Strawberry Festival This Saturday, June 3rd!



We need your help!

If you can help in any way on Thursday, 6/1 and/or Saturday, 6/3, it would be greatly appreciated.

Another way to help--donate baked goods--they can be dropped off Friday, 6/2.

Things you can do to help:

• Thursday--Help with Setup starting at 5PM
• Saturday--Help with Games - multiple timeslots starting at 8:30AM
• Saturday--Help with Bake Sale Table - multiple timeslots starting at 8:30AM
• Saturday--Help with Grilling - multiple timeslots starting at 8:30AM
• Saturday--Help with Raffle Table - multiple timeslots starting at 8:30AM
• Saturday--Help with Serving The Shortcake - multiple timeslots starting at 8:30AM
• Saturday--Help with Plant Table - multiple timeslots starting at 8:30AM
• Saturday--Help with Cleanup starting at 3:00PM

Signup Sheet is in Hadley Hall or you can contact the office at 603-329-6985 and we will help get you signed up.

Let’s make this event a huge success! 

As always, thank you for your support,

Your Fundraising Team

In Loving Memory

We are saddened to share the news that Denis Currier, a former congregant and long-time Hampstead resident, who was active at HCC in the 1970's-1990s, has died.

A memorial service will be held on Thursday, June 15th at 2pm in the sanctuary.

Please pray for his wife Cathy and family.

May Denis rest in peace and may his memory be a blessing.

Worship This Week

Please join us in the Sanctuary or online

at 10am this Sunday for

Trinity Sunday

Communion Sunday

Please join us for coffee hour after the service.

We hope you will join us in person or online.

The service will be live streamed through

Facebook Live here

or on 3CX here

artwork: "One Sacred Community" © Mary Southard

www.ministryofthehearts.org. Used with permission.

New 2023 Membership Directories

New directories are available of HCC members and friends!

Directories are available as a printed copy, or a pdf copy that will be emailed to you. 



If you would like a copy, contact Maria in the office at 603-329-6985 or email her at HCC1752@gmail.com and let her know what you'd like. There will also be a signup sheet in Hadley Hall after worship.

Summer Office Hours

Starting Monday, June 19th and ending August 31st, the Church Office will be open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9am-12 Noon.

Operations Thank You

Your Operations Team wishes to thank those able to help with our annual Spring Clean Up.

Scouts from our local scout troop included;

Michael G., Brady B., Gunner B., Jaxon Z., Thomas C., Brodan K., Nolan K., Connor S., Logan D., and Caden M. There were also two Dads, including Mr. Z.

The following church family members included Marion Lake, Donna Hanson, Linda Tilden, David Daniels, Fred Malcolm, Herb Tardiff, Sam Longbook and David Chin.

Thank you for a job well done.

Thank You From NH Food Bank for our Food Truck Festival

"On behalf of the NH Food Bank and those we serve, thank you for collecting food to help us serve those in need. The total weight of the food HCC donated was 243 pounds, which amounts to 203 meals for the hungry."

"We are grateful to you for springing into action this season to help our efforts in reaching a more food secure New Hampshire."

Nancy Mellitt

Director of Development

Steeple Lighting

Steeple lit June 4th - June 11th

In loving memory of

Dad's Birthday

Ralph Petteruto

Love, Janet & Kathy

A Word from Peace & Justice

Have you ever wondered why so many Americans are poor? Or how can the richest nation on Earth have so much poverty? It has been a question for a long time.

Henry George, a social reformer, wrote in his 1879 bestseller, Progress and Poverty, “The enormous increase in productive power which has marked the present century has no tendency to extirpate poverty.”

George’s comment of a seeming paradox of great increase in productivity and continued poverty is the subject of two new books by prestigious American sociologists. The Poverty Paradox by Washington University’s Mark Robert Rank and Poverty, by America by Princeton’s Matthew Desmond both start with the premise that industrial capitalism generates more than enough profit to eliminate poverty and explores the question “So why doesn’t it?”

The authors give very different responses to that question. Rank argues that we don’t fully understand the causes of poverty while Desmond suggests that we are complicit in poverty’s creation.

The main way of thinking about poverty has been based on a study on 1959 by anthropologist Oscar Lewis on five Mexican families called “the Culture of Poverty”.

It suggested that certain behaviors trapped people in poverty and it drove the 1996 welfare reform law – behave responsibly and you won’t be poor. But both Rank and Desmond say that even with changes in these listed behaviors families still are poor. They say this is because there are not tools necessary for them do not exist. Desmond goes one step farther. He says the rest of us “Live as unwitting enemies of the poor” looking away so that we don’t have to see that “some lives are made small so that others may grow.” He cites as examples the briskly rising wages that should help poor people secure more of the necessities of life. But that is a blip already fading; the long-term trend is wage stagnation. He goes on say that government supplements to the poor are really a handout to big corporations, allowing them to pay low wages without public outcry. The current trend to hire most employees part-time or as “contractors” skirts the need to provide benefits. And he goes into much detail about housing. The stock market has seen returns to investors of about 15% - 5% higher than the expected returns a decade earlier. And this is possible to the due to the labor market “efficiencies” mentioned above. He asks those who have mutual funds and 401 Ks, would you accept a 6% return on your investment to structurally fix the conditions that keep the poor, poor?

An article in the Washington Post lays out the points of these books is by Timothy Noah, a staff writer at the New Republic.

Scam Emails & Texts

Emails and Texts are often sent, saying they are from Pastor Kathy or another staff member. She (or the HCC staff) will never send out a generic email/text--she'll address it to your name. She will never ask you for money/gift cards over email nor via a text.

Also, any email from Pastor Kathy will always have her signature line on the bottom with her phone number/address.

If in doubt, please contact the church office or Pastor Kathy.

New Hampshire Conference UCC Weekly News

We thought you might enjoy reading the NH Conference UCC weekly newsletter. You can read it with this link.

5/30/2023 Newsletter

Each week, we will update this section of our Weekly Word with the new link

for the current newsletter.

Food Drive to Support

Saint Anne Ecumenical

Food Pantry



 Currently in need of cereal (no Cheerios), coffee, salad dressings,

pasta sauce, granola bars, Spam, boxes of crackers, grated cheese, mayo

 and ketchup.



Please drop off any donations in the foyer of Hadley Hall

Please, no expired items.

Thank you for all your support!