Mainstreeter Weekly Blast July 26, 2024

View this email in your browser New in this Issue: Nursery Hours for the Summer Click Here to Donate Today to MSUMC Watch Live Click Here for Sunday's Bulletin Our deepeset condolences go out to the Pederzani family for the loss of Nancy (Pederzani) Sinha (Paul and Sue's sister).  Services were held in Connecticut for Nancy.  Obituary link is below. Obituary - Nancy Sinha Thanks to our wonderful food pantry crew, we served 25 families or individuals last Sunday during our Third Sunday Food Pantry at the Nashua Soup Kitchen.  Needs at the pantry this week include cereal, pasta ,dried beans, tuna, and baby wipes.  You are welcome to leave the items in the bin in the lobby or deliver them right to the Soup Kitchen. If you order from Amazon or Walmart, add Nashua Soup Kitchen, 2 Quincy Street, Nashua NH 03060 as a delivery address. And if you'd rather have the food pantry team do the shopping, you can make a gift to the food pantry fund.  The next Third Sunday Pantry will be August 18. Let Phyllis Appler know if you want to help.  Thank you! United Women in Faith (UMW) Craft Workshop - No Experience Required! Fri. Aug. 9 and Sat. Aug. 10 Church Vestry from 9:30-1:00 both days Thinking ahead for our Fall Fair coming up, Sat. Nov. 9, we are offering a two-day craft workshop in August to make some items to sell.  You may attend one or both days, drop in as your schedule allows.  Bring a snack or your lunch if staying all day.  Our main project will be making pressed flower pictures.  They practically design themselves!  If you can dab glue with a toothpick you've got it made. We have all the supplies needed, including frames. If you prefer a project that requires scissors and a glue gun you might want to bring those.  There may be a few pinecone critters we haven't  made in the past or some unmade treasure that may surface when Mavis and Kathy organize our storage room.  Or feel free to bring something you are working on at home and just join us for the fellowship. If you have questions or need a ride, please contact Pam Breniser at 603-566-2632 (call or text) or by email at pjbreniser@gmail.com Click Here to Donate Today to MSUMC Church SUMMER office hours:   Mon - Weds - Thurs - Fri from 9:00 - 12:00 Closed on Tuesdays. Copyright (C) 2024 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

Mainstreeter Weekly Blast July 18, 2024

View this email in your browser New in this Issue: Nursery Hours for the Summer Office Summer Hours noted at bottom of email Click Here to Donate Today to MSUMC Watch Live Our ABC series is meant to break open familiar Bible stories in new ways–the way the poetic language of the scriptures often offers its gifts. "Surely goodness and mercy pursue me." "If I take the wings of the morning and fly to the outermost edge of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me."  "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Jesus recognized good poetic language also. Mary Oliver says a poem is a confession of faith. "Whatever skill or beauty it has, it contains something beyond language devices, and it has a purpose other than itself. . . . for poems are not words after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry." (A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding Writing Poetry) Anna Carter Florence says "the world is waiting for us to be poets–or use words as poets do–and speak our faith against the tired cliches of this world. There are plenty of defeated words out there, plenty of defensive words, plenty of killing words, laced with bombs. But there are other words too. And they make us think twice and turn around, and repent and believe, and begin again." (A is for Alabaster) [This Sunday, the Green Team takes over worship to give witness to their retreat experience in Maine with other congregations seeking climate justice. They've chosen "H" is for heart to guide us in putting into practice the radical intent of being a Green Church.] Blessings, Rev Kelly Click Here for Sunday's Bulletin Click Here to Donate Today to MSUMC Church SUMMER office hours:   Mon - Weds - Thurs - Fri from 9:00 - 12:00 Closed on Tuesdays. Copyright (C) 2024 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

Mainstreeter Weekly Blast July 11, 2024

View this email in your browser New in this Issue: Nursery Hours for the Summer Office Summer Hours noted at bottom of email Click Here to Donate Today to MSUMC Watch Live If you were creating an alphabet of our city, what would you highlight? N is for Nashua sure but what about M? Main Street, Mine Falls Park or maybe murals (we have lots of those). "D" might be for Dodgers in honor of the historic roles of Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe in integrating the 1946 Nashua Dodgers at Holman Stadium. "G" could be for Greely Park and "W" for our recently adopted Welcoming City status. The Worship Team had a fun time developing an alphabet for Methodism and for MainStreet UMC. "E" might be for the elevator that makes our building accessible.  Now, if you had to come up with an alphabet for the Bible . . .  Do you go with concepts like "G" is for grace and "H" is for Hope, or with places like "B" is for Bethlehem or people "Q" is for Quirinius (that was the subject of Wednesdays at 1:00 meditative moment.)  The letters for Sunday worship this summer are D, I, H, O, F, N, V, L, B and F.  Can you guess where we're headed? "D" is for deliverance– that was last Sunday with the story of Moses being delivered from the reeds by two young daughters. This Sunday, we jump to a New Testament story about a disciple of Jesus. Blessings, Rev Kelly Click Here for Sunday's Bulletin The Campbell's brought Main Street with them to Freeport, Maine and the L.L. Bean flagship store.  They also went berry picking at Brookdale Farms!  Yum! Click Here to Donate Today to MSUMC Church office hours:   Mon - Weds - Thurs - Fri from 9:00 - 2:00 Closed on Tuesdays. Copyright (C) 2024 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

Mainstreeter Weekly Blast July 4, 2024

Happy Independence Day!

View this email in your browser New in this Issue: Sunday worship begins at 9:30 This Sunday! Office Summer Hours noted at bottom of email Click Here to Donate Today to MSUMC Watch Live At Annual Conference several people repeated the mantra, "It's a good time to be United Methodist." It makes sense to be celebrate our denomination after the harmful language against LGBTQ folks was removed from our policy at General Conference and all our efforts at Annual Conference to repair past harms and live into a new way of church. I would add it's a good time to be a member of Main Street UMC. We're glad to welcome Donna Johnson this past Sunday. The week before, the glitter blessing was incredibly well received as we sought to assure folks of their fabulous selves. "May the beauty you are shine as bright as the stars." Last week, our Vacation Bible Camp adventure with God taught us about our ability to shine and trust in our faith. Check the newsletter for great photos. And our Green Team returned from the Climate Justice Retreat in Maine inspired and ready for action. Stay tuned. The African fabric we bought at General Conference has been turned into new paraments by Sara Chambers (THANKS). It was an effort by Pam B, Jodi, Phyllis A and Pastor Kelly to find fabric at the International Market in Charlotte. The Market itself was an effort by the Love Your Neighbor Coalition (LYNC), Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN), and international delegates collaborating on ways to support one another in ministry. Anyone who supports RMN through a monthly donation (like me), is part of the efforts to build relationships across national borders. Those recurring Wellspring gifts make such ongoing international relationships possible. The fabric chosen speaks to MSUMC's history resettling refugees from the African continent and the ongoing Swahili-language congregation on Sunday afternoon. Additionally, the design is reminiscent of the "trinity" planting of corn, bean and squash together, an Indigenous combination that reminds us of the family of creation meant to nurture each other. Robin Wall Kimmerer, in her book Braiding Sweetgrass, asks us to consider what it would mean if we believe the notion that the earth loves us. "Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond." It is indeed a good time to be a part of MSUMC when all these intersecting realities come together to call us on. Join us for the alphabet soup series this summer. Worship moves to 9:30 beginning THIS SUNDAY! Blessings, Rev Kelly Click Here for Sunday's Bulletin Paxton Key Entry If you are a member that has been given permissions for the new key entry system and are still having issues using the system, please reach out to the Office during office hours and we will reset your credentials.  Please test the next time you are at or near the church and we will get everyone working promptly.  Members will have access every day of the week from 8 AM to 8 PM for the front and connector ramp doors.  Access will be denied outside these hours.  Other users who need 24/7 access have been given those permissions and have been contacted as to having access. Tips: if you are having trouble and have a case on your phone with a magnet in it, please remove the case and try again.  If still not working, contact the Office. We appreciate your patience during this transition. Thank you! Click Here to Donate Today to MSUMC Church office hours:   Mon - Weds - Thurs - Fri from 9:00 - 2:00 Closed on Tuesdays. Copyright (C) 2024 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