This year, we can’t gather in Edwards Hall to enjoy good treats and company while we do our holiday shopping. But we can still purchase and give gifts with a conscience and have fun doing so. The Board of Wider Mission has three ways you can give gifts that give this season. Online Auction: December […]
Easing Hunger; Offering Hope
Supporting the Wider Community in a Hard Time Every year, Edwards Church contributes 16% of our congregational giving to support Wider Missions–supporting wider church and community efforts to create a more just and loving world. Typically, the Board of Wider Missions usually does most of our giving in November-December, as we consider major gifts to […]
Wounded Trees
An Easter Devotion by Mary Memmott Dear friends, throughout the season of Lent we have enjoyed devotional reflections written (or photographed) by members and friends of our congregation, centered on the theme, “A Grove of Trees.” Given that we are physically separated, the Deacons decided to continue this practice through the season of Easter. Twice […]
Earthcare
A Lenten Devotion by Mary Memmott For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.” Job 14:7 Today’s Lenten devotional is a memory and a mystery. In fall 2010 Grace and Edwards churches worked together as part of our “Earthcare” […]
Pruning and Grafting
A Lenten Devotion by Mary Memmott But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the rich root of the olive tree, do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember that it is not you that support the root, […]
A Trillion Trees
A Lenten Devotion by Mary Memmott Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve sprints of water and seventy palm trees; and they camped there by the water. Exodus 15:27 A letter to the editor, written by Mary Memmot, for the Worcester Telegram this summer, in response to an article about planting a trillion […]
Little Children
A Lenten Devotion by Mary Memmott “But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 19: 14 I was thinking about Jesus’ apostles and their attempt to keep the children away from him as I enjoy my school vacation week. I […]
Field Work Morning at Stearns Farm
Saturday, July 13 from 10:00am-noon Help support our farm-to-food pantry share with a short shift of two hours of farm work―weeding, harvesting, mulching. Sign up in advance so we can keep in touch with you if bad weather threatens and plans change. Middle and high school age youth welcome, but children under seventeen must be […]
Walk for Hunger
Help prevent and end hunger in Massachusetts! Our team is participating in Project Bread’s 51st Walk for Hunger on Sunday, May 5 and we are asking for donations to support community-based programs across MA that help people access and afford food. Hunger impacts 1 in 10 people in this state, and in some communities as […]
Reap Bountifully
A Lenten Devotion The point is this: The one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 2 Corinthians 9:6 This photo of Nancy Brown delivering tomato plants to friends at the Pelham apartments for their garden was taken by Mary Memmott in 2015. May we […]