Fellowship

This month Friday Night at the Movies will look at Silent Film. We will be viewing Charlie Chaplin's Easy Street and City Lights. Easy Street is an early Chaplin film and City Lights, from 1931, is the most famous and hailed of Chaplin's films. Both films highlight Charlie Chaplin's power as a writer, director, and actor, as well as showcasing his development from early film to later. City Lights is a wonderful comedy and love story that will set the mood for Valentine's Day! Easy Street will surprise the audience with its social commentary as well as classic Chaplin humor. Come revisit (or see for the first time) the power of movies "back in the day!"

The discussion this month will be lead by Sue Thornquist.

Sign up in the church office starting January 1st.

Popcorn, soft drinks, dessert, and coffee provided; suggested donation $2.

Continuing with our “A Look at Genres” theme, the 1958 musical film South Pacific is our December offering. Accompanied by an outstanding Rogers and Hammerstein score, this timeless movie takes us back to World War II in the Pacific Islands, where Navy Ensign Nellie Forbush, RN, is romanced by the ex-patriot French planter Emile deBecque amid the tensions of the war with Japan, which approaches ever nearer to their island paradise. Billed as a musical, the theme also encompasses many elements of comedy and drama, from the hijinks of the Navy Seabees and their leader Luther Billis to the dangerous spy mission carried out by deBecque and the ill-fated Marine Lieutenant Joe Cable. Those of us of a “certain age” know well the members of the cast: Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, Ray Walston, John Kerr.

So call the church office to sign up for “Some Enchanted Evening” and “Happy Talk” with discussion leaders Stan and Maria Clements!

Popcorn, soft drinks, dessert, and coffee provided; suggested donation $2.

This week's class will be led by Jonathan Dean, our former Associate Pastor, who is now Assistant Professor of Religion and a Fellow of the Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action in Aurora University. He will share what he has learned since he joined the university.

All are welcome to attend.

My Spiritual Journey:
or How I Became a Quaker.

The class will be led by Sarah Sainsbury, who was raised Catholic and was a member of our church when she was inspired to attend seminary to become a Chaplain.

All are welcome to attend.