Volunteer, mini-golf, walk, dine, dance, host, and connect with JCC and other nonprofits
HAVE FUN and MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Volunteer for JCC’s ecumenical lemonade stand at Pride, play mini golf for Jens Friends, attend the gala for Gibson Center, boogie at Boots n Bling for Starting Point, volunteer for Way Station’s Circles startup team, host hospitality at church, help at the May 20th Plant Sale, become a virtual deacon for zoom with church, and more!
Sat, May 20th Plant Sale @ JCC
9am-Noon
Help in one of these ways:
- Drop off seedlings, house plants, cuttings and other garden and yard gleanings during the week prior to the sale. They may beleft outside beneath the outer stairwell. Pots and popsicle sticks for labeling plants are on site.
- Come early on Saturday if you want to help the missions team with the plant sale.
- Drop by the plant sale to acquire plants for your house, garden, or yard.
Proceeds benefit people in need of shelter in the valley and abroad, particularly refugees.
MINI GOLF for JEN’S FRIENDS
June 2 • 10am – 4pm
Join us at Pirates Cove Mini Golf for a Jen’s Friends fun,fund raiser! 100% of your $10. ticket goes to Jen’s Friends!
Click the link to register for mini-golf. REGISTER: https://jensfriends.salsalabs.org/minigolf2023
GIBSON GALA
Celebrating Seniors
Thursday, May 11th
Majestic Theater
5:45pm socializing • 7pm program starts
Renowned radio host Laura Knoy, previously the moderator of NHPR’s The Exchange, will moderate a panel of Valley celebrities.
- On stage will be artist, musician and actor Mary Bastoni, judge and mediator Peter Fauver, coach and mentor Bernie Livingston and Jen’s Friends Board member, Barbara Theriault for a night of joy and laughter.
- Also: Silent Auction
- Features scrumptious hors d’oeuvres by Chef Blodgett and cash bar.
Tickets are on sale now online at https://mountaintop.ludus.com/index.php or by calling the Gibson Center at 603-356-3231.
BOOTS n BLING
Thursday, June 8 • 5pm
Wentworth Inn
Dinner, dancing, entertainment, live auction, and games!
Tickets are now on sale for 2023! Please click HERE
Save the Date!
JCC WALKS for a CURE
Alzheimers Walk
Oct 14 @ Great Glen
It’s not too early to register with the team, recruit more team members, and start your fundraising.
Register or donate: http://act.alz.org/goto/eaglesrest2023
To register please go to : Alzheimers Walk, Find and select register, follow the prompts, (you want to Join a team) search for Eagle’s Rest, Our team should come up and you can then Join.
HOST CHURCH HOSPITALITY
To resume the tradition of hospitality after worship service, we are asking volunteers to host the next few weeks. Put out the snacks and beverages, set up the table, and offer a friendly presence as we socialize after church.
The church provides cold beverages and a few basic snacks such as popcorn, cookies and/or crackers and cheese. We also provide paper goods, coffee, etc. You’re welcome to supplement these offerings, or to use only what the church keeps on hand.
If you’re able to sign up for May 21, May 28, or June 4, please email the church: jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org.
We’ll put up an in-person signup option to cover hospitality schedule beyond these first few dates.
ZOOM DEACONS WANTED!
If you attend the worship service remotely, would you consider signing up to be a virtual deacon from time to time? Virtual deacons letpeople into the Zoom meeting, and help make sure anyone in Zoom who wantrs to pray is seen and heard.
Email the church if you’re able to volunteer as a virtual Zoom deacon: jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org
JCC Booth and Lemonade Stand @
WHITE MOUNTAINS PRIDE
Sat, June 24
Schouler Park
Setup: 8:30am
Festival: 10am – 4pm
Cleanup: 4-4:30pm
Volunteers needed for 2-hour shifts: Setup.10am-noon, noon-2pm, 2-4pm, cleanup.
- Email the church if you’re available to help for 1 or more shifts: jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org
Jackson Community Church is one of several sponsors for this event. We’re hosting a booth alongside Nativity Lutheran Church and the Way Station. We’ll offer lemonade, temporary tattoos, and loving support for our LGBTQIA+ community.
Volunteers are welcome to help at the JCC booth or the Way Station table.
Community learning & volunteering with JCC and other nonprofits
Make meals, build insulating windows, walk to end Alzheimers, prevent hate-based activities, and more
JACKSON FACILITIES COMMITTEE PRESENTATION
Tue, Sept 27 • 6:30-8:00pm • Whitney Community Center.
Come in person or view online at @jacksonflicks.
Join the Jackson Facilities Committee for a presentation by the North Country Council about the North Country Rising Resiliency Planning Process. We’ll learn more about what other towns are doing as they look to the future. Our hope is that this will help us launch our quest to determine the current and future facilities needs of our town. We’ll also share an overview of existing facilities.
Childcare and refreshments available.
Our Community: Welcoming and Safe—Understanding and Preventing Hate-Based Activity
Maine and New Hampshire have experienced increased hate-based activity in recent months. Please join us for an informative presentation and Q&A with area police departments and local community groups working to address hate-based activity. Talk with your neighbors about proactive and effective ways to respond.
- REGISTER for Mon, Oct 3 or Thurs, Oct 6: https://carsey.unh.edu/new-hampshire-listens/events
- October 3, 6-8pm: Kittery, ME. Kittery Community Center, STAR Theatre, 120 Rogers Road, Kittery, ME 03904. Facilitated by:
nh.listens@unh.edu NH Listens/New Hampshire Listens, 603-862-0692. - October 6, 6-8pm: zoom. Facilitated by: NH Listens/New Hampshire Listens, 603-862-0692, nh.listens@unh.edu
- Please join us for an informative presentation and Q&A with area police departments and local community groups working to address hate-based activity. Talk with your neighbors about proactive and effective ways to respond. Learn more about:
- How to identify symbols affiliated with hate groups
- Active groups identified in our area
- How activity in the Seacoast compares regionally and nationally
- Actions you can take if you encounter literature or activity of hate groups
- This event is hosted by Kittery Police Department, Portsmouth Police Department, South Berwick Police Department, Granite State Progress, New Hampshire Council of Churches, New Hampshire Listens, United Against Hate on Seacoast, and additional area school districts & community groups.
WALK to END ALZHEIMERS with EAGLES’ REST TEAM & JCC
Fri, Oct 7 • 9am
Great Glen Trails
Sign up for the walk at: https://act.alz.org/site/TR/Walk2022/ME-Maine?pg=entry.. As a reminder, its Team Eagle’s Rest you want to join. Never too early to start your fund raising.
Register or donate to participate!
Thanks for your ongoing support. Invite friends to join the team, walk with us or just donate. Post your participation on Facebook if you use it. Let’s beat last year’s team goal of $3000!
We’re planning to walk the Great Glen trails on Oct 7th and follow the walk with lunch (each person covers their own cost) at the Glen House. This plan is based on weather. — Jeanette Heidmann
MAKE MEALS for the CHERNICKS
Link to sign up for meal train for Jan & John Chernick: mealtrain.com/egmzee
John Chernick has been quietly battling cancer for a very long time and is now home on hospice. For people who have given so much of themselves, it’s time to return the favor. They are grateful for any donations of meals that will remove one big task from their plate.
Please use the link above to choose a date, rather than approaching them independenlly.
BUILD INSULATING WINDOWS for NEIGHBORS
October 22-25 @ Settlers Green
Sign Up link: https://signup.com/go/psSeUnn (you will see the volunteer options, days, times and tasks). Be sure to hit SAVE after entering your information.
We Need YOU to Help Build Insulating Window Inserts
The Tin Mountain Energy Team is working with the non-profit Window Dressers to build simple, tight, pine frame insulation frames for leaky windows to cut down heat loss in winter. We are looking for volunteers to help construct frames as well as help wrap and finish them at our community build at Settlers Green on October 22-25. We will be constructing 209 inserts for 22 homes throughout the Valley. Volunteers will be trained on site and do not need a specific skill set, although a familiarity with a power drill is helpful for frame construction on 10/22. This is our second year of hosting a build in the valley, and we are impressed with the enthusiasm of the community to support this effort.
Please explore the link below and sign up for one or more shifts to join our community event and help keep the MWV a little warmer this year. We encourage folks to sign up for the frame assembly and insert wrapping station, but if you are interested in providing snacks, we appreciate any and all participation. Lunch will be provided for all volunteers.
Sign Up link: https://signup.com/go/psSeUnn (you will see the volunteer options, days, times and tasks). Be sure to hit SAVE after entering your information.
If you have trouble using the Sign Up form or have any questions, please email Nora Dufilho at nbeem@tinmountain.org.
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Daily Advent Devotional: Day 18 – Wed, Dec 16
Joy may also come from practicing kindness and/or serving others. This approach to life feeds a sense of purpose and optimism. Kindness can happen in simple, daily interactions: recognize the dignity of another person and choose compassion and courtesy in your exchanges. Likewise, you can serve others informally by being a good neighbor and caring for others with acts of thoughtfulness, or more formally by volunteering for a cause in which you believe. Such outreach can be as modest as making a meal or checking in with people by phone. It may take a more committed path as a dedicated volunteer who supports others, and should be done with balance and boundaries.
As a spiritual practice, this is an empowering approach to life. It identifies your competencies and capabilities, and reminds you that you have choices. It affirms your value and purpose as a human being and helps to acknowledge others, also.
Being kind and being of service enlarge personal perspectives. They alter the understanding of others’ circumstances, thus allowing you to recognize your own blessings. They cultivate appreciation for your own individual agency and the ability to be helpful to others. With kindness and service, through small acts or major forms of participation, you may renew your internal sense of fulfillment and joy. — Rev Gail
… for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I sing for joy. — Psalm 63:7
But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them … — Psalm 5:11
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. ― Mark Twain
The joy that isn’t shared dies young. — Anne Sexton
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… It’s your responsibility to love it, or change it. – Chuck Palahniuk
When you can stop and ask yourself, “How can I help,” or, “How can I be of service,” you create a new internal dialogue that leads to alternative and expanded ways of thinking and responding. … You have something to offer, a gift brought into this world to share with others. It could be your ability to listen, give a great hug, advocate for those in need, build something, or be there for someone In being able to share this gift, you build a greater sense of connection and belonging, something you can relate to as a basic need. Joy is often a side effect of what can happen when you are in the service of something greater than yourself. — Rachelle Williams
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back. — Anne Lamott
HOLY WEEK with JCC: April 8-12 (Easter)
Do you need support of any kind? We have volunteers ready to assist with errands, access to emergency supplies, and Rev Gail is available for emotional and spiritual companionship. Email the church: jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org.
Wed, April 8
- BREAKFAST with REV GAIL (via ZOOM)
8am • ZOOM LINK: zoom.us/j/170985789 (password required)
Social gathering. Option: Call in via touch-tone phone: 929.436.2866, meeting ID: 170985789, (password required – contact jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org)
- LIFT your SPIRITS (via ZOOM) – firepit & beverages
6pm • ZOOM LINK: zoom.us/j/170985789 (password required)
Social gathering. Option: Call in via touch-tone phone: 929.436.2866, meeting ID: 170985789, (password required – contact jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org)
Thurs, April 9
- MAUNDY THURSDAY GATHERING (via ZOOM)
7pm • ZOOM LINK: zoom.us/j/467763000 (password required).
Plan to celebrate an after-dinner ritual of washing hands (symbolic of foot-washing), stripping altar, and putting out candles as darkness falls and we enter the Triduum: three holy days of Easter weekend. Option: call in via touch-tone phone: 929.436.2866, meeting ID: 467763000 (password required – contact: jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org)).
Fri, April 10
- BREAKFAST with REV GAIL (via ZOOM)
8am • ZOOM LINK: zoom.us/j/170985789 (password required)
Social gathering. Option: Call in via touch-tone phone: 929.436.2866, meeting ID: 170985789 (password required – contact jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org) - WAY of the CROSS
Live-streaming via Facebook.com/JacksonCommunityChurch & JCC website
Virtual contemplative journey through stations of the cross. Share where you would direct your prayers for each station of the cross, Rev Gail will post reflections at different Jackson and Bartlett locations to symbolize each station of the cross. This will take place throughout the week, but we especially welcome your comments during the hours of Christ’s crucifixion and death. We will use Marcia McFee / Design Worship Studio materials to focus. - LAST SEVEN WORDS Holy Friday Event (via ZOOM)
5pm • ZOOM LINK: zoom.us/j/531729008) (password required)
Reflect on the events of Holy Friday through the last seven words of Christ. Option: Call in via touch-tone phone: 929.436.2866, meeting ID: 531729008 (password required – contact: jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org)
- ECUMENICAL GOOD FRIDAY REFLECTION
6:30pm • Youtube Channel hosted by First Church of Christ in North Conway. Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xGhkZ9fG6YvNtYZMf5VmQ. Clergy of the Eastern Slope lead this video compilation: Rev Gail participates.
EASTER SUNDAY, April 12
- VIRTUAL SUNRISE SERVICE (via livestream to Facebook/JacksonCommunityChurch & JCC website)
6am • Go outside, bring your phone, and share sunrise together! Brief sunrise reflection. - VIRTUAL EASTER BREAKFAST (via ZOOM)
8am • ZOOM LINK: zoom.us/j/142985761 (password required)
Gathering to celebrate Easter with breakfast (bring your own to the Zoom gathering), conversation, readings & prayer. Option: Call on touch-tone phone: 929.436.2866, meeting ID# 142985761 (password required – contact: jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org)
- CHOIR PRACTICE (via ZOOM)
9:15am • ZOOM LINK: zoom.us/j/142985761 (password required)
Choir practice with choir director Billy Carleton and music director Alan Labrie. Option: Call on touch-tone phone: 929.436.2866, meeting ID# 142985761 (password required – contact: jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org) - VIRTUAL EASTER SERVICE (via ZOOM)
10:30am • ZOOM LINK: zoom.us/j/142985761 (password required)
Join us for worship, special music including flute duet by Lauren Weeder & Jeanette Heidmann, choral performance by JCC’s choir & harp with Dominique Dodge, plus prayer, reflection and interactive transformation of the cross with butterflies on this special Easter Sunday! Service will also be live-streamed to website and Facebook, and afterward, recordings of service will be posted to FB, youtube, vimeo. Option: Call on touch-tone phone: 929.436.2866, meeting ID# 142985761. (password required – contact: jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org) - BUTTERFLY the CROSS
All Day • Jackson Community Church (outside)
All day on Easter Sunday, you may add a butterfly to the cross, which will stand outside the church (weather permitting), or take one home, if you need an Easter symbol. If you can’t be here, send us your prayers and we’ll add your butterfly for you.