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Worship This Week
Please join us
in the Sanctuary
or online at 9am for
All Saints Sunday
with Communion
Coffee hour will be held
after the service.
The service will be live streamed
on Facebook Live here
or on 3CX here
Reader: Fred Malcolm
Coffee Hour Hosts: Missions Beneficial Breakfast
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Beneficial Breakfast This Sunday
Join us for a mission opportunity on 11/2 following worship for a Beneficial Breakfast provided by the Missions Team. All good will donations will be given tin support of Holy Joe's Cafe. Holy Joe's mission is simple: Serving a little bit of home to those who serve our country by providing free coffee to our military bases.
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Updating HCC's Website
The Operations Committee has agreed with several of our volunteers, and with Maria Angelotti from the office, that we'd like to create an updated Church website, one that will be easier to navigate through, and that is appealing to the eye when someone visits our site for online information about HCC.
What we're now asking is for all Teams, and their Leaders, to discuss this new project amongst themselves, and to please send in a list of suggestions to Maria. We feel that by taking our volunteer work into consideration, as we look for the best way to share the Mission Work that we're all focused on, we can hopefully put a better focus onto all of God's Work that we strive to share when someone logs onto our website.
And we're also in search of a Church Member, a friend of a Church Member, or someone we know who does this work either PT or FT, who could help recommend different layouts so that Maria has a resource to call on as she does her work. We hope and pray that some creative person, with these skills in website creation, might be able to find a few hours to volunteer their support for our Church's efforts to share what God is doing here at 61 Main Street, and beyond our walls.
If anyone has any ideas that they'd like to share, and/or the name of someone who they can reach out to on our behalf, please get in touch with Maria. Her email address at the office is hcc1752@gmail.com, or contact her in the Church Office at 603.329.6985.
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Looking for Christmas
Craft Fair Vendors
We are looking for crafters for our annual Christmas Craft Fair on December 6th. If you would like to book a space to sell your crafts, please click here to print an application.
Please mail the completed/signed application, payment, and a photo of your craft (if new) to:
Barbara Wallack
8 Chelsari Way
Hampstead, NH 03841
A confirmation e-mail will be sent or phone call will be made to you upon acceptance of your application.
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Volunteers Needed to Help with Our Christmas Craft Fair
Our Christmas Craft Fair will be held on Saturday, December 6th. This gives us just a few weeks to pull everything together.
To that end, the Fundraising Team is meeting on Monday, November 3rd in the Library at Hadley Hall to discuss last-minute planning and prep. Anyone interested in joining is more than welcome!
For those who cannot join us, just a reminder that we need the following for the fair:
Raffle items
Baked goods
Soup
Yard sale items
Volunteers to man the tables
This is one of our largest fundraisers, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
-Your Fundraising Team
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Scams in the name of the pastor
It is a frustrating reality about which little can be done that people are using technology to get hold of pastor information, church directory information and more and to use that information to contact folks pretending to the be the pastor by email or text. The scam goes something like the person pretending to be the pastor asks for help. They are too busy to get to the store but need gift cards to help a needy person. If you could get the gift cards and send the codes from the card, that would be great.
So I will never ask for gift cards by email or text and I will never ask for card access numbers remotely. If you get one of these emails, please use the “report spam” button before deleting it. If in doubt, send an email or give a call for confirmation.
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Peace & Justice
The recent cooler weather is a reminder that winter is close at hand and with it winter driving.
New Hampshire Bulletin published an article about the rising saltiness of groundwater as a result of applying salt to treat the roads. The salt seeps into wells and streams putting people and wildlife at risk. The chemical composition of road salt prevents plants from filtering it and too much chloride gets into the ponds, killing fish. Removing salt from drinking water is expensive and rather complicated.
In response, the state has put voluntary salt restrictions in place which have slowed but not stopped the increasing saltiness. So more measures are needed whether it be a shift in our expectations for cleared winter roads or more mandated restrictions. Read the article for more concerns and some ideas for solutions.
Blessings, Debra
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The Music Corner
by Herb Tardiff
Native American Music
Native American music plays a vital role in history and education, with ceremonies and stories orally passing on ancestral customs to new generations. Native American ceremonial music is traditionally said to originate from deities or spirits, or from particularly respected individuals. Rituals are shaped by every aspect of a song, dance, and costuming, and each aspect informs about the "makers, wearers and symbols important to the nation, tribe, village, clan, family, or individual". Native Americans perform stories through song, music, and dance, and the historical facts thus propagated are an integral part of Native American beliefs. Epic legends and stories about cultural heroes are a part of tribal music traditions, and these tales are often an iconic part of local culture. They can vary slightly from year to year, with leaders recombining and introducing slight variations. The Pueblo composes a number of new songs each year in a committee that uses dreams and visions.
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Saint Anne's Food Pantry
Thank you all who continue to donate food for St. Anne’s Food Pantry!
They have updated their needs list: Ensure, Coffee/Tea, Tuna Fish, Mayo, Jelly/Jam, Hamburger Helper, Protein Soups, Saltines/Ritz/Triscuits, Rice Pilaf, Spices, Salad Dressing, English Muffins, Brownie/Muffin/Cake Mixes, Nutrigrain Bars, Maple Syrup, Canned Chef Boyardee Items, Spam, Lunchbox Snacks.
St. Anne’s Food Pantry has also updated their
Amazon Wish List
in addition to listing items here.
Please no expired items. Non-perishable items only.
Drop off is in the foyer of Hadley Hall.
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Want to get the word out about what’s happening at HCC? If you want to publicize your event or remind the congregation about something, please email the office (hcc1752@gmail.com) by Wednesday at noon so that your information can be included in that week’s Weekly Word. Feel free to send in information up to three weeks in advance of an upcoming event. We want all of the congregation (not just the Team leaders) to be empowered to get the word out about all the activities that are happening at Hampstead Congregational Church!
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Our Mailing address:
61 Main Street
Hampstead, NH 03841
Church Office hours: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday 9:00am to 3pm
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Hampstead Congregational Church Website
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