Staying Connected to Your Church Community

STAYING CONNECTED TO YOUR CHURCH COMMUNITY

Thursday, September 9, 2021

Dear Hills Church Friends,

Beginning next week, the weekly email "Events at the Hills" will include occasional pastoral messages and reflections. A "Worship Reminder" email, with the live-stream link and order of worship, will be sent on Sunday morning. We are looking forward to meeting you this Sunday for "Rally Day!"

With you in service, Jill and Richard Edens

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

Meet our new Interim Senior Ministers, Rev. Jill and Rev. Rick Edens!

Join us on Sunday, September 12 for worship at 10:00 am masked/in person or via Livestream. (More details regarding worship guidelines and attendance capacities will be shared in the week ahead!)

Following worship, meet us (after 11:00 am) outside on the church lawn for fellowship and fun! Receive a blessing for your backpack/work bag and enjoy a treat! Parish Life is offering individually wrapped ice creams for all to enjoy, delivered by a special ice cream truck!

Take a self guided tour of our third floor Church School Classrooms, Nursery and Youth Room we hope you will be as excited as we are about our brightly decorated spaces!

CREATE & EXPLORE & WONDER & SERVE

"All in One Place" Church School Registration

On September 12th Faith Formation Programs for our children and youth begin! Have you registered your little ones and teens for this year's AWESOME age specific Fall programs? Please find our "All in One Place Registration" form right HERE!

Church School for Grades Preschool-Grade 5 will be held on Sunday mornings beginning with drop offs at the Wallace Chapel at 9:45 am! Parents of children under the age of 12 are invited to drop off their children before worship. Church School will be held outdoors and in the Chapel through October! (In case of inclement weather, church school will be moved indoors!)

Youth Group for Middle School will meet in-person on Sunday evenings from 5-6:15 pm and the High School Youth Group will meet on Sunday evenings from 7:00-8:15 pm.

Third Floor Church School Open House!

You are invited to visit the third floor of our Parish House for a self guided church before or after worship on September 12th, 19th, and 26th! Families with babies, children and youth are invited to visit our well ventilated, newly decorated and updated third floor nursery, preschool classroom, chapel, service project room, and youth room! Our classrooms have air purifying systems. Staff continues to focus on provisions that help to create safe and sanitized spaces during this time.

Our Nursery Garden!

Our Children's Chapel!

Our Pre-K Room!

Our 3rd floor Message!

A Hills Church Cheer!

We are so blessed at the Hills Church by this dynamic duo Technology Crew! Meet Kenny Goshgarian (left) and Steven Hopkins (right), our dedicated staff who work with our volunteer team and continue to enhance our Live Stream capabilities! Our services can be accessed on our YouTube Channel each week and viewed in real time! If you are unable to join us in-person, be sure to connect with us for remote worship via Live Stream!

LINK to live-stream worship

Printed Order of Worship

A Good Word:

Thoughts on Racial Justice

“As people of faith and followers of Jesus, filled with love, we seek a just world for all.”

Racial Justice Working Group

Mission Statement

“It is easy to wonder about the internal life of the people closest to us. It is harder to wonder about the people who seem like strangers or outsiders. But when we choose to wonder about people we don’t know, when we imagine their lives and listen for their stories, we begin to expand the circle of those we see as part of us…” ~ Valarie Kaur

See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

Reflection Question

Whose story have you yet to hear? How can you invite in wonder as a spiritual practice?

Comments and Questions? Please email us at hillsrjwg@gmail.com

Back Yard Ministries &

Youth Leadership

Check out the Sign-up Genius HERE for opportunities for youth to lead and participate in local service projects in September and October!

Our Youth will be partnering again with the Outdoor Church, Common Cathedral, and Wellesley Food Pantry, to provide food and supplies to those facing food insecurity and homelessness. Our cookie baking and sandwich making Ministers will meet each month to bake cookies, make sandwiches and more!

In October, we hope to host our annual youth fundraising event as The Pumpkin Patch RETURNS! We will need volunteers to help us unload pumpkins! Pumpkin Sales will support emergency relief for the people of Haiti and more!

Email Administrator

LINK to calendar

Weekly Opportunities

Tuesday Meditation - Join us at 9:30 am, as we meditate on God's Word and Joy from Habakkuk 3:18-19.

Wednesday Prayer - Tune into Facebook at noon or 6 pm on Wednesdays for 5-15 minutes of reflection and prayer.

Chancel Flower Memorials

If you wish to contribute to the weekly chancel flowers “In Honor of” or “In Memory of” a loved one, please contact Susan MacDonald in the church office. Your gift will be noted in the order of worship. Any amount of donation is welcome. Following the service, chancel flowers are delivered to members of the congregation who need our love and support, or are celebrating a particular joy, so if your wish is to bring home some of the chancel bouquet, please let a Deacon or one of the Ministers know.

Hills Church Weekly Calendar

THURSDAY - Nursery School parent orientation

Staff Meeting

New Beginnings (Virtual)

Nursery School Parent Orientation

Chancel Choir (Sanctuary)

FRIDAY - Nursery School student orientation

AA Meeting (Board Room)

Connections (Zoom)

SATURDAY

SUNDAY - RALLY DAY

Outdoor Church School (Wallace Chapel)

Worship Service (Sanctuary)

Zach's Ice Cream Truck (outdoors)

Self-guided church school tours (3rd floor)

New World Chorale (Assembly Room)

Boy Scouts (Teen Room)

Youth Group (Upper Room)

AA Meeting (Board Room)

MONDAY - First day of Nursery School

Food Pantry (Pantry Room)

Cub Scouts (Assembly Room)

TUESDAY

Morning Meditation (Zoom)

Food Pantry (Pantry Room)

Church Council (Zoom)

WEDNESDAY

Noonday Prayers (Facebook)

ARCH Bi-Weekly Check-in (Microsoft Teams)

NAMI (Zoom)

Chancel Choir (Assembly Room)

THURSDAY

Staff Meeting

Elevator Inspection (onsite)

New Beginnings (Virtual)

CSSB Meeting (Zoom)

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