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| Hibiscus behind the Parish Hall, given in loving memory of Marie Cannon by family members. |
This coming Sunday, September 7th, the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, we will have ONE service only at 9 am. We hope you will join us for worship and fellowship. Coffee Hour will be hosted by the choir.
The
readings for this Sunday are Exodus 12:1-14, Psalm 149, Romans 13:8-14, Matthew 18:15-20.
The
Women’s Lunch Bunch will meet on Wednesday, September 10th,
at noon, at the Mt. View Station Restaurant in Center Ossipee. Please call Dale
Appleton if you wish more information.
The
Annual Harvest Gathering Party is scheduled for this Saturday, September 6, meeting
at Gretchen and Karl’s house at 9 AM
so that we can all go into the field to harvest together. At noon we will gather for a pot-luck meal together at their house. Please
plan to come and BRING YOUR CLIPPERS! No special skills required. Families
welcome. [106 Tamworth Road. Coming from the church, their driveway is immediately before the Tamworth Police
station. 323-7459.] If it’s seriously rainy, please call first.
Calling
all lovers of homemade jams, jellies, pickles, etc. Sandwich Fair is coming up the
second weekend of October. Anyone who wishes to create their own delicacies for
sale, please contact David, Gretchen, Chris or Carol with questions and
requests for labels. For all who love to consume homemade canned goods,
consider saving you empty jars for re-use by one of us. Also, if you frequent
yard sales and happen to see 8 or 16oz canning jars, grab them. (New jars run
from $8-$12/case of twelve) We will reimburse you.
Food
for thought…
As summer winds to a close, the
nights get cooler, the trees begin to turn, and our vegetable gardens bring
forth the last of this season’s abundance, I’m struck by how much the natural
world is calling us wake up and to pay attention. But we have choices: We can
stay with our routines. We can complain that summer went by too fast, it’s
suddenly too cold. We can be
discouraged because the plants are browning off and dying back. Or we can stay
in the moment and just look – look and appreciate and give thanks for being. We
can also use that as a base and open our eyes to the world around us and
consider our own next steps in how we engage with this world.
As Stephen Cope writes in The Great Work of Your Life, “Each of us
feels some aspect of the world’s suffering acutely. And we must pay attention.
We must act. This little corner of the world is ours to transform. This little
corner of the world is ours to save.”
What’s your next step? What’s ours
as a church?
See you in church!
Blessings,
Heidi+
