Posts by Jim Foudy (Page 20)

Profile Committee is still listening

The committee writing our Church Profile has finished a series of all-church meetings and small group discussions. Members will spend the summer months writing and completing the profile, which will be used to call our next settled pastor in the fall. That does not mean we have not stopped listening. The Profile Committee wants to be sure it has heard from those…

HCC Summer Schedule

Summer Playgroup • From June 18th through September 3rd, our programming for children switches to the Summer Playgroup. We need 2-3 volunteers to play with the kids each Sunday. See Pastor Lindsey to sign up to help out. Please make sure your child is wearing clothes for outdoor play, sunscreen, and bug spray. Worship • We will not hold worship at the…

Refugee Circle of Care Update — And Ways to Help

Our Circle of Care is happy to announce that we are close to the top of the list to receive the next refugee family assigned to Northampton. Although it is uncertain if or when they will actually arrive, we anticipate we might have a family as soon as July. During the time we are waiting, we are asking everyone to begin collecting…

We are called to be witnesses against hate

June 19 — I awoke this morning to two news alerts on my phone: both describing fatal attacks against Muslims. Early this morning in London, a man used a vehicle to plow through a crowd of Muslim worshippers who were just finishing their evening prayers for Ramadan near the Finsbury Park Mosque. While more details have yet to emerge, there seems to be…

Coming Out White discussion continues

The Coming Out White group met on May 8, with twelve people attending. We talked about how the six week Coming Out White series had affected us and some of the issues that are now pressing on us that are related to that, with some ideas about what we want to do at future meetings. We will continue meeting once a month.…