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This weekend (virtually) with JCC & Around Town: Mar 27-29

SATURDAY, MARCH 28

  • Community Event: BERNERHOF INN FREE BREAKFAST
    7-10am • Curbside @ Bernerhof Inn, 342 US Route 302, Glen, NH 03838
    Free blueberry pancake breakfast (take out) for families and seniors affected by COVID19 pandemic and economic setbacks.
  • Community Fundraiser: TIN MOUNTAIN’s FIRST SEASON ONLINE AUCTION
    Starts: 5pm, Sat, March 28 – Ends: 5pm, Sun, April 5
    Go to https://www.tinmountain.org/ and bbove the photo of crocuses in the snow, click on First Season ONLINE Auction

SUNDAY, March 29

What Else We’re Doing When You’re Not Looking

  • Changing the hopeful message board in front of the church
  • Sending out daily Lenten reflections by Facebook and posted to the website
  • Recording music as video & audio files with community performing artists to share in worship and spiritual settings. (Psssst: Would you share yourself playing your instrument or singing for us? We’d like to include you in worship over the next several weeks! Contact Rev Gail!)
  • Passing along donations of food and supplies from local businesses made to the church, which are then re-distributed through SAU9 (school district) for families needing additional support. Other donations have gone to individual Jackson and Bartlett families and more  meals have gone to people staying at Starting Point’s domestic violence shelter
  • Running modified shifts at the Way Station, supporting people living in tents, cars, couch-surfing or temp housing such as motels
  • Calling neighbors to check-in on each other and run errands for each other. If you need someone to pick up mail or groceries, or help you out, contact Rev Gail or make your need known through the Jackson Bridge (community listserv project of library to match helpers with those who have specific requests, and more info on our the library’s new Jackson Bridge webpage.)
  • Planning social programming (virtual gatherings for fun and enrichment) and worship with new technology, learning and adapting as we go!
  • Organizing (with other churches) valley-wide trivia tournament among faith communities!
  • Attending emergency management meetings (via Zoom) with ministry colleagues, healthcare providers and nonprofits who are collaborating to provide safety nets for residents of the valley
  • Implementing action plans to help vulnerable people

NOT SO TRIVIAL
Valley-wide Multi-church
TRIVIA TOURNAMENT
— also known as Interdenominational Trivia Rumble —
JCC’s Trivia Event: Tue, April 7
3pm via Zoom
https://zoom.us/j/2113197275.


The Clergy of the Eastern Slope (our valley’s ecumenical group of ministers and churches) is taking up the challenge of Nativity Lutheran to hold trivia tournaments within our own faith communities. Then we send our winning church team into a valley-wide interdenominational trivia ‘rumble’ (sorta like March Madness, without courts, sneakers, or basketballs).

This is all handled in virtual, remote settings, of course! Please contact Trivia Captain Fred Tompkins if you’d like to be on a team! Winners may receive … prizes that resemble coveted items like toilet paper!Proposed format via Zoom:

  • Divide people into teams and use the breakout room feature in Zoom (sounds hard, but its easy, the Zoom host organizes all of this).
  • For each question we will give one minute’s deliberation.
  • The teams come back together and one person from each team reports the answer. 
  • Zoom Info (please RSVP to Fred Tompkins in advance so we’re prepared for participants) — Participate via Zoom app on computer, pad or smart phone: https://zoom.us/j/2113197275. Or dial in 929.436.2866 with Meeting ID: 211 319 7275.

VIRTUAL WORSHIP
LIVE STREAMING via Facebook or Website (10:30am only):

ZOOM WORSHIP (8am & 10:30am):

  • 8am Zoom Interfaith Circle @ https://zoom.us/j/827449013
    (    Option for audio-only from any touch-tone phone – dial: 929.436.2866, Meeting ID: 827 449 013, press #)
  • 10:30am Zoom Worship @ https://zoom.us/j/142985761
    (Option for audio-only from any touch-tone phone – dial: 929.436.2866, Meeting ID: 142 985 761, press #)

JACKSON / BARTLETT FOOD PANTRY REQUESTS

  • Hannafords / Grants gift cards (any denomination, indicate value on card or on envelop in which you donate it)
  • Otherwise: Continue to donate canned goods.
  • The Bartlett-Jackson Food Pantry, located at the Glen Baptist Church, will continue to operate with curbside pick-up on Saturdays from 10am-Noon until further notice.  Those needing food assistance outside of regular hours, please call Brenda at 603x383x9246.

Do you have any helpful resources you’ve been using online? If so, feel free to recommend them to share with others in upcoming email messages!

Spiritual Resources beyond JCC:

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TONIGHT: FRIDAY, NOV 15 @ 7pm 1950s & 1960s CONCERT by Mountain Top Music Vocal Workshop Members

Hosted at Jackson Community Church
The Mountain Top Adult Singers’ Workshop led by Mary Bastoni presents a program of classics and oldies. Suggested donation at the door = $10/p. Proceeds support Mountain Top Music.
Place & Time: 7pm at Jackson Community Church, Fri, Nov 15.
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SUN, Nov 10 COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS

  • INTERFAITH GATHERING
    8am • Old Red Library
    Come for poetry, prayer and conversation. Guests from Trinity Church in Boston — who will be facilitating conversations to help us enter into race & white privilege conversations at Jackson Community Church later in the morning — will join this gathering.
  • BREAKFAST & COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS
    9am • Jackson Community Church: Join us for light breakfast and small group conversations about the necessity for faith communities to take up conversations around race and white privilege. Guests are Linda Trum, Grace Clark & Janis Pryor.
  • WORSHIP with CIRCLE SONGS & VETERANS  BLESSING – Taste and See Series: Olives, Peace 
    10:30am • Jackson Community Church
    * Music & Worship Leaders: Heather Pierson & Rev Bernice Martin
    * Special Music: Jacob Huggins
    * Reflection: Rev Gail Pomeroy Doktor & Rev Bernice Martin
    * Veterans Observance during service
    * Guests Linda Trum, Grace Clark & Janis Pryor from Trinity Church worship with us
    * Novembering continues as we remember those we love & mourn. Bring names, photos or mementoes to add to the Tree of Life in sanctuary.
  • SOUP LUNCH & COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS 
    Noon – Jackson Community Church: Second chance of the morning to join us for soup lunch (provided by church) and small group conversations about race and white privilege. Guests Linda Trum, Grace Clark & Janis Pryor. Community members are welcome to attend!
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SERVICE & SOCIALIZING

NEIGHBOR to NEIGHBORSat, Nov 2
8:30am • Meet at Lutheran Church of the Nativity, No Conway, NH
9am • Go out to project sites

  • Weatherstripping & sealing windows & doors
  • Stacking cords of firewood for neighbors
  • Winterizing homes
  • RSVP by calling Lutheran Church of the Nativity at 603.356.7827 to volunteer your time to help on one of these projects.
  • Refer projects to help neighbors in need by calling 603.356.7827.

WAY STATION VOLUNTEER TRAINING
Mon, Nov 4
9am & 5pm Interested in helping homeless population in the valley? Come find out more about supporting the Way Station, either by working with our guests or helping to coordinate calendar of volunteers & other projects. Two options to tour facility, gain some hands-on training. RSVP to Rev Gail if planning to attend 9am, Mon, Nov 4 training or 5pm, Mon, Nov 4 training.

LIBRARY TRIVIA
3pm • Sat, Nov 2
Jackson Public Library

  • Sign up online!
  • JCC has a team! Please let Fred Tompkins know if you’re planning to come as a member of our team(s). We may have to register more than one team!
  • Fun, prizes and possible socializing afterward!

CHRISTMAS CAROLING
to Bartlett & Jackson Neighbors
1-3pm • Sun, Dec 8

  • Please RSVP to the church if you’re available to go out and sing to neighbors (although last-minute volunteers are always welcome)
  • Song books provided, singing is acapella
  • Enthusiastic voices encouraged, no experience necessary
  • Open to children & families & adults of all ages
  • Dress to walk from cars to doors on muddy or snowy paths
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UPCOMING COMMUNITY SERVICE

BLACK MOUNTAIN TRAIL CLEANUP
10am – 4pm • Black Mountain
Sat, Sept 28
Volunteers can help re-mount missing trail signs, build a skier/rider diversion near Tower 9 of the Double to steer our customers away from the snowmaking pipes and valves, clean up the glades to the right of the famous Mr. Rew trail. RSVP to Dave Aibel.

SENIOR DAY at FRYEBURG FAIR
Tue, Oct 1(mid-morning-late afternoon)
Meet at Mineral Springs – Travel to Fryeburg Fair
Accompany Local Seniors RSVP to Meg Phillips to participate. Expect to walk the grounds and push wheelchairs around the fair. Bring funds for your ticket and lunch. We will meet at nursing home and ride over to the fair with the Mineral Springs residents.

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