Sanctuary United Church of Christ

Christmas Crafting for All Ages
2024-12-22 11:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States
Get into the holiday spirit with our All-Ages Christmas Ornament Crafting Extravaganza! 🎄✨
Bring your festive cheer and creativity as we craft unique ornaments together—perfect for decking the halls or giving as gifts. No matter your age or skill level, there’s fun (and glitter!) for everyone!

Coffee and Connection
2024-12-22 11:30 - 12:30 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States
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!

Sunday Worship - Feel the Love
2024-12-22 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-12-01 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-11-24 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-11-17 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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Our Whole Lives (OWL) Grade 7/8 Session
2024-12-15 16:30 - 19:30, 2024-12-08 16:30 - 18:30, 2024-11-17 16:30 - 18:30, 2024-11-10 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.

Community Meal - All Are Welcome
2024-12-15 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!!
Our potluck theme this month is “Stocking Stuffers.” You’re invited to make “stuffed” dish-to-pass (think calzones, stuffed peppers, etc.). Not sure what to make? Find recipe ideas and sign up here – for the Potluck!!

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

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
Go to the Connection Hub for access to this week’s electronic worship bulletin/hymns/prayer wall and more.

Meal Making for Friday Cafe
2024-12-12 18:30 - 20:30, 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.

Coffee and Connection
2024-12-08 11:30 - 12:30, 2024-12-01 11:30 - 12:30, 2024-11-24 11:30 - 12:30, 2024-11-17 11:30 - 12:30, 2024-11-10 11:30 - 12:30 | Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford, MA 02155, USA

Hanging of the Greens & Sunday Worship - Feel the Love
2024-12-08 10:30 - 11:30 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States

Faith & Film: The Holdovers
2024-12-07 17:00 - 20:30 | 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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All Hands Meeting - Committee of the Whole/Leadership Circle
2024-12-03 19:00 - 20:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82581670394?pwd=[REDACTED]
Committee of the Whole/Leadership Circle Meeting
All 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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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.

Food Sorting & Distribution
2024-11-24 13:00 - 15:00
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.

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.

Fresh, Free Veggies/Fruit - Pop-Up Pantry
2024-11-22 17:00 - 18:00, 2024-11-15 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

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.

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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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/)
