Sermon delivered by Anne Turner on Homecoming Sunday, September 18, 2022. This is Welcome Sunday, so I want to extend a wide and loving welcome to everyone here and everyone listening in. As you know from the earlier words, the Haydenville Congregational Church is known for and proud of its welcome. This is not braggadocio (only English majors get to use this…

Remarks delivered by Susan Farrell, June 26, 2022 at the Williamsburg Congregational Church, part of an ecumencial service to mark the state of the town’s 250th anniversary. Good Evening,  When Reverend Noyes asked me, as the Moderator of the Haydenville Congregational Church, to speak about the history of our beloved Church, I said Sure – how long does it need to be?…

By REV. ANDREA AYVAZIAN “Her Choice, Not Mine, Not Yours.”       That was the first sign I saw when I arrived at the pro-choice rally in front of City Hall in Northampton on May 14. I thought we were off to a good start. As I joined the large, passionate, and clearly agitated crowd, I saw other posters that made me feel grateful…

As I was getting in my steps on our nice, big, flat deck today (also saying many Hail Marys for Ukraine), I looked up at one of our swamp Maples by the edge of our brush field. It had lost one of its big branches in an ice storm several years back, but we had left it in the field as we…

                  By Annie TurnerSermon delivered via Zoom to Haydenville Congregational Church January 9, 2022 How does your story, your small, individual story, intersect with God’s bigger story? What happens when we link our narrative to God’s narrative? In what ways will this change us? In what ways will this make for a better world?…