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Sunday, August 14, 2022
Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
Please join us for worship at 8am at Chandler Hovey Park
Note: there is ONE weekly worship service this summer.
Scripture and Poetry Lessons:
Isaiah 46:1-4
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Primary Wonder by Denise Levertov
The use of this story in our worship service is permissible under US copyright law
(17 U.S.C. § 110(3))
Rev. Lindsay Popperson's Sermon:
"The One Who Sustains You"
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Summer Worship at Chandler Hovey Park Sundays at 8am
We are gathering for worship at the Marblehead Light at Chandler Hovey Park at 8am every Sunday morning, as long as it’s not raining. If it is raining, our service will be held in the Sanctuary.
We are very grateful to members of our Community Life Ministry Board for providing Coffee Hour refreshments after our summer services.
Online worship: We are unable to livestream from the Lighthouse, so each Sunday's worship service will be recorded and posted on the website, YouTube, and Facebook by 5pm each Sunday.
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Memorial Service
A Celebration of Life service will be held on Friday, August 12 at 11am at the Eustis and Cornell Funeral Home for James "Bill" Kenney, who passed away on Monday. The family has asked us to inform and invite the congregation. Please click here for more information and to view Bill's obituary.
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Calling All Knitters!
Calling all Knitters! Help us keep our community wrapped in hand knit prayer shawls. We knit both infant baptism and adult-sized projects in a basic knit + purl pattern. If interested please contact me for the pattern and yarn pick up details. Thank you!
Alexandra Garfield
781.929.0540.
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Glimpses of Grace
This beautiful photo of a rainbow was taken this week by our Office Administrator, Donna Bagarella at King's Beach. It is a reminder that beauty still exists even after the worst of storms. Thank you for sharing, Donna!
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A great gift of summertime is the chance to break our routines and for time to relax and recharge our spiritual batteries. Whether we get away or enjoy a "stay-cation" at home, hopefully we get a chance to breathe deeply, enjoy life at a slower pace, and notice things we don't usually notice. We get glimpses of grace we're often too busy to see.
This summer let's share some of those glimpses of grace. While you enjoy the season's beauty, take a picture of an inspiring place or a person or thing, along with a sentence or two that tells how it touched you. Email it to the church office (office@onchurch.org) with "Glimpses of Grace" in the subject line. We'll share as many as we can in this space each each week.
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ONC Reading and Discussion Group
Wednesday, August 17th
The next meeting of the Old North Reading and Discussion Group on Preserving Our Democracy and Environment will be on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, from 8:30 to 10:00 AM. This is the latest of a series of meetings on this subject that have been hosted for all by the ONC Men’s Group. The discussions are supported by background reading. You are invited to participate regardless of the amount of your preparation or whether you have attended a previous meeting. For the August meeting we will discuss Stephen Hawking’s book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, and Yale Professor Timothy Snyder’s very important book, On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century.
The meeting will be held on Zoom. To join the meeting, click on
To use your telephone for audio, dial 929-205-6099 and follow the prompts with Meeting ID 835 8768 5467 and Passcode 701929.
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Monthly Bell Ringing
Covered by Marblehead TV
Our church's bell ringing for combating climate change recently caught the attention of a Marblehead TV reporter. In an interview, our own Mimi Hollister explained the history and reasons behind this regional effort to sound the alarm that we are in the 11th hour of taking action.
A link to the interview can be found here.
The video is provided courtesy of James Maroney, Marblehead Community Access & Media, Inc. marbleheadtv.org
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Give to Old North While Shopping
Use smile.amazon.com when shopping at Amazon and 0.5% of your spending amount will be donated to our church (subscription and digital purchases are excluded). Instead of going directly to www.amazon.com, go to smile.amazon.com and login with your normal User Name and Password. Make sure that you confirm First Church of Christ in Marblehead as your selected charity. If not, enter “First Church of Christ in Marblehead” in the text box and click “search” then confirm your selection. You will only have to do this once – your selection will be saved with your account. Easy!
To use Amazon Smile on your iOS or Android Amazon app, open the app and then open the Main Menu. Scroll down to Settings and tap on Amazon Smile. Follow the onscreen instructions to turn on donations from orders placed on your phone.
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Church Building Access and Summer Office Hours
The church office is now on summer hours. The office will be staffed Tuesday morning from 10-noon and on Wednesday and-Thursday from 9am-noon. If you have an emergency outside of office hours, please send an email to office@onchurch.org
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Contact Us: 781-631-1244
Email: office@onchurch.org
Church Address: 35 Washington St., Marblehead, MA 01945
Mailing Address: 8 Stacey St. Marblehead, MA 01945
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