Sanctuary United Church of Christ

Faith & Film: The Holdovers
2024-12-07 17:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford, MA 02155, USA, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81312417179?pwd=[REDACTED]
Join the screening and discussion of this award-winning film. We will order Pizza – you can bring something to share (wine, beer, soft drinks welcome)!
If you cannot join us in person for the screening (please watch the film @ home on Amazon Prime) join us online for the discussion at 7:15 pm.
We are partnering with certified babysitting Girl Scouts (and troop leaders) to provide a kid’s fun night so that parents can have a night out. Kids will be downstairs, while we watch and discuss upstairs!! Kids will get pizza too! Registration for kids is required here. (Let us know if you need help with the child care suggested donation)
Film Summary: A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school’s head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War. These three very different shipwrecked people form an unlikely Christmas family sharing comic misadventures during two very snowy weeks in New England. The real journey is how they help one another understand that they are not beholden to their past-they can choose their own futures. 97% Tomatometer – Watch the Trailer
Reviews:

THE HOLDOVERS IS the perfect Christmas movie if you don’t always spend the holidays conventionally. The film not only took home two Golden Globe awards for being one of the best films of 2023, but also took home an Academy Award for Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s sterling Best Supporting Actress performance in the movie.
In a time when things often seem so hopeless, when the same forces of inequality and military injustices plague our own world, perhaps it’s this film’s realistic salve that makes it resonate so strongly.
Despite the anxiety and even sadness its story exudes, it’s a movie so in love with its characters, and so steadfast in its humanist convictions, that it reaches into your soul and melts even the most frozen of hearts.

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Meeting ID: 813 1241 7179
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Meal Making for Friday Cafe
2024-12-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Food for the body – nurture for the soul.
Every month – we gather to cook up a special meal for 100 beautiful humans which we deliver to Friday Cafe, Cambridge. The meal-making is fun and sharing that love at Friday Cafe is a joy.
Please join the fun, nurture your spirit – and let us know how you can help by using this Sign Up form to
1) Bake something at home and deliver to Hillside before 7;
2) Join us to prep and cook the meal at Hillside (6:20-8pm)*; and/or
3) Sign Up to deliver the meal on Friday morning.

An *Unrehearsed* Christmas Pageant
2024-12-15 10:30 - 11:30 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States
Who needs a rehearsal? Crash our Christmas pageant, grab a costume on the fly, and help us spin a sacred story into a morning of spontaneous, spirited fun. Then, stick around for a free holiday lunch and pics with Santa.
Join us onsite or online via Zoom here
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