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Services are held on the first and third Sunday of each month (except summer) at 11 AM on the lower level (elevator available) of the First Presbyterian Church on 3rd St. in Allegany.  Hospitality follows each services.  

Speakers and other events (social gatherings and UU functions) are also listed below.

2013 

January
Tues. 1st     Dish to pass - Corinne Potter

6tth     Service:  Sadie Jay Edwards - The Disability Community

20th    Service:  Rev. Tim Bancroft - The Prophets for Our Time:  Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel

February
Fri. 1st     Dish to pass - Rosanna Bonfilio 6 PM

3rd      Service:  Marti Tillinger - Love Beyond Valentine's Day

17th     Service:  Rev. Tim Bancroft - Transforming Love:  Resisting the Brutality of 21st Century Life

March
Fri. 1st     Dish to pass - (cancelled due to illness)

3rd     Service:  Rosanna Bonfilio -  An Athiest's Perspective on Easter

17th    Service - Barbara Dyskant - This Little (really Big) Light of Mine

April
Mon. 1st     Dish to pass - (cancelled due to no host)

7th     Service:  Joann McAndrew - Mental Health Association In Cattaraugus County

21st:  Pancake Breakfast with members of the First Prebyterian Church of Allegany at 10 AM

21st    Service:  Karen Dau, Historian of the First Universalist Church in Rochester - Old Universalism in Cattaraugus County

DISTRICT ASSEMBLY 2013   Out of Bounds: Moving Beyond Our Boundaries  April 26-27, 2013 Niagara Falls, NY
This year's District Assembly is a joint effort with the Ohio-Meadville District and the St. Lawrence District. District Assembly will take place April 26-27, 2013 at the Niagara Falls Convention Center, Niagara Falls, NY.  The Rev. Peter Morales, UUA President is the keynote speaker. His keynote address is titled Breaking Down Walls. Gould Lecturer is Rev. Douglas Taylor, speaking on Polity, Pine Trees and Process Theology.  Sixteen workshops will be offered in two time slots covering an array of topics important to congregational life. CERG (Central East Regional Group) staff are attending as workshop presenters and to answer questions by members about CERG services and resources. Social Justice activities have been scheduled as part of Friday night's events. Bridging of both the OMD and SLD seniors will be a part of the closing ceremonies on Saturday.  The schedule, workshop descriptions and youth caucus information are available at http://www.sld.uua.org/conggrowth/districtassembly.html  The full 16 page brochure is available at http://www.sld.uua.org/conggrowth/2013/DABrochure13.pdf  Online registration is available at https://ohiomeadville.wufoo.com/forms/z7q6x7/


May
Wed. 1st     Dish to pass - Rosanna Bonfilio's home

5th     Service:  Marti Tillinger - Flower Communion - everyone please bring a flower to put on the alter and we will each take another one home

19th    Service:  Rev. Bancroft - Life's Journey of Wisdom in a Secular Age    Reflections on the Writings of Charles Taylor

June
Sat. 1st     Dish to pass - Sadie Jay-Edwards family home

2nd     Service:  Mary Plonka and Sue John Blacksnak - Unseen Tears: The Impact of Native Am Residential Boarding Schools in Western NY
           After Services:  Our Future Funshop

16th    Service:  Rev. Tim Bancroft - 
            After Services:  Our Future Funshop

June 19-23          General Assembly - information on www.uua.org 

July
Sunday 21st     Dish to Pass picnic at Debbie Loveless' 

July 31- Aug. 4   UULTI By The Lake & Goldmine Youth Leadership School

August
15-17        St. Lawrence District Board/Leaders Retreat

Sunday 18th     cancelled (picnic)

September
15th    Service:   Corinne Potter - Water Communion                        
            Steering Committee after hospitality (cancelled)


28th SLD Leadership Day at May Memorial in Syracuse, NY

October
Tues. 1st     Dish to pass - Home of Nancy, Willa, and Sadie Jay-Edwards

6th     Service:    Rosanna Bonfilio - Humanism

20th     Service:  Sadie Jay-Edwards will lead a discussion on the 7 principals and what they mean to us in our daily lives
                           Steering Committee after hospitality


November
Fri. 1st     Dish to pass - Rosanna Bonfilio

3rd     Service:  Local Sustainable Community with Lois Hilton and Amy Moore

17th    Service: PLEASE NOTE SERVICE WILL BE AT 2 PM TODAY
                         Rev. Michelle George Yates  The G-word - Certainly November isn't the only time of the year we are thankful, but perhaps being torn between a comfy 1st-world lifestyle and the latest life crisis we don't get much time for Gratitude. Yet, it might be this particular form of Reverence that may be the key to happiness and your spiritual practice.  
                         Steering Committee after hospitality

December
Sun. 1st     Dish to pass - Home of Nancy, Willa, and Sadie Jay-Edwards

1st     Service:  Sadie Jay-Edwards - CHALICA (starts 1st Mon. in Dec.)

15th    Service:  Rosanna Bonfilio - Spritiual Disaster Preparedness
                          Steering Committee after hospitality

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