Laundry Love began as a church group working with the homeless in California after a conversation with a homeless man revealed that if he had clean clothes people might treat him like a human. Big problem. Simple solution: offer to do his laundry. This has become a movement. I heard about it from the Barre…
Eric Mackey Update
On Tuesday, Eric was discharged from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center via ambulance jet to Craig Hospital in Colorado, specializing in Traumatic Brain Injury rehabilitation. Eric and his mom, Kathy, both feel instinctively that they are in the right place. As promised last Sunday, here's his address in the hopes that all of Eric's friends might…
Thank you from the UCC
Last week we received a thank you letter from the national setting of the UCC, in Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Friends in Christ, Thank you for your gift to Our Church's Wider Mission. We are deeply grateful for your congregation's gift. Your support of OCWM permits us to provide for operating expenses, equip leaders, support clergy…
An Italian Evening at the Opera
In Memoriam: Laurie Emery
Laurie may have been born 71 years ago in Long Island, but she told me on several occasions, that she had two lives and the life she found after discovering this church and its loving congregation was the richer one and made all the difference. As someone said, upon hearing about Laurie's death (Tuesday, April…