Hingham
Congregational
Church
United Church of Christ
Weekly Newsletter
February 25, 2021
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A Note from Pete
Search Committee Announced
Financial Assistance
A Note from Daryl
Kid's Hot Cocoa Hour
Sunday February 28, 2021
Fellowship Soup Share
HCC Anti-Racism Group
HCC Outreach at work
Important Contact Information
Super Saturday
Lenten Book Study
Ongoing at HCC
Green Tip of the Week
Hingham Unity Council
This Week at HCC
Prayer List
Save the Date
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Dear Friends,
On Sunday, we will take a look at Mark 8:31-38. In Jesus’ sacrifice, we see that self-giving can be a powerful approach to life. The danger, of course, is that we run the risk of burning ourselves out or denying our own joy in the process. How do we find a life-giving way of giving ourselves away?
Peace,
Pete
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Please note:
If you need financial assistance, please contact Rev. Pete for confidential help at pastor@hccucc.com.
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WORSHIP SERVICE -
We are in a virtual format until further notice.
February 28, 2021
10:00 am - Worship Service-
Worship Service on HCC's YouTube Channel:
10:00 am - Sermon on Pete's Facebook:
The service will remain on YouTube, if you want to watch them later.
10:15 am Kids Hot Cocoa Hour
via Zoom:
Meeting ID: 819 0957 2941 Passcode: 156979
10:00 am HCC Virtual Coffee Hour
Meeting ID: 737 5647 1043 Passcode: HCC
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A Note From Our Ministry Intern:
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Beloved Friends,
I am so excited to be able to provide the Children’s Message for this week, which will air with the entire service on our YouTube page. How wonderful! Also, please join our beloved Christian Education teachers for Kids Hot Cocoa Hour at 10:15 AM. The new time and new Zoom link is below!
Peace,
Daryl
Don’t forget that
Kids Hot Cocoa Hour - New Time
begins at 10:15 am on Zoom here:
Join the New Zoom Link:
Meeting ID: 979 5049 3093 Passcode: HCCkids21
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Search Committee Confirmed!
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Last Wednesday, Executive Council approved a search committee to find a new staff member for our church.
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Will this new person be an Associate Pastor? A Director of Christian Education? Something else? Making that decision is our first order of business and we need your help. Please look for future communication from the Search Committee as we look and listen for your input. A survey should be ready in a couple of weeks.
Our Search Committee is made up of folks with deep commitments and much experience in the areas of Christian education, youth ministry, worship, pastoral care, and general church leadership. They represent different generations and lengths of association with HCC. They are enthusiastic and hopeful about their task. Please keep the following Search Committee members in your prayers:
Justin Macklin, Chair
Cait English, Scribe
Rosemary Arthur
Angela Scipione
Alana Snyder
Pete Allen
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Waking Up White Lenten Book Study
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Part of our Lenten discipline is to look deeply inside ourselves and take inventory. From what truths have we been shielded? What lies have we believed? What needs to change within our hearts and minds? Can we embrace the gospel message of wise compassion and allow it to lead us away from racism? Many of you have read Waking Up White, by Debby Irving and found it compelling and instructive. I am planning a two-part study at 11:30 a.m. (just after virtual coffee hour) on Sundays, March 7and 21. Please buy or borrow the book and join in! I hear that the audiobook version is very engaging because the author herself reads the book. No need to register. I will send a Zoom link out to the whole congregation.
Pete
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News From The Anti Racism Team
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Let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amos 5:24
Here’s an item from the Hingham Unity Council website. Take a look. Where do you fit in?
We welcome your input as we work to discern our role in dismantling structural racism. Contact Debbie Edmundson at dedmundson@comcast.net
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Links and more information will come later.
Please reach out to Meredith Anderson if you have any questions.
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New Dates for HCC Zoom Café
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The new dates/times are the
First Tuesday of each month
at 9:30am.
March 2 - April 6
May 4 - June 1
The Fellowship Committee
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Wednesday Evening Lenten Services
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March 3, 10, 17 at 7:30 pm via Zoom
No evening Prayer with Pastors - on those nights
Links to come.
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UCC's One Great Hour of Sharing Annual Offering
Our annual offering for OGHS is coming up in March. OGHS has been a giving tradition for our church for over 30 years because it has an important mission – to support
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health, education, refugee and emergency relief initiatives in the US and around the world. Just a few examples of how OGHS funds were used in 2020: educated people on how to better deal with Covid, emergency support to victims of the wildfires in Oregon and assistance to refugees in Jordan. These funds have helped people in many countries and with major life challenges. Please consider contributing to OGHS during the month of March .You can donate via HCC’s website, https://hccucc.com/who-we-are/giving/and scroll down to Special Offerings. Or drop off or mail a check with OGHS in the memo line to HCC at 366 Main St., Hingham, MA 02043. Thank you for supporting this important organization.
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Easter Food Boxes - virtual
Our Easter Food Boxes for Wellspring in Hull will be virtual again this year! Since we are still not meeting in Church we will follow the plan started last Easter of making donations instead of preparing boxes of food. The need for assistance remains high as people’s lives have been disrupted by illness and unemployment. All donations of any size are greatly appreciated. You may want to donate about what you would spend if you were filling a box with a dinner of ham, vegies, fruit and dessert – about $50 - $70. Wellspring needs to receive donations by 3/29/21. Please get your donation in by March 22. You can donate via HCC’s website https://hccucc.com/who-we-are/giving/ or drop off or mail a check with Wellspring in the memo line to HCC at 366 Main St., Hingham, MA 02043.
Check out Outreaches Annual Report in the Horizons March Issue.
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The cost is $15.00/plant
Please get your requests in by Monday March 29th
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Order lilies, daffodils and tulips to honor and celebrate those you love during this season.
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Welcome to the . . .
HCC 2021 Fellowship Soup Share!
For January, February & March lets have a little soup-fun!
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We welcome all HCC members and friends to submit their favorite soup or stew recipes for all of us to try. We’ll be able to make, them at home, and see what we think. Then we can vote on our favorites. At the end of the 3 months the chef that submitted the soup/stew with the most votes gets a new apron!
If you or someone you know is not part of FB, they can email Stephanie Minister (sgeorgmini@yahoo.com) and she can add the recipe.
Happy New Year! Stephanie Minister
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Two Great Days of Virtual Workshops, Networking and Worship
Sign up by March 3rd
March 13, 2021 / March 20, 2021
$10 a class
To register and for more information:
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IMPORTANT CONTACT INFORMATION
Hingham Congregational Church UCC's Facebook Page is:
YouTube channel is:
Web Site is:
Rev Dr Peter Allen's
Facebook Page is:
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Evening Prayer time with Pastors
on February 24, 2021 at 7:00 pm
Zoom link to come.
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HCC Virtual Coffee Hour -
Meeting ID: 737 5647 1043 Passcode: HCC
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Growing in Faith Together (G.I.F.T.)
Bible Study
Thursday Mornings at 9 am in a virtual format.
Please contact
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Tuesday night bible study is continuing
via zoom at 7:00 pm.
To get more information, please speak with Paul Jeffery (pauljeffrey888@gmail.com), Terri Fortin (terrifortin@comcast.net) , Todd Anderson (toddkanderson78@gmail.com)
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Call for Winter Music Volunteers!
We are in need of volunteer musicians. Our choirs will not gather in person until we are sure it is safe to do so. Senior choir will continue to gather on ZOOM, Now Thursdays 7:15 -8:45, where we will enjoy fellowship, sing-alongs, and create virtual choir anthems. Let me know if you want to join. David Giessow 617-686-2581 David@figgypuddin.com
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Green Thought for the Week
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KEEPING PLASTICS OUT OF THE WATERWAYS & OCEANS
Here is a “fun” - and instructive - 8 min. video about a beach cleanup - what one person can do to help the environment.
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A California univ. professor who led an environmental Workshop several years ago in Plymouth, takes us along on his S. California beach cleanup walk. This could be right here along our nearby Atlantic coast beaches as well. The main message is this: we need to “refuse” whenever we can and keep trash out of our water sources. This means being thoughtful consumers, buying only products we need and will use, products that are “greener” when possible, (recyclable, reusable, natural,…), and disposing of them responsibly. This 8-minute video can get us rethinking the little things we can do to, “Love our Mother.
USE WISELY...” HELP US CARE FOR OUR FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT BY REDUCING WASTE.
REDUCE - REFUSE - REUSE - - REPAIR - RECYCLE- ROT (COMPOST)
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Hingham Unity Council sponsoring an upcoming event
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What’s it like to be a person of color in Hingham?
The Hingham Unity Council is sponsoring a Race Talk panel discussion on Thursday, February 25 at 7 pm on zoom.
Registration is required.
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What's Happening This Week at HCC
Feb 28 - 10:00 am Worship Service,
10:00 am Full Worship Service on
HCC YouTube Channel
10:15 am “Kids Hot-Cocoa Hour”
New Time - New Zoom Link-
Meeting ID: 979 5049 3093
Passcode: HCCkids21
11:00 am HCC Virtual Coffee Hour
Meeting ID: 737 5647 1043 Passcode: HCC
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March 2 9:30 am HCC Fellowship Cafe
7:00 pm Tuesday Evening Bible Study
March 3 7:30 pm Lenten Service
8:00 pm Board of Deacons
March 4 9:00 am G.I.F.T.
(Growing in Faith Together) Bible Study
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Please keep in
your prayers...
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- The Family and friends of George Jenkins (Jay), who passed away recently
- Nick Nasson, with health concerns
- Kris Shorey, following surgery
- Family and Friends of Mary Lou Fitzsimmons, who passed away recently
- Family and friends of Jane Thorell, who passed away recently
- Peter Edson’s sister, Dale, with health concerns
- Candy Heath with health concerns
- Mike Collins, Jeff's brother, struggling now hospitalized with serious complications from progressive MS
- Ann Holmes, Priscilla Anderson’s mother
- Al Carpenter
- Ryan Lamonde, prayers for peace and courage
- People in abusive households
- All brave essential employees
- Allan Bacon, Carolyn Antoine's brother
- Peter Edson
- Children and youth with atypical routines at this time, especially those with food insecurity
- Daryl Denelle, seeking ordination
- All those affected by the coronavirus in the world.
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March 3, 10, 17 at 7:30 pm
Wednesday Evening Lenten Services
via Zoom - no evening Prayer with Pastors - on those nights
March 28 at 10 am Palm Sunday
April 1 at 7:30 pm Maundy Thursday
April 4 at 10 am Easter Sunday
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Wishing a Happy February Birthday to our HCC family.
1 Stoddard Rowley Brian Krumm
2 Caroline Milton
3 Sophie Kerr
4 Anna Mayo. Jerad Mayo
5 Eli Smock
7 Andrew Spaziani,Avery Spaziani
8 Lynn Muller Waynen
9 Abby Fortin
10 Beverly Randall, Lucy Burr
11 Jason Scott
12 Nick Seibel, August Muller
14 Jeff Pinarchick. Reddie Warwick
15 Tanner Burns
16 Benjamin Shank, Jean Muller
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18 Laurie Barnaby. Sarah Milton
19 Phil Edmundson. David Giessow
20 Casey Juenumann. Lydia Boer,
Kit Schlosky
21 Emerson Sibley
23 Matt McGuirk. Gardner Duncan, Christian Claydon
25 Colby Burns
26 Cassidy Warwick
27 Jen DiMarzio. Owen Gray
28 Leif Thureson
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Wishing a Happy February
Anniversary to:
Feb 14 John & Penelope Pint
Feb 15 Frank & Molly Burr
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