With Thanks!

 Tuesday, October 27, 2020

It’s like daylight savings on steroids! Wednesday on Tuesday. Well, I’ll be out of town tomorrow, so here we go. A week to go! Be sure to join us Sunday for an all-church sharing on Zoom to offer comfort, company and hope. Details to come.

In the meantime, make calls, breathe deep, keep in touch and VOTE!  Love, Steve

I Shall Not Be Moved
Nick Moss & The Flip Tops
Scripture and Prayer

Sunday October 24, 2020

Dear WCCC, Tales from the work week: reflections on time, changes, promises -- and getting out of our own way. Stay Sane. Stay Safe. Stay Strong. VOTE! WCCC PO box 148 Cummington 01026

Scripture From Deuteronomy 6
Story
Mother Earth
Memphis Slim
October Song
Nan Clark
Renew Vows and Poem Three Friends
'Til We Meet Again
Elizabeth Cotten

Wednesday October 21, 2020

Dear WCCC - Let's look back with gratitude for the Sunday service and with thanks to Tom, Nerissa and Katryna, Penny, Jack and the deacons. It was good for my soul  --  and so was a Sunday off. Thanks to all who make this church possible. On the horizon:

  • Sunday, October 25: Church-In-A-Box

  • Sunday, November 1: Some form of live, virtual (I know, I know. Me, too) service with friends far and near.

  • Tuesday, NOVEMBER 3, ELECTION DAY

  • Sunday, November 8: in-person service at the church. We'll need to be together. Details to be announced.

Love, Steve

01 Prayers Wednesday October 21
Honky Tonk
Muddy Waters band- probably Paul Oscher on harp - maybe more than you wanted to know
03 Moses and Shepherd
Rumi

 Sunday, October 18, 2020

Prelude: "Mortal Soul"
Jack Swindlehurst
Scripture: "A Myth of Devotion"
Louise Gluck - read by Nerissa Nields
Sermon
Nerissa Nields
We're Walking in the Wilderness
sung by Penny Schultz
Prayers
Tom Nields-Duffy
Back at the Fruit Tree
The Nields

 Wednesday October 14

Good Wednesday evening,

The rains are over, bringing down many of the leaves in Cummington. But the sun is shining and  -- is it on the wind or under the wind? -- I don't know, but you can hear some distant music coming.

Upcoming services:

  • Lay Sunday, October 18th

  • November 1, something special, Zoomed and/or streamed.

  • November 8th will be in-person, outdoors or in. We need to be together.

Peace. love and late season greens, Steve

" Drought Dreams Of Rain" Somewhere in the Worthington hills, is a woman bent over her ukulele
Patty Kimura.
Wednesday Prayers
Farther Along
Soul Stirrers and Sam Cooke

Sunday, October 11, 2020
Outside Together

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Welcome
Stephen Philbrick

Due to technical distractions, the rest of the recording is nowhere to be found. The service remains in our hearts.

 
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Wednesday October 7, 2020

Dear WCCC,

Rainy October evening, but we've got warmer days ahead. Join us Sunday for our next outdoor service at 11:30. See earlier email. This evening we have true scripture, and two musicians, better known in other styles, who make church happen.

Please join us Sunday. Childcare at the Parish House.

Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You
Lurrie Bell
02 Wednesday Prayers 10-07-2020
Just As I Am
Willie Nelson
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Sunday, October 4, 2020

We have the harsh truth of the prophet, the sweetness of song prayers of the heart and a poem.01) Scripture from Galatians, Hosea and Psalm 12602) Prayers03) The Soul Stirrers with Sam Cooke "Peace In The Valley."04) Poem. You have heard the beginning of this in a sermon last month, but it just wouldn't let me go. So I kept going down that road. The poem is a meditation on Ed McCurdy's song "Last Night I Dreamed The Strangest Dream", a song we sing with Penny.05) Penny Schultz singing Victor Hugo's poem "Be Like A Bird"

Scripture
Galatians, Hosea and Psalm 126
Prayers
Poem
Stephen Philbrick
Be Like A Bird
by Victor Hugo - sung by Penny Schultz