Sunday 10th PASSION SUNDAY
Frenchay 10.30 am - GAVIN LLOYD
NO SERVICE AT UMB
Tuesday 12th
Poetry morning at the home of Diane Roberts.
Sunday 17th PALM SUNDAY
FRENCHAY 10.30 am - GRACE COOPER
UMB 6.00 pm - TBA
Flowers - TBA
Teas - Mrs F Webster
Music - Bob Cook
Friday 15th - Monday 18th
UNITARIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SWANSEA
Sunday 24th EASTER DAY
FRENCHAY 10.30 am - BERNARD OMAR
UMB 3 - 5 pm ‘BRIGHT LIGHTS’ ALL AGE GROUP
We will be having an Easter Bunny Hunt in the wonderful newly landscaped Cemetery Cardens behind the chapel plus sharing, singing, games and of course, refreshments.
Saturday 30th UMB 3 - 5 pm ‘All Age Party’
Donations for food welcome (but not obligatory!) Drinks, fruit and balloons provided. Passing the parcel and ‘Design a wedding Cake’.
May
Sunday 1st
Frenchay 10.30 am - THE MINISTER
Frenchay congregational AGM at 12 pm after the service
and a ‘Snack Lunch’
UMB 6.00 pm - THE MINISTER
Monday 2nd
Redland Fair on Redland Green. Cakes, preserves, books, bric à brac and helpers needed.
Sunday 8th
Frenchay 10.30 am
UMB 6.00 pm
Thursday 12th
Frenchay 7.30 pm. Bristol Group AGM
Bright Lights and Dirty Hands
At ‘Bright Lights’ on 27th March, John Harley, the General Assembly’s national youth officer led the Bright Lights in an afternoon to show that we can all be creators. We started by finding out what likes and dislikes we had in common, but then we had to show just how different we all are. To show this we had to conjure up and then model clay animals from our imagination. To prove the point we all produced very different creations - horses with udders, fish with wheels and cows with butterfly wings!
The next BRIGHT LIGHTS meeting will be on April 24th, EASTER SUNDAY.
Come and join us to celebrate Easter in a creative way with both fun and friendship, not forgetting our Easter Bunny Egg Hunt in the Brunswick Square Gardens – our splendid Unitarian Cemetery. It would be helpful if you could let Lindy know if you are coming so we can let Easter Bunny know how many eggs to hide!
The next BRIGHT LIGHTS meeting will be on April 24th, EASTER SUNDAY.
Come and join us to celebrate Easter in a creative way with both fun and friendship, not forgetting our Easter Bunny Egg Hunt in the Brunswick Square Gardens – our splendid Unitarian Cemetery. It would be helpful if you could let Lindy know if you are coming so we can let Easter Bunny know how many eggs to hide!
News and events
With the Spring comes the welcome return of our minister Lindy! We look forward to hearing about many of her adventures and experiences in India. Appropriately, before Lindy’s first service back at UMB there will be an Indian led ceremony in Brunswick Cemetery Gardens to dedicate a plaque in memory of Raja Rammohun Roy, the Indian thinker and philosopher. The event will be organised by the Raja Rammohun Roy Memorial Trust and is to replace a plaque and tree which were donated by the then Bristol Indian Association in 1983.
Congratulations to Karl Stewart who is the new President of the UMB congregation. He will also be the UMB voting representative at the GA in Swansea later this month, where Bernard Omar will be the Frenchay representative.
~ Peter Wildman
Congratulations to Karl Stewart who is the new President of the UMB congregation. He will also be the UMB voting representative at the GA in Swansea later this month, where Bernard Omar will be the Frenchay representative.
~ Peter Wildman
Spring
In time of silver rain
The earth puts forth new life again,
Green grasses grow
And flowers lift their heads,
And over all the plain
The wonder spreads
Of Life, Of life, Of life.
In time of silver rain
the butterflies lift silken wings
To catch a rainbow cry.
And trees put forth
New leaves to sing
In joy beneath the sky,
When Spring
and life
are new.
~ Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, the second child of school teacher Carrie (Caroline) Mercer Langston and her husband James Nathaniel Hughes. Langston was of African American, European American and Native American descent. Both his paternal and maternal great-grandmothers were African American, and both his paternal and maternal great-grandfathers were white: one of Scottish and one of Jewish descent. Hughes was named after both his father and his grand-uncle, John Mercer Langston who, in 1888, became the first African American to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia. Hughes' maternal grandmother Mary Patterson was of African American, French, English and Native American descent.
The earth puts forth new life again,
Green grasses grow
And flowers lift their heads,
And over all the plain
The wonder spreads
Of Life, Of life, Of life.
In time of silver rain
the butterflies lift silken wings
To catch a rainbow cry.
And trees put forth
New leaves to sing
In joy beneath the sky,
When Spring
and life
are new.
~ Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, the second child of school teacher Carrie (Caroline) Mercer Langston and her husband James Nathaniel Hughes. Langston was of African American, European American and Native American descent. Both his paternal and maternal great-grandmothers were African American, and both his paternal and maternal great-grandfathers were white: one of Scottish and one of Jewish descent. Hughes was named after both his father and his grand-uncle, John Mercer Langston who, in 1888, became the first African American to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia. Hughes' maternal grandmother Mary Patterson was of African American, French, English and Native American descent.
March and April services
Unitarian Meeting Bristol
March 6th: Arthur Brown
March 20th: Frank Butler
April 3rd (Mothering Sunday): Rev Lindy Latham MA (Minister)
Frenchay Chapel
March 6th: Yvonne Aburrow MA - An introduction to Taoism
March 13th: Bernard Omar
March 20th: Frank Butler BSc
March 27th: Gerald Witcher
April 3rd (Mothering Sunday): Rev Lindy Latham MA (Minister)
March 6th: Arthur Brown
March 20th: Frank Butler
April 3rd (Mothering Sunday): Rev Lindy Latham MA (Minister)
Frenchay Chapel
March 6th: Yvonne Aburrow MA - An introduction to Taoism
March 13th: Bernard Omar
March 20th: Frank Butler BSc
March 27th: Gerald Witcher
April 3rd (Mothering Sunday): Rev Lindy Latham MA (Minister)
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