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Happenings - April 15, 2025

Autism Awareness Walk


Families Like Ours will be holding the 5th Annual Autism Awareness Walk & Resources Fair on Saturday, April 19th from 11am-2pm at the Monument Mountain High School Track.


All are welcome! This free event is a celebration of community, inclusion, and awareness. DJ Champ will bring the energy as everyone comes together to support individuals with special needs and their families. You can support the event by walking in the 5K, volunteering or donating!


Find more information on the Families Like Ours website: familieslikeoursinc.com

Maundy Thursday


We will come together via Zoom on Thursday, April 17th at 7pm for an observance of Maundy Thursday worship including Communion. 


A link will be sent on Thursday.


Good Friday


Friday, April 18th - Good Friday, 12 noon, Prayer Walk at the Labyrinth.


You are invited to gather with others and walk the Labyrinth guided by a devotional flyer based on The 7 Last Words of Christ.


Easter Sunrise Service


Easter Sunday Sunrise Service, 6am, in the field 1/4 mile past the town line of New Marlborough on County Road. Potluck breakfast at the Graham/Kelly home following the service.

Easter Worship


Join a beautiful 10am sanctuary Celebration of Easter filled with flowers, music, singing, and the joy of resurrection, with the glorious music of our Musician Manon Hutton-DeWys and our choir. We welcome guest violist, Bram Fisher, to our Easter worship. 


What a joy-filled hour it will be. You won't want to miss it. Bring a friend and come in person if possible!

Easter Egg Hunt


This Sunday at 11:15am following worship, join the children and families in the churchyard as our little ones race off to find the oodles of eggs stuffed with all sorts of fun items. 


There will be donated hot coffee, juice, and pastries to share from GB Eats, The Marketplace Cafe and Big Y.



Thank you to everyone who has donated candy, stickers and other small items for the eggs. A thousand blessings be upon you!  

Holy Humor Sunday


Our 16th annual celebration of Holy Humor Sunday will be held on the Sunday after Easter, April 27th, with the theme of 'honey bee' to Celebrate Resurrection - Come join us!


Put a friendly bee in your bonnet, let joy flow, and gather in community to truly 'Bee' Alive!


This year's mural is a work of art! Frameable beauty! Buzz on over next Sunday, you'll 'hive' a grand ol' time.

Fundraising Concert


On Saturday, April 26 at 2pm, Christ Trinity Church presents a fundraising concert with singer/songwriter Willy Welch. The $20 suggested donation benefits Berkshire Bounty.


Probably best-known for his tune "Right Field," (recorded by Peter Paul & Mary, among many, many others), Willy has been a professional singer/songwriter since age fifteen. He has toured nationally, often with his wife Wendy, and played such venues as Folk City, The Speakeasy, The Bitter End, Uncle Calvin's, and Berkshire Busk! See the flyer.


Sheffield Historical Society


On Saturday, April 26th at 7pm, historian Phil Holland will present a talk at Old Parish Church on The Black Presence in the Revolutionary War.


Military records, original discoveries and scholarship old and new paint a more diverse picture of Vermont’s iconic battle and its Green Mountain Boys than that depicted in most histories.


To read more and to register, click here.

Community Tag Sale


The Community Tag Sale will take place from Friday, May 23 to Sunday, May 25!


Collection of items for the Tag Sale starts the week of May 5th. Please call Rania Markham at (413) 854-8611

or email raniamarkham@yahoo.com for drop-off times, or bring your items to church on Sunday prior to service.


April Steeple Lighting


The Steeple is lighted for the month of April by Alicia Brazie.

May the steeple shine bright

for peace and harmony.


Sponsorship of the May

Steeple Lighting is open!

Perhaps it will be you!


Additional sponsorships for 2025 are available. To claim a month, please email the church office with your request. It is a lovely way to honor a friend, an occasion, a memory or loved one.



A donation of $50 is greatly appreciated.


Our banner over the front door continually reminds us to 'Be the Church.' And we are! Being a place of extravagant welcome, our support of neighbors in need of added healthy food, our partnership with local organizations who share our values, our joy of life, love of creation - and so much more! 


Your regular financial donations to the church directly impact ministries that bless others' lives. We are the church together! Thank you for your support.


Financial donations are welcome during Sunday worship, via the donate button here, or by mail:


First Congregational Church of Sheffield  

PO Box 387 

Sheffield, MA 01257 

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Upcoming Dates


Thursday, April 17 - 7pm, Maundy Thursday Informal Worship via Zoom

Friday, April 18 - Good Friday - Noon Prayer at the Labyrinth

Saturday, April 19 - 11am-2pm, Autism Awareness Walk with Families Like Ours

- 6:30-8:30pm - Mothers With Hope

Easter Sunday - 6am, Sunrise Service, Country Road, New Marlborough, 1/4 mile from the Town Line, followed by potluck breakfast

- 10am, Celebratory Easter worship with guest violist, Bram Fisher joining Manon

- 11:15am, Community Easter Egg Hunt

Saturday, April 26 - 2pm, Celebration of Life for Marion Whitman

- 2pm, Fundraising Concert at Christ Trinity Church

- 7pm, Sheffield Historical Society Talk: The Black Presence in the Revolutionary War

Sunday, April 27 - 10am, Holy Humor Sunday - A Celebration of Resurrection - "Bee Alive"


Ongoing

Sunday evenings - 7pm, AA meditation group in Parish Hall

Mondays - 9am, Sheffield Food Assistance Program

Wednesdays - 4:30-6:30pm, Berkshire Children's Chorus rehearsal

- 5:00pm - Weekly Zoom Social Hour

Thursdays - 10:30am, Village Family Food Distribution

Fridays - 7pm, ACA Twelve Step meeting in Parish Hall

125 Main Street

PO Box 387

Sheffield MA 01257

413-229-8173 

 office@firstuccsheffield.org

 grahamj@firstuccsheffield.org


You are invited to worship with us.

10:00 Sunday mornings in person and via Zoom.

visit our website for more info.



We are an Open and Affirming Congregation

of The United Church of Christ