By ANNIE TURNER ——-    I have kept a diary since 8th grade. I treasured the green leather cover and thought to write scintillating, witty, romantic entries in it. Unfortunately, as a girl in a very small rural high school, there weren’t too many candidates for romance. Unless you count Pat Boone in our first ever class book club…     Although,…

  By Annie Turner * Sermon delivered at Haydenville Congregational Church, Nov. 24, 2019 *.  Thanksgiving can be a troublesome holiday for many of us: getting up early to put the ginormous turkey in; sitting down to eat at weird hours, like 2:00 in the afternoon; sharing food with relatives that we would rather not be in close proximity at all; listening…

Children’s Message (Oct 6th, 2019) By Andrew Geery….. Something we talk a lot about in church is faith. Faith is one of those really hard words to understand because it seems so abstract. I can point at a door and say, “that is a door”. But what can I point at and say, “that is faith?” I can hold a microphone in…

By Andrew Geery Opening Words (Sept 15, 2019) The Christmas pageant I grew up watching wasn’t really a Christmas pageant.  Rather than Mary and Joseph talking as they made their way to Bethlehem or the angels shouting the good news to the shepherds, the performance was instead a recreation of famous paintings around the birth of Jesus. The lights go down, the…

Rev. Molly Baskete offers her views on how we treat the Earth and offers a prayer for us to come to our senses. Click the headline to read her short essay.