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Posts by Jim Foudy

Fundraiser: Easter Soup and Bake Sale

Our popular Easter Soup & Bake Sale is back.  The Saturday (April 19) before Easter from 10 am-3 pm in the Chhurch Dining Room We will have a range of baked goods from pies and breads to cookies, muffins, and quickbreads.  There will be stews, soups, mac-n-cheese, chili, etc. 10% of the proceeds will be given to the Center for New Americans to help support…

No time to give up Antidepressants

By Annie TurnerSermon delivered at Haydenville Congregational Church Feb. 23, 2025 How many of you remember the hilarious movie, “Airplane”? Where Lloyd Bridges, with his hair standing on end and looking crazed, said, “I sure picked the wrong week to give up glue-sniffing!” Or “I sure picked the wrong week to give up drinking!”  So the title of my sermon comes from…

December Community Gatherings

Christmas Carol Sing-A-Long Sunday Dec. 15, 2-3 p.m. Cookies, Cocoa and Jeff Olmsted at the piano Community Potluck Dinner December 20, 6-8 p.m All are welcome. Bring a dish to share and a friend or two. Or just come and enjoy the company More caroling at the potluck Christmas Eve Candlelight Service Tuesday, December 24, 4 p.m.  An Intergenerational Worship Service led…

Hero In Me, In All of Us

Sermon delivered at Haydenville Congregational Church Oct. 20, 2024. Hi, my name is Carla Imperial, and I am an imposter. Introduction In September of 2001, Megan and I set out on a much-needed respite from our demanding work lives. We headed as far north as we could before reaching the Canadian border, to a remote lake in Vermont. Our cabin had no…

Growing Together  — Homecoming Sunday Sermon

Based upon 1 Corinthians 12:4-16, September 29, 2024 Rev. Mark Seifried @ Haydenville Congregational Church, UCC For more than a few years, I have been reading about the decline of the mainline church. The mainline church has historically included our congregation. Back in 2008, church historian Phyllis Tickle pointed out that every five hundred years or so the church experiences convulsions as…