The service will also be live-streamed through Facebook Live here or on 3CX here. We hope you will join us in person or online.

If you have extra crops from your garden that would like to share with other church members and help an amazing cause, please bring them to the foyer of Hadley Hall when you come for Sunday Service!

For those that would like these fresh items, feel free to take as many as you'd like. If you'd like to make a donation, all proceeds will go to RIP Medical Debt. Donations can be placed in the lock box on the wall or the basket at the service.

Dear friends, I cannot thank you enough for the support and generosity you have extended to me during this difficult time. I am simply overwhelmed with the caring and love you continue to offer!

The fire was terrifying and the loss significant; however, my neighbors and I are safe...and that is what really matters.

With a great deal of help from my family, I have been moving through the many steps that have to be taken right away. At this point the building has been cleared...and the demolition and new construction will hopefully begin soon. Much has been lost...but much can be cleaned and salvaged as well. I am very fortunate!

Right now I am living in a hotel in Manchester where I am beginning to "settle in" to my new reality. I confess that my mind is still kind of "muddled", but I am "getting there" and hope to be back in church with all of you very soon.

Thank you again...from the bottom of my heart! Judy Dobson

Coffee hour started up this past Sunday. Please consider joining us after this Sunday's service.

If you want to take charge of the food items for one Sunday or more, please contact the Church Office or sign up after service.

We are no longer requiring mask-wearing during Worship and Coffee Hour, given the high percentage of people who are vaccinated in New Hampshire, and because COVID-19 transmission has significantly fallen.

As community risk from COVID-19 has decreased, the NH Division of Public Health Services (DPHS) now recommends that asymptomatic persons can choose to go without face masks in most indoor and outdoor locations, regardless of vaccination status. However, face masks are still generally recommended for anyone who desires maximal protection for themselves (or household contacts who are medically vulnerable or unvaccinated), and for persons who are immunocompromised.

Therefore, we recognize that some may still prefer the comforting qualities that mask-wearing offers. We encourage you to do what makes you feel comfortable, and we support you in that!

Please reach out to our office at 603-329-6985 or at hcc1752@gmail.com.

We are seeking a part-time Sexton (Custodian) to manage the cleaning and care of our historic sanctuary building and fellowship hall.

The Sexton assures the cleanliness and routine maintenance of the buildings, helps with setup and logistics for worship services and special events.

Contact Chris McCune, Chairperson Operations or contact the Church office.

Emails are often sent, saying they are from Pastor Kathy or another staff member. She (or the HCC staff) will never send out a generic email--she'll address it to your name. She will never ask you for money/gift cards over email. Also, it will always have her signature line on the bottom with her phone number/address. If in doubt, please call the church or send an email to pastorkathyucc@gmail.com.

For more information, or to get the address to attend, contact Linda Tilden at latdet50@comcast.net or call 978-973-7681.

It has been said repeatedly that the last year and half has been a difficult time. Now that we are beginning to come back together, it is a perfect time to reflect on who we are as a church and why we are here. From the perspective of the Peace and Justice Team, one of the important reasons we are here is that God has called us to reach out to help our neighbors. The most moving part of the sermon this week for me, was how we are not here, in this church, because we believe in God, but because God believes in us. Doesn’t that change our perspective?

We are not here because it makes God feel good to see us come. We are not here because we have been “guilted” into coming. We do not come for a stage show, or to be entertained. No one forces us to come. We come because we are called to be here, to be part of this community, to be one with others, to be the hands that do God’s work. God believes in us.

This church does some wonderful work in the community, the nation and the world. The mission team supports many worthy causes: St. Anne’s Food Pantry, Sonshine Soup Kitchen, Isaiah 58, Holy Joe’s Café, just to name a few. The Peace and Justice Team works to educate us about social problems, that perhaps we can help: RIP Medical Debt, Racism (overt, or unintentional,) Substance Use Disorder, Homelessness. Just this week, members of our church are banding together to help the victims of a fire right here in town, affecting our friends and neighbors. When we are needed, we answer, because God believes in us.

We are the white church in the center. We are “church” for many in the community who do not regularly grace our sanctuary. Do these people know what we do? Perhaps they think that we are just a bunch of old white Anglo Saxon Protestants, descended from the Puritans. I once had someone tell me that they thought we must be quite rigid and strict because they thought we were like the original Puritan settlers. While we do have a long history in this country, we also have an impressive record of change and being on the forefront of social justice issues. God has believed in us for a long time.

Now is the time to reach out into the community and be the change we want to see. It is time to let others see that we are the hands that do the work of God. We do not exist just to gather and hear ourselves talk. We gather because God believes that we can change the world, one person, one day, one life at a time. If we are able to help physically, emotionally, financially, we are called to do that: Help build houses with Isaiah 58, hold luncheons for Holy Joe’s Café, call or write notes to people who need a friendly word, organize a community drive, reach out beyond our walls, our congregation and into the community. We are small, but God Believes in us and maybe by reaching out, others will see who we really are and want to join us in our work. Jesus sent out the twelve, two by two to build his church. Surely, we can do the same.

Beethoven was desperately messy and the smell coming from his lodgings wasn’t too good either,. Uneaten trays of food piled up in the corner, right next to his manuscript paper.

Unsurprisingly, he was always at odds with his landlords, though, from their point of view, his squalid lifestyle was possibly the least of his faults.

People complained he kept odd hours and played the piano too loudly. Worst of all, he had a habit of shouting at his servants for stealing from him. The Rondo a capriccio of 1795 later gained the nickname Rage Over A Lost Penny because on the night he was writing it, the composer was sure a maid had stolen his gold penny and he turned his entire apartment over looking for it.