Help with Refreshments!!!

We will be providing refreshments for after the Organ Recital on May 19th.

Finger sandwiches, chips, fruit and veggies, cheese and crackers.

We are truly hoping for a great turnout for this event from both

church members and other music lovers in the community.

Please contact Hollis Thompson at hollisandgreg@yahoo.com if you wish to donate any item.

At Coffee Hour this week there is a list of items we will need.

Thank you 

VOTING RESULTS!!!!

More than 50 people cast their votes concerning the name of the brick building that is currently called the Parish House. The goal was to narrow the options down from dozens of possibilities to the biggest vote-getters to be in Round Two. Listening to the advice of others, our committee combined names that had the same core word to be one option for Round Two of voting. The four names are all understandable and aren’t repeating a name of another organization.



These are the four names that are the choices for Round Two:

Meeting Place, Parish House,

Outreach Center and Community House

Round Two voting will take place on Sundays May 12^th and May 19^th at Coffee Hour. If you won’t be voting in person either of those times, please feel free to send your vote to:

Diane at tinkhams@metrocast.net. 

Each person will get to cast ONE VOTE so pick your favorite!! It will be very similar to the process we used for Round One but each person will cast one vote on the voting board. The top two vote getters will be in the FINALS at a Special Meeting of the Congregation at a date still to be determined.

Thanks for the many thoughtful discussions, ideas for physical improvements and signage, suggestions for names, and the many interesting conversations about what’s happening for our church and community. We may have different ideas for names but we share the commitment to supporting our local community.

-The Ad-hoc Committee:

Kathy Giovanni, Bob Harrington, Carolyn Jorgensen, Beth Shehadi, Diane Tinkham

Here are the tallies for names with the most votes:

Outreach Center- 30 and Outreach Place- 10 TOTAL= 40

Parish House- TOTAL=23

The Meeting House- 8 and The Meeting Place- 7 TOTAL=15

CommUnity House- 6 and Community House- 4 TOTAL-10

The Gathering Place- 8

The House of Hope- 7

Faith in Action- 6

Mission in Motion- 6

Connections on the Square- 6



200th Bicentennial 1824-2024

Congregational Church of Laconia History Book

Bob Harrington has been working hard updating our first history book from

our first 150 years. This new history book is a timeline of events from 1774 with the history of early Congregationalism in the Lakes Region to the present, with lots of fabulous photos.

The book will be available for $5.00 to help defer the cost;

and will be available sometime in late April 2024.

From National Prayer Breakfast in early May

Got Lunch! Laconia Has Been Selected

We are so excited to share that, for the entire month of May, Got Lunch! Laconia has

been selected by store leadership at Hannaford’s Gilford at 1425 Lakeshore Road, to

receive a $1 donation from every purchase of the $2.50 Fight Hunger Bag. This is a

great way to broaden awareness and help our cause.

The Fight Hunger Bag Program facilitates community support with the goal of making a difference where shoppers live and work. Almost $2 million has been donated to nearly 1,500 hunger organizations since the program launched in April 2014.

Let’s get started! Share the news with friends and family. Call, send emails and post on social media. The more people who purchase the Fight Hunger Bag in May, the greater the donation we will receive from Hannaford!

Thank you for your continued support as GLL starts its 14th year of feeding children,

who normally receive lunch at school during the school year, this summer.

Donations to Got Lunch! Laconia are welcome at any time.

Simply send your check made out to Got Lunch! Laconia

and send the check to the church office attention Carolyn Jorgensen.

Thank you for your support.

The Got Lunch Board

Recommendations wanted!

I was talking with some church members this week, and brought up a podcast that I heard recently. They were intrigued, and we agreed that it would be fun to have a place where we put recommendations around interesting books, movies, or podcasts that we've encountered recently.

So if you've just read, watched, or listened to something that you think other folks in the church might find thought-provoking, please send them to me. Include a brief description of why you found it interesting, and we can include it here in the news blast.

But what was the podcast that got this conversation started?

It was an old episode of Radiolab, recently reissued, entitled "Memory and Forgetting." It explored how memory works, how's it's not as we imagined, and whether we can create or erase memories deliberately. To me, it also delves into some of the ways in which communication can get tricky, in all sorts of relationships. Listen here:

https://radiolab.org/podcast/memory-and-forgetting

The next book discussion is on Wednesday, May 22nd at 10:00 in the Beane Parlor. The book is "Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" by Alan Bradley.

Join us for an interesting Who-done-it.

SAVE THE DATE



Caring Connections Annual Training Event

June 13, 2024 from 10-2 pm.

CC Pew Cards for new volunteers- place in the offering basket.

Want to know more before you volunteer? Come to our training event!

To celebrate the people, places, and experiences that lift up the Holy

Donated by Janet Heslam

Altar Guild is responsible for the lovely flowers on the altar every Sunday. The following is a list of members to contact if you would like to donate:

May: Cindy Carter, (910) 685-3495

June: Carolyn Hunt, (603) 524-5779

July: Margie Kreitler, (603) 260-3673

Aug: Mary Ellen Azem, (603) 455-0972

Sept: Catherine Tokarz, (603) 998-3811

Oct: Diane Lockwood, (603) 524-3076

Nov: John Gill, (603) 520-4248

Dec: Claudia Wright, (603) 387-5275



Women's Breakfast June 19th, 8:30am at the Water Street Cafe

please RSVP to bettobergstrom@gmail.com



Men's Breakfast May 31st

8:00am at the Water Street Cafe

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 Live-stream

●      Via live-stream 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