Office Closed Thursday, July 4th

The office will be closed on Thursday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day.

There will also be no Weekly Word.

Have a safe and happy holiday!

Summer Office Hours Begin July 1st

Just a reminder that the summer office hours will begin on Monday, July 1st until August 31st.  

Office hours will be:

Monday 9am-12pm

Wednesday 9am-12pm

Thursday 9am-1pm

Worship This Week

Please join us

in the Sanctuary

or online at 10am for the

Sixth Sunday

after Pentecost

Coffee hour will be held

after the service

in the Sanctuary.

The service will be live streamed

through Facebook Live here

or on 3CX here

Reader: Brad Robie

Coffee Hour Host: Jane DeRosa

HCC's Bell Gets a Facelift

What's a new steeple without a working bell? After last summer's extensive renovation of our steeple, the Operations Team decided it was time to repair the bell. Repairs began on Monday and should take a couple of months. It'll be so nice to hear the church bells ringing throughout Hampstead again.

Erin McCune & Nick from

Verdin Bell Repair.

Erin & Chris McCune

Calling all artistic and 

talented friends! 

As part of the Hampstead Garden Club's Garden Tour on July 13th, the Hampstead Congregational Church, UCC will be open as a rest stop, offering boxed lunches and hosting an Art in Bloom show in Hadley Hall. We will be welcoming many types of art to be submitted: paint, sculpture, drawing, photography and textiles. 

All ages are welcome to display artwork. You will have the option of offering your piece for sale with a 10% commission going to the church capital campaign. Area floral designers will be interpreting the art in floral design. These may also be offered for sale with the same commission. Neither the art nor the floral piece is required to be for sale. If you are an artist and would like to participate with one, or multiple pieces, we are asking to have them submitted by June 30 so the floral designers can have time to plan their work. You may drop the pieces off at the church, or submit a clear photo by that day, with the art itself needed by July 12 for exhibition. Anyone interested submitting art or in doing a floral design, please contact Kari Allard by messenger for adult art and Terri Eddy Malcolm for kid’s art.

All are welcome, professionals and amateurs alike.  

We are looking forward to making The Art in Bloom exhibit a fun community event as part of Hampstead's 275th anniversary celebration.

Save the Date for Our

Worship & Picnic Sunday

We are planning to worship outside followed by a picnic and activities on July 28th beginning at 10am on the Historical Society lawn! Save the date for this fun time.

Bring food to share and bring a lawn chair! You can even bring your favorite lawn game. Grill will be available.

Steeple Lighting

Steeple lit July 1st – July 7th 

Happy Birthday

Judy Blaisdell

Remembering Your Heart 

Full of Fireworks

Love & Hugs

From Your Family

Steeple Lighting

Steeple lit July 1st – July 7th 

In Memory of

Reverend Bob Dobson

Peace & Justice

Look at these nonprofits that received grants from The Alexander Eastman Foundation.

Alexander Eastman Foundation and Heaven's Kitchen 

2024 Annual Community Grants - The Foundation is excited to announce that it has awarded $748,000 in Annual Grant awards this year to nonprofit and service organizations within our service area of Windham, Londonderry, Derry, Chester, Sandown, and Hampstead, NH. 

• Children's Dental Network - $280,000 – Two Year Grant to Support the oral health in-school programs and management operations within the AEF service area.

• The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Derry - three-year grant funding to support the purchase of a new bus which is used to transport children to and from school during the school year, and to various activities during the summer programs. The club will be donating the bus it is replacing to St. Anne's Community Outreach's Food Pantry for use as a mobile food pantry.  

• The Upper Room - $50,000 to support the Family Wellness program

• Community Caregivers - $50,000 to support operations of the Loaners Closet

• Rockingham Co Meals on Wheels - $40,000 support of meal services in the AEF service area.

• Isaiah58 of NH - $35,000 funding for housing insecurity programs

• Planned Parenthood of Northern NE - $40,000 - Support of the Derry Health Center's Sliding Fee Scale Program 

• St. Anne’s Community Outreach – Food Pantry – $80,000 Two-year grant funding for purchase of a Food Truck.

• Heaven’s Kitchen – Summer Children’s Feeding Program – $28,000 Funding of the Summer Feeding program in AEF service area communities. See the schedule for trucks at locations in Derry, Londonderry, and Hampstead at the link below. It will be at St. Anne Parish weekdays 11:30 - noon.

• First Baptist Church Derry, Food Pantry - $15,000 Support of the community pantry operations. 

• Sandown Fire Dept - $5,500 - Community CPR, Narcan, and Stop The Bleed training kits to be shared between the Chester, Hampstead, and Sandown FD's. 

• Marion Gerrish Center - $25,000 - Support of the Afterschool Enrichment Program at Hood School. 

• Family Promise of Southern NH - $10,000 - Support of services for clients from the AEF service area. 

• Londonderry YMCA - $17,500 - Development of a community educational garden.

• Derry Friendship Center - $10,000 - Support of Peer Support program. 

• The Friends Program - $7,000 - Support for programs for seniors. 

• Community Health Services - $15,000 - Support of community services

For information on our grant funding please visit our website at: https://alexandereastman.org/

Music Corner by Herb Tardiff

History Of the Djembe

The Modern Djembe Built by DrumConnection

The djembe is one of West Africa's best-known instruments. This goblet-shaped drum is traditionally carved from a single piece of African hardwood and topped with an animal skin as a drumhead. In western understanding, the drum belongs to the membranophone class of instruments in the percussion family.

 The djembe drum is most likely about 400-800 years old and was created during the Malian Empire by the Mandé people. It spanned the modern-day countries of Senegal, southern Mauritania, Mali, northern Burkina Faso, western Niger, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, the Ivory Coast and northern Ghana. The Mali Empire grew out of an area referred to by its contemporary inhabitants as Mande. Mande, named for its inhabitants the Mandinka (initially Manden’ka with “ka” meaning people of), comprised most of present-day northern Guinea and southern Mali. The empire was originally established as a federation of Mandinka tribes called the Manden Kurufa (literally Manden Federation), but it later became an empire ruling millions of people from nearly every ethnic group in West Africa. 

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.

6/25/2024 Newsletter

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

for the current newsletter.

New AMAZON Wish List for

Saint Anne's Food Pantry

St. Anne's Pantry is seeing an increase in the number of families who shop with them. They've almost doubled the amount of families who shop weekly since this time last year. They try to keep their shelves stocked as much as they can.

They are reaching out for some help...donations are needed. They thought they would try an Amazon Wish List in addition to listing items here.

Thank you in advance for any donations. 

Please no expired items and non-perishable items only please.

Drop off in the foyer of Hadley Hall.

Looking for the following: cereal(no oatmeal), coffee, tea, Ritz Crackers, Saltines, granola bars, Nutrigrain bars, cheese and crackers, peanut butter and crackers, canned Chef Boy r Dee, condiments, salad dressing, brownie/cake mix, Coffee/K-Cups, Quickbread/Muffin mixes, Easter Candy, Ensure, Scalloped/Au gratin potatoes.