Kermit says … get outside! The Green Team invites you to try two things to “green up” your world this summer: Volunteer for Produce Pick-up or Work Hours at Stearns Farm: From mid-June through October Edwards Church brings fresh produce every week from Stearns Farm on Edmands Road in Framingham to the Hope Food Pantry […]
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June Music Appreciation
We have so much going on musically this summer, I’m excited to tell you about it here. Our Thursday evening music appreciation classes have been a lot of fun to prepare and lead. And from what I hear, they have given people a lot to think about too. Recent topics have been “Beethoven’s Unusual Openings,: […]
June Seeds of Grace
Ordinary Time in extra-ordinary times Sunday, June 21, 5:00pm Spiritual Soup Supper; 5:30pm worship via Zoom Ordinary Time on our liturgical calendar marks the weeks after Pentecost in the spring and the beginning of Advent. It’s time when we remember not the major events in Jesus’ life, but his words and actions and how they […]
June Christian Explorers
Edwards Church Christian Explorers have been busy learning about God’s love and Jesus’ example by drawing sidewalk art, having adventures with fuzzy friends, writing “love letters” to folks who are sick or lonely, doing crafts, and learning new songs at Sunday School! We have lots planned for the coming weeks. Each week, Christian Explorers […]
Ordinary Time
Come Holy Spirit, come. Open our eyes to the mystery of Christ’s presence in these ordinary things in these our ordinary lives. May they be for us the very essence of the living Christ in our midst. —Adapted from communion service for Ordinary Time,The First Congregational Church of Malone, New York Dear friends, Welcome to […]
Pentecost Sunday
Dear friends, This coming Sunday, May 31, is Pentecost, the birthday of the church. The church finds itself in a similar position to those of us who have had birthdays during this “stay-at-home” time. We are challenged to rethink our usual ways of celebrating, to dive deeper into the intention behind our traditions, to […]
May Worship
In the coming months, many of our worship services will center on a sermon series “Life in a Time of COVID-19.“ The sermons will be based on conversation with members of our church (parents, teachers, mental health providers, musicians, and more). If you have a suggestion for a focus for one of these sermons, please […]
Music Classes Continue
I will be continuing my Thursday evening music classes during May, with the exception of May 7. During April I conducted a few classes on Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” Respighi’s “Pines of Rome,” and Handel’s “Messiah” (really? Yes, Handel premiered it in the month of April!). I never really know what will be the topic until […]
Seeds of Grace Worship
Sunday, May 17 5:00p.m. Spiritual Soup Supper; 5:30 p.m. worship via Zoom Pentecost ~ Finding good news in anxious times…What can we learn about our faith in such anxious and uncertain times? Now as we socially distance, the seasons and other familiar rituals of our faith are being offered in new and creative ways. These […]
Strong Relationships
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what […]