Church Office Hours

Monday & Wednesday 9 AM – 3 PM/Friday 9am –1 PM

Office Closed on Tuesdays & Thursdays

The front door is unlocked during office hours. 

Take your Valentine out for a fun night of music and dancing!

Many of your favorite Broadway love songs will be performed by an amazing cast of singers and dancers over the weekend of February 9-11. You will recognize them from past Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative productions and celebrate the new faces featured. Also on the stage will be many members of the church as singers in the Power Chords Broadway chorus! Gather your friends and come out to see Granville and Lorraine Barrows, Jaylene Bengtson, Stan Brallier, John and Margie Kreitler, Muff Kruse, Diane Lockwood, Marilyn Lynch, Valerie Sargent and Beth Shehadi. Each and every one a star!

A Call to the 199th Annual Meeting

of the Congregational Church of Laconia,

United Church of Christ - January 28, 2024

The Annual Meeting of the Church will be held in person, following the morning service of worship, at approximately 10:45 a.m.

The Annual Meeting is for the purpose of:

1. Presentation of, and action on, the budget proposed for 2024;
2. The election of Officers, Committee members, and Standing Delegates
3. The presentation of reports by Officers and Committees of the Church;
4. The presentation of the annual Church Service Award;
5. Any other business that any member may wish to place before the Church for consideration or action.

--Wayne Domin, Moderator

Follow this link to view and download a copy of the

2023 Annual Report.

https://www.laconiaucc.org/annual-report/

Hard copies will be available at the Annual Meeting.

Optional Zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89933579705?pwd=emVVY3dqRWw2Ti9TQXdtRTh3TzdFUT09 

-or-

https://bit.ly/421bKXS

NEWS FLASH! 

The Congregational Church of Laconia has a team in the "Souper" Bowl on Sunday, February 11th!!!

Please bring cans (pop-top preferred) to church to support our Little Free Food Pantry and our food insecure neighbors are the winners  GO TEAM!  

Thank you to all who have called, e-mailed or stopped by the office to wish me well as I leave my position at Communications Associate. It has been an incredible 16 months. I have learned a lot and made many wonderful new friends. While I have mixed feelings about my departure, after working with Carmen for a short time, I am confident that I am leaving you in very capable hands!

Karen McDowell

A Message From the Church Office:

As our new Communications Associate Carmen Deyarmond transitions into her new role, we ask that all emails for the News Blast, Tower Tidings, or any other information intended for her be sent to churchoffice@laconiaucc.org, which will be her primary email address.

Historic Potluck Sunday

January 28th

Following the annual meeting on January 28th, we will be having a 200th Anniversary Pot Luck. We have gathered together recipes from our church cookbooks dating back to the early 1900s. We will be making and serving these recipes at the pot luck.

If you haven't already picked out your recipe, we will have them available this Sunday, Jan. 21, so you can choose a meal to prepare and bring. Just follow the recipe and bring it to church on the 28th and we will take care of the rest!

PARISH HOUSE

RE-NAMING

When did this process get started? 

In the past few years there have been many conversations about changing the name of the Parish House in conjunction with our 200th Anniversary celebration. The plan is for the name “The Congregational Church of Laconia” to remain along with the selected name.

Why re-name the building?

“Parish House” was an appropriate name when it was built in 1959, but now it’s outdated and has no real meaning for our church members or the community members using the building. Ideally, a name will be chosen that will highlight the mission of the building when it was created in the 1950s and how it functions today. Those church leaders intended the building to serve as an outreach location for the community by offering a free space for local nonprofits to have meetings and activities. The majority of space continues to be used for the church offices, outreach space, meeting rooms, and classrooms.

What happened next?

The Church Council formed an ad-hoc Committee to be responsible for gathering suggestions for a name that is more reflective of the purpose and use of the building. We advertised in the News Blast and at church services to ask for potential names and we collected over 30 suggestions before the Nov.1^st deadline. The ad-hoc group had several meetings to determine the most common names, words, and phrases. We found that these three names stood out and best represented the submissions:

• COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
• THE MEETING PLACE
• OUTREACH CENTER

How do we choose? 

At the Annual Meeting on January 28, all members of the church will be invited to vote for the new name during the meeting (members on Zoom will also be able to vote).

• The votes will be counted immediately
• The name with the most votes will be put forward as a motion and voted on to become the new name for the Parish House!

What should you do before then? 

Think about it. Talk to your friends about it. Launch a campaign for your favorite. Decide which name you feel best represents the mission of our church building and VOTE on January 28!!

Let’s celebrate our building and highlight its mission in the local community!

Yours in Christ,

Ad-hoc Committee Members: Kathy Giovanni, Bob Harrington, Carolyn Jorgensen, Beth Shehadi, Diane Tinkham

Come and Worship

We welcome and invite you to worship with us in any of these ways. 

!!! In Person !!! at 9:30 AM, or via Livestream

●      Via livestream through YouTube Sundays starting at 9:20 AM:

Go to YouTube and search for Congregational Church of Laconia

●      On our website www.laconiaucc.org any day and any time.

●      On Public Access TV Channel 25 Sundays at 4pm and 9:30pm or Mondays at 5am.

If you are new to the church, please introduce yourself! Let the Church Office know if we can help you in any way! 603-524-0668. Seeking to be the church God desires for us to be.

Congregational Church of Laconia, UCC | 18 Veterans Square, Laconia, NH | 603.524.0668