Fran Philippe, The Backpack Program coordinator and one of our members, in the program pantry at Friends of Forgotten Children. The Backpack Program at Friends of Forgotten Children recently received a $5,000 grant from the Globe Community Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to support its mission of feeding local school children. This … Continue reading Donations feed kids over the weekend
You can now watch and listen to Minister’s Musings on our YouTube Channel. Click here for January’s message. Our January theme asks us to explore the role of imagination in our lives – in our inner lives, in our relationships with others, in our institutions, and in our connection to all that is. I think … Continue reading What Does it Mean to be a People of Imagination?
Minister’s Musings – December 2020 Last month I asked whether our community plate could raise $40,000 on November 8th and your answer – in the form of donations and pledges – was a resounding “yes, we can.” Over 80 individuals and families contributed about $44,600. Adding the $20,000 external match earmarked exclusively for our … Continue reading “You blew our socks off”
New this year are video recordings of the monthly Minister’s Musings that are found in our Parish Notes newsletter. In his December 2020 Minster’s Musings, Rev. Michael Leuchtenberger provides an answer to the $40,000 question he raised in November and shares a letter of gratitude by Ellen Groh, Executive Director of the Concord Coalition to … Continue reading “You Blew Our Socks Off” video
Our theme for worship and faith development this month asks us to explore this question – and I encourage you to think about how you will explore it intellectually, how you will explore it emotionally, how you could incorporate the question into your personal spiritual practices, and how you might act as an agent of … Continue reading What Does It Mean to Be a People of Healing?
I think we can and here is why: Three years ago, on December 10, 2017, our Sunday plate raised an astonishing $19,014 in donations and pledges for the first Safe Spaces campaign of the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness (CCEH). I am still blown away each time I remember the moment. What happened? My January … Continue reading Can our community plate raise $40,000 on November 8th?
This is a question we will explore in worship, faith development activities, and covenant groups this month. Whose voices gain our attention? How do we respond to voices of sorrow, or anger, or hate? When has it made a transformative difference because someone listened deeply to us? I have learned so much about deep listening … Continue reading What Does It Mean to Be a People of Deep Listening?
September has always felt more like the New Year to me than January, so I’m grateful that our first monthly theme for this church year is Renewal. It was also supposed to be our theme last April, but we were three weeks into all-online church when April began, and Adaptation felt like the only relevant … Continue reading A Message of Renewal
Thank you. Seriously. For allowing me to have generous time off this summer, to breathe, to replenish, to regain perspective, to listen to wise and entertaining voices on podcasts, audio recordings, and on film. And to read and reflect, connect with family and friends, and to sit and pay attention to my body, to my … Continue reading Returning, with gratitude
Someone turned the “Black Lives Matter” message into “All Lives Matter” on the sign outside the Unitarian Universalist Church of Concord, officials said By Katherine Underwood • Published July 10, 2020 • Updated on July 10, 2020 at 6:00 pm For the second time in a couple of weeks, a New Hampshire church has had … Continue reading Black Lives Matter Sign Vandalized at NH Church for 2nd Time
