Join us on March 6, from 3pm-6pm at the Conference Office, as we celebrate the retirement of our beloved Administrative Assistant, Cindy Bradley. After nine years of dedicated service to our Conference, Cindy will be retiring effective March 15, 2024.

We are immensely grateful for Cindy’s contributions, which have helped our Conference thrive. This celebration is a small token of our appreciation for her unwavering commitment and hard work.

If you are unable to make the March 6 date, we ask you consider writing her a letter thanking her for her many years of service! Please mail your letters to 140 Sheep Davis Road, Pembroke, NH 03275 c/o Thaddeus Sieverding.

We look forward to seeing you at the celebration as we honor Cindy’s remarkable journey with us!

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Prepared to Serve is partnering with Church World Service (CWS) in an effort to create 600 period packs at our event.

With more than 32 million women and girls not being able to afford tampons and other hygiene supplies they need; Church World Service creates period packs that are sent to places after natural disasters and to shelters to help families who have been displaced. A period pack costs $25 to make. We are asking you to consider making a donation to cover the cost of two period packs ($50). Please consider helping us reach our goal. Let's help end period poverty in America!

Donate here or during registration.

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What if the goal isn’t to throw away old forms of church, but rather to figure out how to reduce, reuse, and recycle our resources? The next form of church will be different, but will be based on our eternal foundation of proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ. How do we build creative strength for discerning God’s New Thing for the next generation? We’ll use quilt making as a model for how to select from our stash of habits and practices, how to cut off what we don’t need, and then how to put it back together to create a beautiful new vision for God’s work in the world.

9 am to 3 pm Saturday March 2 at Rindge Congregational Church

$100 per church for 3-8 participants from your congregation.

Lunch included.

Tell us you are coming at pastoronthecommon@gmail.com

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A week away in the mountains is just what you need! Come up to Horton Center and make the life-changing magic of Outdoor Ministries happen. Whether you're co-leading a faith discovery group, hiking along a river or ridgeline, reading a bedtime story, or (perhaps most importantly) scooping ice cream, YOU are changing lives and making a difference!

Fill out the Counselor Interest Survey here: tinyurl.com/hortoncentercounselor 

Plan to attend a Zoom information session to learn more about what it's like to be a counselor! Fill out the survey to register for a session. 

• March 12^th 7pm-8pm
• April 17^th 7pm-8pm
• May 30^th 7pm-8pm

Summers at Horton Center happen because of people like you! 

See you on The Mountain soon,

Tivvi Pare (she/her)

Horton Center Executive Director

tpare@nhcucc.org 

603-545-9660

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We can't wait to greet you on Star Island in the 2024 summer season!

There are two UCC weeklong adult/ family and youth conferences, Star Gathering; and a Star Gathering Family Weekend. All details on the website.

Register now: https://starisland.org/programs/

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For Black History Month, the UCC will be celebrating past environmental justice leaders and their historic contributions to the movement. We will lift up and reflect upon the lives of champions for justice such as Dana Alston, Damu Smith, Hazel Johnson, and others. To fully appreciate their impact and legacy, we will hear from those in the movement who knew them. Featured speakers will include those who have been at the forefront of the movement: Robert Bullard, Vernice Miller-Travis, and Peggy Shepard. Even if you cannot make the webinar at its scheduled time on February 14^th at 1 pm ET, still sign-up, and we will send you a link to a recording of it. Register now!

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