The Adult Programs Council

The Adult Programs Council sponsors and coordinates adult social activities and adult religious education to encourage the building of a Community within the congregation. A new policy is to offer childcare at many APC events to encourage the participation of parents who might otherwise find it too difficult to attend.

These activities include

• All-Church Fall and Winter Festivals
• All-Church Luncheons
• All-Church Picnic (2008)
• Body/Mind/Spirit Workshops
• Cakes for the Queen of Heaven course
• Channing Club
• Coffee, Cocoa and Conversation
• Critics Circle
• FUSS Budgets Investment Club
• Holiday Parties
• Men's Luncheon Club
• Meditation Series
• Movie Nights 
• Philosophy Group
• Poker & Game Nights
• Reading Around the Seasons (Winter, Spring Read) <----- NEW!!!!!
• Silver and Gold Dinners
• Silver Bay All-Church Weekend Retreats
• UU Men's Group
• Whirling Rainbow Lodge

Information on these activities may be obtained by contacting a member of the council or by stopping by the Adult Programs Council table at the rear of the Great Hall after the Sunday morning service. Also, a weekly e-mail is sent to subscribers during September through June as a reminder of upcoming events. Please subscribe to our mailing list by clicking this link.

Based on feedback from attendees at the Winter Read discussions, APC members decided to forgo the book election process and read a book that was decided on by people who have committed to reading and attending in the Spring. Please pick up a copy of this acclaimed non-fiction book and join us for the discussion in the Spring:

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time—Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. Award-winning journalist David Oliver Relin has collaborated on this spellbinding account of Mortenson's incredible accomplishments in a region where Americans are often feared and hated. In pursuit of his goal, Mortenson has survived kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, repeated death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. But his success speaks for itself. At last count, his Central Asia Institute had built fifty-five schools. Three Cups of Tea is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man really is changing the world—one school at a time.

Here is a photo from a Holiday Party a few years ago at the Calabrias:

2007-2008 Adult Programs Council members are:

• Wade Beltramo, Treasurer
• Jill Bogdanowicz-Wilson
• Stephanie Feinberg, Chair
• Raquel Gil
• Katy Leonard
• Mary Anne Mangano, Board Rep
• Barbara McLaughlin
• Barbara Vivier, Vice-Chair/Publicity

For suggestions and corrections for the APC pages, please contact Barbara Vivier.