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Church of Christ plans free community meal
GOWANDA -- The Trinity United Church, located at Erie Avenue and Park Street, will host a take-out only free community meal at the Park Street entrance on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 4 to 6 p.m. or gone. Drive East Main to Railroad Avenue and then down Park Street, following the signs, or walk up. The menu is ham, mashed potatoes with country gravy, vegetables, fruit, bread and a cookie. Free will donations are appreciated but not necessary. All donations are used to help other organizations in the Gowanda community. Everyone is welcome.
Congregation to hear talk on grief, healing
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northern Chautauqua (UUCNC), located at 222 Temple Street in Fredonia, holds a Sunday Worship Service at 11 a.m., both at their physical location and on Zoom. For those wishing to join virtually, please visit https://tinyurl.com/caluucnc. Click on "Worship Service" on the date you are attending and scroll down for the Zoom link. For those attending the in-person service, please follow the driveway and park in the lower lot behind the building. Handicapped parking is located between the two buildings and directly behind the second building.
The theme for November is Healing. On Sunday, Grief and Healing, with guest speaker Jamie Probst, will be the topic.
Probst is a Licensed Master Social Worker and the Director of Family Support Services at Chautauqua Hospice & Palliative Care, where he has served for more than 20 years, first as a volunteer and then as staff. He leads the agency's chaplains, social workers, and bereavement staff. He also offers grief counseling to anyone in the community who has lost a loved one, including families who were never on hospice service.
Outside of hospice, Jamie works as a therapist in private practice. He uses animal-assisted interventions in his work, and his two therapy dogs, Sapa and Purl, bring added comfort to the people he serves. Jamie holds a Master of Social Work from the University at Buffalo, along with a certificate in trauma care and counseling, and he is trained in EMDR.
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northern Chautauqua strives to be a vibrant, welcoming, multigenerational, diverse community enlivened by the power of radical love. For more information about us, visit the website at www.uucnc.org, like our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/uucnc, or call at 716-679-7944.