{"id":2946,"date":"2023-08-12T09:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2023-08-12T09:28:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T16:28:02","slug":"volunteer-fair-and-water-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=2946","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Fair and Water Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Volunteer Fair, August 27 and September 3<\/strong><br>On August 27 and September 3, after the worship service, we&#8217;ll invite&nbsp;church members to sign up for a volunteer position for the coming year. &nbsp;During the month of August our worship service will feature testimonials from committee chairs describing the work they do and the opportunities they have available for folks to get involved. &nbsp;Think of these next several weeks as something like our Spring stewardship campaign, but instead of a pledge of financial support we&#8217;re looking for a pledge of service. &nbsp;The theme is &#8220;Find Your Place!&#8221; &nbsp;Where will your place be at the church for the coming year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Water Communion, September 10<\/strong><br>The church year officially begins with the &#8220;Ingathering&#8221; service the Sunday after Labor Day. \u00a0Many UU churches mark the day with a water communion ceremony. \u00a0This year, our ritual will be a little different than you may have experienced in the past. \u00a0Rather than bring water from home, or from your summer travels, we&#8217;ll provide the water at church that Sunday. \u00a0Your part will be to bring\u00a0your memories and feelings about water that are special to you: \u00a0a peaceful lake, a powerful\u00a0ocean, a laughing stream, tears you&#8217;ve shed or wiped from someone&#8217;s eyes, water that cleans, water that refreshes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteer Fair, August 27 and September 3On August 27 and September 3, after the worship service, we&#8217;ll invite&nbsp;church members to&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=2946\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Volunteer Fair and Water Communion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministers-messages","category-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}