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Mainstreeter Blast July 29, 2020

Message from the Pastor The latest option to help us all stay connected in this time of physical distancing is our "Virtual Coffee Hour" starting right after Sunday Worship (approximately 10:30am).    Stop by the Vestry and catch up with your friends (bring your own coffee and snacks).    The virtual rooms are via Google Meet and don't require Facebook at all, and may be attended by phone, by app on iPhone/iPad/Android/or by Computer.   Access information is below.   If you need some hints at using Google Meet there are some instructions and screen shots at https://www.mainstreet-umc.org/activities/coffee-hour that might help you get acclimated. Vestry:  https://meet.google.com/qmq-zxbb-sye  or by phone: +1 617-675-4444 PIN: ?415 456 786 8524# The church now has an instagram account you can follow! And you can post things using our hashtags to help us form community. #HeartofNashua -- for general MSUMC post #BeguiledbyBeauty -- for photos related to the current worship series -- and the worship team are pulling from our entries for Sunday slides #BetheSplash -- VBS kindness related photos While it's cool to use a hashtag with all lowercase letters, disability advocates ask us to use capital letters to make hashtags more accessible and welcoming to all. Copyright © 2020 Mainstreet United Methodist Church, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: Mainstreet United Methodist Church PO Box 1517 Nashua, NH 03061-1517 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Mainstreeter Blast July 23, 2020

From the Pastor - Staying together while apart Greetings Beloved Mainstreeters: You can help others feel like they're "in the know" this summer by contributing to the Sunday morning worship experience. Even online we can form community by streaming worship together and sharing in the live-stream comments or joining the virtual fellowship time. I've noticed how precious and excited your comments are in passing the peace and prayer concerns.  And you can also share photos/videos of when you were surprised by beauty during the week (send them to Debra or Pastor Kelly to post). And we're collecting Haikus for this series--poems of compassion and contemplation, beauty and noticing. A haiku is a short poem from the Japanese tradition consisting of three phrases with 5, 7, 5 patterns of syllables. For our contemplative series, Beguiled by Beauty, designed to help us deepen the well of spiritual resources we have to better cope with the suffering of these days, here's one: Welcome to wonder here to cultivate compassion beauty surprises Or based on your incredible feedback from our first service last Sunday we might say: Space to breath deeply meaningful worship needed grateful for beauty  Many of the images used on Sunday morning come from our own people. You can help by using #BeguiledbyBeauty on your Instragram posts (see related article below). We have a game of I-Spy going on the altar thanks to the visual efforts of Pam and children's time requires props located at home each week (if you didn't get the email detailing the items parents need to prep, please contact Debra). In the sermon I mentioned Valarie Kaur's book, See No Stranger. Join me in reading this  "urgent manifesto and a dramatic memoir of awakening" by a daughter of Sikh farmers in California. A perfect compliment to the worship series, this book calls us to "see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You are part of me I do not yet know. Starting from that place of wonder, the world begins to change: It is a practice that can transform a relationship, a community, a culture, even a nation." We'll discuss together, Wednesday evening, September 2. Because of Kaur's powerful storytelling and the way she integrates the songs of her faith, the audible version, read by the author, is especially compelling. In this increasingly polarized nation during an election year, the skills of encountering others with curiosity and compassion are especially needed. Peace, Rev. Kelly Order of Worship - Sunday July 26, 2020   VIRTUAL COFFEE HOUR  The latest option to help us all stay connected in this time of physical distancing is our "Virtual Coffee Hour" starting right after Sunday Worship (approximately 11:30am).     We have three "rooms" available each week.    Stop by the Vestry and catch up with your friends (bring your own coffee and snacks).     If it seems too crowded in the Vestry, and you can't get in a word in edgewise, move over to the Lobby or the Kitchen where it is usually quieter.    If you are a Facebook user, you can coordinate where to meet-up with others via the chat before/after Worship, or by indicating that you are "Going" to one of the three Facebook events each week.    The actual rooms are via Google Meet and don't require Facebook at all, and may be attended by phone, by app on iPhone/iPad/Android/or by Computer.   Access information is below.   If you need some hints at using Google Meet there are some instructions and screen shots at https://www.mainstreet-umc.org/activities/coffee-hour that might help you get acclimated. Vestry:  https://meet.google.com/qmq-zxbb-sye or by phone: +1 617-675-4444 PIN: ?415 456 786 8524#   Announcements - Sunday July 26, 2020 Copyright © 2020 Mainstreet United Methodist Church, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: Mainstreet United Methodist Church PO Box 1517 Nashua, NH 03061-1517 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.