Posts by Jim Foudy (Page 31)

From Pastor Andrea

Dear Church Family, With sorrow and calling on the nearness of God, and after much thought, discernment, and prayer, I have decided to retire from the Haydenville Congregational Church. I am feeling sorrow because now in my 12th year, I have served this Church with a joyful and grateful heart and grown to love you dearly and deeply. I know my leaving…

Yes We Can! Lessons of Caleb for our church community

By Peter Ives. Now Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah and the Lord showed Moses the Promised Land on the other side of the Jordan River. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Send out scouts to see what is up ahead of you. Send out scouts to see the obstacles and the…

Standing together and in prayer to face the horror in Orlando

Dear Beloved Church Family, We write to you now with hearts filled with pain and eyes filled with tears. Like you, we are stunned by the news of the shootings in Orlando. Like many of you, we saw President Obama on TV once again speaking about a mass shooting, and his words sounded frightening: “…the most deadly shooting in American history.”…

Being Allies to the Muslim Community — What We Can Do

Being a Christian ally to Muslims means getting to know them, listening to their needs, becoming friends, speaking out against Islamophobia and standing with them in the face of threatening words and actions. Those were some of the ideas that came out of the sixth and final workshop in the Haydenville Congregational Church series “Understanding Islam and Combating Islamaphobia.” Thirty people attended…

Joyful HCC members march in Pride Day parade; spirits undampened by rain

Some wonderful photos from Northampton’s Pride March with many happy and enthusiastic HCC marchers!