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News & Events (Page 11)

Transition Leadership Work

Dear Church Family, As the members of the Transition Leadership Team, we want to thank everyone who participated in some way last fall in planning Pastor Andrea’s Good Goodbye celebration and in the thoughtful and prayerful selection of Chris Mereschuk as our Acting Pastor. A special thanks to Trish LaFreniere for heading up the party planning. The Transition Leadership Team met with…

Andrea’s next challenge: Work for climate-change awareness, justice

Scott Merzbach From the Daily Hampshire Gazette Nov. 26, 2016 NORTHAMPTON — Plans by the Bush administration to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in spring 2001 led the Rev. Dr. Andrea Ayvazian to Washington, D.C., where she and others were arrested after blocking the doors to the U.S. Department of Energy building. As a cofounder of Religious Witness…

Invitation to Yohah Ralph’s Ordination

  On Sunday, Dec, 18, at 6:30 p..m. Yohah Ralph will be ordained at our church. Here is the invitation extended to all that was sent out by the United Church of Christ. In the spirit if joy and thanksgiving we announce the ordination to ministry of Yohah Ralph by the Hampshire Association of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of…