Guest Speaker, Verdis Robinson, will share an interpretation of Psalm 30:5 “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” What does it take for the joy to come?
Link to the service for Sunday, June 7
Link to Black Lives Matter video by Crystalinda White
Link to Sunday Morning Service Discussion
Link to Youth Group Check In at Noon and Games at 1:00 pm
Link to Parenting Group at 4:00 pm
Link to Welcome Team Gathering at 4:00 pm
Additional Resources for Sunday, June 5
If you’re new to First Parish and interested in becoming a member of our faith community, please consider joining our Membership Orientation Session at 10:00 am on Sunday, June 7. Registration is required. Register by following this link.
Join Cambridge School Committee Vice-Chair, Manikka Baldwin and former Mayor and current City Councilor, E. Denise Simmons for the 2nd in a 5 part series Black Cambridge and Covid-19. This series focuses on the impact of Covid-19 on African Americans in Cambridge. Session 2 will focus on Health and Public Safety. You can tune in at 1:00 pm on zoom: (bit.ly/3bzNbVO sign up now) or watch on FB Live. You can also tune in to CCTV’s Channel 9 or cctvcambridge.org/channel09.
ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER
Verdis L. Robinson is the Lenora Montgomery Scholar of Excellence at Meadville Lombard Theological School where he is an Aspirant for the Unitarian Universalist ministry. Formerly, he has served as the director for community college engagement at Campus Compact and the national director for The Democracy Commitment. Prior to leading community college civic engagement nationally, Verdis was a tenured assistant professor of history and African American studies at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York, where he taught web-enhanced, writing-intensive, civically engaged history courses for ten years.
Verdis is the author of Bacon’s Rebellion and the Transformation of America (2014); Reacting to the Past, a role-playing game in development; and A Charge to Keep, I Have: The Biography of Bishop Charles Campbell (2001). He has coauthored Beyond These Gates: Mountains of Hope in Rochester’s African-American History (2018) and contributed to Higher Education’s Role in Enacting a Thriving Democracy: Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Theory of Change (2018). Currently, he is finishing a family history book entitled, “Deep Rivers, Deep Roots: A Story of My African American Family.”
Verdis holds a BM in voice performance from Boston University, a BS cum laude and an MA in history from SUNY College at Brockport, and an MA in African American studies from SUNY University at Buffalo. He is currently an M.Div candidate at Meadville Lombard Theological School.