April 2023

UPCOMING WORSHIP

April 2 Palm Sunday, Communion; Lee preaches

April 9 Easter; Lee preaches Sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. Church service at 10 a.m.

April 16 Lee reads another’s sermon April 23 Lee reads another’s sermon

April 30 Fifth Sunday; service details

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WORSHIP Service  (Hybrid - in-person / using Zoom)                  

We are delighted to offer worship in our sanctuary as well as on Zoom, Sundays at 10 a.m. If you would like to receive emails with Zoom instructions, please fill the “Online Worship Service” form (Online Church Service | Leverett Cong Church (leverettcongregationalchurch.org)).

We would love for you to join us!

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From Our Pastor, Lee Barstow,  April 2020:

 

Our congregation is going to explore new ground this Sunday and on Easter, when we try holding worship services online (with a phone-in option) via Zoom.

I have gotten good feedback about our emailed ser-vices, and I will send these services by email as well as leading them in our Zoom “sanctuary” at 10 a.m.

On purpose, it won’t be as professional as some streaming videos we’ve seen from larger churches. Instead, we’ll see and hear each other, as well as (hopefully) pets and children. Our holy space will be created by the arc of recognition amongst us, which is undimmed by distance.
Judy will send an email Saturday afternoon with a link to the Zoom meeting and instructions for those of you who would like to attend by phone. I hope you’ll join us!

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Peace and blessings -- Lee

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And, From our Treasurer:

Remember our lonely church collection plate

— Kindly consider mailing your usual church donations to

Barbara Tiner, Treasurer,

Leverett Congregational Church,

PO Box 324,

Leverett MA 01054.

Help our church keep on stepping up to the plate. 

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We are part of the awakening that is happening in the world today and in the Christian Church… an awakening of the heart that recognizes our human unity and sees our relationships as the conduit for our experience of God’s love.  We exhibit this in the ways through which, in this blessed community, we love each other and our neighbors. I see this when I represent us at meetings in the community, such as the open house for the visitors from Letcher County, Kentucky, and meetings of ministers, and I see that we are leaders in the understanding so crucial today that more than anything in this world today, we need to know the love that is deeper than any of our differences and any of our wounds.

 

Our worship service is a place where we have the chance to affirm and deepen this awareness. This is why, during this past year, I have begun opening each service by welcoming all to “this place of belonging, where we come to seek and to share the love of God that flows through our hearts like living water.”

 

It is a great gift we share Sunday mornings… the opportunity share in recalling and re-membering the deep reservoir of life we share… our true source and strength… which we can forget so easily in the difficulties and distractions of our daily lives.

 

My most regular duty is to compose our service and contribute content in order to provide a holy space that is conducive to this shared experience of the love of God. The more we taste and see this love, the more we will be able to let go of whatever blocks it, and the more we will grow in it and from it, as branches are fed from the living water that flows from their roots.

 

Ideally, our worship services help us to know that no matter how harsh the realities of life, we are rooted in a deeper goodness from which we – and all humanity – will always be fed.