Kitchen & Dining Linens, as well as Bed Linens, Rugs and Children’s Toys. We will be holding our second “Early Bird” donation drop-off day Saturday, September 28^th. Check back in coming weeks for more details. Thank you for your support and excitement for this community event! We welcome your input. Please contact Cecelia Roberts at 508-863-1630 [email protected] or Kate Ouellette 508-264-4330 [email protected] with your feedback, questions, interest, and to volunteer to help! Thank you!

Fall Thrift Sale November 1st and 2nd

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Nov 2 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm

Fall Thrift Sale on November 1^st and November 2^nd: After much positive feedback over the past month, the 2019 Fall THRIFT Sale is scheduled! The dates will be Friday, November 1, and Saturday morning November 2. At our Thrift Sale we will sell Men’s, Women’s, Children’s and Infant’s clothing; Jewelry, Accessories, Kitchen & Dining Linens, as well as Bed Linens, Rugs and Children’s Toys. We will be holding our second “Early Bird” donation drop-off day Saturday, September 28^th. Check back in coming weeks for more details. Thank you for your support and excitement for this community event! We welcome your input. Please contact Cecelia Roberts at 508-863-1630 [email protected] or Kate Ouellette 508-264-4330 [email protected] with your feedback, questions, interest, and to volunteer to help! Thank you!

Contemplative Advent Service

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Dec 19 @ 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Thursday, December 19th: Thursday we will have a short contemplative service from 6:30-7 pm. It will be a quiet reflective service as we journey to the manger together. Please come and share this peaceful time with us.

Yearly Budget Meeting

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Jan 26 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Sunday, January 26th – Yearly Budget Meeting: Please attend the Yearly Budget Meeting today after worship service.

Prayer Shawl Meeting

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Jan 26 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Prayer Shawl Meeting to be held in library at 6:30 pm

Potluck Dinner

Feb 5 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Potluck Dinner – Wednesday, February 5^th from 6-7pm: On Wednesday, February 5^th we will have our monthly potluck dinner from 6-7 p.m. I thought it would be nice for the winter months of January and February to bring a neighbor or friend to our potluck! The neighbor/friend does not need to bring a dish if we all just slightly increase what we bring then we should have enough food. Also, reassure your guest that we are not proselytizing or trying to recruit new members – we just want to add guests to our table – there is a saying “don’t build walls in this life but build a longer table”. Let’s try “to build a longer table” this month and the next! All faiths welcome!

Irish Music Concert, New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center

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Feb 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Saturday, February 8, 7:00-8:00pm – Irish Music Concert, New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center: The Fishing Heritage Center offers a great calendar of events through the winter, including this concert of Irish dance music featuring Golden Lane. A local Southeastern Mass. group, Golden Lane is known for its lively, interactive performances of traditional Irish music. Tickets are $10 Heritage Center members/$12 general public. Purchase your tickets online (https://fishingheritagecenter.org/programs/calendar/) or by calling 508-993-8894. Be sure to also sign up on our church sign-up form, so we know you’re coming. We may organize an informal pre-concert get-together and will provide details soon.

Memorial Service

Mar 12 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Memorial Service for Reverend Nehemiah Boynton III

Outdoor Worship Service

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Aug 16 @ 9:00 am – Sep 6 @ 9:30 am

Please take your time and read this through thoroughly.

A group of us have been busy preparing for the opening of the Church over the last few weeks and I wanted to bring you up-to-date on changes to the church services that will take place this summer.

Please remember if you feel uncomfortable about attending that’s OK, we will also be live streaming the service on Facebook live and also we will be sending out a link to you on Sunday if you do not have Facebook.

Everyone will need to discern their own acceptable level of risk. Each person is different – some people may not want to meet in person until there is a Coronavirus vaccine. Others may be ready to return to worship as soon as possible. If you do not feel ready to meet in person please know that our church will honor and support your decision. It is not a reflection on your faithfulness.

Based on this guidance from the State and several other church organizations, we will only hold outdoor worship services for the summer 2020. If inclement weather is forecasted for Sunday morning, we will cancel the worship service and provide notice of the cancellation on the website, Facebook and on the church phone answering machine as early as possible but no later than 7:30 AM Sunday morning.

While our 9 AM church service will be similar it will be a little shorter (about 30 minutes) and we will not be singing, however there will be wonderful music.

If any of the following are true, you should not attend the in-person service

Member or worker is experiencing any symptoms such as fever (100.0 and above) or chills, cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, fatigue, headache, muscle/body aches, runny nose/congestion, new loss of taste or smell, or nausea, vomiting or diarrhea
Members or worker has had “close contact” with an individual diagnosed with COVID-19. “Close contact” means living in the same household as a person who has tested positive for COVID-19, caring for a person who has tested positive for COVID- 19, being within 6 feet of a person who has tested positive for COVID-19 for 15 minutes or more, or coming in direct contact with secretions (e.g., sharing utensils, being coughed on) from a person who has tested positive for COVID-19, while that person was symptomatic
Member or worker has been asked to self-isolate or quarantine by their doctor or a local public health official

Sunday Service New Details

First you will have to email the church office at [email protected] by 3 pm on the Friday prior and let them know you are coming. Please include your contact phone number in your email. This does two things: 1) we will need to keep track of who is coming to the service (contact tracing) and 2) we have limited our service to 40 people (at least for now).

Please enter through the main driveway through the parking lot.

We are going to ask you to bring your own chairs (beach chairs will work just fine)

Everyone must wear a mask to attend the church service.

On the welcome table, which will be set up on the lawn as you enter the church service grounds, there will be the following:

o Hand sanitizer and paper towels

o Face masks

o Offering plate

We will ask you to remain in your car, an usher will direct you to move to the church service area. If you are walking, enter through the parking lot and wait for the usher to direct you into the church service area.

Attendance at the service will be taken by an usher. You will be asked for the name of a contact person in your group, his/her phone number and the number of people in your group.

Parishioners will be directed to their area as they enter. At the end of the service please wait and an usher will direct you to leave while allowing social distancing.

We will NOT be gathering for refreshments and please no socializing in the parking lot.

Our church building will be closed to everyone.

Thank you, Reopening Team