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Pub Theology meets tonight, at 7 pm via ZOOM

Knitting4Peace meets Friday at 10 am via ZOOM

Sunday Worship is at the 10:30 am, streaming live on HUCC’s YouTube Channel HERE

Sunday Fellowship Time is at 11:30 am after worship via ZOOM

HUCC Chat and Check In is Monday at 7 pm via ZOOM

Bulletins for all services can be found by clicking HERE

Office is CLOSED until further notice. Email and phone ARE being monitored.

This Week... Special Points of Interest This Sunday in Worship...

This Sunday, September 20, is the 16th

Sunday after Pentecost – and our Rally Day

Cookout “do-over.” May the sun be shining!

Our worship will begin at 10:30 am, and our

text will be Matthew 20: 1-16, which will be

read by Susan Selvek. John Wolfolk is again

our guest organist, and Robin Bower will be

back next week. You can find worship online

at:https://www.youtube.com/TheHenriettaUCC

Please note that Zoom Sunday School has been postponed

to September 27, to give our families a chance to attend the

cookout after worship this Sunday. Check next week's Happenings

for the Zoom links.

Don’t forget to have your communion ready! We will again

celebrate the Lord’s Supper together on Sunday, so be sure and

gather your elements, be they grape juice and bread, coffee and

doughnut, or whatever you have in your home. The table Jesus set

is so broad and vast that it extends from the Sanctuary to your

home and beyond.

87 down, 13 to go ……..can you help us reach our goal? We

want to again thank all of you for faithfully participating in the offer-

ing. We are so grateful for folks sending their pledges and Dollar A

Day gifts in, as well as to those submitting them online. To make

your gift online, just go to henriettaucc.org and click on the “Online

Donation” button on the right-hand side. Dollar A Day has “sold”

roughly 87 of the 100 “shares” ($366) needed to reach the goal. If

you have yet to “purchase a share” and are able to do so, please

consider this gift in supporting God’s work from this congregation.

If you have prayer requests or announcements that need to be

made, please email them to the church by 6pm Saturday,

9/19/2020.

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Sunday Fellowship Time Link

After worship Sunday, be sure to join in on the ZOOM Fellowship time immediately following.

Zoom Fellowship Hour will happen right after worship. Andrea has put the information to get to

Fellowship Hour elsewhere in this week’s issue of Happenings, and an email with a link will come to

you on Sunday morning as well. Special note --- I have put “schedule sends” into the office email

account so reminders of our Fellowship Hour, as well as Chat gatherings on Zoom, should still come

to you at appropriate times. If they do not (gmail has let us down before), you can always consult the

newsletter and Happenings.

Pastor Martha will be leading worship and handling all pastoral responsibilities while I am away

the next two weeks. I will be leaving for vacation after worship today, and will return to Henrietta late

in the day on October 5. When I get back, I look forward to leading our worship on October 11 – the

Pet Blessing! Another article about that will be in the October newsletter.

We again thank Joan Barnes for working so hard to organize our safe,

masked, and distanced Rally Day Cookout – particular as the weather has

changed our schedule. Thank you also to those of you who RSVP’d. The

burgers are here just waiting to be grilled by our standout chef Randy Kenyon.

If you RSVP’d, you can plan to arrive at the church about 12 noon.

Thanks and blessings,

Pastor Jason

HUCC Happenings

Nerves on Edge in Your Home? With all the painful news these days, plus social distancing

and at-home schooling, many of us are experiencing high levels

of stress.

Delaney Rustin, maker of the film "Screenagers," shares

some healthy ways to manage the anxiety in her Tech-Talk-

Tuesdays newsletter. One great ideas is to set up a "Hidden

Brownie Points" board in your home, where each family member

can name the unnoticed things they do to promote a peaceful household. Think: "I took out the

trash today!" or "Made my bed without being asked!"

Check out the article here for this and other ways to anchor yourself and your family during these

uncertain times. Whether your house is full of kids, or you're just feeling anxious on your own,

giving yourself and others credit for each positive step can be a big stress buster!

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HUCC Coffee Connection Offerings

For all you coffee-lovers out

there, we have more Coffee

Connection coffee available at

church in the entry hall. Choices

are: Nicaraguan regular ($10);

Guatemalan regular ($11); and

Mayan decaf ($11.50). All are one

pound bags.

If you are interested in purchas-

ing coffee, it will be available on

Sunday at the picnic - or you can

contact Liz Pixley and make

arrangements

(334-0977 or eypixley@gmail.com).

Virtual Sunday School Resumes September 27

Note the date change to accommodate the rescheduled Rally Day Picnic.

Zoom links will be in next week’s Happenings.

Here’s the plan:

10:00 am Pre-School & Kindergarten with Jody Peterson & Mary Anne Meyer

10:30 am Worship on YouTube

12 noon Elementary (grades 1-5) with Cindy Muck, Susan Selvek & John

Loughner

1:00 pm Youth (grades 6-12) with Su Grimes and Kim Griffin

We are still working out details for the elementary group, and may meet on alternate weeks; de-

tails will be sent to parents via email. As the school year gets underway and families adjust to their

new routines, we can adapt these plans as needed—just let us know how things are going for you!

October Newsletter Deadline is end of the day

on September 23. Andrea will be typesetting at

home and working in the office on September 29

to publish.

Food Cupboard Needs Items

Churches have been given permission to bring

donations directly to the food cupboard in the town park

Monday mornings from nine to noon. Suggested items

include Mac n Cheese, various soups, Ramen noodles,

canned meats, tuna helper, mashed potatoes mix,

scalloped potatoes, small containers of dish soap, toilet

paper, small containers of coffee and herbal tea.

Thank you for helping.

Roast Pork Take-Out Dinner

Only one more volunteer position open! I still need one more person to help

with cleanup; probably won't be a lengthy job. Please let me know if you are

willing to help in this way.

Also, some people have been asking about advance ticket sales. We have

no way of selling advance tickets nor taking reservations -- this is a first-come,

first-served event. We will be able to pack 200 dinners. Judy Hawk, 486-4668

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Did You Know . . . .

It is amazing to look at the beautiful sunset this week and see the sun a bright

orange as it sets. Then I realized that the vibrant color is from the smoke of the fires

happening out west! We are all connected, and the UCC churches out west are

dealing with the tragedies of these many fires. Check out the article below and see

what is happening with our church family in the western states. You can read the

whole article at : www.ucc.org

West Coast fire evacuation take toll on UCC church-es, camps and their communities As wind-whipped wildfires continue to take lives and destroy forests, homes and

businesses on the West Coast of the United States, United Church of Christ

congregations are in stages ranging from evacuation to recovery to post-traumatic

stress syndrome.

In the two hardest-hit UCC Conferences – Central Pacific and Northern California-

Nevada – several congregations and church camps await word on the fate of their

buildings. Others, evacuated days or weeks ago, are ministering to families and

communities that escaped damage or are returning to inspect it. Daytime skies

range from smoky gray to eerie orange to black as night.

“It feels like the whole coast’s on fire,” said Pastor Kimberly Williams of Grace

Community UCC in North Fork, Calif., which got evacuation orders on Sept. 6, her

first official Sunday as pastor. In affected areas, “it’s terrifying,” she said.

“Everybody is looking out their windows with this look of horror, but then realizing,

OK, this is the reality, we’ve got to keep

on going.”

Amid it all, pastors say they value how

colleagues are checking in on each

other, offering mutual support, advice

and prayer – a response borne of years

of relationship-building within each

Conference and with the wider church.

For the whole article, click HERE

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Hats off to Skye and Jack

Many thanks to Jack & Skye Barnes, who represented

HUCC at the Plastic Lakes Project Event on August 29! Along

with folks from First Congregational Church of Spencerport,

UCC, and Mountain Rise UCC, participants picked up 85

pounds of garbage from the beach in Ontario Beach State

Park. Plastic bags, plastic bottles, shoes, clothes, cigar

tips....there was a lot of junk there! They also catalogued each

item, so that the data can be used by scientists to figure out

the sources of the plastic that ends up in the lake and work to

reduce the amount. This is crucial not only for the aquatic life

in the Great Lakes, but also for folks who rely on the lakes for

their drinking water. Kudos to everyone who helped!

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Fundraising News!!! Bottle and Can Returns

We have established fundraising accounts at two bottle redemption centers. These will be long term accounts, so keep collecting and returning those bottles and cans!

Collect returnable bottles/cans

Return to either of the centers listed below. Inform them that these are for the account of:

Henrietta United Church of Christ Instead of giving you cash, they’ll record the amount on our account

and send us a check when we wish.

Upstate Bottle Return Center (6 cents per bottle/can for fundraisers) Corner of E. Henrietta/Calkins Rd. Next to Beers of the World

Spread the word to family and friends as well!

An Easy HUCC Fundraising Option Please be sure to share this opportunity with family and friends and on your social media. We are

hoping to solicit funds from outside the church

We have an AmazonSmile account, so go to smile.amazon.com to make your purchase, select Henrietta United Church of Christ, Henrietta NY (there is one in Ohio, too!) and a portion of your purchase will be given to HUCC. When making your purchase, go directly to HUCC’s unique charity link...https://smile.amazon.com/ch/22-2507455

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