21 Jan 2025
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Maintaining Our Lifelines to Home by Jeanne and Tom Lounsbury
We like to travel. We like to travel a lot in retirement. Travel and volunteering have been our biggest focuses since we retired. Staying connected with First Congregational Church has been an interesting and integral part of keeping our...
21 Jan 2025
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Finding Sustenance in Community by Keith Lance and John Bisceglia
Thanksgiving. Advent. Christmas. New Year’s Eve. Epiphany. And MLK Day. All of the seasonal holidays that mark the close of one year and the beginning of another have one thing in common – they are essentially communal. We celebrate...
21 Jan 2025
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Angels for Each Other by Ed Hall
What shall I return to the Lord for all his bounty to me? - Psalm 116: 12 Stewardship provides the opportunity to show our gratitude for the blessings and gifts we have received. In these uncertain times, the values of...
21 Jan 2025
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Rise Up! by Amy Voida
Rise up When you’re living on your knees, you rise up Tell your brother that he’s gotta rise up Tell your sister that she’s gotta rise up - Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton My daughter, Natalie, and I went to see the...
31 Dec 2024
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Love Knows Your Name
JESUS MAFA. The birth of Jesus with shepherds, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. Author: Bob von Trebra Luke 2:1-20 Isaiah 9:6 For a child has been born for us, a son...
24 Dec 2024
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Hope, Risk and Trust
Author: Scott Allman During this season of Advent, those writing these weekly devotionals have been asked to reflect on the themes of a devotional by A Sanctified Art that is being offered to the congregation. Here is the link:Words...
17 Dec 2024
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Do the Good That is Yours to Do
Author: Martha Palmer During this season of Advent, those writing these weekly devotionals have been asked to reflect on the themes of a devotional by A Sanctified Art that is being offered to the congregation. Here is the...
10 Dec 2024
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Loneliness Personified
Author: Nancy Wade During this season of Advent, those writing these weekly devotionals have been asked to reflect on the themes of a devotional by A Sanctified Art that is being offered to the congregation. Here is the link: Words...
5 Dec 2024
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Alternative Gift Markets: Life-giving Gifts with Global Impact
Learn More About... AGI Alternative Gifts International Noor El-Salam https://www.noorelsalam.org/ KEF https://www.kenyaeducationfund.org/ Mindful Works https://mindful-works.org or Follow on Facebook. Alternative Gift Markets:...
4 Dec 2024
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Brunch Church December 29
Join Us and Be a Vital Part of Brunch Church! Sunday, 12/29 at 10:30 AM - Plymouth Hall We are eagerly seeking your support and participation. All individuals, regardless of age, are warmly invited to volunteer to make New Year’s Eve...