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…
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…
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…
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.”…