Strawberry Festival

Northwood Congregational Church, 

Annual Strawberry Festival  

Saturday, June 28 from 8 am till 2 pm

This Saturday, June 28 is our Annual Strawberry Festival. 

Come and bring your friends, family and neighbors.  This is our biggest fundraiser of the year and we need you to make it successful.  You can get your fresh berries, pies or search for treasures in our church wide yard sale under the big top. 

Pancake breakfast starts at 8 am, hot dogs and burgers on the grill at 11 and strawberry shortcake all day long.

You don’t want to miss this!

If you can stop by and help out, that would be great.  If not, just stop by for good food, fun and fellowship. 

Change is in the Air!

We have a number of upcoming dates to be aware of with Music Appreciation Sunday, Children's Sunday and the Strawberry Festival.  But we've moved some of those dates around.  We don't want you to miss anything so take note of these dates so you can join us.

Upcoming Events in June

Music Appreciation Sunday - Sunday, June 22

We will be celebrating all our talented musicians in our choir and our music director.  

Children’s Sunday - Sunday, June 29

To accommodate the schedules of some of our committed families and all the children to participate in Children's Sunday we have moved the date.  Please plan to join us to celebrate our children. 

  

Strawberry Festival, Saturday, June 28

Due to the unpredictable weather, those strawberries just aren't ready yet and we can't have a strawberry festival without strawberries.   So we've moved the date back a week to give the berries time to ripen and us time to pick them.  Save this date and join us for some wicked good pies, a big yard sale and lots of berry good fun. 

Our Poem for the Fourth Sunday in Lent

   “March Mad”

                               by May Sarton

The strangely radiant skies have come

To lift us out of winter’s gloom,

A paler more transparent blue,

A softer gold light on fresh snow.

It is a naked time that bares

Our lightly worn-down hopes and cares,

And sets us listening for frogs,

And sends us to seed catalogues

To bury our starved eyes and noses

In an extravagance of roses,

And order madly at this season

When we have had enough of reason.

Our Lenten Poem for the Week

By expenditure of hope,

Intelligence, and work,

You think you have it fixed.

It is unfixed by rule.

Within the darkness, all

Is being changed, and you

Also will be changed

Now I recall to mind

A costly year; Jane Kenyon,

Bill Lippert, Phillip Sherrard,

All in the same spring dead,

So much compansionship

Gone as the river goes.

 But won’t you be ashamed

To count the passing year

At it’s mere cost, your debt

Inevitably paid?

For every year is costly,

As you know well.  Nothing

Is given that is not

Taken, and nothing taken

That was not first a gift.

The gift is balanced by

Its total loss, and yet

And yet the light breaks in,

Heaven seizing it’s moments

That are at once its own

And yours.

By Wendall Barry

Maren Tirabassi is Coming to Visit

You won't want to miss Maren on March 23 as part of our year long 25th Anniversary Celebration.  Rev. Maren Tirabassi was our minister here from 1996 to 2003.  We are excited to welcome her back for a visit.  She will be our guest preacher during worship and then will stay afterwards for a light lunch so we will have plenty of time to visit and catch up.  Save the date so you can join us for this special day.
 

Mission Trip

These are some photos from our Mission Trip to the Dominica Republic.  Working through Christian Medical Mission we built a house, constructed decking and stairs to connect two mission, distributed food, clothing and eye glasses.  It was an amazing trip to a beautiful country and we were changed by the experience.  Participants included Ken Flesher, Charlie Henry, Janet Henry, Bob Murphy, Gayle Murphy, Bill Nickerson, Margie Nickerson, Gregg Pitman, Sandi Straus and Jan Walsh.

Stay Tuned

Gayle and friends will be returning on Saturday from their trip to the Dominican Republic.  Stay tuned, I'm sure we'll have pictures and stories come soon.