<div dir="ltr"><br>Good morning, choir folk,<div><br></div><div>Please read Joan's invitation to you to join the choir at the General Assembly Choir at the UUA General Assembly in Providence, RI, on <span style="color:rgb(55,56,57);font-family:"Neue Helvetica W02","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">June 24-28. As you remember, Joan will be preaching at the worship service at the </span><span style="color:rgb(55,56,57);font-family:"Neue Helvetica W02","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Rhode Island Convention Center on Sunday, June 28, 2020 at 10:00 a.m.. This is an incredible honor and one that she would like to share with you.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(55,56,57);font-family:"Neue Helvetica W02","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(55,56,57);font-family:"Neue Helvetica W02","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">And make sure that you read down to the PPS of Joan's note!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(55,56,57);font-family:"Neue Helvetica W02","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(55,56,57);font-family:"Neue Helvetica W02","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Dick</span></div><div><font color="#373839" face="Neue Helvetica W02, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#373839" face="Neue Helvetica W02, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Hi Dick,<div><br></div><div>I wanted to extend a special invitation to our UCM Choir to participate in General Assembly this year and to consider joining the General Assembly Choir. More information here: <a href="https://www.uua.org/ga/program/contribute/choir" target="_blank">https://www.uua.org/ga/program/contribute/choir</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>The GA Choir usually sings at two of the services throughout GA including the Sunday Morning service. It would be such a thrill (and also comforting) to have some UCM choir members in the mix!</div><div><br></div><div>The choir is open to lay people, clergy, choir directors...anyone who registers for GA is eligible to be part of the choir!</div><div><br></div><div>Please do pass along this note to the choir. I'd love for some of them to consider attending GA, and if some of them were in the choir as well, that would warm my heart :)</div><div><br></div><div>Joan</div><div><br></div><div>PS - If anyone wants a sense of what it's like to sing with the choir, they can watch pieces of this video of last year's Sunday morning service. The choir is singing right at the start and again at 1:04:50 - two very different pieces of music. <a href="https://www.uua.org/ga/past/2019/worship/sunday" target="_blank">https://www.uua.org/ga/past/2019/worship/sunday</a></div><div><br></div><div>PPS - Any UCM members who register and also serve as an official delegate can have their registration fee paid by the church. The early registration fee for the whole conference until March 15th is $400.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font color="#0b5394"><b>Rev. Joan Javier-Duval</b></font><font color="#000000"> |<b> </b></font></font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><font color="#0b5394">Minister</font></b></span><div><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Pronouns: she/her/hers</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Unitarian Church of Montpelier</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ucm.revjoan@gmail.com" target="_blank">ucm.revjoan@gmail.com</a> | <span style="font-size:small">802-223-7861 x1 | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/joaniemj" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/RevJoanUU" target="_blank">Twitter</a></span></font></div><div><font size="2" style="font-size:small"><i><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></i></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#444444"><font size="2" style="font-size:small"><i>"We are each other's harvest; </i></font><i style="font-size:small"><font size="2">we are each other's business; </font><font size="2">we are each other's magnitude and bond."</font><font size="2"> --Gwendolyn Brooks</font></i></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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