To be delivered porch side on Monday 2/15 or Tuesday 2/16

These "Love at the Center" care packages will contain faithful activities that everyone across all ages can focus on from home. The packages will contain ashes to use during our virtual Ash Wednesday Service, one candle that can be lit on Sundays throughout Lent, a special daily spiritual practice calendar, an at-home family game night devotional, chocolates, and more! It is our hope that everyone will be able to receive a care package to be enjoyed during this Lenten Season. It is our hope to provide porch-side deliveries of "Lenten Care Packages"! If you have additional requests or questions email Rev. Anne Marie Holloway or Mrs. T. Blessings on the journey ahead!

Sign up HERE to receive a Lenten Care Package!

The homeless population of Boston will always have a need for food, shelter, and water. Still, these are only the very basic needs of individuals. There are needs that are much more complex, unique, and creative than living to simply eat, sleep, and drink. This is why we are inviting you to join John Wilson as he partners with Rev. Anne Marie Holloway to help launch this new ministry! It is John’s hope that this ministry will provide a spiritual voice for the most vulnerable community in the Boston area and organically grow to the needs of this population.

“The Presence Beyond Words” needs volunteers, supplies and YOUR PRESENCE! To begin, we are in need of donations and supplies that can help fuel the minds of our most needy population. Their hunger stems further from just the need to eat and drink. To bring greater presence and spiritual support to their lives, we are asking for the following items:

Contact Rev. Anne Marie Holloway for more information.

@ This Sunday, February 14 is Valentine’s Day. Check out SALT’s “A Brief Theology of Valentine’s Day” HERE.

@ Toni Morrison on God and Love: Here’s some timely wisdom from the late, great Toni Morrison, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature. It’s an excerpt from her novel, Paradise, laid out as a poem for your reading pleasure. Read the excerpt HERE.

@ Fingerprint hearts kids can make: A simple, quick, meaningful craft for your little ones to enjoy making for a loved one. CLICK HERE.

@ Spiritual Practices and a Prayer for Use During Traumatic News Event: I am so grateful Chalice Press has allowed the Snuggled Under God’s Wings and Butterfly Prayer to be used as A DOWNLOAD from Faithful Families to help the children in your care through challenging times. Also use this PRAYER for times when there are no words from Rev. Traci Smith.

Sign up HERE to attend this very important workshop!

On Sunday February 28th from 3:00 to 5:00 pm our teens are invited to attend a ZOOM workshop that will be focused on ways our teens can serve as racial justice leaders in our community! Rev. Anne Marie Holloway and the members of the Racial Justice Working Group invite Hills Church teens (and their friends) in grades 7 through 12 to join us for this important work! This is a YOUTH only workshop that will be led by diversity, equity, and inclusion trainers, Guimel DeCarvalho and Amy Hogarth, from Wayside Youth and Family Support Network. Please register at the link above. A ZOOM link will be sent along the day before the workshop.

Did you know that you can now view the church calendar on our website? Click on the above link to see if a day and time is available, and then email Susan MacDonald in the church office to have your event reserved.



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