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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...........
Regular Sunday Worship Hour
9:00 a.m. starting June 14th through August
Children leave part way through the service for Sunday School downstairs. 10:00 a.m. during School year Please join us.
SPRING FOLIAGE SALE- Bigger than Ever June 13 9:00 to 3:00 June 14 10:00 to 3:00 Drop-off Weds and Thurs Please contribute to the pile of goods & goodies. Please come shop, bring your friends and enemies.
Crop Walk Sunday June 14th leave WUCC 12:00 Three mile Walk in Waterbury 1:00p.m. Support water access and food for all world-wide. Call Nancy 496-9511
Broadcast 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 meets Tuesday Mornings 7:30 a.m.
Contact Dorothy Peck
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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"Waitsfield United Church of Christ, welcomes all people: No matter who you are, or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here! " Official statement of the Church Council Webmaster's note of conscience: The United Church of Christ has two recognized sacraments- baptism and communion. At the Waitsfield United Church of Christ both sacraments are open to all people- members and visitors, young and old, with no restrictions of any kind. As Christ would welcome anyone at his table, so do we gladly. Civil unions were allowed in our sanctuary by Church Council policy shortly after they became legal in Vermont and after a congregation-wide discussion. We have members and regular friends from a number of religious, ethnic, political, and sexual orientations. The WUCC has not been through the formal process of declaring itself "Open and Affirming". We hope everyone feels welcome at the WUCC.
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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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