Coffee and Connection
2024-10-27 11:30 - 12:30, 2024-11-10 11:30 - 12:30, 2024-11-17 11:30 - 12:30, 2024-11-24 11:30 - 12:30, 2024-12-01 11:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Join us for a nosh and get connected with conversation, conviviality, and cool people.
Sign up here to help with coffee hour! Bring the simple snacks , setup/make the coffee & help with clean up!

Pumpkin Painting for All Ages
2024-10-27 11:30 - 12:30 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States
Join us for a colorful October tradition—Pumpkin Painting! 🎨🎃 Bring your creativity and we’ll supply the pumpkins, paint, and fun. Whether you’re a Picasso in the making or just love to get messy, this is the perfect way to get your Halloween Haunts!!”

Art & Soul Circle: Design - Book - Art
2024-10-27 16:00 - 17:30 | Arts Collaborative Medford, 162 Mystic Ave, Medford, MA, United States
Design•Book•Art (in the Literary Corner)

Art and Soul Circle: Reflecting on the questions that unfold from the art (collaborative circle conversation is facilitated by Rev. Wendy Miller Olapade
Cohosted by the artists (below) and Arts Collaborative Medford

The artist’s books in this exhibition are containers of visual stories exploring subjects that are very personal and deeply political.
Here you have artists who start with their own experience of existing within their bodies, and journaling their lives. Others expand into their immediate communities, write down stories to document and expose their culture. Some use fiction, mythical heroes and anti-heroes, involved in allegorical stories reflecting our political climate.
These artists are also brilliant designers who let the concept drive the shape of the page. In their books, meaning is created in the space between the image and the text. They demand that you be an active reader, and viewer, as the imagery goes beyond illustrating the text, and the text is not a caption for the images.
At a time when we continuously consume information and entertainment on the screen, the visual creations here are shaped into physical paper books, a recognizable, easily accessible and affordable art form. It’s impossible not to stop by the bookshop!
curated by Chantal Zakari ft. artists
Shaheed Abdullah @shaheedabdullah7
Zoya Amrit @tanvi_amrit
Jamie Atchinson @ok_kiddo_
Joy Bedford @hi.im.joi
Valerie Cervantes @valerie.cerv
Rayya Check @rayya_chek
Clara Davis @claradavis.ai
Daniela Gonzalez @daniela.phtos
Freya Gupta @ffsfreya
McCall Hollister @mccall.holly
Ethan LeBlanc @ethansleblanc
Leyla Mandel @leylamandel
Annabel Nied @annabelnied
Eve Sage @eve.sage.art
John Sanchez @john_sanchez_2024
Emrys Schweber @art_ducky_
Saeroi Yune @saeroiyune
On Display: September 20th through November 8th

Our Whole Lives (OWL) Grade 7/8 Session
2024-10-27 16:30 - 18:30, 2024-11-03 16:30 - 18:30, 2024-11-10 16:30 - 18:30, 2024-11-17 16:30 - 18:30 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States
2024/2025 Grade 7/8 Program Details and Registration.Program Calendar here.
Honest, accurate information about sexuality changes lives. It dismantles stereotypes and assumptions, builds self-acceptance and self-esteem, fosters healthy relationships, improves decision-making, and has the potential to save lives. For these reasons and more, we are proud to offer Our Whole Lives (OWL), a comprehensive, lifespan sexuality education program.

All Hands Meeting - Committee of the Whole/Leadership Circle
2024-10-29 19:00 - 20:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82581670394?pwd=[REDACTED]
Committee of the Whole/Leadership Circle MeetingAll are welcome! Gather online!
Did you miss last month’s meeting? Here’s where you can find minutes from previous meetings. (https://medfordchurch.org/minutes/)
Here’s the Recurring Agenda:

Recruit Note Taker
Check on/create agenda
Hillside Partnership/Meger Process
Ministry Reports
Review schedule/time for the next Comm of the Whole meeting.

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Fresh, Free Veggies/Fruit - Pop-Up Pantry
2024-11-01 17:00 - 18:00, 2024-11-08 17:00 - 18:00, 2024-11-15 17:00 - 18:00, 2024-11-22 17:00 - 18:00 | Sanctuary United Church of Christ, 458 High St, Medford, MA, United States
FREE FARM FRESH VEGGIES
@Sanctuary Storefront
458 High Street, Medford
FRIDAYS (5—6 pm)
Begins August 9 – through the Fall…
First Come/First Served
BRING YOUR OWN BAGS

Sunday Worship - Feel the Love
2024-11-03 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-11-10 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-11-17 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-11-24 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-12-01 10:30 - 11:30 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States
Join us onsite or online via Zoom here
Go to the Connection Hub for access to this week’s electronic worship bulletin/hymns/prayer wall and more.
For more about this Sunday’s Worship Theme – check out the Hillside website for the current worship series.
Sanctuary and Hillside worship together every Sunday. You are welcome to attend the service onsite @ Hillside Community Church, 144 North Street, Medford or online via Zoom or facebook live.
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Community Meal - All Are Welcome
2024-11-03 11:30 - 12:30 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States
Following worship, we will enjoy a community meal to which all are welcome. Bring a friend!!
Ideas and Sign up for our “Roots” Theme Potluck!
A roots theme potluck is a gathering where guests bring dishes that reflect their family heritage. This theme can help guests get to know each other better and lead to conversations about the unique dishes shared

If you are able – please bring a nonperishable food item for the micro pantry ministry.

Faith & Film: American Fiction
2024-11-09 17:00 - 20:30 | Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford, MA 02155, USA, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84640019271?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.
Summary: AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain. 93% Tomatometer – Watch the Trailer
Reviews:

Jeffrey Wright and American Fiction will forever be inextricable thanks to the actor’s committed approach to the pointedly humorous and insightful material.
Smart, funny, and poignant, American Fiction will make you laugh as often as it makes you think.

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Meal Making for Friday Cafe
2024-11-14 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.

Art & Soul Circle: "Scavengers"
2024-11-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Arts Collaborative Medford, 162 Mystic Ave, Medford, MA, United States
Join this Art & Soul Circle for deep dialogue about resourcefulness and the creative spark that can make a way where there seems to be no way!!
In partnership with Arts Collaborative Medford (ACM), artists Dominique Litif-Nelson and PHEEBZ will host “Scavengers”, a gallery showcase and pop-up library celebrating the resourcefulness of artists, their ability to use anything as a tool for creation, and their drive to create anywhere and everywhere.
The Showcase will highlight sketchbooks, objects, signs, and stickers.
* Art and Soul Circle: Reflecting on the questions that unfold from the art (collaborative circle conversation is facilitated by Rev. Wendy Miller Olapade (http://revwendy.com)
* Cohosted by the artists and Arts Collaborative Medford (https://artscollabmedford.org/)

Sanctuary Leave-Taking Breakfast
2024-11-16 10:00 - 12:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87110348391?pwd=[REDACTED]
We are catering the meal – please RSVP here for the Breakfast!!
A Leave-Taking Breakfast @ Sanctuary UCC
458 High Street—Storefront (or via zoom)
Together, we’ll honor this sacred space—our home for ten years of faith, worship, the arts, and community outreach. See the Sanctuary Photo Slideshow.
Together we’ll cherish memories, lessons, and the vision we’ve shared. Together, we’ll release this place with gratitude and hopeful hearts—and look ahead with love.
Every end is a new beginning waiting to unfold.
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Bag Distribution - Thanksgiving Food Drive
2024-11-17 12:00 - 14:00 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States
Sign-Up to help! (Link to be provided)
We need 10 to 20 volunteers to help distribute 1000 bags to homes throughout the Hillside neighborhood. Included with these bags will be a note inviting the recipient to fill it up with Thanksgiving-themed non-perishables and leave it out on their front steps the following weekend.

Food Collection - Thanksgiving Food Drive
2024-11-24 12:00 - 14:00 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States
Sign-Up to Help!! – Link to be provided
We need ~10 volunteers and 3 vehicles to collect food bags left out on porches around the Hillside.

Food Sorting & Distribution
2024-11-24 13:00 - 15:00 | MA
Sign-Up to Help!! – Link to be provided
We need a bevy of volunteers to help sort our collected items into bags with a well-balanced assortment of Thanksgiving foods.

Pop-Up Food Pantry - Thanksgiving Themed
2024-11-24 15:00 - 17:00 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States
All are welcome to drop-by to pick-up Thanksgiving-themed foods for yourself, your neighbor, or to distribute to a Micropantry.

The first 50 guests will also receive a $25.00 Gift Card!
If you help care for a Micropantry – please be sure to come get some supplies! If you cannot make this day and time, please email Wendy@sanctuaryucc.org to make other arrangements.
