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Attention Sunday
School Parents:
Please send your child
in wearing appropriate attire to work outside on
May 6 and
May 13. The Sunday School will be cleaning the Outdoor Chapel in
preparation for summer services. Also, if you have a rake handy for your child
to use, please bring that in as well. We are monitoring the weather, and if it
is not a good day to be outside, we have some indoor projects to work
on.
-The Christian Education
Team
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Attention: All Committees
Annual Reports are now Due!!
Committee Chairpersons, please submit your
Annual Program Reports no later than May 7th, so we have time
to compile them all together for the
Annual Program Meeting on May 20th.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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Mother/Teen Tea
This
Sunday, May 6 from 5 to 6:30 pm
We will be honoring our
moms (and grandmoms too!) with a very special Faith4Life Tea.
We will serve light
refreshments and have some fun games for all to play.
Both sides get your
thinking caps on!
The fun will run from 5:00
PM - 6:30 PM here at our church.
Youth and their moms and grandmoms are invited to attend.
If you
have any questions, please contact Dana at (508) 718-7783.
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At 11:30 am, this Sunday, May 6th and on
every Communion Sunday (the first Sunday of each month), Pastor Jean will be
available in the sanctuary to wrap you in a prayer shawl, hear your private
prayers, anoint you with oil, and lay hands on you.
If you are in need of any kind of physical,
emotional, or spiritual healing, or wish to pray for someone who
is...
If you are need of reconciliation with
someone or wish to make a confession to God...
If you need to share your concerns, your
fears, your troubles with someone else...
If you simply need to know that God cares...
please come.
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WHO'S
GRADUATING?
We hope to
recognize 2012 graduates during worship on Sunday, June
3rd. Please let Pastor Jean or Nancy Sullivan
know if your graduate will be attending worship that day, so that we may
recognize him or her individually during the worship service.
We would also like to list all 2012 graduates (high school, college, graduate school) in our church
family in the JuneLink, so please
contact the church office as soon as possible with information.
Phone: 781-344-2371
Email:
Thanks!
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the Stoughton Food Pantry requires our help!
The Stoughton Food Pantry continues to need our help, and there are many options for contributing
food items. You can leave your donations in our church lobby
when you come to worship. Or make a delivery on Tuesday mornings directly to the
food pantry, located behind the Methodist Church on Seaver Street. Or drop
non-perishable food items at the Stoughton Public Library. Or call Stoughton resident Peg Carbone (508-889-1385) who will pick up items every Thursday, or send her an
email at peg.carbone@comcast.net.
Please remember our neighbors who are less fortunate.
Our community
service will be greatly appreciated by those in need!
Thank you for your
help!
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New (or not so new) to our church?
Have questions?
Looking for answers?
If you are new to the First Congregational
Church of Stoughton - and even if you're not - and you have questions about our
church, ministries, programs or activities; if you would like more information
about our denomination, the United Church of Christ; if you are curious about
our worship service, tradition, customs, and way of doing things; or you have
questions about God... Jesus... faith... or life that you've always wanted to
ask but were afraid to... then please don't hesitate to speak to Pastor Jean -
she would be happy to make a time to sit down with you. You can also call her at
781-344-2395 or email her at revjeanlenk@uccstoughton.org.
Also, if you are interested in joining our church and/or want to have
your child baptized and were unable to make our recent Covenant Classes, please
speak to Jean to set up a time to discuss the holy promises and covenantal
commitments involved in taking these important steps.
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On Sunday morning when you
are sitting in worship and see the beautiful altar flowers, have you ever
thought you would like to sponsor them? Here is how you can! Located on the
board outside of Fellowship Hall is a poster made by Alyssa McGillicuddy!
Attached to the poster are request forms to fill out and payment envelopes. If
there is any conflict with the date you request, Nancy or Gale will contact
you. The cost to sponsor a standard arrangement is $25.00. If you would like to
make a special request, you can do so by contacting our church florist, Nancy
Sullivan at 781-254-6261. For special orders we ask for at least a weeks notice
and an additional cost may be incurred. Checks can be made out to Nancy
Sullivan. Once you have completed your form and enclosed your check you can
leave it in the church office or in the offering plate. If you have any
questions you can contact Nancy Sullivan at the Church Office at 781-344-2371 or
the number above or Gale DeBeneditto @781-344-4728.
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OUR
PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY
NEEDS
YOUR SUPPORT!
Our Prayer Shawl Ministry
will celebrate its 7-year
anniversary in May! During
that time, we have given
almost 300
shawls to people who were ill,
suffering, or otherwise needing
to be wrapped in God's love. We thank you for your continued support of our
Prayer Shawl Ministry over these past seven years.
And now this special
ministry needs your help more than ever, for age, illness, and the passage of
time has reduced the number of faithful knitters down to just a few. Here are
some ways you can help:
1) Become a knitter or recruit one! If you would like to try your hand at making a shawl, we would be
happy to show you how! If you have a friend or neighbor who might interested,
please encourage them to become part of this ministry! (Shawls can also be
crocheted.)
2) Join our Wednesday morning group or start your own! We would love you to join our Prayer Shawl
group on Wednesdays from 10 to 11:30 am in the Library. Knitting together
creates a special bond among the participants. However, we know that this time is not convenient for
everyone. Maybe you would like to start a group that meets at your home at a
time that works for you? And of course you can always knit alone as your
schedule allows!
3)Support this ministry
financially. We always welcome
monetary donations toward yarn ($18 per shawl).
If you have any questions, just ask me. Thank you for your
support.
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A Special Announcement to
All ladies of Our Church Family:
In 1978 the ladies of the UCC
churches of New England joined together in a weekend meeting of fun, worship,
and learning. This time came to be called CELBRATION I. Now in the works are
plans for CELEBRATION IX for March 28-30, 2014. You see, these celebrations have
taken place every four years since then. Most of the ladies who have come, come
back time after time. The last one expanded to include the young ladies of the
UCC, and girls 12 and over were invited with special activities and plans for
them. There were some women there of three generations of the same family
worshiping and learning together. The theme for Celebration IX will be
"Together" based on Psalm 131:1.
So mark your calendar now,
start you Celebrations fund and plan to be a part of this in Portland Maine in
2014.
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First Congregational Church
of Stoughton
United Church of
Christ
An
Open and Affirming Congregation
Our Vision
We are called
together
to embrace God's
transformation
of our lives and our
world
by becoming and
serving
as Christ's
disciples.
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