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Easter Vigil

Good Friday, April 18, 2025 to Easter Sunrise April, 20, 2025, 6 AM.

Our tradition of holding a Vigil began in 2006. We have held the vigil in different variations and through the pandemic.

This year the Vigil will be virtual! This means you can sign up though the link is this news blast to sign up genius.

That’s all you have to do! And then when it’s your hour( or two) you can hold your version of the vigil from where ever you are! - in Florida, on the beach, on a mountain top, in your pjs and with a small gathering of friends.

“A prayer vigil is many centuries old. The Vigil indicates a time of vigilance, wakefulness , a watch , from Good Friday to Easter morn, with time spent in prayer or other devotions.

In the next news blast we will offer suggestions for different ways to pray and to be in contemplation, which will be helpful to those who have never been part of our prayer vigil, or have concerns about sitting for an hour.

“The goal for our Prayer Vigil is to collectively , as a community enter into prayer during this holiest time of the year. We join as a church family together from wherever we are handing off the vigil from one person to the next. it’s a way of joining together even when we were apart. It’s a way off trusting that we aer partnering together , taking turns to cover our church , our community and our world with prayer as we dwell in the darkness of Good Friday. , It’s an opportunity to be fueled by the closeness to God and creat a culture in which prayer is woven into the fabric of our daily lives and our relationships with each other”.

Please use the link below to sign up

If you have any questions about the Vigil speak to Beth Shehadi - bethshehadi@gmail.com, or call Carmen in the church office who can assist you in signing up

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4BAEA622AAF9C61-55932253-easter

Easter Flowers!

The Altar Guild is ordering Lilies and Spring Flowers to place on and around our Easter Altar. You may give a flower in memory of a loved one or simply wish the congregation a Happy Easter. Envelopes will be available at the church office and Church Hall for the next couple weeks or you may fill out the form below and place it in the church offering. 

A donation of $20 is suggested, but give as you can. If you are writing check, please note Easter Flower on the memo line.  Contact Louise Bastille, elrevs@earthlink.net if you have questions or need help in ordering. The deadline for ordering is Monday, April 14. 

Thanks so much, The Altar Guild

Easter Flowers 

Given by: _________________________________________________________

Message (In loving memory of ….In honor of….or another message….

_________________________________________________________

I will take the flower home after the Easter Service _________________

Please give my Easter Flower to a shut-in __________

To register, pleas visit https://tbinh.org/holocaust-program-registration/

To read the Council-approved February minutes click here

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G9oGpuTsRK6n_B--lvRmUcfXX4xAOyj8-J7ZB78HeDo/edit?tab=t.0

Ride Assistance

For Sunday rides to Worship Service service contact Louise Bastille elrevs@earthlink.net

For Monday thru Friday needs for rides for appointments contact

Diane Wells dianesluyterwells@gmail.com

Book Club

March 26th 10:00a.m. in the Library

The Cliffs

by J. Courtney Sullivan

Is anyone interested in this desk?

Measurements are 72"x36"

Please contact the Church Office if you are interested

603-524-0668

The flowers on the altar are in loving memory of Chaplain Edward Bastille,

with prayers for a more gentle world, given by Louise Bastille.  

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Women's Breakfast April 16th, 8:30am at the Water Street Cafe

please RSVP to bettobergstrom@gmail.com



Men's Breakfast April 18th at the Water Street Cafe

The Church Office is open

Mondays and Wednesdays 9:00am-3:00pm, and Fridays 9:00am-1:00pm

Office Staff Schedules:

Communications Associate: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00am-1:00 pm

Financial Secretary: Monday to Thursday

Pastor: Sunday, Tuesday-Friday

drop-in Office Hours are Fridays 9:00am until 12:00pm

in emergencies, please call her cell (in the directory)

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