Stroll our beautiful town and join us for this special yearly celebration in Peterborough NH!
Each year since 1994, the churches of Peterborough have joined together the Saturday before Thanksgiving in hosting a town-wide craft fair. Each church puts their own flair and uniqueness to the day and people from all around the area spend the day strolling from church to church starting their Christmas shopping and enjoying the day.
Join us for the Annual Peterborough NH Holiday Stroll November 19th 2016, 9am – 2pm. Visit seven craft fairs at once for this special celebration, including the following and more: bake sale, bell ringers, book sale, cookie walk, fine crafts, face painting, gently used items, handmade gifts, jewelry, live music, luncheon, plants, wreaths, and visit with Santa!
Fair Trade items are back! Choose beautiful Fair Trade gifts that change lives. Every purchase at our UMCOR-Serrv sale helps artisans and farmers create better lives for their family. Closer to home, the proceeds from this sale will benefit our local Food Pantry.
“The family of God is born from above, A special bond drawn together by love; Knowing and caring, feeling and sharing, Living together in the family of God.”
We are grateful for a lovely homecoming celebration on Sunday, September 18, 2016.
Many joined us, some were missed.
Come visit next Sunday at 10 am and catch up!
Lots of love to Susan Lindquist, who spearheaded all of our efforts for Homecoming, and everyone who helped to make this a special day.
Please enjoy this video from the Bethlehem Peace Light ecumenical worship service on 12/13/15, led by Pastor Lourey Savick.
Genesis 1:1-5, 14-18, 27-31
God creates light: Genesis 1:1-5
God creates time & memory through separate lights: Genesis 1:14-18
God creates us: Genesis 1:27-31
Psalm 27: 1-8, 11-14
Second Reading: Isaiah 42: 1-9
Gospel Reading: John 8:12-18
Please enjoy this video from our worship service on 12/13/15, by Pastor Lourey Savick titled Breath of Heaven, featuring our Christmas cantata.
*Prayers of the people have been removed.
“Shout and sing for joy, city of Zion, because the Holy One of Israel is great among you.” Isaiah 12:6
Please enjoy this video from our worship service on 12/06/15, by Pastor Lourey Savick titled Already, but STILL not yet.
*Prayers of the people have been removed.
New members ceremony 12:30
Witness by Susan Lindquist 23:45
“This is my prayer: That your love may become even more and more rich with knowledge and all kinds of insight. I pray this so that you will be able to decide what really matters and so you will be sincere and blameless on the day of Christ.” Philippians 1:9,10
Please enjoy this video from our worship service on 11/29/15, by Pastor Lourey Savick titled Get the Anxiety Gone!.
*Prayers of the people have been removed.
“Lead me in your truth–teach it to me–because you are the God who saves me.” Psalm 25:5
Don’t have time to watch an hour long worship service? Get your head in a good place for the holidays with this three minute video with an excerpt from our service on 11/22/15, by Pastor Lourey Savick, titled Feast of Gratitude.
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Sometimes Advent draws our attention to all that is not as it should be…
It’s important for us to stop and reflect, and call to mind all the ways, even in our messy busy groping lives, even in this world that’s such a hodge podge, that hasn’t come together yet in that wholeness God has promised, there are so many things to be thankful for.
Some of them are simple things, and complicated things, and we’re not exactly sure how we feel about it things. We can say, thank you God for moving in this moment.
It’s not always easy to do, sometimes it’s like trying to fall asleep when you haven’t gotten everything done that you wanted to get done. Your mind keeps racing around the thing that you have to get from the grocery store tomorrow.
So let’s take some time. Now let’s be really intentional about giving thanks.
Let’s start with the easy things, the one word things. What are we thankful for?
Think about a time when something that you planned to go well, did. Some time when Murphy’s Law did not apply. What are we thankful for, in that frame?
Let’s think about a time or a person that gave a gift to us when we really had no reason to expect it. Something extra. It doesn’t have to be a big thing. What are we thankful for?
Let’s take it another level. Where when something was going wrong, was it ok? When something was going wrong, was it ok somehow?
The final level, I want to invite you to think about is the one that the scripture Mark read this morning is about. And that is in those times of crisis, where you had no logical basis or percentage analysis to assure you that something good would happen, when it was hard, when you had to wait for a long time, that faithfulness finally arrived. What are we thankful for?
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Peterborough United Methodist Church, Peterborough NH
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