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Events of Feb 10-12 Weekend

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FRI, Feb 10

  • Community Event: ZUMBA with Dotti Aiello
    8:30am • Whitney Community Center
    • For more info, contact Dott: dottiaiello@gmail.com
    • Just a reminder that class is $5 per person with no sign in. Please bring the correct amount.  
    • Also, bring your water, a small towel and a smile and leave your inhibitions at home!
  • FITNESS CLASS  with Laurie McAleer 
    9:30am • Jackson Community Church
    • Free to all participants.
    • Gentle, chair-based stretch and fitness for all levels of ability
  • Community Event: LINE DANCING with Dotti Aiello
    9:30am • Whitney Community Center
    • For more info, contact Dott: dottiaiello@gmail.com
    • Just a reminder that class is $5 per person with no sign in. Please bring the correct amount.  
    • Also, bring your water, a small towel and a smile and leave your inhibitions at home!
  • Community Resource: LIBRARIES
  • **C3: COCKTAILS & CHRISTIAN CONVERSATION (resume Fri, Feb 17)**
    5pm •  Zoom
    • Cancelled this week b/c Rev Gail is celebrating Chris’s birthday with family in town
  • Community Event: VALENTINE TREATS & TRUFFLES
    6pm • Whitney Community Center
    • Valentine’s Truffles & Treats. Join Peter Bennett from J-Town Deli and learn how to make delicious chocolate truffles consisting of a ganache center and delightful dipped strawberries. Participants will go home with their very own candy box of freshly made treats! 
    • The program is $20 including all supplies and runs Friday, February 10th from 6-7:30 pm at the Whitney CC. Limit 10. 
    • To register: https://friends-of-the-whitney-community-center.square.site/ or email whitneycommunitycenter@gmail.com
  • Community Event: FRIDAY NIGHT JAZZ – MAJESTIC CAFE –  Dan Moore Quartet: Dan Moore, Rick Gordan, Brian Hathaway, & Rusty Quinn
    6:30 pm • Majestic Cafe, Conway, NH
  • Community Events: MUSIC AROUND TOWN
    • Shannon Door: Marty Quirk • 6-8pm
    • Red Parka Pub: lue Matter • 8-11pm
    • Wildcat Tavern: Al Shafner • 6 – 8:30pm
    • Shovel Handle Pub • Rafe Matregrano • 5:30-8:30pm
    • Lostbo Pub @ Black Mountain: Candle Tremblay • 3:30-5:30pm

SAT, Feb 11

  • Community Resource: LIBRARIES
  • Community Event: FIELD TRACKING
    9am • Tin Mountain Conservation Ctr, Albany
    • You never know what you’ll find when you go out exploring on a winter day. Snow provides us a yearly opportunity to learn more about our animal neighbors. The track patterns left behind will be our window into figuring out: Who left those tracks?  What were they doing? Were they in a hurry? Dr. Rick Van de Poll will help explore these snowy riddles. Participants should dress for the weather and bring a snack.
    • Program cost: $15/person or $25/household; members are free!
    • Space is limited and registration is required. Call 603-447-6991 or click here to register.
  • Community Event: SNOW SHOE Tour 
    2pm • Tin M tn Conservation Ctr, Albany, NH
    • Join us for a snowshoe tour at Tin Mountain’s Nature Learning Center in Albany, NH. Bring your own snowshoes or rent ours*, and enjoy the breathtaking beauty of winter. All are welcome!
    • Non-members:  $15/person or $25/household, snowshoe rental $5/person. Members are Free!
    • Register at tinmountain.org or call 603-447-6991
      *Please arrive at 1:30pm if you are renting snowshoes. Also, bring poles if you prefer to use them while snowshoeing – we do not have any poles.
  • Community Event: XC SKIING & SNOWSHOEING with Jackson Ski Touring
    Trails Open • More info: https://www.jacksonxc.org/trail-report/
  • Community Event: SLEIGH RIDES & SKATING 
    Nestlenook Farm, Jackson, NH • More info: https://nestlenookfarmsleighrides.com/
  • Community Event: DOWNHILL SKIING
  • Community Events: MUSIC AROUND TOWN
    • Shannon Door: Marty Quirk Apres Ski (4-6) & Jeremy Dean7-10pm
    • Red Parka Pub: Blue Matter • 8-11pm
    • Wildcat Tavern: Apres Ski with Al Shafner • 3-5pm  & Jonathan Sarty * 6 • 8:30pm
    • Shovel Handle: Dan Aldrich • 5:30-8:30pm
    • Lostbo Pub @ Black Mountain: Dan Aldrich • 3:30-5:30pm

SUN, Feb 12

  • INTERFAITH GATHERING (corrected info)
    8am • Old Red Library & zoom
  • WORSHIP with Communion
    10:30am • JCC  & in-person
  • Community Event: SNOW SHOE Tour 
    2pm • Tin M tn Conservation Ctr, Albany, NH
    • Join us for a snowshoe tour at Tin Mountain’s Nature Learning Center in Albany, NH. Bring your own snowshoes or rent ours*, and enjoy the breathtaking beauty of winter. All are welcome!
    • Non-members:  $15/person or $25/household, snowshoe rental $5/person. Members are Free!
    • Register at tinmountain.org or call 603-447-6991
      *Please arrive at 1:30pm if you are renting snowshoes. Also, bring poles if you prefer to use them while snowshoeing – we do not have any poles.
  • Community Event: XC SKIING & SNOWSHOEING with Jackson Ski Touring
    Trails Open • More info: https://www.jacksonxc.org/trail-report/
  • Community Event: SLEIGH RIDES & SKATING 
    Nestlenook Farm, Jackson, NH •
  • Community Event: DOWNHILL SKIING
  • Community Event: COMMUNITY SINGING
    1pm • Majestic Theater, Conway
    • Singing in community with others is an embodiment of the universal need to connect and share with one another, and a direct path to wellness and joy.  Through simple, original, a cappella songs, Heather and Bernice will gently and joyfully guide participants through a shared time of singing together.  
    • Tickets by donation: https://www.conwaymajestic.com/
  • Community Events: MUSIC AROUND TOWN
    • Lostbo Pub @ Black Mountain: Tim Dion • 3:30-5:30pm
    • Shannon Door: Dan Parkhurst • 6-9pm
    • Red Parka Pub: Super Bowl • 3-8pm
    • Shovel Handle Pub: Scott Baer •  5:30-8:30pm
 
 

Reflections on Bread as Part of the Lord’s Prayer

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Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. — Conrad Aiken

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread.  If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek. ― Rumi

SONGS about BREAD:

Hymn excerpt — John Macleod Campbell Crum
Now the green blade riseth, from the buried grain,
Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain;
Love lives again, that with the dead has been:
Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.

BREAD SHARING

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. — Viktor Frankl

The piece of bread is an ambassador of the cosmos offering nourishment and support. — Thich Nhat Hahn

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. — Nikolai Berdyaev

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread – the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature. — Ivan Pavlov

We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.  — Theodor Herzl

When you fight to give your family bread, that’s not passion anymore: that’s conviction. — Yoel Romero

When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor’s gift. — Maya Angelou  

When the children of Israel were suffering from hunger and thirst, Moses prayed to God and God answered his prayers with food from heaven. The Qur’an says: “And We caused the clouds to comfort you with their shade, and sent down unto you manna and quails. [saying,] ’Partake of the good things which We have provided for you as sustenance’” (2:57). — Muhammad Shafiq

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.  ―Mother Teresa

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. – Omar Khayyam

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope. — Martin Luther King, Jr

There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts. ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn’t behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger. — Giovanni Guareschi

BREAD MAKING

You can’t just leave out one part; the bread won’t rise if the yeast isn’t there.  — Holly Near

I like reality. It tastes like bread. — Jean Anouilh

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. — Nelson Mandela

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it … If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.  — Jose Marti

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm. — Jack Kornfield

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. —John Irving

COMMENTARY on BREAD in LORD’s PRAYER

In the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. — Woodrow Wilson

The devil took advantage of Christ’s hunger to tempt him to limit his concern to the relief of human need. These are vital concerns, but they cannot be the sole concern of the Church. We need daily bread; we need, too, a reason for living, a sense of purpose, a vision. — Basil Hume
Obviously Jesus was not telling His disciples to pray only for bread. But bread was a staple in the diet of the Jews, and had been so for many years. Furthermore, bread was a powerful symbol of God’s provision for His people …. We remember how God cared for the Israelites when they were in the wilderness after their exodus from Egypt. Life in the wilderness was hard, and soon the people began to complain that it would be better to be back in Egypt, where they had wonderful food to eat. In response to these complaints, God promised to “rain bread from heaven” (Ex. 16:4). … This petition of the Lord’s Prayer, then, teaches us to come to God in a spirit of humble dependence, asking Him to provide what we need and to sustain us from day to day. We are not given license to ask for great riches, but we are encouraged to make our needs known to Him, trusting that He will provide.— RC Sproul 

Bread was important; in fact, where some eat and some do not eat, the kingdom is not present. — Fred Craddock

Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. ‘That’s all you’re going to give me? You’re just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I’m set up.’ And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions. — Francis Chan

February INSIDE OUT Newsletter

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February 2023 Newsletter

Hi Members and Friends,

Hope everyone is staying warm – this was certainly a tough weekend here in the Mount Washington Valley with record low temperatures.  Please know that if you need assistance the church maybe able to help and the Sanctuary is always warm and welcoming.

February appears to be a busy month with lots of “mark on your calendar” events –  check out the newsletter for more information.

Stay safe and warm,

Joanne Turner, Administrative Assistant
Jackson Community Church

Lenten Reflection Day 14 (Mar 7): KEEP YOU  (from Psalm 121).

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SONG: Keep You Mine by NOTD, Shy Martin: https://youtu.be/fuI0bEdoF30

POEM: Joy Harjo: For Keeps (excerpt): … We know ourselves to be part of mystery. It is unspeakable. It is everlasting. It is for keeps.

QUOTE: Coco Ginger: Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.

Lenten Reflection Day 13 (Mar 6): HELP  (from Psalm 121).

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Lenten Reflection Day 13 (Mar 6): HELP  (from Psalm 121).

SONG: Help! by The Beatles: https://youtu.be/2Q_ZzBGPdqE

POEM: Ashanti Files: Martyr (excerpt): I don’t want to be a martyr, But I see you calling for my help.

QUOTE: Carl Sagan: In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

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