As you may already know, the City of Northampton is working to create a network of support for Catholic Charities to bring 51 refugees (10 to 17 families) to Northampton. The mayor has called together community leaders to work on issues of housing, employment, education, English classes, fundraising, etc. Susannah Crolius is the Catholic Charities coordinator, and is also organizing Circles of…
Haydenville Congregational Church
An Open and Affirming Church.
Whoever you are, wherever you are on life’s journey,
YOU are welcome HERE!
Whoever you are, wherever you are on life’s journey,
YOU are welcome HERE!
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Report from the Congregational Meeting….. Participants at the Congregational Meeting Sunday October 16 voted (64 to 25) to offer our Associate Pastor Chris Mereschuk the opportunity to serve as the Acting Pastor following the retirement of Pastor Andrea on January 2, 2017. This plan means that Chris would serve as Acting Pastor while the church…
By ANNIE TURNER I often wish that life could be clearer in its sense of coming to a stop or beginning something new. As Anne Lamott often laments, “If I were in charge of the Western World, I would….” I would have an ending come to a full stop. Period. No dangling bits, no emotions that slop over, no untied ends. A…
Public meetings on the refugee project will be Sunday, Sept. 18, 6:30-8:30, JFK Middle School and Sept. 22, 2-4, Northampton Senior Center. By Doug Rennick You’ll recall that this spring we collected many welcome kit items for refugees, which we delivered on June 12 to Jewish Family Service in Springfield. These welcome kits were much appreciated. That was an initiative of the…
Would you like to make your relationship with the Haydenville Congregational Church more formal? Would you even like to talk about what that means? Would you like to meet with others and talk about your spiritual journey and what brought you to the Church in the first place? Come to our circle as we “explore” what it means to join a Church…