Open Mic Night
2024-04-27 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Hillside Community Church, 144 North Street, Medford, MA 02155
🎵 Do you play an instrument, write or read poetry, enjoy doing dramatic readings, sing, play, or warble? Bring your own work or the cover of another!!
Do something else entirely but which is just as creative and fun? Ever wanted a chance to do this in front of the nicest audience in town?!
All are warmly welcome and encouraged. Dream big and bring your gifts–all skill levels (teens and older) are welcome and supported💖
Even if you are not called to participate this time, please come and join in the fun as an enthusiastic audience member👏
Sign up here to participate – BYOB and snaks – and we will see you there!

Sunday Morning Worship - Feel the Love
2024-04-28 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-05-05 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-05-12 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-05-19 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-05-26 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-06-02 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-06-09 10:30 - 11:30 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States
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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 (Vax & masks expected) or online via Zoom or facebook live.
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Coffee and Connection
2024-04-28 11:30 - 12:30, 2024-05-12 11:30 - 12:30, 2024-05-19 11:30 - 12:30, 2024-05-26 11:30 - 12:30, 2024-06-02 11:30 - 12:30, 2024-06-09 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!

Evening Prayer and Contemplation (Online)
2024-05-01 19:00 - 19:45, 2024-05-08 19:00 - 19:45, 2024-05-15 19:00 - 19:45, 2024-05-22 19:00 - 19:45, 2024-05-29 19:00 - 19:45, 2024-06-05 19:00 - 19:45 | https://us05web.zoom.us/j/7599809028?pwd=[REDACTED]
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The practice of Christian Evening Prayer is grounded in our Jewish heritage and comes in many forms. The lighting of candles or lamps celebrates the Light of Christ in our midst and the Daily Lectionary guides the prayer time with Psalms and Scripture chosen for personal devotions.
All are welcome to join in praying for mercy for each other, healing for those in need, the welfare of the community and the world, and for grace and peace in our midst.
Evening Prayer will be led by Andrew Hill and other lay members of the Hillside/Sanctuary Community.

SoulCollage® Mini-Retreat
2024-05-04 12:00 - 16:00 | Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford, MA 02155, USA, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82393848381?pwd=[REDACTED]
SoulCollage® is an expressive arts practice with guided meditation, dreamy music, and delicious snacks. Designed to develop creativity and intuition, encourage self-discovery, and provide personal guidance, SoulCollage® meets you wherever you are on this journey called life. You don’t have to be an artist to make SoulCollage® cards. Anyone can create and enjoy this powerful practice. Click Here for SecureRegistration and Payment: $35/per person; includes Mat boards, scissors, glue, images, and refreshments.
SoulCollage® Mini-Retreat is led by Suzanne O’Neil, certified SoulCollage® facilitator.
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More about SoulCollage®

SoulCollage® is an easy, enjoyable, intuitive collage process for self-discovery and community. People make their own decks of collaged cards for their personal use from found images.
The SoulCollage® method helps people discover their unique inner/outer guides and challengers, and access their own wisdom to answer their life questions. SoulCollage® is a method used in many contexts and applications.
We who are attracted to SoulCollage® are evolving. We’re creative, self-reflective, and eager to discover and balance the many parts of ourselves. We each want to be able to be the best version of ourselves we can be and contribute our gifts to others.
We are challenged, we struggle, but we always return to our basic willingness to look at what is so, to listen and to change. From that ever-evolving, empowered place of wholeness, we cannot help but contribute to and affect our worlds—our friends and families, our communities, and our fields of interest.
SoulCollage® cards are made with the simplest of tools – magazine images, scissor, mat boards and a glue stick (all provided).

See the gallery of sample cards at the bottom of the home page on the soulcollage.com website.
Learn more about making a SoulCollage® card.
Learn more about theSoulCollage® story of You: Discover your wisdom. Change your world.

Community Meal - All Are Welcome
2024-05-05 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 here for this month’s “Cinco de Mayo Fiesta“ Themed Potluck!

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

Grade 8/9 OWL Session (@ Sanctuary UCC)
2024-05-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States
Find all the details here.

All Hands Meeting - Committee of the Whole/Leadership Circle
2024-05-07 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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Meal Making for Friday Cafe
2024-05-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Hillside Community Church, 148 North St, Medford, MA, United States
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/or3) Sign Up to deliver the meal on Friday morning.

Art & Soul Circle: More Than Acquaintances
2024-05-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Arts Collaborative Medford, 162 Mystic Ave, Medford, MA 02155
Michael Talbot & Sanctuary/Hillside Present
Art and Soul Circle: More Than Acquaintances
Through the lens of love, Michael Talbot explores the delicately intertwined relationship between Life and Death. Join this collaborative conversation and consider your own relationship with the themes and images of this stunning installation.
HOSTED BY ARTS COLLABORATIVE MEDFORD
162 MYSTIC AVENUE, MEDFORD, MA 02155

Sanctuary All Hands - Merger Process w/Don Remick (virtual)
2024-05-30 19:00 - 20:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89869592008?pwd=[REDACTED]
Committee of the Whole/Leadership Circle Meeting with Don Remick (consultant) regarding Hillside Partnership and Merger Dialogue
Agenda: With the consultant – reflect on our partnership, the merger process/dialogue, our experience & concerns.All are welcome! Gather online!
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Medford Pride Flag Raising & Festival
2024-05-31 16:00 - 19:30 | medford city hall, 85 George P Hassett Dr, Medford, MA, United States

Sanctuary UCC Annual Visioning Meeting (Virtual)
2024-06-03 19:00 - 20:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86857521822?pwd=[REDACTED]
Call to the 2024/25 Annual Visioning Meeting (Virtual)
The Congregational Church of West Medford, United Church of Christdba Sanctuary UCC
Monday, June 37:00 – 8:30 pm
The Officers and Leadership Circle of the Congregational Church of West Medford | Sanctuary UCC issue this call to the Annual Congregational Visioning Meeting as defined by our by-laws. The purpose of the Annual Visioning Meeting is to: a) Review and assess the congregation’s mission, ministries, objectives, and goals; and b) Make adjustments as called for from the dialogue and discernment. (Article IV. Section B).
The Agenda will include:
1. Reflection on the outcomes of the partnership and the ongoing discussion about an institutional merger with Hillside Community Church.
2. Discernment and Goal setting for Sanctuary UCC’s Mission and Ministry Plan and Budget for 2024/25 which will be prepared and presented at the Annual Congregational Meeting*.
Signed,Christy Miller, Moderator
*Sanctuary UCC Annual Congregational Meeting (Virtual) will be held on Sunday, June 23, 1:00 – 2:30 pm.
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Faith & Film for PRIDE: Rustin
2024-06-08 17:00 - 20:00 | Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford, MA 02155, USA
PRIDE Month Faith and Film
Rustin (Sat. June 8, 5-8:00p)
Bayard Rustin, advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., dedicates his life to the quest for racial equality, human rights, non-violent protest, and worldwide democracy. However, as an openly gay Black man, he is all but erased from the civil rights movement he helped build. Colman Domingo is electrifying as the title character and was nominated for best actor.
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 Netflix) join us online for the discussion at 7 pm.
Our Rustin Pride Month Faith and Film Discussion Guide!
Get ready to join the discussion:

7 things to know before seeing Rustin
Queer History Lesson (Youtube Video 2.3 min)
See the Trailer and read why this film was chosen as one of S&P’s Best Spiritual Films for 2023.
About the film Rustin on IMDB
Watch Rustin on Netflix

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