SANCTUARY OPEN & WORSHIPING in NEW (REMOTE) WAYS!
24/7 Place to Pray
Our doors to our sanctuary remain open 24/7 for personal prayer and individual worship. Please use hand sanitizers as you come and go, and wipe down door knobs in your coming and going.
New Ways to Worship
Meanwhile, all church-based gatherings in the church and old red library have been suspended. Instead, we’re offering:
- LIVE STREAMING
- EDITED VIDEOS of those worship events
- Posted to website and Facebook page afterward.
- ZOOM WORSHIP for participatory experiences!
- **We encourage you to choose this option if you have internet access via computer or a phone, so you can join us live during worship, either by video or audio-only on phone.**
- If using a computer, download the Zoom app (free). Allow time BEFORE worship to download the software if you want to participate via computer. Link to download free software: https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting
- If using your phone, dial the phone numbers provided below.
ZOOM: 8am INTERFAITH GATHERINGS on Sunday!
- Join Zoom Meeting from your computer using Zoom application:
- https://zoom.us/j/827449013
- Meeting ID: 827 449 013
- Join Zoom meeting by phone:
- One tap mobile
+19294362866,,827449013# - Dial by location:
- US (NY)
+13126266799,,827449013# - Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/adFBEMZBc
- US (NY)
- Meeting ID: 827 449 013
- One tap mobile
ZOOM: 10:30am WORSHIP on Sunday!
- Join Zoom Meeting from your computer using Zoom application:
- https://zoom.us/j/142985761
- Meeting ID: 142 985 761
- Join Zoom meeting by phone:
- One tap mobile
- +19294362866,,142985761#
- Dial by location:
- US (NY)
+13126266799,,142985761# - Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/adFBEMZBcP
- US (NY)
- Meeting ID: 142 985 761
Perks of this kind of worship:
- Bring your breakfast and favorite hot beverage to your own personal worship space.
- Stay cozy! Stay casual!
- Light a candle or set out flowers to make your “personal worship space” special if you’d like.
- Place a glass or small vase in the area where you’re participate and plan to put your offering in it during worship, then leave it out during this time, to remind you to continue giving. Alternately, Consider online giving as a great option: we have a DONATE button on our site.
- Be prepared to share a symbol of hope and renewal with each other, if you’d like to do so!
- Bring your prayer requests, or send them in advance to Rev Gail.
We anticipate adding other creative Zoom offerings, from hymn sings to meditations in the next few days.
CIRCLE of CARING and OTHER SAFETY NETS
JCC’s CIRCLE of CARING
Volunteers from around the community are helping. We make friendly
check-ins with vulnerable friends and neighbors. Mostly, we call and say
hello. Weask if people have any other needs that require additional
help. If more help than a friendly call is required, and it’s outside
the buddy’s role, referrals may go through Rev Gail to make other safety
and helping connections as needed. So far, we have conducted visits
(before the virus kept us apart), made phone calls, grocery runs, mail
pickups, delivered meals and flowers delivered!
People not already connected with a ‘buddy’ are being connected to more
Jackson and Bartlett neighbors anxious to help each other. Please alert
us if you know of anyone who needs check-in to take care of basic needs
like mail or groceries, or simply a regular HELLO by phone! If you’d like to be a ‘buddy’ for a neighbor, and make some calls to keep them cheered and connected, let us know!
Church leaders will also be calling all of our friends and members just to check on everyone!
Other safety nets:
- JACKSON BRIDGE is a community helpers list and connector service. In their own words: “We are proud to offer a new community listserv, we have named, Jackson Bridge, designed to help unite helpful people with neighbors needing a boost. A listserv is an electronic mailing list to which you can subscribe and then any message that is sent to it gets distributed to everyone else who is subscribed. We encourage anyone in our Jackson Community, who is willing to help another or who needs some help to sign up. More information, including some guidelines for usage on our the library’s new Jackson Bridge webpage.
- GOOD MORNING PROJECT with SHERIFF & POLICE
(Available in Conway, Bartlett & Jackson). The program is in place to assist senior citizens of the community, who live alone, to continue living an independent lifestyle through daily check-ins. To participate in the program one must:- Must reside within the Conway/North Conway, Bartlett or Jackson
- Live alone, or if you live with another person, that person is unable to render you assistance in an emergency.
- Be able to call the Conway Police Department every day before 10 a.m.
- Must notify the Conway Police Department if you will be away or unable to call in. (For example: you are going away with relatives for a few days, or you will be gone during the normal check-in time for an appointment or a day trip)
- In the event Police dispatchers do not hear from you by 10 a.m., they will attempt to call.
- When contact cannot be made by telephone, a patrol unit responds to the resident to check on the welfare of the member.
If you are interested in participating in this program or know of someone who may be interested in being a part of it, call Project Good Morning 356-5785 or 356-5786
If you live in any other town in Carroll County to contact the Carroll County Sheriff’s office at 603-539-2284. for the programs available in your town.
- Granite United Way COVID19 RELIEF FUND
Go to www.graniteuw.org or text GUWHELPS to 41444 to make a gift or to learn more about this fund. 100% of all donations go directly to individuals and families in need due to COVID19.
SPIRITUAL RESOURCES
ILLUSTRATED MINISTRY:
- Coloring pages (free PDF to download) for times when you are anxious!
GATHR:
- Join Gathr’s Facebook page for a virtual Bible study starting Friday, March 20.
- One of Gathr’s free downloadable Bible studies
- Progressive Christian blog with inspiration poetry, meditations, commentaries and more
ON BEING with KRISTA TIPPETT
- The On Being Project is a nonprofit media and public life initiative. They make a public radio show, podcasts, and tools for the art of living.
CENTER for CONTEMPLATION & ACTION
- Podcasts, daily meditations and online learning As founder with Fr. Richard Rohr’s and core faculty including Cynthia Bourgeault, James Finley, Barbara Holmes, and Brian McLaren.
PLUM VILLAGE
- Mindfulness through a community founded by Bhuddist leader Thich Nhat Hanh. Dharma talks. Meditation apps. More.
Ideas of things to do, collected by and shared in the Jackson enews:
- Free online courses offered by Ivy League colleges:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ivy-league-free-online-courses-a0d7ae675869/?fbclid=IwAR0czwtDOcaRXk83n-l3B6Bi3g4rVLdlXm-SeOKBPI0efVdRcfKhhxyc7ng - Take a virtual museum tour with Google Arts and Culture. The online platform provides digital tours of more than 2,500 museums and galleries around the world.
- Stream a live performance or concert
- New York City’s Metropolitan Opera announced that it would stream a performance from its archives for every night through the duration of the closure, starting Monday, March 16. The Nightly Met Opera Streams, which start at 7:30 p.m. (EST), pull from the renowned opera house’s award-winning Live in HD series, which includes encore presentations such as 19th-century French composer Georges Bizet’s Carmen. The recordings be available to view for free on the Met Opera homepage for 20 hours after they’re streamed.
- 92Y, has made its online archives—which contain hundreds of recordings of readings, concerts, and educational talks—free to the public during this time.
- The Berlin Philharmonic is dropping the subscription fee to its online video streaming service, known as its Digital Concert Hall, and will offer archival performances to home audiences for free during the closure.
- Other major opera houses and concert halls around the world have similar plans to stream free archival performances over the coming weeks, among them: London’s Wigmore Hall, Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
- John Legend hosted a free concert on Instagram Live as part of “Together, at Home,” a new series of online concerts presented by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Global Citizen.
- Daily Instagram Live dance party hosted by Lady Gaga’s former backup dancer (follow him at @mkik808), or try a free virtual workout class (yoga, HIIT, and Barre) offered through April 1 on the Down Dog iOS and Android app.
- Educational courses for at-home kids – Scholastic’s “Learn at Home” website.