A Season of Anticipation Thank you, thank you! In the time between my writing and your reading of this article, we will be even closer to our financial goal to have the finest technology we could imagine. It is to be installed at the beginning of Advent. How exciting! (How nerve-wracking!) So many mixed emotions […]
Christian Explorers October 2022
Returning to Indoor Worship In October, Christian Explorers will return to worship indoors. On the first Sunday of each month, we’ll be participating in the sanctuary with our families for communion and a craft at the Tent of Meeting. On other Sundays, we’ll bring in the light to begin worship, then move to Sue Dickerman […]
Present to the beauty of the fall
“This is the day which the Lord hath made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.” —Psalm 118:24 Dear friends, I love the fall. I can feel the autumn coming now…shorter days, cooler temperatures, the leaves beginning to turn. I can hardly wait for the fall colors. Although we had such a dry summer, I […]
Back in the Sanctuary
Dear friends, What a gift it has been to worship outdoors for the last four-and-a-half months! We have been blessed with amazing Sunday morning weather, and with the holy coincidence that the one 100-degree Sunday was the day we were already scheduled to worship in Plymouth Church’s air conditioning! We have been blessed with the […]
Welcome, Fall!
Dear friends, What a gift it has been to worship outdoors for the last four-and-a-half months! We have been blessed with amazing Sunday morning weather, and with the holy coincidence that the one 100-degree Sunday was the day we were already scheduled to worship in Plymouth Church’s air conditioning! We have been blessed with the […]
“Embraced by Love”
Ephesians 3:27-29, Matthew 8:1-4 Rev. Dr. Deborah L. Clark September 25, 2022 Professor O’Connell was in rare form. On any day of the week, he was known for his charisma and passion. On this particular Thursday he waxed especially eloquent on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a leader of the Transcendentalist movement […]
Chat, Pray, Love with Edwards Church
Sunday Morning Worship Sundays at 10:00am, Outdoors and via Zoom https://zoom.us/j/111990636 (password 393939) Join us for outdoor worship in the Rousseau-Tanner yard every Sunday at 10:00 a.m. If it rains, we will move to the sanctuary. There will always be a Zoom option and we will email a song sheet or bulletin each Sunday morning […]
Kermit’s Korner
What’s Wrong with Plastic? The answer is overwhelming and multifaceted so we cover just a small portion of them here. The real beginning of synthetic plastic on our planet was in 1907 with the creation of Bakelite by Belgian inventor Leo Baekeland. He used fossil fuels as a replacement for whale oil and other […]
Reflections on the Challenge of Becoming Antiracist
As I reflect on my journey to become an antiracism activist, I remember when I didn’t know what white privilege was. Growing up 1960s I remember seeing marches on TV before my father changed the channel, hearing about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at our UCC church and talking at the Sunday dinner table […]
Celebrating our impact
In recent weeks, the Justice and Love in Action Team (formerly the Board of Wider Mission) has received correspondence from several organizations we support, letting us know that our efforts make a huge difference. Here are some updates. For several years, the African Community Education Project in Worcester has received Seeds of Grace grants […]