Highlights: TUE – Field trip to Eshqua Bog with Tin Mountain from Albany, NH plus Women’s Gathering @ church; WED – Tune Up fitness with Laurie McAleer @ church plus Artist’s Reception for Linda Gray in Eaton, NH & Council Mtg @ church ; THURS – Yoga with Anjali Rose @ church; SUN: Interfaith @ gazebo, Worship @ church, Family Faith and Fun Night @ church plus School’s Out Kayak/Canoe fundraiser for Camden’s Crusaders
Missions Message: Sharing National UCC Response – “Keep Families Together”
In response to current events at the border, regarding the separation of children from their families, the Missions Team is sharing the information below with friends and members of Jackson Community Church. This reflects the response of the national United Church of Christ and offers a path for individuals who feel moved by this issue. For anyone who wishes, envelopes will be available at church to make contributions to UCC Ministries, specifying the Keep Families Together fund.
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Father’s Day Story: Anointed
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Church & Community Service Opportunities
Community Service: • Serve as coordinator for county Emergency Food and Shelter Program to distribute FEMA funds to local nonprofits • Volunteer on the Jackson fire department. • Come by and tackle a church “honey do” task. • Sign up to prepare coffee, serve refreshments, greet people at front door, or offer special music during worship. • Consider joining a church team. • Donate tents or sleeping bags and toiletries to day resource center for housing-insecure valley residents.
This Week: Tue, June 11 – Sun, June 17
This Week at Jackson Community Church
Highlights: Tue: Community event – Community Housing Forum; Wed: Fitness; Thurs: Yoga; Fri: Community event – Kennett High School Graduation; Sun: Worship
Story: Leadership by Daniel Weeder
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Story: Leadership by Daniel Weeder
JCC 061018 – Leadership from architect on Vimeo.
This Week at Jackson Community Church: Tue, June 5 – Sun, June 10
Highlights:
- Wed – fitness
- Thurs – yoga & dine-to-donate at Shannon Door
- Fri – JGS Pavilion pegging,
- Sat – open house at Horton Center,
- Sun – children & youth worship service
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Story: Called
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Themes of listening for a holy call filled with passion and purpose from Book of 1 Samuel.
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. ― Madeleine L’Engle, Swiftly Tilting Planet
The Meadow (excerpt) — Marie Howe
Bedeviled,
human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words
that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled
among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.
human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words
that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled
among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.
3 Questions for Discerning Your Calling
(excerpt)— Jordan Raynor, Relevant Magazine
… entrepreneurs and creatives … tended to ask three excellent questions when discerning God’s calling on their lives:
- What am I passionate about?
- What gifts has God given me?
- Where do I have the greatest opportunity to love others?
It’s these three questions which will help you discern where God has called you to expend your energies …