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Blessed for School! UMW Supplies Prepare our Community Children for Success

8/28/2019

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Thanks to our church's United Methodist Women, our church was able to provide important supplies to the students and teachers beginning a new school year in our South Meriden neighborhood at Hanover Elementary School. Paper and pencils still matter, but so do tissues and hand sanitizer to keep colds from spreading, as well as healthy snacks that teachers can give to truly hungry students. Pastor John blessed these supplies at our altar before bringing them to the school, and blessed students and families walking to school. Let's pray that they all have a successful and exciting new year of learning!
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Dinner and a Movie is on us! Sat, Sep 21st

8/27/2019

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Enjoy a block party for our friends in South Meriden, in thanks for just being you! Come to our front lawn on September 21st (feillowship hall if rain) and have dinner on us, as a sign of our care for you and our community. Food will be served picnic style 5-7PM, and there will be lively music.

Then, at 7PM, we invite people of all ages to enjoy a film in our church, with our great sound system and comfy seating. Kids can sprawl out wherever they're comfortable. Vote for a movie to see, here online, or at the picnic. As good suggestions come in, we'll change the poll! We're excited to be launching this new event, and we hope that you'll spread the word to your neighbors. See you then!

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Selling Out! Our Strawberry Shortcake Festival Was Great

6/13/2019

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We are sell-outs - of strawberry shortcakes, that is!
Our annual Strawberry Shortcake Festival was a huge success, with hundreds of very tasty cups going out the door to people in our community. What a huge boost of love going out, with deep gratitude for people supporting our church.
​We thank all of our hard-working volunteers who made and delivered hundreds of strawberry shortcakes last Saturday - and we thank the people of Meriden for buying them! Hope you enjoyed them. 
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TAG, BAKE AND PLANT SALE FOR MISSION - SAT MAY 11th 9AM-3PM

5/10/2019

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​Come to our tag sale, plant sale, and baked goods sale this Saturday, May 11th, on our front lawn, 9AM to 3PM! All proceeds to benefit our missions of compassion and hope locally, nationally, and internationally.

​Don't forget our vendor craft fair just down the street at ARC center, same time. See you soon at 145 Main Street in Meriden!
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Who? The Risen Jesus! Apr 21st Easter Sunday and Good Friday at South Meriden Trinity UMC

4/21/2019

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Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed! We welcomed many familiar and new faces to our church on Sunday, to celebrate the rising of Jesus Christ, our Lord and savior, on Easter morning! What a joy to have everyone together for joy-filled music with old and new rhythms, wonderful prayers, Holy Communion and an uplifting message from Pastor John Blossom. Our thanks to Jeanne King for her service as the Easter Bunny this year, both on Saturday for our pancake breakfast, and before worship in our fellowship hall as children scrambled for treats in our Easter egg hunt.

​Thanks also to everyone who contributed to our powerful Good Friday service, with readings, and scene-setting. We are a church who loves to grow in discipleship! Easter and Good Friday podcasts are below, texts for Easter Sunday's message is here and below, for and for Good Friday's reflections here and below. Celebrate hope! Celebrate love! Celebrate the risen Jesus!
OUR CHARGE TO KEEP
​Who is our Savior? The risen Jesus! Where is our Savior? In our hearts, in God’s world, and in heaven, offering God’s saving love to us all. May we see Christ with us, in us, and for us, now, and forever!! Alleluia! Amen!
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Help to Restore our South Meriden Kiosk - Saturday, May 4th

4/12/2019

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Our church is so blessed to be in a community that tries so hard to be a real community. The information kiosk at the corner of Main Street and Camp Street, just a few hundred feet from our church, has helped people to advertise and celebrate community events - including may of our events!

In gratitude for being a part of our great community, we plan to lead the refurbishment of this kiosk as a part of the Mayor's Cleanup Day on Saturday, May 4th. Volunteers are invited to join other city-wide volunteers at noon for a free lunch at City Hall.

Please come to the kiosk at 9AM, ready to scrape, paint, and replace damaged wood. Donations of materials and lending of proper tools appreciated - please bring your own work gloves! For more information, please contact Pastor John.
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Interfaith Prayer Service for the Christchurch, New Zealand  Innocents [PODCAST}

3/17/2019

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We invited our sisters and brothers of faith from our local mosques and synagogue to join us in a time of reflection and prayer to honor the innocents slain as they worshiped in the mosques of Christchurch, New Zealand - the latest in a string of global assaults on people of faith worshiping peacefully. An attack on any people of faith is an attack on all people of faith, and we stand in solidarity with all people of faith with love in our hearts for all who seek the peace and blessings of a loving LORD. A podcast recording of our service with interfaith prayers and scripture readings are below. Please continue in times of prayer and reflection to help the world to surrender to the living shield of faith, not to the hard and lifeless shield of warring hearts.
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Prayer Service for Healing, Peace, and Justice, Sunday Mar 17th, Noon

3/15/2019

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At our church, we take our faith seriously, and the love of a saving God seriously. We offer it to everyone in our community. And so, at the time of this tragic murder of 49 worshipers at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, we invite all people, and all faith leaders, to a short but important time of prayer and reflection this Sunday, March 19th, in our church sanctuary. There will be no sermons, only prayers, some visual and sound reflections, and some words of scripture that can offer us unity, healing, and hope at this time. May we all pray for the healing of the world that God have given to us in love, and for the healing of all hearts and bodies and souls who have been wounded so deeply by this tragedy.
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It's Me, God - A City-Wide Ash Wednesday Celebration

3/8/2019

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Our church distributed ashes to the Christian faithful across Meriden, and at our 7PM Ash Wednesday service. We touched young and old across from Hanover Elementary School on a bitterly cold morning, then on West Main Street in front of Meriden's police station, then at Tom's Place on Main Street, and all afternoon in our sanctuary. We touched many new friends in Christ, and we pray for them all to be touched by the living God in this season of Lent. Our 7PM service included a moving message by Pastor John, and beautiful music from Laurie Brandl, our Music Director. Service podcast with sermon and prayer below, and sermon text here and below the podcast. Have a blessed journey in Lent towards Easter sunlight!
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Side Hill Rd Fire Donations - Sat Feb 23rd, 9AM-12 Noon

2/20/2019

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Meriden Record-Journal Coverage
Recently, a tragic fire has made a South Meriden home uninhabitable, as a son of the home's residents died nearby. Our church is supporting the collection of donations being organized by Holly Wills on behalf of the Meriden Council of Neighborhoods this Saturday in our fellowship hall, 9AM-12PM Noon. We appreciate the further help of the South Meriden Volunteer Fire Department to help raise funds and awareness of this important need in our community.

Donations being accepted are household items such as dishes, small kitchen appliances, glasses, silverware, bath towels, blankets, pillows, sheets, and toiletry items Gift Cards and monetary donations will be gladly accepted also   (checks payable to: Council of Neighborhoods). For more information on volunteering and donations, please email Holly Wills at:
cwills0142@sbcglobal.net Please pray for this family recovery from their tragic losses.
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