APRIL 2015
COMMUNICON
Union Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, Peterborough, NH
Holy Week at Union Congregational Church
April 2: Seder Remembrance, 6 p.m.: On the last night of Jesus’ life, he gathered with his closest friends to celebrate the
Passover. The ritual meal, called the Seder, recalls Israel’s trials in Egypt and its rescue by the Divine.
On April 2, Maundy Thursday, we’ll remember Jesus’ tradition.
We’ll have a full meal, served family style. There is no cost,
but donations are welcome, and we’d like to have an idea
about numbers so that we prepare enough food. Please sign
up on the sign-up sheet in the main hallway next to the choir
room.
April 3: On Good Friday, 7 p.m., Union Congregational Church
will host a performance of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat
Mater and an Ecumenical Service led by The Reverend Monsignor Gerald Belanger of Divine Mercy Church, The Reverend
Lourey Savick of Peterborough United Methodist Church, and
The Reverend Jill H. Small of Union Congregational Church, UCC.
Performers will include Amy Knight, soprano; Betsy Feiker, alto; and Jill Slocum, organist.
April 5: We will celebrate Easter Sunday at 10 a.m. The Festival of the Resurrection, or Easter, is
the high point of the church year. Western Christians base the date on the Gregorian calendar,
and Easter can fall on any date from March 22 to April 25. This year, Easter is April 5: about as
close to the midpoint as possible!
While every Sunday is a celebration of the resurrection of the Christ, we pull out all the stops on
Easter. The sanctuary will be filled with spring flowers; brass will accompany our singing; and
since it’s the first Sunday of the month, we will share in Communion.
Winter storms left significant piles of snow, and that means we’ve lost some parking space.
Please consider parking at the town library and/or carpooling to worship on Easter
Sunday.
Small TALK
News from the Christian
Service Committee:
One Great Hour of Sharing
FINALLY. It’s spring. After a winter that seemed longer and
rougher than most, it’s a time to embrace the warmth,
growth, color, and music of the world around us and within
us.
It’s time to get to all those projects I could put off because it
was too cold or because it got
dark too early. In my experience,
those don’t get easier (or cheaper) the longer I delay. There’s a
bathroom renovation project
waiting for me in Maine. There
are sinks and a toilet and medicine cabinets waiting patiently in
my basement. I need to get serious about finding the right bathtub, tile, and wainscoting.
I like that sort of project. I like figuring out how I can
transform a space that someone else thought was beautiful
30 years ago into something that makes me feel good about
doing the best I can for the house we live in. I want the result to be in keeping with the house’s age and character, and
I want it to have the benefits and features that suit the way
we live today.
We love our house. We have since the moment we
walked through it for the first time. We’re the fifth family to
live there since it was built in 1846. It’s a big old house.
We’ve rewired the whole place. We’ve reroofed; we’ve
insulated. We’ve added a bath on the first floor. We’ve enlarged the deck. We’ve taken up shag carpet and refinished
the wide pine floors. It’s where we’ve broken bread and
where I broke my foot. It’s been an amphitheater when
we’ve rejoiced and a cocoon when we’ve grieved.
When we moved in, it was just Charles and me. One
bright, cold day, a bouquet of pink balloons floated above
the front porch railing to tell our neighbors that Becca had
been born. Twenty-four years later, it’s still the only place
she’s ever called home. It’s where our daughter opened her
first birthday present, and where my mother opened her
last. It’s where school projects have been constructed, sermons written, vacations mapped. It’s where I have been a
die-hard Cardinals fan in the midst of the Red Sox nation.
I know that we’re closer and closer to the end of our
time there. It will make sense to downsize one day. That
makes me pensive, but not sad. I know I can buy another
house. Maybe I can even love another house. But it won’t be
this house. This is the one that doesn’t belong to us: we belong to it. I’m looking forward to my project. I owe it to the
house that’s become my home.
May this season of renewal fill you with a sense of belonging.
Beginning on March 23, our committee has
begun the annual appeal for One Great
Hour of Sharing. This is part of our
church’s wider mission to respond to worldwide disasters. There are money envelopes
in the pews and an information sheet in the
bulletin.
We’ll be working on this through April so
plan how you can contribute.
Please keep in your
prayers
Please remember to keep in your prayers:
Lisa and Patrick Foley; Mary Ann Fleming
and Family; Mary Lib, Martha Dahl's sisterin-law; Katherine, friend of Carele Mayer;
Larry Mayer; Ruth Comerford, friend of Deb
Hanson; Leo Curley, Sarah Holgate’s father;
Carl and Marilyn
Britton; Alfred
Whitney; Larry
Schongar; Joe
Wilson; Fred and
Ginger Nielson;
Jim Suokko; Lorie
Snydner; Jesse
Taylor; the Pastoral Search Committee; and all in
our church community.
To add new
names or remove
names, please call
or email the
church office by
April 20.
Faithfully,
Jill
The Reverend Jill H Small
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Come One! Come All!
May 2 … Rummage Sale!
Once again the Women’s Fellowship will be organizing To a church-wide Birthday Party on April 17, a Frithe Spring Rummage Sale!
day, at 6 p.m.
The racks will
come down from
the attic after Monday’s supper, and
from then on you
may leave off your
extra spring clothing.
This is a potluck, except the birthday cake/dessert
will be created by Carele.
Bring your own utensils, plate, etc., a salad or main
entrée! This is a time for fellowship and FUN!
The FUN will be a church scavenger hunt with prizes!
Mark this on your calendar, and hope the Women’s
Fellowship has chosen a nice day!
Everyone is invited
to help sort on Tuesday through Friday, and then sign —Ann Lessard
up on the bulletin board to sell on Saturday!
The hours are 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., with the Bag Sale
starting at 1 p.m. That’s all on May 2!
—Ann Lessard
Please save the date!
May 13 will be the date for the Women’s Fellowship’s Special Guest Luncheon.
This is the 50
you’ll join us!
th
Yard Sale on April 25
anniversary of this event, so we hope
Mark your calendars for
April 25, when we’ll have
—Ann Lessard
our annual Yard Sale.
50th
Anniversary!
Donations can be dropped
off during the week,
starting on Tuesday.
The sale is scheduled for
Saturday from 8 a.m.
Calling Volunteers!
to 1 p.m., but there are
two special sales:
We’re refreshing our list of Sunday morning volunteers. If you’d like to acolyte, usher, or read, please
call or email the office. If you email, it will help a lot
to use the subject line: Sunday volunteers. Thank
you!
The early bird sale for $5 takes place on Friday
night, from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
The all-you-can-carry sale for $6 starts at noon
on Saturday.
Thanks, thanks, thanks!
Join us and find some bargains!
So many of you lend a hand in so many ways, and we thank
each of you for your time and energy. This month, we send a
special shout out to:
Judy DeWitt for organizing food and paper goods in kitchen
bins; the indefatigable Dick Sanders for being our recycling
hero week in and week out and for raking March snow from
the office roof; Kelly Kent-Kiburis and Sharon Smith for another terrific Winter Film Series.
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Off the Waldo
Your car has a name to distinguish it from other cars. Some cars have
both names and numbers and secret letters. All of these are usually
attached to the trunk or back of your car. We have informally researched the true meaning of these names, informally so as to avoid
needless confusion over the facts. For instance – If you drive an
Avenger …
An AVENGER is one who takes revenge for something; hope it misses
you.
A MERCEDES – MAYBACH S600 A7 is a relative bargain at $189,350.
VW’S AUDI self-drives. It is termed “autonomous” Price is not given. The numbers giving the price
have not been invented yet.
An ENVOY is a messenger, or an ambassador… One you‘ll need to drive it.
A MURANO is an island in the Venetian lagoon where glass has been made for more than 700 years.
(We’re just trying to be informative here.)
A TAHOE is a lake where California and Nevada meet. Elev. 6,230 feet.
A SILVERADO is a 1985 movie in which 4 unlikely heroes attempt to reclaim a helpless town from a
corrupt sheriff.
A TRAVERSE is to move something back and forth or sideways as on a rod.
A MALIBU is an affluent beach city in California. Herb Alpert, Jennifer Aniston, Jeff Bridges and Charles
Bronson live there. You need big bucks for a house.
A SABLE Gs is a generic description of some black furred cats or rabbits.
AN ESCORT is a radar detector costing $499.95. It can be obtained overnight.
A LARAMIE is a person who lives in Laramie, Wyoming. Pop in 2010 – 30,816.
AN ESCAPE is to enjoy temporary freedom from unpleasant realities.
A FORD FUSION is “a Chevy Malibu in disguise.”
A MALIBU is a Ford …
AN ELITE is a small, powerful group. Forget even trying to get this one.
A SONATA is an instrumental composition with movements contrasting in tempo and mood but related in key, but does it run?.
A PRIUS is previous in order or time. Wait ’til the technology catches up with it.
A PINTO is equal to half a quart or to two cups – one or the other.
A TITAN is a member of the second order of divine beings. Something titanic is considered to be bigger than gigantic … even bigger than a Pinto.
A PILOT is a person licensed to operate an aircraft, or it is a light on a stove?
A FORD LIMITED is included as we were impressed with their frankness.
A DENALI is included because they deny having any advantages at all.
On the back of my car are the letters SR and 2/3PF which mean: still runs and two-thirds paid for.
Drive good ….
– WALDO
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COMMUNICON
APRIL 2015
Vol. 62. No. 4
Union Congregational Church
United Church of Christ
33 Concord Street
Peterborough, NH 03458
Interim Minister: The Reverend Jill H. Small
Worship Service: 10 a.m.
Nursery Care Provided
Church Office 924-3272
Parsonage: 924-6320
Email: [email protected]
www.uccpeterborough.org
Silent Support Team:
Janet Brown, Randy Brown, Carolyn Peacock
May Communicon deadline: April 20
Union Congregational Church
United Church of Christ
33 Concord Street
Peterborough, NH 03458
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