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Waitsfield United Church of Christ ...........4334 Main Street (Rte 100)
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Rev Nancy McHugh 496-9511
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God is still speaking...........
Spring Foliage SALE THIS WEEKEND June 14 and 15 9:00-3:00 Come help on Friday, Saturday, Sunday Come shop sale and bake items on Saturday and Sunday.
VBS BEACH PARTY Theme this year
Vacation Bible School July 28 to 31 6:00 to 8:30 pm registration below
Regular Sunday Worship Hour 9:00 a.m. now for summer (till Labor Day)
Children leave part way through the service for Sunday School downstairs. Most of the worship service is broadcast on MRTV public access TV Channel 44 at 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
Full calendar on tab at left.
Prayer group now meets Tuesday Mornings 7:30 a.m. Contact Dorothy Peck Rev McHugh Dorothy returned to Waitsfield for home rehab on April 14th.
Pathfinders meets 7:00 a.m. Wednesday mornings at Three Mountain Cafe. ALL are welcome. Currently discussing Unbinding the Gospel.
The UNITER newsletter is mailed, and also emailed. Please write WaitsfieldChurch@aol.com to be added to the email list. Costs us nothing- so pile on. Recent issues on web site- see menu at left.
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Pastor Nancy McHugh Nancy was called to the Waitsfield UCC in September, 2007. She was born into an American Baptist minister's home. Nancy has done graduate and post graduate work in Theology and Marital and Family Therapy. After nearly 10 years as a Marital and Family therapist in the Philadelphia area, she was called to serve a church in Vermont as a licensed lay minister. She completed the ordination requirements in the NJ association for the United Church of Christ and was called to pastor a church in Cedar Grove NJ. During her ministry there, she was elected to serve two terms as Co-Chair on the NJ Association Commission for Pre-Ordination. She is married to Mike McHugh. Mike retired as a Sergeant Major after 27 years in the United States Marine Corps. Their blended family of five children includes Matthew , Erik , Jeremiah, Benjamin, and Katie.
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Beach Party Vacation Bible School.
July 28-31 Mon-Thurs evenings 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Come Christian surfers! Fun and adventure in the waves. Once again the Warren and Waitsfield Churches are combining energy for a great creative kids vacation bible school. Do not miss this! All welcome. Info on registration form (Word document) below.
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The children sponsored a Pajama Sunday, and served coffee hour. The choir had mostly wild slippers. But the adults had just as many jammies showing as the kids.
In February, 2005, we dissolved the Ministries in the By-Laws and we re-organized temporarily into six Theme Ministries that report to the Church Council. They have worked so well, we renewed the structure at the 2006 and 2007 Annual Meetings. See Page on Background for details.
ON-GOING PROGRAMS
Church School at the WUCC is usually every Sunday
during the regular worship service. Children join us for the first 15-20 minutes of worship, including the pastor's "Time with Children". Then they go to classes downstairs.
Coffee hour follows worship at 11:00 or so. (10:00 or so in summer) All are welcome to worship and coffee hour.
Communion is celebrated the first Sunday of each month. Everyone is welcome to participate.
Moderator Vince Gauthier
Clerk Peggy Stokes
Church Organist Dorothy Peck
Choir Director Betsy Livingston
o Watch Waitsfield United Church Services
on local cable access channel 44, MRVTV
Tues, Thurs, Saturdays 9:00 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.
o Email the church at WaitsfieldChurch@aol.com
The Uniter is published as a monthly newsletter, and can be sent by mail or email. Please add your name to our mailing list. We want you to feel welcome here.
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Search Committe bears fruit: Thanks to Susan Roy, Jean Joslin, Drew Cunningham, Vince Gauthier, and John Stokes, shown with newly-called Rev Nancy McHugh on June 17th, 2007. The Third Congregational Church of Waitsfield (above left) was built in 1873. Some ceiling beams were recycled from the Second Congregational Church located across the Mad River on Mill Hill. The First Congregational Church was up on Waitsfield Common. The clocks belong to the Town of Waitsfield. The steeple bell is from the old Methodist Church. Sugarbush Ski Resort on Mt. Ellen behind.
(photo credits: church building: Phil Bobrow, others by Ann Day, Deb Burbank, and others)
This web-site is "maintained" by Rick Rayfield. Contact him with suggestions, submissions, corrections to rayfieldvt@aol.com or waitsfieldchurch@aol.com
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Do you see the
GOD IS STILL SPEAKING banner in front of the church now and then? Several people have been too busy to think about what it means but they have asked. It means that God is not dead, she/he is still communicating with us. It means that God's message is not finished, locked up, carved in stone, or otherwise frozen. Sure there are some things God has said that are darn permanent- like loving each other and God, like not killing, stealing etc. It means though that we can be in conversation with God and each other.
And the other phrase- Never put a period where God has placed a comma. is similar. A period marks the end of something. A comma means, we are continuing the conversation. That's what the big comma is for. WE are still talking.
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