The children of the Hills Church need you . . .
They don’t need just a few of you. They don’t need many of you, or even most of you. They need all of you to be involved in providing Christian Education here at the Hills Church.
Each one of you has a gift to offer the children of our church. Each one of you can help foster in our children the knowledge that God loves them. Each one of you can help a child build connections with adults so that they experience the Hills Church as a caring, loving community. And each one of you can deepen your own faith experience by participating in the development of a child’s faith experience.
Teaching Church School is fun and rewarding. Ask the folks you know who help out in the Church School, and they will tell you how much their teaching assignments mean to them.
Teaching Church School is easy. Jim and the Christian Education Committee will:
teach you everything you need to know;
pair you with experienced teachers if you are new; and
cover for you if you need to miss a week.
As you enter the Sanctuary on Sunday, one of the children of the church will hand you a brightly colored pamphlet. Please take a moment to fill out the form on the back cover and leave it in the pew for the ushers to collect after the service.
If you have any questions, please see Cindy Worrall, Jack Morgan, or Chris Guiffre at the CE table at Community Hour after the service. Thank you for being a part of a wonderful team effort.
Join the Hills Church OUTREACH EFFORT!
The Outreach Committee is focusing its efforts in 2010 on expanding the number and types of service opportunities available to members, and making it easy to match volunteers with service projects. We’ve heard that members don’t know how to get involved in service, while project sponsors have struggled to find members interested in helping out. Through better communication and the use of the scheduling capability via the church’s own website, we aim to make this process more effective. On Easter Sunday, “pledge cards” were placed inside the orders of worship for you to indicate the types of service opportunities that interest you, and to state your commitment to participating in service activities through the Hills Church. This Sunday, April 11th, please bring your completed Outreach Pledge Cards to worship and put them in the collection plate. The Outreach Committee would like to thank the many who have already pledged.
PSALMS ALIVE GROUP
Next meeting: April 9th, 7:30-9:00 p.m. Read Book II: Psalms 42-72 (concluding doxology: Ps. 72:18-19). For more information, email Becky Williams at williams.becky@yahoo.com.
JACOB STREET TO PERFORM AT HOLY CROSS
On Sunday, April 11th, at 3:00 p.m. in the St. Joseph Memorial Chapel on the campus of Holy Cross College (Worcester), frequent Hills Church guest organist Jacob Street will give a free, hour-long recital as part of the college’s Chapel Artists Series. Jake will be performing the works of Bach, Buxtehude, Eben, Litaize, and Guilmant. This recital is free to the public. A reception will follow. Directions to Holy Cross can be found on the college’s website at www.holycross.edu.
Metrowest Interfaith Hospitality Network NEWS
The Metrowest Interfaith Hospitality Network (MIHN) is a cooperative, interfaith partnership of houses of worship who offer transitional shelter to families with children as they seek permanent housing. Volunteers are needed to provide meals and act as dinner or overnight hosts, as well as to set-up and break down the guest rooms. Training is required for host volunteers, and the next training will be Thursday, April 15th, at the Federated Church (118 Main Street in Ashland). The next MIHN hosting week at the Hills Church begins Sunday, May 9th. Interested volunteers may sign up online at www.mysignup.com. Enter laurie.otten@verizon.net in the space provided, and click on “WHCC” for hosting or cooking, or “set-up_tear-down” You may also sign up at Community Hour. Please contact Laurie Otten, at 617-965-5875, or laurie.otten@verizon.net.
CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER
The next Caring for the Caregiver meeting will be held on Thursday evening, April 15th, at 7:30 p.m. in Matt’s office. Bonnie Scott Jelinek will participate.
QUILTING: Small group ministry opportunity
The Hills Church Quilters meet periodically, sharing ideas and fellowship. Our next meeting will be Sunday, April 18th, from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the home of Kindy Blatchford. We create beautiful quilts for use when the Hills Church hosts guests from the MIHN. Our potholders have been a yearly hit at the Advent Bake Sale. We have other projects along the way. Crafters of all abilities are welcome. Please contact Bev St. Clair, 781-237-0027 (stclair@massmed.org) or Tia Pinney, 781-431-7208 (Tpinney@massaudubon.org) with any questions.
Bonnie in India
From June 7th to June 18th, Bonnie Scott Jelinek will travel to southwest India to experience firsthand our church’s mission to the Siddhis. While there, she will also spend several days touring Goa and Hubli, well-known coastal regions, to visit temples and other areas of interest. During this time there will be a documentary film made on the Hills Church outreach mission there. If you are interested in joining Bonnie on this trip, please email her at bonnie@hillschurch.org.
OUTREACH OPPORTUNITY…VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Serving one meal a month to residents of the Woods-Mullen Shelter in Boston has been a longstanding activity of the Hills Church Outreach Committee, whose members, coordinated by Jim Conlin, handle most of the cooking and serving duties. But, for one Saturday each month, we need from 2 to 4 additional volunteers (1 or 2 adults or youth in the afternoon to help prepare the food in our church kitchen, and 1 or 2 adults later to help transport the food and serve it). Anyone interested in giving something of themselves for the good of others should contact Jim Conlin, John Worral (Committee Chair), or call the church office at 781-235-4424.
They don’t need just a few of you. They don’t need many of you, or even most of you. They need all of you to be involved in providing Christian Education here at the Hills Church.
Each one of you has a gift to offer the children of our church. Each one of you can help foster in our children the knowledge that God loves them. Each one of you can help a child build connections with adults so that they experience the Hills Church as a caring, loving community. And each one of you can deepen your own faith experience by participating in the development of a child’s faith experience.
Teaching Church School is fun and rewarding. Ask the folks you know who help out in the Church School, and they will tell you how much their teaching assignments mean to them.
Teaching Church School is easy. Jim and the Christian Education Committee will:
teach you everything you need to know;
pair you with experienced teachers if you are new; and
cover for you if you need to miss a week.
As you enter the Sanctuary on Sunday, one of the children of the church will hand you a brightly colored pamphlet. Please take a moment to fill out the form on the back cover and leave it in the pew for the ushers to collect after the service.
If you have any questions, please see Cindy Worrall, Jack Morgan, or Chris Guiffre at the CE table at Community Hour after the service. Thank you for being a part of a wonderful team effort.
Join the Hills Church OUTREACH EFFORT!
The Outreach Committee is focusing its efforts in 2010 on expanding the number and types of service opportunities available to members, and making it easy to match volunteers with service projects. We’ve heard that members don’t know how to get involved in service, while project sponsors have struggled to find members interested in helping out. Through better communication and the use of the scheduling capability via the church’s own website, we aim to make this process more effective. On Easter Sunday, “pledge cards” were placed inside the orders of worship for you to indicate the types of service opportunities that interest you, and to state your commitment to participating in service activities through the Hills Church. This Sunday, April 11th, please bring your completed Outreach Pledge Cards to worship and put them in the collection plate. The Outreach Committee would like to thank the many who have already pledged.
PSALMS ALIVE GROUP
Next meeting: April 9th, 7:30-9:00 p.m. Read Book II: Psalms 42-72 (concluding doxology: Ps. 72:18-19). For more information, email Becky Williams at williams.becky@yahoo.com.
JACOB STREET TO PERFORM AT HOLY CROSS
On Sunday, April 11th, at 3:00 p.m. in the St. Joseph Memorial Chapel on the campus of Holy Cross College (Worcester), frequent Hills Church guest organist Jacob Street will give a free, hour-long recital as part of the college’s Chapel Artists Series. Jake will be performing the works of Bach, Buxtehude, Eben, Litaize, and Guilmant. This recital is free to the public. A reception will follow. Directions to Holy Cross can be found on the college’s website at www.holycross.edu.
Metrowest Interfaith Hospitality Network NEWS
The Metrowest Interfaith Hospitality Network (MIHN) is a cooperative, interfaith partnership of houses of worship who offer transitional shelter to families with children as they seek permanent housing. Volunteers are needed to provide meals and act as dinner or overnight hosts, as well as to set-up and break down the guest rooms. Training is required for host volunteers, and the next training will be Thursday, April 15th, at the Federated Church (118 Main Street in Ashland). The next MIHN hosting week at the Hills Church begins Sunday, May 9th. Interested volunteers may sign up online at www.mysignup.com. Enter laurie.otten@verizon.net in the space provided, and click on “WHCC” for hosting or cooking, or “set-up_tear-down” You may also sign up at Community Hour. Please contact Laurie Otten, at 617-965-5875, or laurie.otten@verizon.net.
CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER
The next Caring for the Caregiver meeting will be held on Thursday evening, April 15th, at 7:30 p.m. in Matt’s office. Bonnie Scott Jelinek will participate.
QUILTING: Small group ministry opportunity
The Hills Church Quilters meet periodically, sharing ideas and fellowship. Our next meeting will be Sunday, April 18th, from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the home of Kindy Blatchford. We create beautiful quilts for use when the Hills Church hosts guests from the MIHN. Our potholders have been a yearly hit at the Advent Bake Sale. We have other projects along the way. Crafters of all abilities are welcome. Please contact Bev St. Clair, 781-237-0027 (stclair@massmed.org) or Tia Pinney, 781-431-7208 (Tpinney@massaudubon.org) with any questions.
Bonnie in India
From June 7th to June 18th, Bonnie Scott Jelinek will travel to southwest India to experience firsthand our church’s mission to the Siddhis. While there, she will also spend several days touring Goa and Hubli, well-known coastal regions, to visit temples and other areas of interest. During this time there will be a documentary film made on the Hills Church outreach mission there. If you are interested in joining Bonnie on this trip, please email her at bonnie@hillschurch.org.
OUTREACH OPPORTUNITY…VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Serving one meal a month to residents of the Woods-Mullen Shelter in Boston has been a longstanding activity of the Hills Church Outreach Committee, whose members, coordinated by Jim Conlin, handle most of the cooking and serving duties. But, for one Saturday each month, we need from 2 to 4 additional volunteers (1 or 2 adults or youth in the afternoon to help prepare the food in our church kitchen, and 1 or 2 adults later to help transport the food and serve it). Anyone interested in giving something of themselves for the good of others should contact Jim Conlin, John Worral (Committee Chair), or call the church office at 781-235-4424.
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