The annual Community Art Show is being hung today. It is a wonderful collection of sculpture and painting and multi-media artwork showcasing the extraordinary talent right here in our own community. Many thanks, as always, to Torrey Smith for spearheading this project. It brings life to our sanctuary walls each time!
Laundry Love
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…
Out of the ICU
For the past month we've been holding Eric Mackey in our prayers as he deals with traumatic brain injury incurred while in a skiing accident. And for the past 2 weeks for Anisha Senning in ICU in Boston where she's being treated for a rare infant disease called Kaposiform Hemangioendothelioma. Both Anisha and Eric have progressed…