Worship This Week--

Outdoor Service

Please join us

in the back lot or online at

10am this Sunday for

Ninth Sunday After Pentecost

Please plan to bring a chair and join us for this special service. Coffee hour will be held after the service in Hadley Hall.

We hope you will join us in person or online.

The service will be live streamed through

Facebook Live here

Reader: Debra Sawyer

Coffee hour host: Jane DeRosa

artwork: "Chrysalis" © Mary Southard

www.ministryofthehearts.org. Used with permission.



Thank you to Judy Dobson for organizing and scheduling the Readers & Coffee Hour hosts each week.

Join Us for an Ice Cream Social

Sunday, August 13th at 4pm

Steeple Renovation Complete:

The Finished Product

Pictures courtesy of Al & Marion Lake.

2023 Q2 Donation Statements

2023 Q2 Donation Statements will be sent out next week.

If we have your email address, we will email your statement. If we didn't have an email address, we will USPS mail your statement.

If you don't get your statement, please contact the office and we will work on getting your copy to you.

Bea Randell's New Information

Bea Randell will be relocating this week and would like everyone to have her new information:

Address: 8 Indian Hill Road

Sandown, NH 03873

We wish Bea happiness in this new chapter of her life.

Hampstead Congregational Church proudly supports all 5 special offerings of the United Church of Christ each year. We are in the select group of 30% of churches nationwide that give to all five. Below is our certificate to recognize our generosity.

Thank you all for continuing to offer your support!

Diaper Drive

"Thank You"

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! YOU DID IT AGAIN! 

Our 2023 “No Child Wet Behind” Diaper Pantry Drive was again a smashing success.

We collected and delivered:

1,300 Wipes

1,750 Diapers in sizes 2, 3, 4 and 6

Gabi Teed, who runs the Manchester Diaper Pantry, was so grateful for our continued generosity. This donation will help support so many families in need of this basic item. Check out The Manchester Diaper Pantry Facebook page here for more information.

Thank you so much for supporting this wonderful cause and for continuing to answer our missions call!

A Word From Peace & Justice

I read an interesting article from The New Hampshire Bulletin about a New Hampshire company that saves 10 million pounds of textiles from heading to landfills.

Joe Witten is the founder of Apparel Impact, a for-profit company that takes textiles from New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York to its warehouse and headquarters in Hooksett. They take clothing, shoes, accessories, and bedding. 

Joe explains that it takes 3 generations for a T-shirt to decompose in a landfill. That it true for any clothing made of polyester, rayon, spandex, or nylon. He realized that as fast fashion has become a trend our landfills are filling up with clothing. Clothing already is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the country – nearly 10% of the municipal solid waste. So far there are no waste bans for landfills in New Hampshire, but lawmakers did pass a new law this year concerning food waste alternatives to landfill disposal. And the Department of Environmental Services is embarking on a waste characterization study. So he decided to do something about it.

To help alleviate the impact of clothing going to landfills, Apparel Impact collects textiles for recycling. Joe started by going door-to-door providing donation bags. He picked up 400 bags of clothes the first week and the company has grown ever since. Now he partners with businesses, school, municipalities, and non-profits to place collection bins in locations that are publicly accessible in well-trafficked places. They pick up the donations and take them to their warehouse where they are packed, weighed, and shipped to clothing graders. The items are sorted into three categories of quality and Apparel Impact is paid for the items. The highest quality items are sold to thrift, vintage, consignment stores and some retail stores. Other grades can be recycles into items such as cleaning rags and fiber for rugs. 

For more information about clothing recycling in New Hampshire see the complete article.

More about Apparel Impact from their website.

Joe Whitten is the CEO and founder of Apparel Impact, which just placed its 1,000th clothing, shoes, and accessories donation bin across six Northeast states. (Hadley Barndollar | New Hampshire Bulletin)

Steeple Lightings

Steeple Lit the week of July 24th - 30th

Happy First Anniversary

Frank & Mackenzie Fromwiller

Love, Mom & Dad

and

Albertine R. Vincent's Birthday - 7-25-1923

Scam Emails & Texts

Emails and Texts are often sent, saying they are from Pastor Kathy or another staff member. She (or the HCC staff) will never send out a generic email/text--she'll address it to your name. She will never ask you for money/gift cards over email nor via a text.

Also, any email from Pastor Kathy will always have her signature line on the bottom with her phone number/address.

If in doubt, please contact the church office or Pastor Kathy.

New Hampshire Conference UCC Weekly News

We thought you might enjoy reading the NH Conference UCC weekly newsletter. You can read it with this link.

7/25/2023 Newsletter

Each week, we will update this section of our Weekly Word with the new link

for the current newsletter.

Food Drive to Support

Saint Anne Ecumenical

Food Pantry



 Currently in need of cereal (no Cheerios), coffee, salad dressings,

pasta sauce, granola bars, Spam, boxes of crackers, grated cheese, mayo

 and ketchup.



Please drop off any donations in the foyer of Hadley Hall

Please, no expired items.

Thank you for all your support!