STATIONS of the CROSS
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.
MON, April 15 – SUN, April 21 (Holy Week)
THIS WEEK at Jackson Community Church and Around Town
Highlights @ JCC: Tue – Deacons & Author’s Night with Janis Pryor’s Dinner with Trixie, Wed – Council Meeting, Thurs – Yoga & AA & Maundy Thursday Meal & Service, Fri – Way of the Cross & Ecumenical Worship (Madison Church), Easter Sun – Sunrise Service (Gazebo) & Easter Worship with Egg Hunt. Around Town: Thurs – Story Time for Toddlers (Jackson Library), Fri – Concert with Dominique Dodge & Trio (Whitney Community Center)
MON, April 15
- BOSTON MARATHON
Boston, MA
Cheer wheelchair athlete Dr William Tan (W45) from Singapore, who races for Bright Happy Power and the Doktor family. #BostonMarathon #GoWilliamTan
TUE, April 16
- CLERGY LUNCH
12:30pm • Center Conway, NH
Clergy of the Eastern Slop gather to prepare Good Friday service. Rev Gail attends. - DAISY SCOUTS
3:45-4:30pm • Parish House, Jackson Community Church - DEACON TEAM MEETING
4pm • 2nd Floor, Jackson Community Church
Meet to plan worship and care of congregation/community. -
AUTHOR NIGHT
7pm • Jackson Community Church
Dinner with Trixie by Janis Pryor.
Come for the reading and stay for the Q&A, which promises to be a rich introduction to a larger community conversation about race. Dinner with Trixie explores the past and the present within a slave-owning family, the enduring legacy of racism, personally, institutionally and culturally.
WED, April 17
- COUNCIL MEETING
7pm • Jackson Community Church
Church officers and lay leaders review church operations and mission, make decisions and conduct business for life of church.
THURS, April 18
- BLISS YOGA with Anjali Rose
9am • First Floor, Parish House / Jackson Community Church. Beginning stretch, flow and align yoga; safe for new practitioners. Weather dependent; if schools are delayed or closed, the class will be cancelled. - Community Event: STORY TIME for TODDLERS
10:30am • Jackson Library - MAUNDY THURSDAY 5pm • Jackson Community Church Dinner and worship around common table. Soup & bread supper provided by deacons.
- AA
6:30pm • Second Floor, Church.
FRI, April 19
- STATIONS of the CROSS
Noon-3pm • Jackson Community Church - Community Event: ECUMENICAL HOLY FRIDAY WORSHIP SERVICE
6:30pm • Madison Church
Service created in collaboration by several churches in Mt Washington Valley. Pick-up choir directed by Catherine Marker of Madison Church; singers from all churches welcome, music available for your perusal (contact Rev Gail if you want a copy). Officiated by Clergy of the Eastern Slope (Rev Gail participates). - Community Event: CONCERT with DOMINIQUE DODGE & TRIO
7-8:45pm • Whitney Community Center
Tickets available at the door.
SUN, April 21: EASTER SUNDAY
- SUNRISE SERVICE
6am • Gazeboby Jackson Historical Society - ADULT CHOIR PRACTICE
9am • Jackson Community Church
Choir Practice with Ellen Schwindt - INTER-GENERATIONAL CHOIR PRACTICE
10am • Jackson Community Church
Children and youth join adult choir to prepare for worship. - EASTER WORSHIP
10:30am • Jackson Community Church
* Choral music
* Harp by Dominique Dodge
* Flowering of the cross - EASTER EGG HUNT
11:45am • Jackson Community Church
Community Easter egg hunt following worship. Children may participate, accompanied by adults.
This Week: Mar 25-Apr 1 — Holy Week Events & Other Activities
SUN, MAR 25: Palm Sunday
- INTERFAITH GATHERING
8am • Madeline’s Deli, Jackson, NH
Reflection & prayer using literature, sacred texts, personal sharing. - ADULT CHOIR PRACTICE
9am • Jackson Community Church - PALM PROCESSION
9:45am • Jackson Community Church - WORSHIP: Palm Sunday
10:30am • Jackson Community Church - Community Event: Bliss Yoga
3pm • Be Well Studios New Hampshire, 3358 White Mountain Hwy Unit 3, North Conway, NH
Yoga with Anjali Rose, $20/pp
MON, MAR 26
- REIKI WORKSHOP (closed class, April class has openings: contact Rev Gail if interested)
6pm • Classroom/Betty Whitney Library, Second Floor of JCC
TUE, MAR 27
- Community Event:
HOMELESSNESS COALITION in Tamworth, NH
10am-Noon • TriCounty Cap, Sununu Room, Tamworth, NH
Overview of issues and initiatives to address homelessness and housing needs in Carroll County/Mt Washington Valley. Rev Gail will attend this meeting along with other valley clergy, and representatives of local agencies and nonprofits, focusing on this issue. Interested individuals are welcome to attend to learn more.
WED, MAR 28
- PASTOR’s DROP-IN
7-9am • JTown Deli.
Come for caffeine, cuisine, and conversation. - TUNE UP (Fitness) with LAURIE McALEER
9am • Parish Hall, Jackson Community Church.
Free. Join members of the women’s group and fitness trainer Laurie McAleer for a gentle, introductory fitness class for beginners. Wear comfortably clothing, sensible shoes, and bring a bottle of water. Bring a ski pole. Men and women both welcome to come try this class. Laurie will lead a fitness class that can be customized to each person’s abilities, and help improve overall wellbeing, as well as focusing on body areas that may need additional support and care. - WOMEN’S GROUP
10am-Noon • Parish Hall
Come for social time, refreshments, and to prepare eggs for Easter Egg hunt on April 1
THURS, MAR 29
- INTRODUCTORY YOGA with Anjali Rose
9am • Parish Hall, Jackson Community Church
Men and women invited to join instructor Anjali Rose for a gentle, introductory yoga class. Wear stretchy fitness clothing, bring a matt and a cushion/blanket if you have them. $10/class for 6 weeks; payable at beginning of session. Scholarships available. This session runs through April 19. - YOGA & MEDITATION with Charlotte Doucette
3:30pm • Parish Hall. $10/pp fee. (Scholarships available) - MAUNDY THURSDAY OBSERVANCES: Bread & Blessings
5pm • Parish Hall of Jackson Community Church.
Gather with members and friends for dinner and worship. This evening is derived from events surrounding the ‘Last Supper’ and will include a meditation on bread and blessings. - AA
6-7pm • Church Library
THURS, Mar 29 – FRI, MAR 30: HOLY FRIDAY VIGIL
- VIGIL
6pm Thursday until 1pm Friday • Shifts held at home, although church is open 24/7 and people are welcome to hold vigil at the church. Individuals and families can sign up in one-hour shifts from 6pm Thursday until 3pm Friday, to pray, meditate and stay awake during the hours of Christ’s arrest, trial and crucifixion. This vigil will be held ‘by trust’ in people’s homes, or at church if they so choose, so that each person who takes a one-hour shift to keep vigil may do so in their own environs. Sign up at church on Palm Sunday.
FRI, MAR 30: HOLY FRIDAY
- WAY of the CROSS
1pm • Jackson Community Church
Come for journey through ‘stations of the cross.’ Walk the stations, or meditate with Stations coloring pages - HOLY FRIDAY SERVICE
6:30pm • Bartlett Congregational Church.
Ecumenical worship services organized by Clergy of the Eastern Slope and hosted at Bartlett Congregational Church.
SAT, MAR 30: HOLY SATURDAY
- Community Event:
HEALING SERVICE
1pm • Christ Episcopal Church, North Conway, NH
SUN, APR 1: EASTER
- SUNRISE SERVICE
6:30am • Gazebo by Jackson’s Historical Society. Gather outside for worship & song. Return to Jackson Community Church for hot beverages and breakfast. - EASTER SERVICE
10:30am • Jackson Community Church.
Easter worship with “flowering of the cross.” - EGG HUNT
Follows worship service • Jackson Community Church. Hunt for eggs on grounds of church. Hunt will take place outdoors if weather permits, inside if weather is inclement.
Holy Week Events: Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Holy Friday, Easter
SUN, MAR 25: Palm Sunday
- PALM PROCESSION
9:45am • Walk from church, singing and waving palms, and return to church for 10:30am worship service. - PALM SUNDAY WORSHIP
10:30am • Jackson Community Church
THURS, Mar 29: MAUNDY THURSDAY
- SOUP SUPPER & TABLE WORSHIP
5pm • Parish Hall of Jackson Community Church
Gather with members and friends for soup supper and worship at the table.
THURS, Mar 29 – FRI, MAR 30: HOLY FRIDAY VIGIL
- VIGIL
6pm Thursday until 3pm Friday • Shifts held at home.
Individuals and families can sign up in one-hour shifts from 6pm Thursday until 3pm Friday, to pray, meditate and stay awake during the hours of Christ’s arrest, trial and crucifixion. This vigil will be held ‘by trust’ in people’s homes, or at church if they so choose, so that each person who takes a one-hour shift to keep vigil may do so in their own environs. To be organized in cooperation with friends and members of the Bartlett Congregational Church.
FRI, MAR 30: HOLY FRIDAY
- WAY of the CROSS
1pm • Jackson Community Church
Come for journey through ‘stations of the cross.’ Walk the stations, or meditate with Stations coloring pages - HOLY FRIDAY SERVICE
6:30pm • Bartlett Congregational Church.
Worship services organized by Clergy of the Eastern Slope and hosted at Bartlett Congregational Church.
SUN, APR 1: EASTER
- SUNRISE SERVICE
6:30am • Gazebo.
Gather outside at gazebo by Jackson Historical Society for worship & song, Return to Jackson Community Church for hot beverages and breakfast. - EASTER SERVICE
10:30am • Jackson Community Church.
Easter worship with “flowering of the cross.” - EGG HUNT
Follows worship service • Jackson Community Church.
Hunt for eggs on grounds of church. Hunt will take place outdoors if weather permits, inside if weather is inclement.