Pilgrim Congregational Church, UCC

PILGRIM HAPPENINGS
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Pilgrim
Happenings
SUMMER 2016
June, July & August
‫טוֹב‬
You may not know this
about me, but I love the
Hebrew language. So let me
share with you the rich
meaning of one short word
that will give you plenty to
ponder during the long, sunny
summer months. It’s not
homework for the summer.
It’s a spiritual gift that will
help you feel closer to God
and this wonderful world.
The word that I would
like to share with you is ‫ט וֹ ב‬
(tov) which usually means
“good” like in “Mazel tov!”
which means “Good luck!”
However, there are other, less
known meanings of this short
but powerful word. It also
means “beautiful” and
“working the way it’s
supposed to.”
Where do we encounter
the word “tov” in our English
translation of the Hebrew
Bible? For example in
Genesis chapter 1 you come
across a sentence and its
variations several times: “And
God saw that it was good
(tov).” Imagine that at the end
of every day, however long
that was, God saw that the
stars, moon, sun, trees,
flowers, animals, and people
were not simply “good” but
also “beautiful.” Isn’t this
awesome? Isn’t our Bible full
of little surprises?
Writing this article did
change my mind about one
thing. I do want to give you
homework for the summer. ☺
Read the first chapter of the
Bible (Genesis 1, not the
Introduction) remembering to
think about the other
meanings of “good.” I know
you will look at the world
from a whole different
perspective. Meditate on the
love and care with which God
created our Universe, and
share that with others.
This summer many of
you will go on vacation and
see amazing natural beauty in
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New Hampshire, Maine, New
York and other more exotic
places. Even when you are not
able to attend church services
at Pilgrim Church UCC, your
spiritual home, I would like
you to remember that God’s
handiwork is everywhere you
look. There is a sermon
overflowing with goodness as
far as the eye can see. God’s
creation is not only good, but
also beautiful.
You are a part of God’s
creation. You and I are God’s
creatures. You and I are
wonderfully made, for we
were born out of God’s love.
We are not only good, but also
beautiful children of the
Living God.
Have a lot of fun in
nature this summer. At the
same time, when you are not
away, come to church. I want
you to have fun, but
hopefully, you won’t be on
vacation every week of the
summer. Enjoy the summer,
but don’t forget about your
friends at Pilgrim Church
UCC, where every Sunday is
an opportunity to get closer to
God and grow spiritually.
Have a “tov” summer!
Rev. Melinda
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Happenings at Pilgrim
June 5th
10AM – New Member Joining
Praise ‘N’ Harmony Singing
June 12th
10AM – Worship & Communion
11:30AM – History of Stained
Glass Windows
June 20th
Summer Church Office Hours
start. Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday 9AM – 12 Noon
June 26th
11:30AM – Church Picnic
July 10th
10AM – Worship & Communion
July 15th
Church night with the Silver
Knights at Holman Stadium
July 31st
11:30AM – Ice Cream Social
August 7th
10AM – Worship & Communion
August 8th-12th
Church Office Closed
August 24th
Church Potluck Picnic & Concert
at Greeley Park
New Member Joining
Pilgrim Church
On Sunday, June 5th we will be
having 8 new people joining our
Pilgrim Church family. They will be:
Marylyn & A.J. Todd
A.J. is an aspiring mechanical
engineer and Marylyn is an
accountant aspiring to be a C.P.A.
They have 2 daughters, Rylee &
Kylie. Both were baptized here at
Pilgrim.
Anna & Steven Ribaudo
Steven is a teacher and Anna is an
artist. Anna went to Kindergarten
here at Little Pilgrim School. They
have a daughter, Olivia.
Angela & Jay Stoecker
Love to travel and spending time
with family. They have a daughter,
Sage.
Phyllis Cline
Comes to us from the Community
Church of Hudson. Has sang in the
church choir and served as secretary
over the years. Enjoys spending
time with family & friends.
Raelene McLain
Comes to us from the Community
Church of Hudson. She enjoys
volunteering, sports, reading &
spending time with family.
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July 15th – Silver Knights
baseball game at Holman
Stadium in Nashua with Friday
night fireworks – no sign up
sheet, just come if you like
baseball and come if you don’t
like baseball, it’s a fun evening
with friends
LITTLE PILGRIM SCHOOL
We wish all of our friends at
Pilgrim
Congregational
Church a great summer. We
are looking forward to
coming back and seeing
you all in September!
Carol Stone and the Staff
and Families of Little Pilgrim
Preschool
WORLD CARE
CORNER
The month of May we collected
Toilet Paper for the Nashua
Soup Kitchen.
For the summer months we will
be collecting Bath Soap &
Shampoo
As always, thank you all for your
amazing generosity!!
COMMUNITY LIFE
The first GAAB (Games And A
Bite) Session, on May 1st, was a
smashing
success.
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members and friends shared a
great soup lunch and stayed for
games. We had 2 tables of
board games and cards, and
the Telestrations table, whose
players were positively rowdy!
Watch for the next GAAB
Session in the fall and join the
fun!
On May 15th, Rev. Melinda
blessed 4 motorcycles, 2
bicycles and one training bike at
our 2nd Annual Blessing of the
Bikes. We loved having the
bicycles participate!
Thanks to all who attended and
all who helped organize both
events.
Upcoming events:
June 12th – Worship, Cook out
and Open House at Horton
Center – visit the White
Mountains in the spring and get
a taste of the Horton Center
experience
June 26th – Church Picnic after
Worship, watch for details and
sign-up sheets in Fellowship
Hall
July 31st – Ice Cream Social at
Coffee Hour
August 24th – Potluck Picnic
Supper and the Granite
Statesmen concert at Greeley
Park – watch for more details.
“Secret Angels”
The Church has received many
generous donations this year, in
addition to the everyday
generosity of time, talent and
dollars that everyone already
gives. These unexpected extras
make it possible for the church
to keep from using Endowment
Funds, which helps boost the
Endowment’s
earning
potential.
$6,300 Cash donation
general funds use
for
$50 cash donation for the
Valentine’s Day Dance expenses
Church business cards
Cleaning Supplies
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Bring a bucket, bring a barrel,
bring a friend and load up your
motorized
conveyance
of
choice with compost.
Coffee Air pots
Flowers/Plants
Website expenses
Software upgrade expenses
Located just behind the church,
beside the LPS playground.
See our sales representatives
for details.
Time donated to clean the
Church
Thank you to everyone in the
congregation who tirelessly
donate their time, talents and
$$, every little bit (and big)
counts!
If you know of a “secret angel”
and would like to see the time,
talent or dollar amount
mentioned in the newsletter,
please email someone from the
OpStew team.
Compost:
A mixture consisting largely of
decayed organic matter used
for fertilizing and improving the
soil in a garden.
Is your garden tired? Is your soil
weak, thin and worn out?
Are
your
flowers
and
vegetables not as pretty or
productive as they used to be?
Do you want rosier roses, dillier
dahlias,
more
petulant
petunias?
Pledges
Remember, just because its
summer doesn’t mean the
bills go on vacation!
Please remember to send in
your pledges. You can mail
them to:
Pilgrim Church
4 Watson Street
Nashua, NH 03064
Doesn’t your family deserve
peppier
peppers,
zipper
zucchinis,
and
squishier
squashes?
Then just add some Holy Moldy
Compost to your soil and watch
your garden grow. That’s right,
folks, here at Pilgrim Church we
have accumulated a high
quality pile of decomposed
grass clippings and now you too
can see the difference that
adding decaying matter to your
family’s plot can make.
And best of all – it FREE.
That’s right folks, I said FREE.
And remember, just because
it’s rotten doesn’t mean it’s bad.
Holy Moldy Compost, the
official compost of the Garden
of Eden.
Holy Moldy is not a registered
anything. Any claims made by
gardeners regarding the size of
their tomatoes have not been
verified by the Department of
Agriculture and are probably an
exaggeration or an outright lie.
This compost has not been
certified so it cannot be labeled
organic, but let’s face it, it’s
rotting vegetation so how can it
not be organic. We don’t deliver
so don’t even bother to ask.
Shoveling and handling not
included.
Written by Dan Pare’
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Our newest scouts enjoyed ice
cream after the ride.
Our bike trip on Martha's Vineyard
at the end of April vacation was a
fantastic trip! We had 13 adults
and 12 scouts attend.
Overall, the weather was perfect
for biking on Saturday. We had
three bike groups and each group
did either 20 or 40 miles. Our
newest scouts did real well with
the camping, cooking and they all
thoroughly
enjoyed
themselves!
Thank you to
Paul Guertin for coordinating the
trip and to all our drivers, leaders
and trailer tower (Dan Richardson)
May was a busy month for both
Pack 19 and Troop 19. Our Pack
meeting was held on 5/5/16. Both
the Pack and Troop supported the
church cleanup day on 5/7/16.
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On May 13 to May 15, Troop 19
held a skills training camp out at
Hidden Valley scout camp to teach
the new scouts woods tools, fire
building, cooking and hiking skills
and introduce the new scouts to
our council summer camp.
Soaring Like An Eagle
Article By: Adam
Brownstein
On 5/14/16, the Webelos den
from Pack 19 hiked Mines Falls
Park in Nashua. The church is
welcome to attend the Packs end
of year BBQ at Camp Ducet in
Nashua on June 11 @ 3 PM and
stay through our closing camp fire.
Everyone in the church is invited
on June 5 at 4:00 PM in the Pilgrim
Church sanctuary, to attend the
Eagle Scout Court of Honor for
Spencer Richardson and Adam
Brownstein. Spencer Richardson’s
Eagle Scout project report was
included in the April Scouting
Corner within Pilgrim Happenings.
An overview of Adam’s Eagle
project is given below:
The rank of Eagle Scout is the
highest rank one can achieve in
the Boy Scouts of America, and
a prestigious award at that.
Since the Boy Scouts of
America started in 1910 only
5% of boys who have joined a
Boy Scout Troop has earned
the rank of Eagle Scout. To
achieve this rank you have to
first earn the ranks of Scout,
Tenderfoot, Second Class, First
Class, Star, and Life, earn at
least 21 merit badges (13
required and 8 alternates), and
show leadership through a
service project of some sorts, all
before their 18th Birthday. Many
think of an Eagle Scout Service
Project as being construction or
landscaping related, but Adam
Brownstein of Troop 19 had a
different idea... create Video
Public Service Messages.
The process of getting this all
done was a long one for Adam
and it began with getting it
approved. Upon getting proper
approval from various people,
including an Eagle Scout
committee, which ultimately
approved the project, Adam
was off in his race against time
to try to complete his project. To
help do so, he marked what
needed to happen and when by
going off of the Three Stages of
Production;
Pre-Production,
(which consists of everything
that needs to happen before
filming such as making a shot
sheet, securing equipment,
getting approval, getting actors.
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making a filming schedule,
writing scripts, etc.) Production
(which is the stage that filming
transpires,)
and
PostProduction, (which is the stage
where editing and re-shoots
occur.) After weeks of hard
work, over 160 service hours,
and many memories Adam
finished his project, got the rest
of his requirements done,
turned in his paper-work and
went before the Eagle Scout
Board of Review, where he was
approved of the highest rank.
About the whole process this is
what he had to say;
“It was certainly a stressful timeframe of trying to get this done,
but overall it was a fun time, and
it was amazing to get help from
my friends, family, classmates,
fellow scouters, scout leaders,
and
teachers’/faculty
who
helped me get this done. I
couldn’t have done this without
them and their support and
help. Throughout the process I
certainly adapted and improved
my leadership skills and Video
Production Skills. In order to not
be doing all of this work myself,
I worked together with a couple
people to write the scripts and
“plot points” of said Public
Service
Announcements,
scheduled when and where to
film, recruited/asked around for
help, trained people on how to
use the video production
equipment such as the lighting
equipment (for the videos that
needed lights indoors), audio
equipment, and camera, and
used people as actors to star in
said
Public
Service
Announcements,
where
I
served as the director.
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Overall, the feedback I got from
the cast and crew members
who worked on the project was
they had a lot of fun, and with a
few problem solving skills here
and there I think the project was
a success. I hope that these
videos can be used as teaching
implements for classes such as
the Health Classes for many
years to come, as the topic
matters can be mixed easily into
the curriculum. For those of you
who helped me out, you know
who you are and I thank you a
ton for it, it’s a really long list of
people so I can’t name
everyone but it’s just really
humbling and an honor for you
to be in on this experience, and
for some people you may not
know that you helped the
project in some way but you’d
be surprised what deed,
whether big or small, helped me
through this. Boy Scouting is a
great and strong program to
have your son in, and you
certainly gain a lot from your
experiences within it, and I can
say, especially with Troop 19,
Boy Scouting is something that
gives you memories, lessons,
and knowledge that’ll last a
lifetime.”
A way to get involved and
support Adam and his project is
by watching Adam’s Eagle
Scout PSA Videos’ by going to
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XKRrSeiFT_U&list=UUrD
p8dm2nVDoFBaXUciPf-NA
or by going onto YouTube and
going on the channel labeled
Adam’s Eagle Scout Project.
You are cordially invited to an
Eagle Court of Honor to
recognize
Spencer Richardson
and
Adam Brownstein
For their achievement of the
Boy Scouts of America rank of
Eagle Scout
The Court of Honor will be held at
Pilgrim Church, 4 Watson Street,
Nashua, NH
On Sunday, June 5th at 4PM
Our 11th Annual
Yard Sale
Was a success! The Yard
Sale raised $480.00 and
the Thrift Shop did $475.
Thank you to everyone
who helped!
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PRAYER LIST
Charlie Alfred – Friend of Mark
Maris
Bob Barber
Marjorie Bryant at Aynsley Place
Erin – Friend of McClarren Family
Nancy Grant
Joan Hodge – Sister of Nancy
Grant
Edith Holmes – At Courville
Vivian LaBrie – Friend of Ellie
Louis – Bev Childress’ son
Mark L’Ecuyer – Peggy’s son
Alice McClellan – Lisa Lucius’
Mom
Luke McGarr – Grand-nephew of
Rowena Carr
Michelle Morency – Friend of Gail
Miller
Neil – Renae’s son
Deedee Pugh
Phyllis Powers – Friends of Kim
Fournier
Paul Rucker
John Ruhl – Friend of Gail Miller
Sarah
John Thayer – Nephew of Nancy
Grant
Lillian Worcester – Rev. Linda
Hey’s mother
Keep in your prayers our people
who are in the military
August 5th – Sam Church
August 7th – Barbara Willis
June 1st – Bob Barber
June 2nd – Dan Pare’
June 5th – Patrick Carr
June 9th – Lorna DeLuca
Emily Willis
June 11th – Margaret Barber
June 18th – Tyler Vartabedian
Lee Bowley
August 13th – lee Carvalho
August 16th – Lee Ann Carvalho
August 19th – Ron Carr
August 20th – Roz Therrien
August 22nd – Kelly Carr
August 28th – Katie Carr
July 1st – Liz Michael
July 6th – Kathy Crouse
July 9th – Tivvi Pare’
July 11th Scott Hafferkamp
July
15th
– Betty Collishaw
July
17th
– Carlos Muniz
July 25th – Nancy Grant
July 28th – Bev Childress
Clyde Collishaw
If you need firewood and are
willing to cut your own, contact
Lee Carvalho at 603-598-8136.
Carolyn Phinney
June 30th – Norm Josephson
July 22nd – Pat Rovetti
NEED WOOD?
August 12th – Joan Prue
June 7th – Betty & Clyde Collishaw
July 31st – Julie & Brian
Hafferkamp
August 5th – Kathy & Kerry
Crouse
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The Picture Corner
Kasey Crouse, Lee & Lee Ann
Carvalho at the Nashua Choral
Society May Concert here at
Pilgrim Church
Wedding of Billy Perry, Jr. &
Alexandria Estrade married on
Saturday, May 21st.
Tivvi Pare’, Kathy Crouse & Dan
Pare’ who are part of the Nashua
Choral Society and did their May
concert here at Pilgrim Church on
Saturday, May 21st
Nashua Choral Society
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4 Watson Street
Nashua, New Hampshire
03064
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