Rev Paige's Corner: Welcoming All Ages in Worship!

Continue Celebrating Easter with us this Sunday with Bells! 

In the church, Easter is a season and not a day. So we will continue to celebrate on April 7.

Bring a bell of any kind to worship to ring as part of the service.

Worship This Week

Please join us

in the Sanctuary

or online at 10am for the

Second Sunday of Easter

with Communion & Baptism



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: Judy Dobson

Coffee hour host: Loaf & Ladle

Easter Week Photos

It was a blessed Easter Week at HCC. A special thank you to all who volunteered to help with all of the various events.

Maundy Thursday

Easter Egg Hunt

Thank you to Dave Chin for organizing and to Julian, Joey & Jazz

for helping to stuff the eggs.

A special thank you to Erin McCune for being our Easter Bunny!

Sunrise Service

Join us this Sunday after worship!

Fiber Arts Canceled for April

Fiber Arts will be canceled this month (April) so we can host the Hampstead Eats food truck festival on Saturday, April 27th.

It will resume in May as usual on the last Saturday of the month.

We hope you'll still stop by and enjoy some amazing food from the food trucks!

New Discussion Group Starting April 11th

The Food Truck Festival Needs Your Help

The vendors and the entertainment are all set for our 4th Annual Hampstead Eats Food Truck Festival on April 27th. If you can help in any way, it would be greatly appreciated.

Things you can do:

• Help with Setup starting at 9AM
• Help with Ticket Sales - multiple timeslots starting at 10:30AM-1:30PM & 1:30-4PM
• Help with Parking - multiple timeslots starting at 10:30AM-2:30PM
• Help with Cleanup starting at 4:00PM

Sign up after church on Sundays or contact the office at 603-329-6985.

Let’s make this event a huge success! As always, thank you for your support,

Your Fundraising Team

Steeple Lighting

Steeple Lit the week of April 1st

In loving memory of

Dorothy Auger

A Word from Peace & Justice

There was an article in New Hampshire Bulletin about the challenges state lawmakers are facing as they work on solutions to the statewide housing shortages. 

House Bill 1053 is “bold” in that it would allow any property owner to build residential housing in a commercial zone. Supporters claim that this is a way to fast-track mixed-use housing in New Hampshire. Rep. Eric Gallager (D-Concord) speaking in support said at the House Municipal and County Affairs Committee, “We need to loosen zoning restrictions to make it easier to build new housing or allow people to occupy existing structures. If you’ve got a business leaving, fine. That’s just more room for housing. We need housing more than we need businesses right now.” Critics such as Rep Len Turcotte (R-Barrington) say the phrase “as a matter of right” in the bill is of great concern. “Any time I see a bill that says ‘as a matter of right’, that compels top-down zoning, I’m against. It’s just something that I’m not willing to do.” These two thoughts illustrate the tension over housing: How much should towns get a say?

A number of bills would override certain local zoning codes in order to facilitate expansion of housing construction. Advocates say this is the only approach to address an entrenched problem. Others see them as a move to undermine local control.

List of the bills: House Bill 1053, House Bill 1400, House Bill 1361, House Bill 1281, House Bill 1291.

Full article

Music Corner by Herb Tardiff

The Renaissance 

Introducing the Tactus

Without time signatures and barlines, the earliest forms of music used a different type of pulse to that indicated by a modern conductor. The rhythmic focus in Renaissance music was called the tactus - a unit of time indicated by the raising and lowering of the hand (to help the musicians keep good ensemble) and the music began with a mensuration sign. This indicated how the tactus would be split, be it into two or three subdivisions. This tactus may have generally been close to the resting heart rate (a speed of which all humans have an awareness) perhaps 60 - 70 beats per minute.  

   In some of the larger cathedrals, the distance between each wing or the front to back were so great that the conductor and the musicians relied on a large pole that a person would move up and down to indicate the tempo or speed of the music. 

Save the Date! Look what is coming and mark your calendars!

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.

4/2/2024 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.