Youth & Family Activities: Advent & Christmas

• 9am – Advent Workshop: Hope, Peace, Love & Joy
  
  Make cookie dough ornaments for your house and for the church! Plus second chance to create an Advent Log (church provides candles, greens, etc. … if you didn’t get the chance to make a log last week)
  Plus: Take home a “25 Days of Kindness” Advent Calendars: At the church we’re using a different sort of countdown for you … empty bags plus an Advent Calendar with suggested acts of kindness, as well as a wish-list from local nonprofit organizations. Each day, you can choose to perform an act of kindness or to collect and drop an item from the wish lists into the bag. Above is the list which Sunday’s group of students brainstormed as possible acts of kindness to offer this month, as we count down to Christmas!
• 10:30am – Worship  & Communion

• 9am – Christmas Pageant Rehearsal
  
  Come if you’re willing to be a narrator or wear a costume and be a “character” in the nativity story, includes “popup” choir practice)
  10:30am  – Worship (guest music: Minnie Brown & guest cellist)

• 9am – Christmas Pageant Prep
  Join us for breakfast and get ready for the pageant: costumes & prep
• 10:30am – Christmas Pageant
  
  (with intergenerational “popup” choir)
  Noon – Caroling (going to house to house in Jackson; all ages welcome)

• 7pm – Worship (come light a candle and give space to loss & sorrow in the midst of this holiday season)

• 7pm – Celebration of Light & Darkness (interfaith reflections on holy darkness and sacred light)

• 10:30am  – Carol-sing Service

• 5pm – Christmas Candlelight Service
• 10pm – Christmas Candlelight Service

• 10:30am – Bells, Stories & Pajamas

We have several children and young people from Chikanga Church in Mutare, Zimbabwe who are looking for pen pals.

Would you be interested as a family or individual in wriiting to a friend in Zimbabwe? We can match you with someone … let us know!

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YOUTH events in 2018:
HOLD the DATES!New England
Youth Environmental Justice Summit 
(Sponsored by the NH Conference United Church of Christ)

Saturday, April 7, 2018
9:00 am – 4:00 pm  Brookside Congregational Church, Manchester, NH

Keynote Speakers:

• Rev. Dr. Jim Antal, Massachusetts Conference Minister, UCC
• Rev. Dr. Brooks Berndt, UCC Minister for Environmental Justice

Afternoon Sessions include:

• Pam Arifian, Director, UCC
  Northeast Environmental Justice Center
• Marla Marcum, Founder,
  Climate Disobedience Center
• John Ungerleider, Professor,
  School of International Training
• Rev. Eric Jackson, Pastor,
  Brookside Congregational Church, UCC

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Eastern Regional Youth Event
July 19-22, 2018
California University of PA
California, Pennsylvania
(grades 7 through 12 )

NH Youth, mark your calendars for next summer!  Join us as we worship, play, pray, learn, serve, sing and dream at the 2018 Eastern Regional Youth Event.

Stay up-to-date on event details through the event website or contact Ann Desrochers.