First Unitarian Society of Plainfield

Welcome Friends! ¡Bienvenidos Amigos!

OUR MISSION A welcoming, inclusive community, to feed the human spirit, to inspire compassionate action, and to serve as a beacon of justice and love.

What’s Happening at the Society?

Today’s Worship February 21, :30 am Family Worship 10 am Worship The Principle of the Thing Rev. Dr. Tracy Sprowls A look at our UU principles through the lens of being a people of desire. A theological sermon on why the principles matter and what they provoke in us. Special Collection Today for the Annual Program Fund. 11: am Annual FUSP Chili Cook-off

Post Worship Today 11 am Coffee Hour and Fellowship Parish Hall Supermarket Cards, Book Table, Home made Jam Sales, Secret Pal Sign-up, Annual Program Fund 11:00 FUSP ANNUAL CHILI- COOKOFF

To Inspire-TODAY FUSP Annual Chili Cook off All you can eat Chili (veggie included), the trimmings, cole slaw and drinks, all for $5/ person, $ 15 for a family of up to four! Please join the fun and volunteer to help with set up or clean up.

To Seek To Serve To Inspire

THEME MINISTRY What does it mean to be a People of Desire?

TO SEEK ANNUAL PROGRAM FUND DRIVE Annual Program Fund Drive The SPECIAL COLLECTION is today. Please feel free to mail your contribution. Kindly put APF on the memo line

TO SEEK First Sunday Explorers March 6, 2016 BOOK DISCUSSION- 11:30 am Stevens Room JUST MERCY: A Story of Justice and Redemption By Bryan Stevenson Just Mercy A Story of Justice and Redemption By Bryan Stevenson Book Discussion led by Rev. Dr. Tracy Sprowls March 7, :30 am-Stevens Room.

To SERVE We are Building a New Way with Our 2016 Stewardship Campaign – The Stewardship Campaign has started and will culminate with a Stewardship Celebration Sunday on March 13th. Stewardship packets will be distributed. The inspiration for this year's stewardship campaign comes from a hymn in our hymnal “We are Building a New Way". Our strength comes from friends and members who support our missions and programs. As a community we find spiritual meaning in social justice. The missions and projects we implement at FUSP help us live our values – to “build a new way” in our community and in the world. Our strategic plan will take us into the future – “rebuilding our congregation” - so that our FUSP community is here for future generations. Your generous support of time and money is appreciated to build our new way for the future of FUSP, our missions and programs.

To Serve Secret Pal Program Secret Pals is a fun intergenerational program where adults (or teens) are matched up for 5 weeks. This successful program has become an annual event at FUSP and is fun for everyone. Over a 5-week period (February 21 st – March 20 th ), adult friends or teens (ages 12 and up) send special things to their young friends (age 3 -11). The child does not know the identity of the adult/teen Secret Pal. The Secret Pal can place a postcard from travels, stickers, craft project ideas, clues to their identity, things that share their interests and personality with the young friend, inexpensive gifts (such as from the dollar store or Five Below), etc. for his/her young friend in the Secret Pal’s bag. If you sign up, you are responsible for placing something in your pal's bag each week. These bags will be tacked to the wall in the Stevens’ Wing from February 21 st thru March 20 th. Please do not spend more that $10 total on your surprise items. The children may also leave notes in their bags for their Secret Pals. MORE INFORMATION in Weekly Announcements and on Bulletin Board. Pick up a form at the "Secret pal" table in the Parish Hall.

TO SERVE Food Pantry CRITICAL NEED: The Food Pantry is in need of a driver with a van or a covered truck to assist in the pick-up of food from the Food Bank in Hillside We really your help with this. We usually do the pickup on the third Thursday of the month 8:30-11:30 am. Please contact JoAnne Macaluso if you are available to help this important mission project. FEB. 27 8:30-1:30 pm Volunteers Welcome!

TO SERVE Soup Sunday-FEBRUARY 28 Our most important mission-feeding the hungry. Please bring soup, salad, bread and individual desserts. Please /call Cass and tell her what you are prepared to bring.

To Seek and Serve THIS WEEK’s FUSP Meetings/Projects Monday, February 22, NA 7 pm Tues/Thursday: Integral Yoga CANCELLED Saturday February 27: Food Pantry-9 am, Parish Hall Sunday February 28: Soup Sunday, 11:30 am

NEXT SUNDAY’S WORSHIP February 28, 2016 What is your Mission in Life? with Rev. Anthony Johnson. Each of us has many desires. Some desires are of little consequence, say, my yearning for the macaroni and cheese at the (now, sadly, closed) Blackberries in Plainfield. Some are of great personal consequence, having to with love and relationships. Equally consequential are desires for professional or business success or to make a change in the world. What desire is so central to you that you must achieve it? What is your mission in life?

ROBINSON WINDOW Please consider purchasing flowers for Sunday service, or lighting the Robinson Window for a month. $40.00 for flowers and $50.00 for lighting the Robinson Window. Contact: Rob Weldy (908) or at