Follen Church Society

Silent Sunday Services Return This Summer

Sally Richter and Marilu Nowlin are once again organizing summer services here at Follen. This year the services will take place at the Marshman Center, and will include a half hour of silent meditation and then a quiet discussion led by Sally or Marilu. The services will take place on the following dates, from 9:00 to 10 a.m.:

June 21 and 28
July 12, 19, 26
August 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30

10:30 A.M. Our End-of the-Year Final “Farewell” Service.

This service, which will be in the sanctuary (NOT outdoors!), will honor our departing seniors and give time for all others who may be moving away to speak to us about what Follen has meant to them, about what they will take with them from Follen as they move to new locations. Following the service there will be an extended Hospitality Hour so we can all speak to those who are moving on.

Click here to view the latest Follen Newsletter for the weeks of May 31, June 7, and June 14.

Performances June 12th and 13th at 8:00 p.m.

For Tickets Contact the Church Office or www.brownpapertickets.com

For over 40 years, the Youth and Junior Choirs of Follen Community Church have been performing Gilbert and Sullivan operettas every June. This tradition, begun by former Music Director Louise Curtis and the Follen Players’ director Marilu Nowlin, is now in the hands of the present Director of Music, Thomas Stumpf. He is ably assisted by Production Manager Holly Stumpf, who conducts the Junior Choir and is best known in Lexington as Harrington School’s music specialist; by lighting designers Tom Christman and Gordon Hardy, set designer Steve Ervin and pianist Eric Mazonson; and by a large number of enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers – the parents of the choir members! This year’s production will be “The Yeomen of the Guard – or, The Merryman and his Maid.” This opera is unusual in that Gilbert and Sullivan actually would have liked to write a serious grand opera, and the work represents their compromise: the usual topsy-turvy world of mistaken identities, of arrogant heroes and “feather-brained lasses,” of matches and mismatches, is charged with moments of true pathos and an ending that is unhappy for at least three of the characters, one of whom actually dies of a broken heart….

Personal Point by Gordon Hardy, May 3, 2009

The Long Haul

Please raise your hand if you went on the rebuilding trip to New Orleans in April. Keep them up, please.
Please raise your hand if you’ve ever gone down on a rebuilding trip.
Please raise your hand if you made and sold soup at hospitality to raise money for rebuilding.
Please raise your hand if you bought soup to help raise money for rebuilding.
Please raise your hand if you intend to buy soup in the future to fund another trip.

Remember that our rebuilders are the just the tip of the iceberg. It takes a whole community effort to accomplish what Follen does in the Gulf Coast.

The latest news about Follen’s Gulf Coast relief work

can be found under the Social Action section: see Gulf Coast Relief Efforts

Follen’s Long Term Plan Executive Summary and draft Mission and Vision Statements

can be found in the Long Term Planning section in the menu on the right.

Religious Education Program Information and Curriculum

can be viewed in the RE for Children section

Annual Fund Drive Brochure

is now available for viewing; click on the Stewardship menu item to the right under Governance.

Welcome to Follen Community Church! This is a congregation of about 300 adults and 150 children and youth that wears its heart on its sleeve, knows how to laugh and cry, and cares deeply for one another and the world. We come from many walks of life. We’re honest with one another about what matters. Spiritually we are diverse, yet because we have worked for years to hear and understand different perspectives, we have humanists, agnostics, mystics, theists, naturalists, and Unitarian-Universalists who honor and attend to faithful observance of Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist practice.

We now publish sermons on the web! Click on the “Sermons” topic to the right (or click here) to see which sermons are available, and to download or read them.