Barry Salad

Trevor was able to be home in Taunton for our annual IllUUmination service.  IllUUmination is a uniquely Unitarian Universalist celebration.  Each year, during the winter, we honor and celebrate the flaming chalice - the symbol of our faith - our beliefs and ideas, and those who have put their beliefs into action for the benefit of others.

February 4, 2007

A quick stop home to visit my friends in Taunton and I’m off again.  Next stop, Storm Lake in Iowa.

At Sunday School in Taunton, we made Peace Cranes and frogs in origami.  The cranes are hard to make!

Well, that’s all for now.  Gotta go.

February 18, 2007

Trevor attended the Storm Lake UU Services today at Buena Vista University.  The weather here is persistently snowy, but warming up nicely.

He spent a couple of days at the Vietor residence, a brief stop with two UU boys and their mom.  We noticed that he’s dressed much tidier than our resident bears, but otherwise very much like other folks around here.

Poor Trevor - his trip here was rather uneventful because everyone had the flu!  We are a fairly new congregation founded almost three years ago.  We have 18 members and a number of friends who visit regularly.  The kids were glad to have Trevor here while they were sick.  He made them feel better!  No one was allowed to handle him much though

Follen Church - January 2007

Trevor went to so many meetings and outings on his visit here.  We’ve got pictures of him at knitting group which was putting together squares for an afghan - 3 actually - to go to our caring ministry.  He came to a R.E. committee meeting and had his picture taken with the portraits of Charles and Eliza Follen who the church is named for.

Did you know that the Follens popularized Christmas trees in this country?  They brought the idea from Germany.  And here at Follen we still sell Christmas trees!

Trevor dropped by Coming of Age (there are pictures to prove it) and spent a Sunday morning asking people what their favorite church activities were.

Trevor helped out with family worship.  We told a story about honey - he liked that.  He came to a R.E. class and helped light the chalice, visited our childrens choirs and went off on a weekend retreat at Cardigan Lodge.  The Lodge is an Appalachian Mountain club property in New Hampshire and although Trevor was invited to come hiking and sledding, he said he’d rather stay inside - because ‘After all, bears hibernate in the winter’.  He had fun playing charades and singing after dinner though.  And he got to slide …er…ride home in an ice storm!