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.”…

Five years ago there was an article in the Boston Globe by Judy Foreman entitled, “Fighting isn’t how you deal with cancer.” She wrote the article for Senator Ted Kennedy on hearing the news about his brain tumor. “Everyone is going to say to you,” she wrote, “‘Fight, Ted, fight!’ You have to fight your cancer, but it’s the wrong image. The…

I think each time we plant, weed, care and nurture, and sometimes harvest, we are enacting the Passion in a small and intimate way. Our hearts are full of hope.