Meriden Congregational Church Newsletter

NOVEMBER 2026

Volume 9 Number 11

www.meridenucc.org

603-469-3235

secretary@meridenucc.org



IN THIS NEWSLETTER

  • A message from our Interim Pastor David Felton
  • Leadership Team Listing and Points of Contact
  • NOVEMBER Calendar
  • Special Events



*November 5th, 12th, 19th, Thursday 3:00pm Justice Vigil, Meriden Blinking Light

*November 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, 9:30-10:45am Monday Yoga with Natasha in Parish House

*November 2nd and 16th MCC Book Study 12:45- 2:30pm

*November 5th Thursday 2:00pm and 4:00pm LISTEN Community Dinner

*November 6th, 13th, 20th, Friday 9:30-10:45am Yoga with Natasha in Parish House

*November 14th Saturday 6:00pm Potluck HARVEST DINNER

*November 17th Tuesday 7:00pm Men's Group

*November 19th Thursday 5:00 Leadership Meeting and by Zoom

*November 28th Saturday 2:00pm Claremont Soup Kitchen




  • NOVEMBER Leadership Report
  • Yoga in the Parish House by Natasha Goodwin
  • Refusing to Forget--Memorial Prayer Flag Initiative
  • Assistant Treasurer's Report
  • Peace, Justice and Outreach News
  • Join Share to help Immigrant Families
  • NOVEMBER Birthdays and Anniversaries
  • Prayer List, Into God's Hands




The Message from Interim Pastor, Rev. Dr. David Felton


I don't think any of us were prepared for the sudden death of our pastor emeritus Greg Marshall on October 15. I had seen him the week before. He was so alive and alert as we made plans for the future. Let us hold in our prayers his daughter Jill and all the members of her family. The memorial service for Greg will be Saturday December 5th, at 2pm at the church.


The first Sunday of November is All Saints Day. We will celebrate the sacrament of communion and lift up all the saints of our church. We will lift up those who died in the past year.


On the second Sunday of November scripture will be I Samuel 3:1-14 which is the story of God calling Samuel. On November 15th (the third Sunday of November I will be following the lectionary --Matthew 25: 14-30 with the meditation on "Extravagant Opportunities"


The fourth Sunday of November , the 22nd, is Thanksgiving Sunday. I will again follow the lectionary, "Reigning Compassion", using Matthew 25:31-46.


This year, November actually has five Sundays. The fifth Sunday, Nov. 29th is the First Sunday of Advent. My meditation, "Waiting on the Lord", is based on Isaiah 11:1-9.


I will also be having a family wedding at the church on Friday Nov. 27 for Stephanie Smarsik and Austin Crady at 2:00pm.



David





 

LEADERSHIP COVERAGE


            

Pastoral Coverage: Rev. David Felton

Email: dfelton1940@gmail.com ; cell phone: 716-908-2750

Available for emergency and ongoing pastoral care needs

Kathy Wright can also contact David as needed

If you have a pastoral care need (or know someone who does), please contact Kathy Wright (see contact info below)


Administration: Kathy Wright, (Church Leadership Team)

Church email: secretary@meridenucc.org; church office: 603-469-3235; Email: kathywright@myfairpoint.net; home phone: 603-675-5989 or text 603-543-7663

   

Financial Transactions: Cindy Griffin, Church Treasurer

Church email: treasurer@meridenucc.org;

Email: csvensen1s@gmail.com; cell phone: 203-209-0922


Church Leadership/General Inquiries:

Ed Cousineau, Leadership Team Chair

Email: cousineaued@gmail.com



Pastoral Search Committee:

Andrea Keen, Chair; Marianna McKim, Secretary; Glenn Griffin, Chaplain; Julliette Hampton; Scrib Fauver.

 

NOVEMBER Calendar

Interfaith Prayer Vigil for Immigrants on November 10th


Our faith calls us to welcome the stranger and to support the dignity of every person. Today I am sharing an action step you can take to show support for immigrants interacting with ICE. 


You are invited to attend an Interfaith Prayer Vigil at the NH Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office on Tuesday November 10th at 9:00am. The location is 275 Chestnut St. Manchester, NH.  


Prayer vigils happen each month to show solidarity and support for immigrants that are interacting with ICE in this building. They are powerful and moving events with singing, prayer and include a Jericho walk in silence.



In solidarity and peace,

Shideko (she/her)

Please text or phone mobile 603-252-7898 

shideko.terai@gmail.com


Update From the Pastoral Search Committee

Dear MCC Congregation,


The Pastoral Search Committee has been hard at work preparing our Church Profile. We thank you for your continued support, feedback, and input through the listening sessions and online poll.


We have discussed, at length, the core values of our Church, and have constructed a list of major pillars to answer the question, “Who Are We?” This is the first piece of the Church Profile. The pillars we chose are:

1. Community (supporting, gathering, family)

2. Music

3. Spiritual Guidance (inclusive spirituality)

4. Action (social justice and outreach)


At this point, we have begun the drafting process. We plan to have a final draft of all essential documents by the fall, which will then be posted to bring in pastoral candidates. 




Thank you for your support,


Pastoral Search Committee



Many people joined us for our Recovenanting Service and Cook Out on September 27th


Leadership News

How do we tell our stories?

Last month I wrote about the slightly awkward "between times" quality that marks our present experience.  What follows below starts out from that premise--we're walking together and are interdependent in so many ways.  It's true for our families, our church, our society and even, most broadly, for our worldview: We need one another. Here, then, is the next installment.


This month the book The Liberating Path of the Hebrew Prophets: Then and Now by Nahum Ward-Lev is at the top of the pile on my nightstand. Yes, I read some strange (weird?) stuff.  Following the author's careful and creative consideration of the historical Hebrew prophets in the Bible, I've just gotten to the second section where biblical scholar Ward-Lev focuses on more contemporary prophetic voices like Rev. Martin Luther King, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Paulo Freire and bell hooks among others.


The voices Ward-Lev is considering are those we might categorize under the familiar heading of folks who "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable," a phrase which resonates throughout the past two or three decades here in our church. In short that's the prophet's role: speaking truth to power.  And, frankly, you and I are both "the afflicted" and "the comfortable" mentioned in that phrase.  How do we tell our stories, construct both the personal and shared narrative stories that hold us together within ourselves and bind us into this church community?


At Ward-Lev's prompting, one of the things I am pondering these days is really whose voice--what voice--does the story telling?  When I look at the onslaught of competing 2026 election ads on TV I see a stark dichotomy--some ads tell us about what we should want for ourselves, while others ask us to consider what our neighbor needs.   Maybe the issues are too political for you--but, again, maybe not. 

 

The Gospel message that we say is central to our lives speaks directly to this.  If those with power speak about maintaining their "access" or "control on our behalf, we should be cautious.  If a voice speaks of the needs of the humble, of the plight of the immigrants and of the disadvantaged--the broad communal needs we all share--then its bears careful attention and consideration.  In the end it's really a matter of who tells the story.


Surely, this goes beyond a discussion of partisan politics. Is the greater narrative, the meaning we give to the world around us one that leverages a vantage point derived from privilege? Or do our deep and over-arching narratives place us in wider surroundings where "the comfortable are afflicted and the afflicted given comfort?" 

 

Those "Beatitudes" and blessings spoken about in Matthew's gospel seem to have something to say to us.  Mary, Jesus' mother, speaks of the mighty being taken down and the lowly raised up in Luke's second chapter.  What's the story and who tells it?

Again, it keeps coming around in a fully inclusive circle: We need one another and just as much we need one another's stories to be able to tell our own.





Ed Cousineau 

for MCC Leadership





Continuing in NOVEMBER


Yoga in the Parish House


Mondays 9:30-10:45am

Fridays 9:30-10:45am


Taught by Natasha Goodwin

by donation

(To support the Community $20--to support the program $15 but you are welcome to come and pay whatever you can afford)



Anne Cragin and Evan Oxenham waiting to put up a Memorial Prayer Flag

Shideko Terai, Bill Cable and Ed Cousineau

Constructing the Memorial Prayer Flag Structure, October 2026

The Parish House and Parsonage got a new roof with new insulation in October 2026

WELCOMING and CARING MINISTRY



THE NEXT GATHERING OPPORTUNITY WILL BE THE POTLUCK HARVEST DINNER , SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH AT 6:00PM. WE WILL PROVIDE TURKEY, GRAVY AND A VEGETARIAN CHILLE. EVERYONE IS INVITED TO JOIN US FOR THIS JOYFUL EVENT. CONTACT secretary@meridenucc.org TO LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE BRINGING.



Thanks to Jo-Ellen Courtney, Ginger Chiappetta, Lee Oxenham, Evan Oxenham, Diane Minard, Ed Cousineau, Greg Castell, Susan Sanzone Fauver, and Kathy Wright for ushering and being Lay Readers in October. Sign up to usher at the sign up sheet in the back of the church.


HOPE YOU CAN JOIN US THIS NOVEMBER!!

Kathy Wright, Co-Coordinator of the Welcoming and Caring Ministry

JOIN US FOR OUR POTLUCK HARVEST DINNER

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14TH AT 6:00PM

FAITH FORMATION MINISTRY

YOUTH AND FAMILY NEWS

Book Study Group has picked a New Book for Study


Interested in reading and discussing a book with others? Well, the MCC Book Group will be continuing to read a book and will meet on November 2nd at 12:45pm at Jan Lord's home.  We meet every other week at Ed and Laura Cousineau’s when the temperature is cooler where we sit in front of a beautiful burning fireplace. We meet on Monday’s from 12:45pm (the time to arrive and get settled) and discuss from 1:00pm to 2:30pm

We take as many weeks discussing our book as needed to accommodate the pace at which the group wants to read and to make sure we allow as much time as the group feels is appropriate and necessary for ample discussion. The books we have chosen in the past have been very meaningful reads that have enhanced our individual evolvement and growth due to real personal and deep conversation that develops over time based on the content of the book.   The book on our current “to read list” is:



American Indigenous Democracy: A Call for Interdependence by Oren Lyons, John Mohawk, Katsi Cook and others is a collection of 18 essays by Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) leaders, elders, and scholars that explores how Native American governance systems inspired the foundations of U.S. democracy and offers ancient wisdom as a solution to modern political crises. Key Themes and Concepts include: The Great Law of Peace, The Missing History of the U.S. Constitution, Matrilineal Values, Interdependence over Empire, and Modern Re-humanization.


If you would like to join this discussion, please let Kathy or Jan know and we will add you to the list and keep you informed. 


Jan Lord and Kathy Wright


Jan-jblord_2007@comcast.net

Kathy-secretary@meridenucc.org or 603-543-7663


MCC ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE NEWS

Continuing in November Kathy Wright, Our Secretary/Administrator, will Be Available for Questions/Information


Want to add your birthday to our list? Kathy is available every week. I am often in the church office (603-469-3235). My cell number is 603-543-7663.

MCC New Directory for 2026-27


The New MCC Directory is ready. Thanks to Rev. David Felton, Jim Lenz,

Elaine Lenz, and Donna Beaupre for all their help. If you want a copy you may pick one up in the church office, at the back of the church or you may email me at secretary@meridenucc.org and I will send you one. Also please let me know of any errors or omissions.

Thanks

Kathy Wright

November Updates to the Church Directory


Phone Number for Suzanne Spencer Rendahl 603-477-7346


Personal email for Kathy Wright kathrynyw326@gmail.com (My MCC email is still secretary@meridenucc.org)

Report of the Assistant Treasurers


 As of October 21 we have received $1,400 in pledge payments for 2026, We have received $449 in Plate payments for 2026. The monthly total for the church was $1849. When added to what was collected last month, it makes $90,483--this is the amount collected for the year so far.


In the last month we have also raised $820 for the Crop Walk and $325 for Neighbors in Need.


For those who pledged to the church, a notice was sent in the mail to let you know what we have received so far.



Thanks for your donations!!



There have been stock payments or donations to the camp that are not listed here. Thanks for all your contributions.


Kathy Wright, Jim Lenz

 
 

PEACE, JUSTICE AND OUTREACH



Peace Justice and Outreach Ministry Teams

News for November 2026

Desmond Tutu said: If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.    

Don’t be neutral.

PEACE

War is not the answer. The most current bumper sticker that the Quakers have, reads War is Still Not the Answer. Many lives have been lost with the U.S. war in Iran.


JUSTICE

Labor Justice/Immigrant Justice/Legislative Justice/Racial Justice/Climate Justice (as follows. And…

Weekly Justice Vigils are held in Meriden on *Thursdays 3-4 PM* (Note New Time) which continue in November at the Meriden Blinking Light. Come when you can, leave when you want. Join Us!


Labor Justice

Hear ye! Hear ye! Oct 6 at 6 PM in Hanover inside the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College we bear witness of the union organizing at Dartmouth College by attending the 4th Annual Labor Town Hall. Please come! Rev. Dr. Gail Kinney co-convenes the NH Faith & Labor Alliance monthly on the third Thursdays at noon by Zoom. I attend and represent MCC and VIMS Engaged Buddhists. If you would like to join the meeting let me know. 


Legislative Justice

Our legislative advocacy means protecting the freedom to vote, women’s reproductive rights, trans rights, those that are unhoused, and protecting the environment. Your voice is our power to help our neighbors in need. Our vote on Nov 3rd means leveling the playing field in the NH house & senate plus our Federal delegation of Congress & Senate. And we vote for Governor plus other local reps. The high cost of everything is going up but not our paychecks. Please respond to appeals to submit testimony to NH House & Senate from AFSC, Kent Street Coalition, and League of Women Voters NH, among others.


Immigrant Justice

The first Tuesday of each month NH Immigrant Solidarity Network (NH ISN) meets in Manchester after the Interfaith Prayer Vigil at 9 AM in front of the Federal Building (just an hour program held in the courtyard rain or shine at 275 Chestnut St. Manchester).


In November the vigil will be on Tues Nov 10 because of the NH General Election on Nov 3rd. This will be led by the Buddhist community, Valley Insight Meditation Society. Singing Resistance will lead the opening and closing songs! MCC is a member of NHISN as well as GSOP. Organizations include GSOP, AFSC, faith leaders and community groups such as ours. NHISN is interfaith and non-partisan. Please contact me if you would like to get involved. We are also participating in a project called REFUSING TO FORGET that is a memorial of prayer flags with the names of nearly 60 immigrants who have died while in ICE detention centers. These are names of immigrants found on the public ICE database just in the past two years. 


Legislative Justice

Our legislative advocacy means protecting the freedom to vote, women’s reproductive rights, trans rights, those that are unhoused, and protecting the environment. Your voice is our power to help our neighbors in need. Our vote on Nov 3 means leveling the playing field in the NH house & senate plus our Federal delegation of Congress & Senate. And we vote for Governor plus other local reps. The high cost of everything is going up but not our paychecks. Please respond to appeals to submit testimony to NH House & Senate from AFSC, Kent Street Coalition, and League of Women Voters NH, among others.


Climate Justice

Lee Oxenham and Jo-Ellen Courtney alert you about informative events and presentations connecting us to how we can become more engaged in climate justice. Please contact Lee to find out the latest ways to be involved.


OUTREACH

Listen Community Dinners As a church, MCC has offered the commitment to prepare and serve dinners the FIRST Thursdays of the odd-numbered months. The next date is Nov 5. Anyone, including the broader community is welcome to help with this. If you or if you know somebody who might want to volunteer, please text or phone Ed Cousineau or Anne Cragin. Ed will send out a notice a week beforehand to seek volunteers. Many thanks to those who volunteered in September.


Claremont Soup Kitchen Bill Chapelle continues to lead volunteer participation at the Claremont Soup Kitchen on the fourth Saturday of every month and this slot covers the hours 2-5:30 PM. No cooking experience necessary. November 28th is the next opportunity. “We always have a lot of fun. Your Saturday night begins with a good feeling that you have given nice people a delicious meal.” ~Bill Chapelle Please let Bill know if you are available. (chappellebill@gmail.com)



In solidarity and hope, 

Shideko Terai (she/her), Peace, Justice & Outreach Coordinator

text or phone 603-252-7898, email shideko.terai@gmail.com


Justice Vigil October 2026

Environmental Good News From Saudi Arabia

"Saudi Arabia set a new world record for cheap electricity in 2024 — and the record was not set by oil. It was set by solar panels in a desert auction that shocked every energy economist on the planet.


The Al Shuaibah 2 solar project in the Makkah region secured a power purchase agreement at $0.0104 per kilowatt-hour — roughly 1 US cent per unit of electricity. For context: the average American household pays $0.17 per kilowatt-hour. German industrial consumers pay $0.12. Even China's subsidised industrial electricity costs more than what Saudi Arabia's desert solar is now producing at commercial scale. A penny per kilowatt-hour for utility electricity was considered physically impossible just five years ago. It is now contracted in the desert and under construction.


The mechanism is straightforward once the geography is accepted: Saudi Arabia receives 2,400 kilowatt-hours of solar energy per square metre per year — among the highest irradiance on Earth. Land costs nothing. Financing is provided at sovereign rates by a government with $700 billion in reserves. Construction labour is cheap. The combination produces a levelised cost that has no precedent anywhere in the world for any generating technology in history. The country that set oil prices for a century has now set a solar electricity price that every energy market must recalibrate around.


The implication extends far beyond Saudi Arabia. If solar electricity can be produced at one cent per kilowatt-hour in optimal desert conditions, the cost of green hydrogen produced from it falls to levels that make fossil hydrogen genuinely uncompetitive. The desalination that turns seawater into drinking water becomes almost free. The industrial processes that currently burn fossil fuel because electricity was too expensive to compete can now be electrified. A penny per kilowatt-hour does not just change Saudi Arabia's energy system. It changes every calculation that depends on the cost of energy.


Source: Saudi Vision 2030 Renewable Energy Programme; ACWA Power, Al Shuaibah 2 Project Financial Close 2024


#solarenergy #saudiarabia #worldrecord #RenewableEnergy"

Article collected by Kathy Wright

How to get Legislative Updates for the New Hampshire Legislature

Resources for legislative updates and testimony:


AFSC

https://afsc.org/state-house-watch


New Hampshire Network

bills affecting environment, energy, and climate

https://www.newhampshirenetwork.org/NH-bills


League of Women Voters of New Hampshire

https://lwvnh.org/issues-actions/

Kent Street Coalition

sign up for their Happenings newsletter here

Go here to submit online testimony for House bills

and here for Senate


These resources will let you know what bills are being considered and those that need testimony.

Black Lives Matter and Justice Concerns Vigils are back in action at the Meriden Blinking Light on Thursdays from 3:00-4:00pm. Come for the whole hour or just part.


Members of our Church Leadership Ministry Team


Chair: Ed Cousineau

Stewardship: Jim Lenz

Worship & Music Ministry: Elaine Lenz, Ed Cousineau

Welcoming and Caring Ministry: Kathy Wright & Anne Cragin

Administration & Finance Ministry: Ryan McGraw

Outreach, Peace, & Justice Ministry: Shideko Terai

Spiritual Formation Ministry: Cathy Rodriguez

Treasurer: Cindy Griffin

Assistant Treasurer(s): 

Kathy Wright, Jim Lenz, Evan Oxenham & Steve Beaupre


NOVEMBER

BIRTHDAYS

 

                                  

11/1       Jo Evarts

11/2       Anne (Thorburn) Grover

11/2       Ian Gregory-Davis

11/4      Anne Cousineau

11/4      Walt Hawkins

11/5      Gemma Mills

11/6       Sarah Joy Walker

11/8       Kelsey McGovern

11/8       Rachael Ouellett

11/8       Alison Schubert

11/8       Jim Schubert

11/9      Chentel McGraw

11/9       Ben Healy

11/13     Abigail Chellis

11/13     John (Jack) Taylor

11/13    Kyle Hines

11/13    Laura Hines

11/13     Harrison Beaupre

11/14     Bob Annis

11/14    Piper Keen

11/14     Richard Pullen

11/15     Julia Borchert

11/15    Gail Kinney

 

 

 


 

11/15     Andrea Feid

11/16     Harrison Currier

11/18     Jeannie Hines

11/18     Ken Johnson

11/18    Sharon Zuckerman

11/19     Lauren Hadley

11/19     Grayson Hardy

11/19     Kathy Harding

11/20     Catherine Garfield Legare

11/20     Tanya Cattabriga

11/21     Olivia Fauver

11/21    Brian Hampton

11/23     Phil Brady

11/23     Karen (Phelps) Prior

11/24    Martha Zoerheide

11/24    Verna Svensen

11/24    Amy Healy

11/25    Steven Zuckerman

11/27     Steve Jameson

11/28     Shanti Giampa

11/28    Sonja Wolke

11/28    Jordan Moore

11/29    Larissa Pyer

11/30    Kevin Ramos-Glew

NOVEMBER Wedding Anniversaries

 

11/6  Amy & Thom Lappin

11/16 Nathaniel Custer & Daniela Bailey

11/22 Charles & Thembi Mhlauri

11/25 Elaine & Jim Lenz



Welcome to This World




A Joyous Welcome to this World is offered to Meg and Nick Shafir’s new son, Quint David Shafir, born on October 6th. He is grandson to Scrib and Susan Sanzone Fauver.


Into God's Hands


Our hearts ache with the loss of dearly beloved friends and relatives of our faith community.


 Prayers for Jill Marshal and her family on the sudden death of Greg Marshall, age 79, on October 15th. He was our former minister and our Emeritus Minister.


We offer prayers for Cindy Griffin’s friend’s family because of the death of their mother, Evelyn Watts.


We offer prayers for Glenn Griffin and Sarah Winger following his brother-in-law, Clifford Winger’s death.




As each of these dearly departed ones has returned to the source of Love from which all life comes, may their families and loved ones be comforted with Love’s healing embrace in the midst of this time of mourning.

Prayer List


As Autumn continues we give joyous thanks for all that makes our faith community such a welcome home for all of us.  So too do we celebrate with all those bearing new life, and pray with those yet hoping to conceive, or seeking to adopt a beloved child of God. We also pray for our Search Committee as we continue the process of seeking a new settled pastor.

 

We pray for Ginger Chiappetta’s brother, Frank Yolen; Joan Burch; Shideko’s sister-in-law Denise Cable; Brad and Jeanne Thompson; Betty Pardoe; Greg Marshall; Scrib Fauver’s mother, Ann Fauver who just recently entered Memory Care;  for Penny Arcone’s brother, Stuart Hills; Cindy Griffin’s friend, Paul Russell; Rich Pullen; Shideko Terai’s brother, Jeff Boyle; Elise and Trevor McGraw’s son, River; Valerie Stender; Marianne McGraw’s friend, Jeff Gold; as well as Greg Marshall’s sister, Donna; Carol Hartman’s daughter-in-law, Michelle; Angie Hinton; Karen Sutton’s husband, Robert; Laine Gillespie’s friends, Josh & Perry;  Erik Heaton; Betty Walker; Linda Perkins; Jody Schubert’s brother, Rick; Jim Schubert’s sister, Martha & her daughter, Wendy; Suzanne Lenz; Judy Croitoru; and Linda Perkins’ friends, Dorothy, Albert, & Doug.

 

 Likewise are our prayers with these members and friends of our faith community currently receiving treatment for cancer: Penny’s friend’s granddaughter, Emily; Ann Cragin’s sister Beth Rentch; Lee Oxenham’s cousin, Stephen Cummings; Shideko Terai’s friend, Robert Taylor; Carol Hartman’s husband, Mike; Shideko Terai’s friend, Kathy Cook; Kathy Wright’s niece Christine Griswold; Andrea Brown’s mother, Linda Brown;  Ryan McGraw’s co-worker’s mother, Jeannie Berube; Odile Clavier’s colleague;  Amaia Leach; Angie Hinton’s friend, Mickey LaHaye; Vicki Ramos-Glew’s mother, Carole Spencer; Cecilia Hampton’s best friend Victoria’s mother, Bev; Sue Turner’s brother, Kurt; Lauryn Moeller’s daughter-in-law, Lisa Rae Moeller; and Kevin Ramos-Glew’s nephew, Duncan.

    

We pray for the United States in these turbulent times.  We also pray for our friends in Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zambia, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, and Zimbabwe, and all those living in such troubled lands as Lebanon, Gaza, Palestine, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Haiti, South Sudan, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, North Korea, Yemen, and the Congo. We pray for all immigrants & refugees seeking sanctuary & welcome throughout our world, that we may be among those who offer an oasis of hospitality & compassion within the kin-dom of God’s heart. And we pray too for our BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) friends and neighbors, seeking to build with them a world wherein “Black Lives Matter!”



If you or someone you know would like a name to be added to our Prayer List, please let Kathy Wright know. In an effort to keep it as up-to-date as possible, please also let her know when you would like a name removed (secretary@meridenucc.org).

 




Legislator Contact Information

 FEDERAL

                                                                                 


Rep. Maggie Goodlander

223 Cannon House Office Bldg

Washington, DC 20515

Phone:202-225-5206

Concord District Office

18 North Main St.

4th Floor

Concord, NH 03301

603-226-1002


Sen. Maggie Hassan

330 Hart Senate Office Building  .

Washington, DC 20510

Phone: 202-224-3324 (Washington

1200 Elm St. Suite 6

Manchester, NH 03101

Phone: 603-662-2204 (New Hampshire)

www.hassan.senate.gov


Sen. Jeanne Shaheen

506 Hart Senate Office Bdg

Washington, DC 20510

Phone: 202-224-2841 (Washington)

2 Wall St #220

Manchester, NH 03101

Phone: 602-647-7500 (NH)

www.shaheen.senate.gov

STATE


Rep. Margaret Drye

1136 Rt. 12A

Plainfield, NH 03781

Phone: 603-675-9159

Email: Margaret.Drye@gc.nh.gov


Rep. Bill Palmer

603-675-2117

Email wpalmernh@gmail.com


Sen. Suzanne Prentiss

Legislative Office Building, Room 102

33 State Street

Concord, NH 03301

Phone: 603-271-3092

Email: Suzanne.Prentiss@gc.nh.gov

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Every Month on the 3rd Saturday
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the UVHS will be present to provide  
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For more information
please contact Stephanie at 469-3201.
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