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Donate and Participate to Help Our Wider Community The Missions & Outreach team is excited to announce that we are coordinating efforts for the fifth year to organize a Thanksgiving basket assembly to further our outreach to the Lazarus House Ministries. This gathering will take place on November 22nd following the worship service in Hartman Hall where we will assemble 25 baskets. These baskets will be donated to the families in the wider community by Lazarus House Ministries

The Wisdom Within An Invitation to Rest, Listen, and Trust A Spirituality Workshop with Bridget Chamberas “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” — Matthew 11:28 Amid the busyness and demands that come with this time of year, we can easily lose touch with the stillness within us. Yet Jesus gently invites each of us to come as we are, lay down what weighs upon us, and rest in God's presence. The Wisdom Within offers a two-hour pause from the

Depolarizing Within Workshop - A Braver Angels Presentation Wednesday, October 21⋅ 7:00 – 8:30pm Acton Congregational Church, 12 Concord Rd. Acton, MA The Depolarizing Within workshop teaches participants to look at their own attitudes towards the political “other,” and develop strategies for engaging in politics without demonizing and for constructively intervening in conversations with like-minded peers when those conversations stereotype or demonize the other side. GOALS

What if faith grows through the questions we dare to ask, rather than the answers we have been handed? In Called to Question, Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun, writer, and lifelong advocate for justice, opens her private journal to us. She draws on conversations with spiritual writers across the centuries and wrestles honestly with God, doubt, justice, the role of women in church and society, care for creation, and the holiness of ordinary days. This spiritual memoir