As I was getting in my steps on our nice, big, flat deck today (also saying many Hail Marys for Ukraine), I looked up at one of our swamp Maples by the edge of our brush field. It had lost one of its big branches in an ice storm several years back, but we had left it in the field as we…

                  By Annie TurnerSermon delivered via Zoom to Haydenville Congregational Church January 9, 2022 How does your story, your small, individual story, intersect with God’s bigger story? What happens when we link our narrative to God’s narrative? In what ways will this change us? In what ways will this make for a better world?…

By PAT JAMES Delivered during the Offering on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021 at Haydenville Congregational Church. We are facing another transition as we plan our farewell to Pastor Don, and I suspect there were at least as many responses to the news as there are members. My responses included dismay, fear, sadness, grief. I worried that our shrinking participation might take us…

By Annie Turner    There have been many articles about what folks learned during the pandemic, but I want to add my small perspective, in hopes that it may resonate with you. Because it is not quite over. We still have some time to go before we re-enter our lives. And I am hoping we never go back to what some call…