By Chris Mereschuk  — No one can tame the tongue. We use it to say, “Praised be our God and Creator,” then we use it to curse each other—we who are created in the image of God. – James 3:8-9 (The Inclusive Bible) “Dad, I have to tell you something,” she said cautiously. “Yes honey, what is it?” “I…I know some bad…

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…