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Religious Education and Childcare Available

755 Massachusetts Ave
Lexington, MA 02420

781-862-3805

info@follen.org

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Unitarian Universalist · Lexington, MA
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Urban Church Music Friendships

Do you know about Follen’s Urban Church Music Friendships Initiative?

Under the leadership of Director of Music Vivian Montgomery, with support from all corners of the community, we are forging collaborations with Charles Street AME Church in Roxbury, Hamilton-Garrett Music and Arts Academy, Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain, and other institutions, in order to bring our musical community into closer contact with their extraordinary work and members through a number of events.

In 2019-20, Follen plans to host composer, song-leader, and activist Melanie DeMore in a two-pronged residency involving our choirs, our community, and singers from the AME churches for a number of workshops, sings, and services. In particular, Melanie uses African stick-pounding workshops as a community-building, division-bridging vehicle, and she leads anti-prejudice events in religious institutions and schools across the country. She is in great demand for her work in this realm, so bringing her to Massachusetts three times in the course of the year would give other congregations and organizations, along with the UU Urban Ministry, the chance to host her and to join in as co-presenters with Follen.
Check her out on Youtube and at her website: http://www.melaniedemore.com/
We’re so excited about these relationships being formed – they are an opportunity for us to bring honesty, humility, joy, creativity, and simple humanity into direct connection with individuals in order to find greater understanding and trust.  All of this is possible through the collective musical experience! We can look forward to intersecting with other churches’ music programs, with music activists like Melanie DeMore, and with our own anti-racist efforts through the Music Friendships initiative.
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    Rev. Claire Feingold Thoryn February 28 | 10:30 am

    Closing our worship theme of Risk, Rev. Claire reflects on the adage “Trust the Process.” When can we trust the process, and when do we need to take a risk and forge new paths?

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Follen Community Church

Sunday Worship
Sundays: 10:30am Worship Service, Online

Religious Education and Childcare Available

755 Massachusetts Ave
Lexington, MA 02420

781-862-3805

info@follen.org

Directions

Amazon Smile: Support Follen

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Welcome to Follen – an active, caring UU congregation. We come together from many traditions and many walks of life to build a spiritual community for each other and to serve the world. No matter who you are, where you are from, or whom you love, you are welcome here! – Rev. Claire Feingold Thoryn

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