DEADLINE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4THBe a Christmas Blessing to Others!
Now More Than Ever, We All Need It!
Unity of Greater Hartford's Christmas Blessing Team has been hard at work to create two different ways for all of us to be a blessing to others this year.
Please note that this year, due to COVID-19 precautions, The Connecticut Children's Hospital is unable to accept toy collections. So in lieu of our Annual Teddy Bear Round-up, there are other ways to brighten the season for many.
Covenant to Care for Children
Be a Christmas Blessing to the children and teenagers in our neighborhood.
$20 Gift Cards – Deadline: Friday, Dec. 4th.
We have set a goal of 75 gift cards! The cards could be from Target, Walmart, Grocery Stores. All Gift Cards must be for $20 each, but you are invited to purchase and donate more than one card!
Manchester Area Conference of Churches (MACC)
Blessing Bags for Seniors - $5 Gift Cards and Toiletries - Deadline: Friday, Dec. 4th
Please donate some of the following items:
Masks, Gender-free Shampoo & Conditioner, Body Moisturizer, Soap bars – Ivory, Dove or Irish Spring, Eye Glass Cases, Mittens, Scarves, and Sugar Free Candies.
Also GIFT CARDS in the amount of $5 from Dunkin Donuts, Dollar Tree or Cumberland Farms.
How to Deliver Your Gift Cards and Senior Bags Items
BY MAIL: Please make sure they are delivered by Dec. 4th to the church:
Unity of Greater Hartford, 919 Ellington Rd., South Windsor, CT 06074
DROP OFF: You may drop off your donations at the church when the church is “opened”:
Saturday Afternoons – 1 to 4 pm: Nov 14, 21 and 28
Sundays – 11:30 to 2:30 pm: Nov 22 and 29
Wednesday Late Afternoons – 4 to 6:45 pm - Nov 18 and 25, Dec 2
Friday Late Afternoon – 4 to 6 pm – Dec. 4
For eveyone's safety, Please be sure to wear your mask when dropping these items off. Thank you.
We are grateful for the Unity Christmas Blessing Team: Wendy Billings, Catherine Ewing, Donna Marshall, Ingrid Arrojo, Cathy Trahiotis, Sue Smallidge, Lori Myrick
Unity of Greater Hartford Celebrates GivingTuesday with a Technology Improvement Campaign
that runs from December 1 to December 11, 2020
GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement, unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and their world. GivingTuesday will kick off the generosity season this year by inspiring people to give back on December 1, 2020, and throughout the year.
Although our church doors have been closed the church has undergone improvements and is soon to launch a major technology improvement that will improve our livestreaming capabilities.
In as effort to control the lightening in the Sanctuary the wonderful Susan Wright created beautiful drapes for the two side doors and the main window. We will now have the three arched windows on the platform tinted. We also installed beautiful custom oak wooden blinds on the eight windows in the sanctuary.
Out next step is to utilize a different system to livestream our Sunday and Wednesday Services as well special services or events in the Sanctuary.
In order to do all of this we need your tangible support in the form of financial donations and we also need your intangible support of love and faith. We invite you to join with the Board to create a bigger and better online platform for our Unity Community and its message of Oneness. Surely this is the message that the world needs now!
GivingTuesday was launched in 2012 as a simple idea: to create a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past nine years, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.
Join Us on December 1st! Click HERE to provide your financial support. This link will be active until December 11th.
A Celebration of the Life of Virginia Casciano 
Saturday, December 19th at 10 am
The Zoom Link will be available beginning December 13th.
Our beloved member Virginia Casciano made her transition on November 11th. Below is her obituary. Virginia was a long-time member of Unity of Greater Hartford, and she was often referred to as our church matriarch. We will all miss her deeply as she was such a positive strong force in our Unity family.
We will be holding a Celebration of Life Ceremony on Zoom on the morning of Saturday, December 19th - one day after her birthday. We will have the Zoom link here starting December 13th.
Virginia Casciano - WEST HARTFORD , CT
Virginia (Bills) Hunt Petersen Casciano, age 95, passed away on Nov. 11, 2020 at St. Francis Hospital, Hartford, CT. Virginia was born Dec. 18, 1924 in Binghamton, NY and lived in and around Endicott, NY for 27 years before moving to Connecticut as District Manager for Avon Cosmetics.
Virginia was the former owner/manager of the Maple View Dairy in Southington, CT, placed many a nanny to care for young children as Branch Manager of Nannies Unlimited, worked as Assistant to the President of Elevator One, and finished her career in the business office of Trinity College.
As a resident at Starkel Road in West Hartford, Virginia had many friends and among them were her walking friends, dancing friends and Unity Church friends.
She was the wife of the late Roger Hunt, the late Niels William Petersen, Sr., and the late Serge Casciano. Virginia was the long-time companion of the late Al Marques, and sister of the late Donald Bills.
Virginia is survived by her daughter, Cynthia Hunt Ingallinera and her husband, Michael, of Spring Hill, FL, her son, Turloch McMannus of Middletown, CT, her brother, Robert Bills, her grandchildren, Jennifer Ingallinera, Christopher Ingallinera and his wife, Joelle, and Kathleen Ingallinera Piché and her husband, Nicholas, and her great grandchildren Caroline, Andrew, and Madeline Piché. Virginia was predeceasedby her sons Gerald Hunt and Niels Petersen, Jr.
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