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HORIZONS
October 2022
Monthly Newsletter
Hingham Congregational Church
United Church of Christ
366 Main St,
Hingham MA 02043
hccucc.com
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Note from our Moderator
Fall is by far my favorite season. As the days get shorter, crisp air returns, and flashes of pumpkin-orange dot the landscape, my heart fills with gladness and also some nostalgia for my own school days and the freshness and newness that began in the later months of the year. This time around it seemed like the summer heat ended abruptly right after Labor Day, perhaps an on-the-nose reminder of the changing climate in our world.
A visiting friend recently remarked that, compared to the farm fields surrounding his home in Minnesota, our region features remarkable tree coverage. This observation again reminded me of the good fortune we have of living in New England and enjoying the dramatic canvas of fall foliage. Collecting fallen branches for a backyard fire is another marker of autumn. In our family, raking leaves connects us with the earth beneath our feet and also provides merriment when the kids jump in the accumulated piles. Not exactly an efficient process, but then again not everything needs to be.
Church life at HCC is back in full swing as well, with lots of exciting happenings coming up, some of which you can read about elsewhere in Horizons. For us, the return of Junior Choir and the beginning of our eldest’s journey through confirmation are events of special significance, as are the return of Wednesday evening services.
I hope you are also enjoying this beautiful time with your own preferred traditions and treats, and I look forward to connecting with you again soon!
Peace
-John Wayne Pint
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Fall Evening Services
in the Sanctuary
Wednesday Evenings at 7:30 pm.
October 5, and October 12
HCC will hold Fall Evening Services from 7:30 pm to 8:00 pm in the Sanctuary. There will be prayers, music, a homily and readings. All are welcome!
On these evenings there will not be Wednesday Evening Prayer and all meetings scheduled on these dates will start at 8:00 pm.
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This month our Sunday School Children will be focused on creation through art, science and story telling.
In additional we will be practicing the lighting of candles during church school so the children will be well prepared when they want to do the candles during worship.
Our Middle School Youth Group will be meeting on October 16th at11:30 am on the 3rd floor. All are welcome!
We need parent volunteers in our Church School! This year we are asking for a shepherd in each of our three classrooms. We ask that as a shepherd you commit to one month at a time, beginning on the second week of the month and ending with the conclusion of the third week. For example, if you sign-up for October you will join one of our teachers in their class on October 9th, 16th, 23rd. This will allow our volunteers to worship on the first Sunday of the month and participate in communion. As a Shepherd you are not responsible for lesson plans, curriculum or materials. You are an extra set of hands to help with classroom management and support.
If you are interested, please visit our sign-up genius to find a time slot that works for you!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F48A5AC22A3FFCF8-church
Senior High Youth Group Elects Officers:
President: Ethan Mayo Vice President: Jane Kungie
Service Coordinator: Charlie Niehoff Communicator: Meghan Sloan
Senior High Youth Groups meets on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month at 5:00 pm!
The service trip (most likely to a beautiful spot in West Virginia) will take place from June 24 — July 2. As always, those who wish to participate in the trip must attend our Sunday evening meetings (of course, everyone has to miss occasionally).
The Christmas tree lot will be happening, so please set aside time for setup (the Saturday before Thanksgiving), unloading (the Saturday after Thanksgiving), selling shifts, and lot breakdown. We’ll be reaching out to parents soon because we have need of additional leadership for the lot.
Adult advisors: Pete Allen, Greg Stupin, Lisa Bundy, Ryan Lamonde
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NEW FREINDS AT HCC -
If you are new to our church and would like to be recognized on our “New Friends” bulletin board in the narthex, please see Rev. Pete, Anne Fanton, or any other member of the Welcoming Team. You can identify us by the yellow lanyards worn with our nametag. We would love to take your picture! Anne Fanton, abfanton@comcast.net
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Our Impact Closer to Home | |
Interfaith Social Services is back to running a Halloween Costume Drive! New costumes are requested – we will provide a bin in the back of Hale Hall – or by check earmarked ISS Halloween Costumes or online donation at https://hccucc.com/who-we-are/giving/ (under Special Offerings is the Halloween Costume Drive link). Final donations are due by October 7. | |
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The Pine Street With precautions in place,
the Pine Street Inn in Boston is looking for volunteers once a month (third Monday) to serve the guests on the women’s side along with donations of individually wrapped deserts. Please contact Ruth Whitner for details (phone/text: 339-613-7246 or email: rgilbertwhitner@verizon.net).
Backpack Drive The Interfaith Social Services backpack drive was very successful, with donations from HCC to provide for about 30 backpacks plus an additional 10 backpacks donated all ready for school. Thank you!!
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UCC HURRICANES 2022 APPEAL
HCC and the UCC are set up to help with an emergency appeal to aid those impacted by the resent devastating hurricanes. Please take a moment to help our partners in the region meet these needs with a gift to the UCC To read more about what the UCC is doing and/or to make a donation . If you would like to write a check earmarked Outreach, Hurricane Relief, or go to https://hccucc.com/who-we-are/giving/ and write Hurricane Relief.
The 2022 hurricane season has started. In the space of 10 days, two catastrophic storms slammed Florida, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Bermuda and even Canada. The UCC Hurricanes 2022 appeal will be used to help those impacted by Hurricanes Ian and Fiona – and storms still to come.If you can,please make a donation.Parts of Porto Rico have been without roads and electricity since Hurricane Marie in 2014.This hurricane season has set them back even further.
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Around the Corner
Fall is in the air, so Bucks for Birds is right around the corner. And before the snow flies, we’ll be coordinating the Giving Tree!
Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
James 3:18
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MEN'S GROUP!
Our next meeting will be held on
Monday October 10 at 6:30PM.
Our very own Marco Boer who is the Hingham Harbor Development Committee Chair will be giving us an update on all the exciting happenings with the Master Plan for Hingham Harbor. It's fantastic to see all the upgrades on the harbor and will be interesting to hear what's in our future.
We will meet in Hale Hall at 6:30 for some social time, dinner at 7:00 and Marco about 7:30.
I will provide dinner and soft drinks, please bring anything else you like to consume. Let me know if you can make so I can get a headcount for food. Suggested donation is $20 to offset the cost of food and drink.
Looking forward to the presentation and to seeing you all.
Neil
201.294.8705
hinghamneil@gmail.com
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JUBILEE NEWS
(First Installment)
October 2022
How exciting for our HCC community to be back together in-person. It’s been a long and rough road the last couple of years. But now we can meet in-person, we can worship in-person and we can once again gather together for fellowship events in-person. And now we really have something to get excited about! HCC will be celebrating our 175th year of Faith and Community! It’s our Demisemiseptcentennial. Get used to that word, you’ll be hearing it a lot!
Starting this December, we will begin a year of celebrating our founding in December of 1847. A mighty committee has formed and the plans are coming along swiftly. We are hoping that more people will join our team to help with the implementation of these plans.
We have several things to look forward to. We will enter a float in the 4th of July parade, produce a memory book filled with YOUR church memories and hopes for the future, bring lots of stories to you, (both oral and written), celebrate with an evening gala next November to close out the Jubilee, and much more.
As we honor our church’s history throughout the year, we feel it is also important to honor Hingham, the town that has supported us for the last 175 years. We will do this in a couple of ways. First, we are planning to fund-raise for an important local institution, the Hingham Public Library. We have decided to donate 175 books, (see what we did there?) that align with our community values. The books will focus on the topics of Social and Racial Justice, LGBTQIA+ justice, and Climate Justice. Another way we’ll be honoring Hingham will be by hosting a community event on our property next September at which all are invited, (dignitaries, other local religious leaders, etc.). The planning for this event is already in the works.
There’s so much more to tell you, so you’ll be hearing more about all of this in future installments of “Jubilee News”. But for now, our hope is that there is so much to look forward to that you won’t want to miss a thing!
Our next meeting is after church on October 23 at 11:30 am
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84622985000?pwd=WDBlWlc2UmN6NFNLOE0xdUN5dTlNQT09
Meeting ID# 846 2298 5000 Passcode: 777228
If you’d like to help, please contact Kathi Blair, (blair.kathi@gmail.com) or Debbie Edmundson, (dedmundson@comcast.net ).
If you would like to help,please speak with:For information, please speak with:
Kathi Blair Debbie Edmundson Julianne Mehegan
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TUESDAY NIGHT BIBLE STUDY at 7:00 pm
in the Library and on Zoom
Terri Fortin
terrifortin@comcast.net
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WEDNESDAY EVENING PRAYER –
Will not be held on Wednesdays October 5 & 12. We hope you will be able to join us in the sanctuary for Fall Evening Services at 7:30 pm.
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GROWING IN FAITH TOGETHER (G.I.F.T.)
Bible Study
Thursday Mornings at 9 am in the Library and on Zoom. Please contact Rev. Dr. Peter Allen to connect pastor@hccucc.com
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MEDITATION GROUP
Will be meeting every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month
at 6:00 pm on the third floor
of the church.
Christopher Larsen <surgical411@aol.com>
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CHOIR NOTES:
Senior Choir Rehearsals are
Thursdays, 7:30 – 9:15 PM.
All are welcome!
Senior Choir Sings, Sundays -
9AM Rehearsal, 10AM Service.
David Geissow, Choir Director
david@figgypuddin.com
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JUNIOR CHOIR
After church from about
11:10 - 11:40. on the 3rd floor for some singing. Mrs. England and Mr. B will continue to
lead this group.
Please direct questions to
Ed B., jeeko@comcast.net
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ART AND SPIRITUALITY FIELD TRIP!
Have you ever wanted to explore the connection between art and spirituality? Creativity and faith?
On Sunday, November 6, we will meet in Hale Fellowship Hall and head out as a group to the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston for an afternoon of exploration, discussion, and fellowship. The museum entrance fee is $20 and you’ll need some money for lunch. Please put it on your calendar and contact Rev. Pete if you are interested in attending.
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ALTAR FLOWER SIGN UP for Sunday Services | |
Please consider choosing a Sunday to provide flowers from your garden or a florist, in celebration or in memory of a loved one at:
https://hccucc.com/altar-flower-sign-up/
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LITURGIST SIGNUP
Would you like to read scripture for your church community during Sunday morning worship from time to time? Please choose a Sunday and sign up here. https://hccucc.com/liturgist-signup/
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CONSIGNMENT CENTER: GOLDEN AUTUMN
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The generous response to on GCC Offering Sunday of September 11 allowed us to offer a wide sampling of merchandise from the first day of our new season. We are grateful to all who brought such abundant gifts in support of our work.
October brings a golden season, and already customers are finding fall fashions and household items. We are now accepting Halloween items for 2022, and have also been able to donate a collection of carefully saved costumes from our 2021 inventory to the Outreach collection for Interfaith Social Services. It is good to “gather the fragments…that nothing be lost” and use every resource purposefully.
Wacky Wednesday will again by a monthly practice, so come in on Wednesday, October 5, and find a 50% discount in a specified department. The fun is in the hunt and the element of surprise brings regular shoppers.
Thanksgiving items can be brought in as of Tuesday, October 11, and winter apparel and outerwear will be accepted as of Tuesday, October 25. We hope to be ready when the frost appears on the pumpkin!
IMPORTANT DATES: As of October 1, consignments are limited to 10 items per person each week. Payout for the month of September will be available on Tuesday, October 4.
If you are still considering involvement in this work, contact Gail Shields (gpsshields@yahoo.com), Marcia Sinclair (marbensin@gmal.com) or Sarah England (england-sarah@comcast.net) for more information. Busy months are coming, and we would be glad to welcome you to our team.
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GREEN TIP FOR THE MONTH:
SINGLE-USE PLASTICS & OUR COMMUNITY
OCT. 6 HINGHAM LIBRARY PROGRAM
The Cleaner Greener Committee of Hingham is presenting Dr. Bryan James, materials scientist and engineer from Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. He will talk about the fate and persistence of plastic in the ocean. This will be followed by small-group discussions about a proposed bylaw banning the sale of non-flavored, non-carbonated water in single-use plastic containers under one gallon in Hingham. For more information, click on this link: cleanergreener@hingham-ma.gov
And always remember to -
“USE WISELY...” HELP US CARE FOR OUR FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT BY REDUCING WASTE.
REDUCE - REFUSE - REUSE - REPAIR - RECYCLE- ROT (COMPOST)
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Please keep in
your prayers...
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- Tricia Smock
- Carolyn Antonine and her family on the passing of her brother, Allan Bacon
- Bobby O, a freind of Steve Waynan's, with health concerns
- Jackie Waynan
- Christine Brennan, Rachel Scott’s friend, battling cancer
- Roger and Nancy Hoit, on the loss of their son-in-law
- Doug Ertman, Debbie Edmundson’s brother, will be participating in a clinical trial
for his cancer, which has returned.
- Caitlin English, facing surgery
- Andy Parmelee
- The People of Ukraine
- Candy Heath
- Barbara McGovern’s nephew Brendan, and his wife, Oksana, photo journalists
livng in Kyiv.
- Terri Fortin’s friend, Diane
- Dan Halpenny and his family, friends of Jen DiMarzio
- Nancy Hansberry's sister, Sue
- John Kallis, Kate’s son, and his wife, Karen, both diagnosed with cancer
- Susan Sardina’s Afghan friends who are now in the US
- Nancie Mooney
- Bud and Connie Thompson
- Nick Nasson
- Peter Edson and his sister Dale
- Al and Linda Carpenter
- Ryan Lamonde, prayers for peace and courage
- Daryl Denelle, seeking ordination
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Wishing a Happy October Birthday to our HCC family | |
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Wishing a Happy October Birthday to our HCC family.
1 Ben Sebestyen
3 Jake Noordzij
4 Katherine Kallis
5 Kathy Beitler
6 Laurel Cosman
8 Mark Schlosky
10 Michael Antoine, Danielle Buczynski,
Robert Blomberg, Peter Hornstra
11 Jessie Stoeckle
13 Melissa McCullough
16 Abigail Cosulich
17 Domonick Bundy, Ferdinand Lucas,
Quinn Eaton
18 Terri Fortin, Eleanor Hughes, Larry Mayo
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19 Brooke Pryor
20 Gwendolyn Baltera
21 Laura Boer
24 Sean Moriarty,
Julie Nickerson,
Hugh Hurstak
26 Levi Claydon,
Carrie Edmundson
28 Mark Pryor,
Ruth Whitner
29 Neve DiMarzio, Linda Jones,
Susan Sardina
30 Kristina Shorey
31 Jeffrey von Loesecke, Austin Schilb,
Nancy Hoit, Mark Passaretti, Kendra King
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Wishing a Happy October Anniversary to: | |
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5 Eugene & Danielle Buczynski
15 Al & Linda Carpenter - 68 years!
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23 Warren & Lisa Brini
25 Mark & Stephanie Minister
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What's happening in October at HCC? | |
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2 - 10:00 am - World Communion Sunday Worship, Sunday School, Fellowship
5:00 pm - Senior High Youth Group
4 - 7:00 pm - Tuesday Night Bible Study
5 - 7:30 pm - Fall Evening Worship
8:00 pm - Board of Deacons,
6- 9:00 am - GIFT-Growing in Faith Together
7:30 pm - Choir Rehearsal
9 - 10:00 am - Sunday Worship
5:00 pm - Confirmation Class
10 - 6:30 pm - Men's Group
11 - 7:00 pm - Tuesday Night Bible Study
12 - 7:30 pm - Fall Evening Worship
8:00 pm - Board of Outreach
8:00 pm - Board of Christian Education,
13 - 9:00 am - GIFT-Growing in Faith Together
6:00 pm - Meditation Group
6:30 pm - Board of Fellowship
16 - 10:00 am - Sunday Worship, Baptism, Sunday School, Fellowship,
11:30 am - Middle School Youth Group
1:00 pm - Blessing of the Pets
5:00 pm - Senior High Youth Group
18 - 7:00 pm - Tuesday Night Bible Study
19 - 7:00 pm - Wednesday Evening Prayer
7:30 pm - Executive Council
20 - 9:00 am - GIFT-Growing in Faith Together
7:30 pm - Choir Rehearsal
23 - 10:00 am - Sunday Worship, Presentation of Bibles to Confirbands, Sunday School, Fellowship
11:30 am - Jubilee Meeting #4
5:00 pm - Confirmation Class
25 - 7:00 pm - Tuesday Night Bible Study
26 - 7:00 pm - Wednesday Evening Prayer
7:30 pm - Board of Trustees
27 - 9:00 am - GIFT-Growing in Faith Together
6:00 pm - Meditation Group
7:30 pm - Choir Rehearsal
30 - 10:00 am - Sunday Worship, Sunday School, Fellowship
SAVE THE DATES:
November 5 - Harvest Fest
November 6 - Art and Spirituality Field Trip
November 19 - Tree Stand Set Up
November 25 - Unloading Trees and Sales begin!
December 4 - Advent Brunch
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The Unicorn Singers Present “Transitions”, Sunday, October 23, 4 pm, The Inly School Arts Barn
Please join The Unicorn Singers for their fall Gala concert, Transitions, introducing their new conductor, Randy McGee, and featuring the Broad Cove Chorale under the direction of Margo Euler. You will be treated to a variety of musical styles including a touch of Bach, Randall Thompson gems, and culminating in a medley of the hit musical Ragtime. A curated silent auction and 50/50 cash raffle will round out the afternoon.
There will be table seating for 5 as well as individual seating. Table patrons are invited to bring beverages and nibbles to enjoy. Tables are $175, in advance, with individual seating available for $40 in advance and $45 at the door. Tickets may be purchased on our website unicornsingers.org. HCC’s own Ed Bartholomew, Tracy Allen, Todd Swavey, Lynn Anderson and Jennifer Cope, will be performing and are happy to answer any questions you might have. Or you may email or call Kathy Reardon kreardon111@comcast.net/781-749-0162.
See you at Inly on October 23rd!
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