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10am Service
Preaching this week: Dana Allen Walsh
"Son of a Preacher Mom"
Did you miss last week's sermon? Watch
Dana Allen Walsh preaching "The Power in Brokenness" HERE.
Order a DVD of any of our services or handbell concerts by filling out the DVD request form HERE.
Worship @ the Well 6:15pm
Come and help us celebrate the final Well service of the season with a special jazz night featuring and 11 piece band! From New Orleans style jazz to swing to a special funk version of our closing song, this is a rousing night not to be missed. A perfect service to invite a friend, co-worker, or neighbor to! Informal, with a great message and communion. 6:15 in Clark Hall.
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Programs for Children |
June 9th, Bell Sunday! Kids stay in worship.
June 16th, Faith Across the Lifespan Celebration
June 23rd, Sunday Summer Adventures in Faith begins! Adult volunteers are welcome!
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JUNIOR YOUTH ORGANIZATION
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June 9th, Bell Sunday! All stay in worship.
June 16th, Faith Across the Lifespan Celebration
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No more meetings for the summer.
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Wednesday June 5:
10:30 New Clergy Group--Pearson
1:15p Consort--Kathie Stuart 6p 22 Muzzey Street Parents Group--Wilson 7p LICA Reflections on Gun Violence at First Parish, 7 Harrington Rd, Lexington Carillon Rehearsal--Bell Room Thursday June 6: 6p Boy Scouts--throughout Building 7:30p Chancel Choir--Move the Choir Room! Friday June 7: 9:30 Morning Glories--Bell Room Saturday June 8: 8 AA Women's Step Study--Chapel 9 Prudential Outdoor Workday 10 AA meeting--Dining Room 11 Pride Parade!--Old South Church 2p Eagle Court of Honor--Sanctuary, Dining Room 3p Brass Group Sunday June 9: 8:30 Bell Choir Rehearsal--Sanctuary 9 Bagels and Bible Discussion Group--Wilson 10 Morning Worship- Bell Sunday--Sanctuary 10:20 JYO-- Stay in Worship 10:20 Church School--Children stay in worship 11 Welcoming Coffee for Newcomers--Dining Room 11 Fellowship Hour--Dining Room 6:15p Worship @ the Well--Clark Hall Monday June 10: 9:30 Projects with Purpose--Conference Room 1:30p Skyloom--Kathie Stuart 7:00p Boy Scout Troop Committee--Room 208 7:30p Prudential Committee--Conference Room Tuesday June 11:
Offices Closed for Calendar Planning
7p Children's CE--off site at Kuli's
7:30p Christian Service Committee--Wilson
7:30p Finance Committee--Potter Library
7:30p Endowment Committee--Conference Room
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Please click the link below to visit our calendar on-line.
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Hancock Weekly and other Communications Deadlines
The deadline for submitting news for this e-mail newsletter each week is Tuesday at 3pm. Submissions should be sent to: office@hancockchurch.org
Kindly send text and images as separate attachments. Thank you!
Click Here for the Communication Deadlines resource sheet.
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Staff News
Cindy Johnson, our new Administrative Assistant, joins the Hancock Staff team on Monday, June 3. She replaces Jane Park, who has been promoted to Church Administrator. As you will discover, Cindy is a bright and friendly person, who brings a great many skills to our team. She has served in administrative capacities in the non-profit world, and most recently, at the First Baptist Church in Worcester, where she lives. She leaps bravely aboard even though her office is temporarily in the workroom, and the construction dust is about to fly. We are pleased to welcome her and hope you'll stop in and say hello!
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Come Help Move the Choir Room!
 This Thursday we will be re-locating the choir room to the chapel for the duration of construction. We need folks to help pack music, move the choir music, move the choir chairs etc. We'll meet at 7:30 in the choir room. Many hands will make it light work--and save us from running up and down the stairs too many times! |
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Lexington Food Pantry- June is Cereal
If you donate food in June, please consider cereal. Donation baskets are in the narthex, as well as outside the office and dining room. For more information, contact Caroline Nijenberg (781) 862-4465 or carolinen@rcn.com. If you wish to volunteer to help distribute food at the pantry, please contact her to see if volunteers are needed.
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Offices will be closed
for Calendar Planning Day
On Tuesday, June 11, all staff will be off-site for our Annual Calendar Planning Meeting. Please note that the Church Offices will be closed that day. |
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Front Lower Entrance will be closed starting June 17
Starting June 17, we will no longer be able to use the lower front entrance. Due to constructions, several areas will be blocked including: the front entrance, the stairs leading to the narthex, and the lower hallway from the Choir Room to the TV Studios. Access to the building will change regularly, so be on the look out for signs and updates! Thank you for your patience as we take our first steps into our building renovations! If you have any questions about building accessibility, please contact the Church Offices.
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Hancock PRIDE!
Show your pride this weekend! 
36th Annual Pride Interfaith Service Saturday June 8th, 2013, 10am Old South Church Copley Square, 645 Boylston Street, Boston
You can help us create a city, a state, and a country where all are treated equally in our churches, communities, schools and workplaces. Join us for Boston Pride! We will be meeting our Hancock Parade Marshals at the Interfaith Service at Old South Church- 10am, handing out Hancock Skittles, and showing our Hancock PRIDE.
Following the Interfaith Service at Old South, Hancock will carry a banner in the Pride Parade led by our fearless leader Paul Shupe! Read more about parade details on the Boston Pride website here: http://www.bostonpride.org/parade/
Contact Sarah Keeping-Sarah.Keeping[at]gmail.com for more information about participating this year with Hancock.
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Thanks! From the Capital Campaign 
A big thank you to all who were able to pre-pay their Campaign pledge. We now have received $2.67M - that's 73% of the $3.65M pledged for the 3 year campaign. That's an incredible response and we are very grateful to all of you who have helped in any way. Our need for borrowing and the associated costs should be significantly less that we were estimating before.
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 Our prayers are with Iris and Larry Larssen as they mourn the death of Larry's brother, Richard Larssen. Richard died on Friday, May 31st after a long struggle with cancer.
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Bagels & Bible
Please check out our blog BagelsAndBibles.wordpress.com for discussions on "Who Wrote the Bible?"
For the past six months, the members of the Bagels and Bibles class have been studying Jesus' parables and the Passion of the Lord using the Scriptures as the primary focus. In almost every session, questions about the origin of the Bible have come up, so this summer we have decided to study the history of the Bible. We will use Richard Elliott Friedman's book "Who Wrote the Bible?" as a guide.
We will spend a total of twelve weeks studying the cultures, literary forms, and authors that influenced the Old and New Testaments. We'll also learn how the ancient scrolls became the book we know today. Stop in for a single lesson or join up for the entire series.
We will extend our classroom discussions on the new blog, BagelsAndBibles.wordpress.com. New topics will be posted on Mondays while we continue to meet for conversation on Sunday mornings at 9am. If you cannot join us in person, please feel free to leave a comment on the blog. We'd love to have you participate in any way!
Join us at 9am on Sunday June 9th as we discuss chapter 4 of Richard Friedman's "Who Wrote the Bible?" Copies of the book are available in the library.
If you cannot meet us on Sundays, please join us online at BagelsAndBibles.wordpress.com. Questions? Contact Kerra Fletcher at BagelsAndBibles@outlook.com.
Questions for Chapter 4:
- What happened in 722 BC? How did it change Israelite society?
- How did the centralization of religious practice affect mealtime?
- 2 Kings 18:13-19:37, Isaiah 36-37, and 2 Chronicles 32:1-23 claims that an angel of Yahweh killed hundreds of thousands of invading Assyrians. Sennecharib, the king of Assyria, one the other hand, claims to have locked up King Hezekiah like a bird in Jerusalem. What do you think really happened?
- In 587 BC the Babylonian emperor, Nebuchadnezzar, destroyed Jerusalem. Why do you think the people fled Judah as refugees to Egypt?
- After the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC, how do you think future authors will describe events from the Bible?
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Hancock Poetry Group meets second Wednesdays of each month--Join us!
The Hancock Poetry group meets on the second Wednesday of each month, in the Pearson room. We gather to share the poetry of others, or our own, whatever has inspired us lately. Long time poetry lovers, and those just discovering the joys of poetry are all welcome! |
Indoor/Outdoor Workday June 8th
The Prudential Committee is organizing the last workday before construction starts! Saturday, June 8th from 9am-1pm, join members from the Prudential Committee for one more work day. In addition to our usual maintenance work, we need to get as many spaces ready, packed and moved, as possible!
Remember to go to the Conference Room for assignments! Thanks to the dedicated and hard working volunteers at previous workdays, we have made a dent in our to do list. No special skills required! Come for all or part of the day. Refreshments provided. Contact Prudential Committee member Susan McClements with any questions, skmcclements@gmail.com.
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Interfaith Garden--Want to Help?
The garden has been cleaned up from the winter, compost has been added and the first of the cool weather crops have been planted. Parsley, lettuce, beets, radishes, spinach and peas were planted to join the crops that wintered over (asparagus, strawberries and garlic). Hancock regularly joins members of 12 other churches and temples working at the garden. The produce will go to the Lexington Food Pantry. All are welcome...bring a friend, neighbor or your kids. There are plenty of times that extra help is needed...not just when Hancock is scheduled. If you are interested in working at the garden, contact Amy Swanson amy.swanson@rcn.com.
| Sat | 6/15/13 | 8:30 to 10am | | Sat | 6/29/13 | 8 to 9:30am |
| Sat | 7/20/13 | 8 to 9:30am | | Sat | 7/27/13 | 8 to 9:30am |
If you or anyone you know are interested in more information or want to sign up to work any of those days, contact Amy Swanson amy.swanson@rcn.com . More information available at http://interfaithgarden.org/
Read the first Garden Report from Opening day on March 30th Here
Read the Garden Report from April 6th Here.
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