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Sunday, January 22nd, 2023: “The Operator’s Manual for Planet Earth”

Theme: “The Operator’s Manual for Planet Earth”: This out-of-the-box service contemplates Earth as a classroom and presents The Matos Mantras as channeled by D. Trinidad Hunt.
Worship Leader: Rev. “Twinkle” Marie Manning
Thought for contemplation :
“When a spirit inhabits a physical body a state of amnesia sets in.” – D. Trinidad Hunt
Join us in-person or online at the Universalist Church in Waterville Maine.
69 Silver St, Waterville, ME 04901
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88049341762?pwd=bzZTMjUwQjcrMDFzdWo5VWtqYVBJQT09
ALSO:
Wednesday, January 25th, 2022 – 3:00PM
***Contemplative service – online only:
email to RSVP for link: TwinkleManning@gmail.com
Upcoming Service Year Announcement 2022-2023
The Reverend “Twinkle” Marie Manning will present the following services during the 2022-2023 service year from September 2022 through June 2023. Join Us!

Each worship service will be presented on the 2nd & 4th Sundays of the month in Waterville (live in-person or via Zoom) (except December will be the 1st & 3rd Sundays). 10:00AM 69 Silver Street, Waterville, Maine. The Wednesday following the live worship service Twinkle will host a Contemplative Service (online – typically in Rockwood) with the same theme, and a replay of that recording on the next Sunday. Visit Twinkle’s Place Calendar Page for dates and links.
Visit the following websites for additional details:
Sermon Titles:
– The Edge of Summer
– Anam Ċara & the Divine Echo – The Shoreline of Courage
– Amalek Within
– Death Changes Everything
– Thanksgiving – Got Leftovers?
– Damascus Experiences
– Blue Christmas
– Envisioning a Year
– Operator’s Manual
– Let’s Talk About Sex!
– Roses in Winter
– Sacred Rebels
– Fold as You Go
– In Our Own Image
– Love the Land You’re With
– Mothering Mothers
– Intentional Creativity
– June’s Calling
– Our Favorite Things
For links to the Contemplative Service, click HERE.
Hope at the onset of a global pandemic
March 29, 2020 Online Worship Service, The Universalist Unitarian Church of Waterville, Maine
Worship Leader: Rev. “Twinkle” Marie Manning
Worship Associate: Dennis Perkins
Musicians: Harry Vayo, Beth Schiller, Orion,
International Flower Communion Celebration at Twinkle’s Place
Twinkle’s Place has accepted the invitation to join our siblings in faith from around the globe to participate in an International Flower Communion.
In honor of the 95th Anniversary of the Flower Communion on Sunday being celebrated in Prague this year on June 4th, 2017.
Join us at Twinkle’s Place for a sunset walk of our gardens and to the Sebasticook River. Followed by a Flower Communion Service and Celebration of our international heritage.
If you cannot make it to Twinkle’s Place, yet wish to participate on your own, visit this link for information:
http://www.uua.org/international/blog/international-flower-communion
The Flower Communion is one of Unitarian Universalists most favorite things!
History of the Flower Communion:
http://www.uua.org/sites/live-new.uua.org/files/documents/zottolireginald/flowercommunion.pdf
http://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/children/lovesurrounds/session7/flower-ceremony
http://www.uua.org/worship/holidays/flower-ceremony
A MESSAGE TO OUR UU SIBLINGS WORLDWIDE:
an Invitation to Twinkle’s Place: Open House for Women’s March on Maine
Should you seek respite on your journey Saturday – We are here for you!
We know many of our UU friends and compassionate colleagues will be traveling distances on Saturday to attend the Women’s March in Augusta. If you are seeking a place to stop, have a warm cup of coffee or tea, and relax for a short while, perhaps even sit in our meditation room, before you proceed to or from the Maine State Capitol, please know there is a friendly, welcoming home for you to visit enroute.
Twinkle’s Place is just of I-95 in Pittsfield: Exit 150 (40 minutes south of Bangor / 40 minutes north of Augusta).
IF you think you may wish to stop in, let me know and we will be prepared. BUT also feel free to decide spur-of-the-moment depending on how you feel on Saturday.
Open House:
Saturday, January 21st
7:00am-7:00pm
Twinkle’s Place
164 Lancey Street
Pittsfield, Maine
cell: (760) 889-5428
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TwinkleMarie
Be sure to check our allergy alert page.




