In our ONLINE Church this Sunday, June 28, 2020 The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost 10:00 a.m. ONLINE Service Prelude Music begins at 9:50 a.m. Message by Rev Paige Besse-Rankin Radical Welcome Matthew 10: 40-42 Children's Message by Pastor Paige OUR ONLINE Ministry of Music The First Parish Choir: The Gospel Ship Traditional Spiritual; arr Gwyneth Walker (This selection is from the November 2019 DARLA Community Thanksgiving Service) Please click this link to join the webinar service online: https://zoom.us/j/825890693 OR: phone in using this number: 1 929 205 6099. When asked, use our Webinar ID: 825 890 693. In Steeple Chat this week: *Sunday Worship *Sunday School on summer break *Thanks Teachers *Noontime Devotions *Pastor Paige's Corner *Our Prayer List *Racial Justice *Food Needs *Zoom Book Club Our Sunday School is on break for
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In our ONLINE Church this Sunday,June 28, 2020
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
10:00 a.m.ONLINE Service
Prelude Music begins at 9:50 a.m.
Message byRev Paige Besse-Rankin
Radical WelcomeMatthew 10: 40-42
Children's Message byPastor Paige
OUR ONLINE Ministry of Music
The First Parish Choir:
The Gospel ShipTraditional Spiritual; arr Gwyneth Walker
(This selection is from the November 2019 DARLA CommunityThanksgiving Service)
Please click this link to join the webinar serviceonline: https://zoom.us/j/825890693
OR: phone in using this number: 1 929 205 6099. When asked, use our Webinar ID: 825 890 693.
In Steeple Chatthis week:
*Sunday Worship*Sunday School
on summer break*Thanks Teachers
*Noontime Devotions*Pastor Paige's
Corner*Our Prayer List*Racial Justice
*Food Needs*Zoom Book Club Our Sunday School is on break for
Plans are in process for summerZoom opportunities for ourchildren and youth.
Stay tuned for details...
Heartfelt appreciation to these folks who cared for andnurtured our children during the past Sunday School year:
The Gould Family, Nan Nutt, Bill Leslie, Lesley Hocking,Allison Friend-Gray, Beth Setear, Lauren Carey, Amy Bennington,Cindy Chase, Emily Grondin, Carol Seely, Sara Stewart.
Lunch Time Devotions:Mondays, Wednesdays, andThursdays at 12:00 noonWe offer devotions on Mondays,Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12-12:30. This is open for everyone on adrop in basis. Come when you feellike it! What will you find when youjoin us? We spend a few momentsgreeting each other and catching up,we hear a scripture reading and abrief reflection on that reading. Then
we listen to a song. We share people and situations we want to lift up in prayerand finally we pray together. Please join us Mondays, Wednesdays, and/orThursdays and ground your day in prayer. You can find us here:Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/92409379536?pwd=RUxZaFFBK3JOUWplRTRLaWFBaVRkQT09Dial: 1 929 205 6099 US (New York)Meeting ID: 924 0937 9536Password: 835028
Rev Paige’s Corner: Being NimbleIn church leadership conversations over the
last decade, it has been expressedemphatically that churches that thrive inthis new century need to be nimble. I thinkwhat is meant by this is able to respond tochanging situations, try new things and letgo of things that are no longer working, andable to make adjustments fairlyeasily. While we want to stay rooted in ourtraditions and grounded in a faith traditionthat is thousands of years old, at the same
time, we are aware that to go beyond surviving to thriving, the churchneeds to be responsive to the needs around us and to the movement ofthe Holy Spirit.
In 27 years of ministry, though, I have to confess that never have I feltsuch a need for being adaptive and nimble than the time we are livingthrough! We have made radical changes in how we are church togetherand week by week we keep on needing to adapt and adjust. As joyful aswe are to be able be partially re-opened, it requires of us a who new setof changes and adjustments. If there is now more than 1 person in thebuilding at a time, how are we distancing? Where are the masks in thebuilding? Who has access and who doesn’t?
Nowhere has this been more true than in our worshipexperience. From the technology end, Christian Ed Sunday went aboutas well as any services we have had since moving online. And I jokedwith staff, now we are going to change it all up again! Our new AV live-streaming equipment is in the building and we have spent a lot of timethis week working to get it set up and learning how to use it. If all goeswell, we will be using it for the first time on Sunday. (Be patient withus!) That will mean you will be able to hear the organ and the videoquality will be better. Ultimately, it will mean that we will be able tosimultaneously offer worship in-person and online. The constant change and adaption is getting tiring. And yet I think it isa good skill for us to have as a church. I believe it will make us moreeffective in bringing God’s love and grace into the world in ways thatare tangible to those who are struggling.
Blessings, Pastor Paige
Our Prayer List is published weekly as a link inSteeple Chat.
If you have prayer concerns that should beincluded in our weekly listings, please contact thechurch office at 742-5664 or by email at:[email protected].
For the latest Prayer List, click here:Prayer List.
Team for Racial Justice and HealingNewsOur newly forming team will meet againthis Sunday, June 28, at 1 pm viazoom. You can join us here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87017944206?pwd=MjY1ZkxlSmtPTS9zODhtWmR4dHpWQT09Meeting ID: 870 1794 4206Password: 785400We have also set up a new Basecamp area where we are sharing news, events,and resources.
Our hope at this meeting is to identify 2 first steps – one building our ownunderstanding and one acting for change. New comers welcome to join theteam.
Zoom Book Club
Zoom Book Club discussion on "Becoming" byMichelle Obama Thursday July 2nd from 5-6:30pm.
Ingrid will send out the Zoom link the day of thediscussion. All are welcome to join us!
Church Office Closed:The Church Office will be closed on Friday, July 3 for theIndependence Day holiday.
An Update From the Seacoast InterfaithSanctuary Coalition (SISC)Access to AttorneysDid you know… if you are in detention, you do nothave a right to free legal representation?Nationally only about 14% of people in detentionhave attorneys. This is critical becauseimmigrants with representation are 10 times morelikely to prevail. Want to learn more and find outhow you can help? Contact your SISC VolunteerCoordinator Joyce Tugel [email protected] orread
donating food for our Foodministries. We are sograteful! Keep up the good work!
We have shopping lists now. Wecontinue to send food on to CAPeach week, but we are also nowcollecting food for Grab and Gowhich begin in full mode this week! They packed 400 bags for distribution. Theyare in particular need of mayo (plastic bottles), Mac & Cheese, and bakedbeans. So if you are shopping, perhaps pick those up and drop them off in thedonation bins. It would be much appreciated.
YOUR OFFERINGS For those who are able,we strongly inviteongoing sharing ofpledges andofferings. Offeringsmay be made fromthrough the church
webpage here: Donate; or by mail, or through electronic giving.
An additional option for giving to your churchis through the QR Code box reproduced here.
To use: Hold your IPhone or IPad camera up tothe QR Code box and a link should appear onyour screen. Click on that link which will takeyou to the FPC donate area.
ONLINE live service, there two ways toview the service later:
An edited video of the service is postedon (1) the FPC Facebook page, and (2)in Basecamp Worship Recordings. (toaccess Basecamp, see the details justbelow)
HOWEVER, the Zoom video of the service is not directly transferable withoutbeing first being downloaded, then edited, and then uploaded. Please know thateach of these three video file transfers take considerable time, so the re-playversions will not be available until late Sunday.
VIDEO Recordings ofONLINE Sunday ServicesDuring this time of live-streamed services,we record the video (and audio) of ourSunday online services. These recordingsare now available as mp4 video files throughour Basecamp software program.
If you do not already have access toBasecamp, you may register by filling in theregistration form posted on the Breezeprogram. Here is the link to sign-up:
https://fpcdover.breezechms.com/form/55811a
Find it at the First Thrift Shop The Thrift Shop is CLOSED untilfurther notice. Please hold off on any Thrift Shop donations.
First Parish is a Stephen Ministry Church that provides weekly individualand confidential spiritual care for those in need.Please contact one of thefollowing to get connected: Judy Edwards, 603-978-4789 or Dave Dickson, 603-781-9791.
