Baptism of Ayla Dee Whynot

Worship This Week

Please join us

in the Sanctuary

or online at 10am for

First Sunday of Advent with our theme:

How Does a Weary World Rejoice?

Coffee hour will be held

after the service

in Hadley Hall.

The service will be live streamed

through Facebook Live here

or on 3CX here

Reader: Brad Robie

Coffee hour host: Linda Tilden & Pam McGravey



artwork: "Christmas Earth" © Carrie Vall

www.ministryofthehearts.org. Used with permission.

Donation from the Salem Rotary Club

Dave Chin, Fred Malcolm and Rick Little accept a $2900 donation to our Capital Campaign from the Salem Rotary Club.

Fiber Arts This Saturday 11/25

The Fiber Arts group (knitting, crochet, hand work, etc.) meets the 4th Saturday each month from 10am-noon in Hadley Hall.

All skill levels are welcome and no commitment is needed. Just drop in when you can and enjoy the company and crafting. We hope you'll join us!

Advent Devotional Available

We are beginning Advent this Sunday, November 26th.

We have a wonderful daily Advent devotional booklet, "Living Well Through Advent" available to anyone who wants one. This year's devotional focuses on practicing wonder with all your heart, soul, strength and mind. This is a great opportunity to make some space for reflection and wonder this Advent season.

Copies are available in the foyer of Hadley Hall, or if you would like one sent to you, please contact the church office.

Advent Discussion Group

Begins Nov. 30th

Using the Living Compass devotional (described above), we will have a 4-week discussion group starting Thursday, November 30th. Because we at HCC are beginning Advent one week early, please start reading the reflections on November 26. On the 30th we will discussion the first five days of reflections.

We will meet upstairs in the Davis Room (large room at end of hall) at 10am. Sessions will run for about 75 minutes, and all are welcome.

Our discussions will be based off the reflections and discussion questions provided in the booklet.

If you have questions or would like to learn more, please contact Pastor Kathy.

Need 2024 Offering Envelopes?

If you would like offering envelopes for 2024, please let Maria know in the office by either calling 603-329-6985 or email at HCC1752@gmail.com.

Please specify if you would like weekly or monthly envelopes, or something else. We can print to order.

Christmas Craft Fair

Help & Donations Needed

The Christmas Craft Fair is only 17 days away. Due to a cancellation by one of the crafters the Fundraising Team has decided to replace that table with our own.

It will be a combination of handmade crafts by our crafty members and friends, and high end, quality Christmas décor and household items. We ask that all items be cleaned, and priced if you feel the item is of a particular value. Items can be brought to the church during office hours Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9am to 3pm or they can be left in the Hadley Hall foyer in the designated box.

There are other areas where we can use your help including the following:

• Make soup
• Provide baked goods
• Donate raffle items
• Staff tables at the event
• Help set up before the event on Thursday, November 30th 3-8pm
• Help break down after the event
• Attend and invite others to attend

Sign-up sheets are located in Hadley Hall.

Let’s make this the best Christmas Fair ever! As always, thank you for your support.

Your Fundraising Team

Questions: Call Barbara Wallack at 603-548-8326 or email at bsw91@comcast.net

Greens Workshop

Help Create Items for the Craft Fair

Join us Thursday, Nov. 30th at 6:30pm in Hadley Hall

What to Bring: Scissors, clippers/pruners for greens

We will be decorating wreaths and making swags and centerpieces out of greens. Kari will be leading, teaching and directing, so even if you have never done anything like this before, come join us. We always have so much fun!

Ahead of time: If you have any pine, hemlock, spruce, holly, or any other kind of evergreen in your yard that you could cut and bring in, please bring it in ahead of time. We can store it in the basement. Collect pinecones, birch branches, winterberry and any other interesting natural finds that could be used as well. Kari will be providing ornaments, ribbons etc. for decorating.

All the products we create will be for sale on Saturday, Dec. 2nd at the Christmas Craft Fair.

Free Interfaith Choir Concert

on December 2nd

The Interfaith Choir of the Greater Derry and Londonderry Area are holding a free December Holiday Concert!

This year they will be having two public concerts. One on Saturday, December 2 at 7PM in the sanctuary of Hampstead Congregational Church and the second will be on Sunday, December 3rd at 4pm at the Church of the Transfiguration in Derry, NH.

Steeple Lighting

Steeple lit November 20th – 26th

In loving memory of 

Harry Mildonian, Jr.

Forever in our heart, mind and spirit.  

Love, His family & friends

Steeple Lighting

Steeple lit November 20th – 26th

In loving memory of 

Roberta Bobbie Kelleher

With love from family & friends

St. Anne's Food Pantry

The food pantry is currently

collecting for their

holiday distribution.

Donations are appreciated.

 Current needs:

Hearty Soups

Salad Dressings

Spam

Muffin mix/quickbread mix

Pie Filling/Pudding Mix

Jelly

Cereal

Brownie Mix



Please drop off any donations in the foyer of Hadley Hall

Please, no expired items.

Thank you for all your support!

A Word from Peace & Justice

An article*, In Maine, a return of tribal land shows how conservation can succeed by Bina Venkataraman, earlier this month in the Washington Post alerted me to an interesting development in land conservation in Maine. Late last year the Trust for Public Land bought a 31,000-acre tract of forested land from an industrial timber company.

On November 1 this year it announced it will give the

land to the Penobscot Nation once it pays off $32 million in loans.

The area is called Wahsehtek w by the Penobscot, which means east branch of the river. It is the largest contiguous tract that the tribe will have acquired in more than four decades. The land is close to Mt. Katahdin, sacred in Penobscot tradition, and to an 87,000-acre national monument created in 2016 in the North Woods of Maine. It contains 53 miles of streams in the watershed of the Penobscot River which has been a central highway and source of food and water for the tribe.

The transfer is part of a movement to return lands to Indigenous stewardship and work with tribal communities to protect biodiversity. “The hope is both to restore justice for the tribes that were long ago stripped of the ancestral homelands and to learn from long-standing Indigenous practice new ways to save a beleaguered planet.” Some smaller tracts have been restored to Indigenous tribes across the US, but this one is different because the Penobscot will decide how the land will be managed.

Modern environmentalism has recognized that Indigenous owned and managed lands worldwide have 80% of the world’s biodiversity and contain much of the world’s remaining intact forests, savannas and marches.

There is also recognition that ignoring Indigenous people’s knowledge of stewardship of land is no longer acceptable because traditional tribal practices have often proved the most sustainable way to manage natural resources. That realization shows that collaboration with tribal nation leaders is critical to meeting the challenges of a warming planet.

More information from the Trust for Public Land

* behind a pay-wall, but they usually allow a couple of articles a month to be read for free.

The Music Corner by Herb Tardiff

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber

Andrew was born in 1948 and has become one of England’s most famous composers. He has penned 21 musicals, two film scores and a Latin Requiem. Some of his most notable works are: 

• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

(1968)

• Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)

• Evita (1976)

• Cats (1981)

• Starlight Express (1984)

• The Phantom of the Opera (1986)

• Sunset Boulevard (1993)

• School of Rock (2015)

Andrew has reinvented the modern musical: Traditional musicals such as “My Fair Lady” and “The Music Man” have run their course over several decades. 

Andrew comes from a musical family where his father was a composer and organist and his mother was a violinist and pianist. In fact, his younger brother is a world-renowned cellist.

New Hampshire Conference UCC Weekly News

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11/21/2023 Newsletter



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