Fall Grounds Clean-up Tomorrow

Operations is hosting a day to perform hedge and shrub maintenance around the church.

It is this Thursday, September 14, at 1pm. Volunteers are welcome. Many hands make light work!

Thanks, 

Operations Team 

HCC Historical Designation Is Official

Hampstead Congregational is now officially on the

New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places!

Thank you, Brad Robie, for all of your hard work in accomplishing this amazing fete!

Outdoor Worship This Week

Please join us

in the back lot

or online at

10am this Sunday for

Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost

Bring a chair and enjoy the beauty of nature!

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

or on 3CX here

Reader: Debra Sawyer

Coffee hour host: Ellen McCune

artwork: "Abundant Harvest" © Mary Southard

www.ministryofthehearts.org. Used with permission.

Steeple Windows Repaired

Chris McCune braved the heights to fix the steeple windows this week.

Thanks, Chris, for all you do! 

Associate Conference Minister

Visits HCC Next Sunday 9/24

On Sunday, September 24th we are happy to welcome the NH UCC Associate Conference Minister Reverend Sara Marean. Rev. Sara will preach as well as host a Q & A after the service about the NH Conference and wider church. Please join us for this special occasion. 

Rev. Marean is a graduate of Earlham College and Harvard University Divinity School. She was Ordained in 2001 by the Cheshire Association of the NH Conference.

Rev. Marean has served churches in Minnesota and Massachusetts and most recently as the Pastor of the First Congregational Church of Wilmot (NH), UCC. She was elected to be the NHCUCC Associate Conference Minister in October of 2022 and began her position in January.

Rev. Marean lives in Nelson with her partner Eric and her three children, Zeph, Wren and Milo.

Atkinson Congregational Bell Choir

Atkinson Congregational is looking for volunteers to join their Bell Choir. Practice is every Wednesday from 5-6pm and they play at one service per month. Ability to read music is a plus.

If interested, email Ann Chalk at annchalk66@gmail.com

The New Hampshire Conference Annual Meeting is next month. It would be wonderful to have some congregants from HCC represent our church in person or virtually. For more information, head to the website below, or speak to Pastor Kathy.

A Word From Peace & Justice

A "thank you" from RIP Medical Debt

The Music Corner by Herb Tardiff

Born Georg Friedrich Händel

5 March [O.S. 23 February] 1685 in Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg, Brandenburg-Prussia

Died 14 April 1759 (aged 74), London, England

Burial place: Westminster Abbey

Handel’s Water Music & Royal Fireworks Suites



Georges Frederic Handel composed three suites to accompany England’s George I, as he and his companions sailed on the Thames River. Handel premiered his compositions in 1717, and, supposedly, the king loved the pieces so much that he had the 50 musicians play them continuously for hours. 

Thirty years later, Handel composed the Royal Fireworks Suite for King George II. Humorously, during the first official performance of the Fireworks Suite, an elaborate stage built for the show caught fire and burned to the ground. It is interesting to note that King George II(Successor of King George I) was very hard of hearing and when he heard the Messiah for the first time, stood up during the performing of the “Hallelujah Chorus. To this day, It has been a tradition for the audience to stand up during the “Hallelujah” chorus. (Remember back then, when the King stood up everybody stood up.)

In reality, because of his deafness, King George II probably stood up because he thought the ensemble was playing England’s national anthem.

Steeple Lightings

The steeple will be lit the week of

September 11th - September 17th

for the following:

Happy 53rd Anniversary

Janet & Don Kliska

and

To Honor All Those Lost on 9/11

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.

9/12/2023 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), chunky & Progresso soups, coffee, tea bags, salad dressings, syrup, muffin mix, brownie mix, cake mix and jelly.



Please drop off any donations in the foyer of Hadley Hall

Please, no expired items.

Thank you for all your support!

Scam Texts & Emails

This summer, a number of congregants received a scam text "from Rev. Kathy." This was sent from an unknown phone number, not Pastor Kathy's cell phone. The text said it was an urgent request. Those who called/texted back were asked to send gift cards.

Please know that Pastor Kathy will never ask you for money/gift cards over email nor via a text. And if there is something urgent, Pastor Kathy will reach out via phone. Scammers are often successful due to the "urgent" nature of their communication.

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.

These scams are increasingly common, and many church communities are affected.