Outdoor Worship & Picnic Sunday

The weather was perfect for the outdoor worship & picnic on Sunday!

Worship This Week

Please join us

in the Sanctuary

or online at 10am for the

Eleventh Sunday

after Pentecost

with Communion

Coffee hour will be held

after the service

in Hadley Hall

The service will be live streamed

on Facebook Live here

or on 3CX here

Reader: Barry Sargent

Coffee Hour Host: Marge & Bob O'Brien

Emerson Village Crafters Donate

16 Blankets to Project Linus

A very special thank you to Marcia Kneeland and the incredibly talented ladies from Emerson Village for donating more blankets to Project Linus!

HCC Missions Team collects blankets of all types and sizes to pass on to this great ministry.

Project Linus' mission is "to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gifts of new, handmade blankets and afghans". Blankets are given to children in need through NH.

New UPPER ROOM Devotionals

We have copies of the

July/August Upper Room 



devotional available

in the foyer to Hadley Hall.

If you need a copy mailed to you, please contact

the main office.

Peace & Justice

I just saw an article from UCC Witness for Justice Team called “Demystifying the Stigma of Mental Illness” by Rev. Dr. Bentley de Bardelaben-Phillips. He remembers the time when families would not talk about mental illness and sought to keep such illness of family members secret. As an adult he realized that this stigma damaged his emotional development and that many others suffered the results by not being able to seek help from friends or professionals. Today the UCC is launching a new campaign to elevate mental health justice by proclaiming mental health as a basic human right. He reminds us that UCC does not share the teaching by some faith communities that mental health issues are a result of sin or a lack of faith that can be cured through prayer alone. The UCC believes in and supports science in regard to understanding mental illness. He states “To that end, please join me as a person of faith who desires all humans to be fully integrated physical, emotional, and spiritual beings caring for each other without shame, fear, or judgement. Let us demystify the stigma of mental illness while celebrating mental health justice for all.”

Music Corner by Herb Tardiff

Fife, Drum, and Bugle During the Revolutionary War



During the Revolutionary War, armies didn’t have radios to talk to each other with. Music was the main way for them to communicate over long distances. It is widely recognized that the use of the fife and drum came from the armies of Switzerland, hundreds of years before America was discovered by Europeans. The fife was used because of its high pitched sound and the drum because of its low pitched sound. Both instruments can be heard from great distances and even through the sounds of a battlefield. Fifers and drummers would provide the music for all of the things that soldiers would need to do throughout the day. They would play tunes in the camp, on the battlefield, or for a march.

Most of the musicians would have been boys that were too young to fight in the war but were following their fathers who were fighting. Other musicians could have been men who were too old to fight. This meant that males that were younger than 16 or older than 50 could serve as musicians in the army. To help the young musicians, Drum and Fife Majors would have been musically talented soldiers who instructed the young musicians.

On the battlefield, musicians had the responsibility of helping keep order in battle and make sure the soldiers functioned well as a unit. Drummers would play beatings telling the soldiers to turn right or left as well as to load and fire their muskets. There was a tune called Cease Fire that fifers and drummers would play to tell the soldiers to stop firing at the end of a battle while a tune called Parley was used to signal to the enemy that a surrender or peace talk was desired.

Steeple Lighting

Steeple lit July 29th – August 4th 

Steeple lit

In loving memory of

Joe O'Brien

Miss You Dad

New Hampshire Conference UCC

Weekly News

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7/30/2024 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.