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Sunday, April 21, 10:30am
https://zoom.us/j/414604040 Password: 294513
free
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Sunday Service
Speaker: Reverend Maddie Sifantus
by Ann Kuffner, UUFSMA Member
Music and singing are an integral part of Unitarian Universalist (UU) services. At the April 21st UUFSMA Sunday service the Reverend Maddie Sifantus – a lifelong professional singer - will tell us how she integrated her UU faith and her ministry with music and the arts. By founding a senior singing group - The Golden Tones – she was able to bring her UU faith to the community. She has used music and the arts to build community, with a focus on aging, spirituality, and creativity. In this sermon, “Singing Through Our Lives,” she will draw on her experiences in founding and leading this group. Rev. Sifantus will describe the research she used - in two theses about the group - and philosophy about the importance of the arts in congregations and the community.
The Reverend will also lead a singing workshop (date to be announced). Those who attend will have the opportunity to join in the singing at her second service, on April 28th!
Rev. Sifantus has served the UU Church of Santa Paula, California, since early 2015. Although retiring from full-time ministry this July, she plans to take part-time ministry work and return to her musical career. Before Santa Paula she served two other Universalist congregations in Massachusetts. She was the long-time Affiliate Community Minister at the First Parish in Wayland, her home congregation where Rev. Tom Rosiello did his internship.
Rev. Maddie is the Founder/Director Emerita of the Golden Tones, a sixty-member elder chorus which she led for twenty years. She is the former Music Director of the UU Church of Reading, MA, as well as former soprano soloist and choir section leader at First Parish in Concord MA. She was Adjunct Faculty at Andover Newton Theological School. She is the former co-president of the UU Society for Community Ministries. In addition, Maddie is a life-long Professional Singer and Founder of TVS (The Vocal Section) with whom she still performs and records. Her work has appeared on the soundtracks of movies such as Dick Tracy and The Secret of Roan Inish. Over the years, Maddie has performed with many performers and groups.
Unitarian Universalism is a liberal faith inviting its community to gather around a set of harmonizing values and principles for living. Our UU Fellowship welcomes people of all ages, races, religions, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Belief in a divinity is not the central issue around which we gather for worship and generous action. Rather, we come together with a belief in community, love, compassion, social justice, reverence for nature, and the spirituality of music, all within the interconnected web of existence.
The UUFSMA Social Justice Foundation donates generously to support nonprofit organizations that provide health, educational, and environmental services for underserved communities in the San Miguel region. Learn more at https://www.uufsma.org/foundation.html
To participate in our online Sunday Service, visit www.uufsma.org and click on the Zoom Service button on the home page. If requested, enter password: 294513. Sign-in from anywhere Sunday mornings between 10:15-10:25 am CST. Enjoy previous services at https://www.youtube.com/UUFSMA.
UUFSMA meets at 10:30am at the Hotel Posada de la Aldea, Ancha San Antonio 15.
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