The First Baptist Church of Hudson, NH is sponsoring a “Trunk or Treat” night on Friday, October 31*. Members of the church will gather and park their cars in the church parking lot, open their trunks, or the backs of their vehicles, decorate them, and then pass out candy from their trunks to all the little trick or treaters. The goal of this event is to provide a safe, family environment for the children of Hudson.

Suggested themes for trunk decorations include: Luau, Harvest, Sports, Nascar Racing, Sesame Street, Disney, a favorite movie, Western, Camping Out, a Favorite Holiday or Jungle theme. We’ve asked that participants not use scary items, like blood, bats, witches, spiders, monsters, or gore.

This is a great opportunity for the community to get to know our church.

We will be serving free hot dogs, apple cider, hot cocoa and chips. This will be a great chance for people in our neighborhood to linger and talk with our Pastor and members. If you have any questions, or would like to volunteer to help, please get in touch with Deb Lavoie, Jan Russell or Bruce and Terry Mostrom.

Please join in on the fun and don’t forget to invite your family, friends and neighbors!

*The hours of our Trunk or Treat will follow the town of Hudson’s posted trick or treat hours.

Fall Church Work Day is scheduled for this Saturday, November 1, beginning at 8:00 am.

Coffee, donuts, etc. will be served (for the workers). Feel free to stop by anytime to offer your assistance. There is something for everyone (mostly light duty work and, if anyone wants to do some heavy lifting, we can probably find some of that too 🙂 ).

Many hands make light work. Not to mention the fun and fellowship with other members and friends of our church.

See you there!

This is expected to be an exciting time of celebration in the life of our church!

The community of Hudson and area churches are cordially invited to attend.

The event will begin with a reception at 6pm including light refreshments and fellowship, followed by the Service of Installation at 7pm.

If you plan on joining us, please RSVP by contacting the church via phone (603-882-6116) or email (fbchudson@myfairpoint.net) so that we can plan accordingly.

To learn more about Rev. Moa Imchen please click here.

The First Baptist Church of Hudson is celebrating its Sunday School Rally Day on Sunday, September 14th, with the theme: “Get in the Game.” Additional details are available below.

How many of you are a fan of a sport team or a famous player? We all follow our favorite teams, favorite players. When we like a team, we try to make sure that we watch all the games. Read about what sports writers are saying about their style of play, their chance of winning. But there are some really committed fans, who would follow the teams all across the country.

There are a few things we can learn from sport fans on how we can be committed followers of Christ:

• to be faithful and not conform to the world
• to work tirelessly for Christ
• to be loyal to Christ
• to be passionate about Christ’s mission and never give up.

Based on Hebrews 12:1-3, 12-17, we will learn how we can become a fully committed follower of Christ.

Hope you will come and be part of this exciting time of celebration and learning.

Our Sunday School starts at 9:15 and worship at 10:30 a.m.

Hebrews 12:1-3, 12-17:

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.  ² Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  ³ Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

¹² Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees.  ¹³ “Make level paths for your feet,” so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.  ¹⁴ Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.  ¹⁵ See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.  ¹⁶ See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.  ¹⁷ Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. He could bring about no change of mind, though he sought the blessing with tears.

  RALLY DAY  

It’s time to get in the game. No more sitting on the bench!

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE START OF THE 2014-2015 SUNDAY SCHOOL YEAR WITH OUR KICK OFF DAY ON SUNDAY, September 14, 2014.

CLASSES WILL BE HELD FOR ALL AGES!!

The Board of Christian Educations is inviting everyone to join us in our Rally Day Celebration. Sunday School will start at 9:15, with a Rally Day Potluck Lunch immediately following our morning service. Everyone is asked to wear their favorite “Sport Themed” attire!

No matter how old you are, you can learn more about what it means to be on God’s team!

The Friends of the Library is showing the movie, Heaven is For Real—as part of Cinema Celebration on September 11, at 6:30 p.m.

This event is taking place at George H. & Ella M. Rodgers memorial Library, located at: 194 Derry Rd, Hudson, NH.

If you haven’t seen this movie (or would like to see it again) it is offered, for free!

To learn more about this special showing click here, and scroll down to the 2nd event listed for September 11, at 6:30pm.

On Saturday, August 23rd, Bruce and Terry Mostrom hosted their annual Survivor Event which included a church picnic, at their home on Rolfe Pond, in Hopkinton, NH.

The event was attended by over 50 people, 40 of which participated (both young and old), in the many challenges which occurred through-out the event. The participants (a.k.a. Survivors) were divided into 4 tribes.

After a reading from the Bible and prayer, the event began with team challenges, including:

• Relay races:
  • Through the water, around floating palm trees while;
    • Pushing a ball with the nose (the dolphin)
    • Riding a walrus (a blow-up floaty device)
    • “Attempting” to run with flippers on
    • Riding an inner-tube
  • Kayaking:
    • Out to exile island (a floating trampoline in the middle of the pond) to retrieve keys
    • Out into the pond to retrieve the locked treasure chests containing puzzle pieces
  • Puzzles, puzzles and more puzzles…
  • An obstacle course including several stages where Survivors had to:
    • Hop through a hopscotch course
    • Do the army crawl – Dive to the ground and crawl underneath barbed wire (actually, it was just yellow safety tape)
    • Run / weave through a mine field (several orange cones)
    • Leap a sawhorse
    • Walk a 10′ plank, high above the ground
    • Stand a baseball bat on the ground, placing their forehead on said bat and spinning around 3 times
    • Then, while dizzy, retrace their steps back through the course
• Memory tiles, where Survivors had to find their matching tile hidden in one of 50 burlap bags scattered around the yard.
• Shooting clay pigeons (attached to a board) with a slingshot
• Launching tennis balls out into the pond with giant slingshots while tribes competed to retrieve their ball via kayak and be the first to return to shore.
• Scavenger hunt consisting of several stages where clues where offered leading to the next clue and finally to the 3 hidden immunity idols (1 for 3 of the first 4 tribes to find one).

In each of the above challenges the tribes were awarded points based on their performance in finishing the event (1st ,2nd, 3rd or 4th place).

After the tribe challenges were complete, we were treated to some of the rare food found only in the remote region of Rolfe Pond.

After the feast, a Survivor Swap (a.k.a. a Yankee Swap) was held. At this point all Survivors received a gift. Some gifts were exceptional (large bag of peanut M&M’s, Survivor coffee mug, etc.) and some were, well, yucky (how to cook insects, a can of squid marinating in its own ink, etc.). More importantly, though, was the fact that each gift was worth a number of valuable points. These points became important because at this stage of the event each individual Survivor sought to maximize theirs for fear of being cut from the game.

Once our stomachs had settled from the feast and the Survivor swap was complete, the individual challenges began. The individual challenges included a:

• Jelly bean spoon race – This event involved Survivors lining up (in 4 separate heats) at the starting line. At the sound of “go” Survivors raced to the other end of the yard and, using only the spoon in their mouth, scoop up as many jelly beans as possible and return them to their assigned dish back at the starting line. This was a timed event (only 2 minutes) and Survivors were awarded a point for each jelly bean in their dish.
• Bean bag toss where each Survivor had a chance to increase their points based on the success of their tossing 3 bean bags onto a “field” containing 7 rows and 7 columns of squares offering points (from 0 to 10).
• Note: It was at this point, if the author recalls correctly, that Survivors began being cut from the game based on the number (or should we say lack of) points they had accumulated.
• William Tell – This event involved 3 heats of Survivors lining up on the shore of Rolfe Pond with an apple on their head. At the sound of go they had to race (actually, walk as steadily and rapidly as possible) with the apple on their head, out into Rolfe Pond, around the floating palm trees and back to shore – without dropping the apple (or using their hands to steady it). Only the first handful of Survivors completing this challenge, per each heat, moved on to the next challenge.
• Nut stacker – This event required each remaining Survivor to stack 7 nuts on top of one-another using only a chopstick. Only the first 9 Survivors completing this challenge moved on.
• Cup stacker – This event required each Survivor to bounce a ping-pong ball on a table and catch it in a plastic cup, then place another cup on top of the ping-pong ball in the previous cup and repeat the process until 3 Survivors were able to stack 7 cups, each containing a ping-pong ball, on top of each other.

After the above challenges were complete, there were 3 finalists:

• Andrew Tripp
• Josh Connell
• Evan Bailey

At this point, each finalist gave a heartfelt and/or humorous speech with the goal of persuading the rest of the competitors to vote for them as the sole Survivor.

In the end, there can be only one. This year’s Sole Survivor was Evan Bailey (pictured in the middle of the collage below, proudly displaying his solid gold trophy).

On behalf of the entire church, we thank Bruce and Terry for their MANY hours of work preparing for and hosting this AWESOME event. And, praise God for the time of fun and fellowship that was had by all!

God Bless!

  RALLY DAY  

It’s time to get in the game. No more sitting on the bench!

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE START OF THE 2014-2015 SUNDAY SCHOOL YEAR WITH OUR KICK OFF DAY ON SUNDAY, September 14, 2014.

CLASSES WILL BE HELD FOR ALL AGES!!

The Board of Christian Educations is inviting everyone to join us in our Rally Day Celebration. Sunday School will start at 9:15, with a Rally Day Potluck Lunch immediately following our morning service. Everyone is asked to wear their favorite “Sport Themed” attire!

No matter how old you are, you can learn more about what it means to be on God’s team!

  RALLY DAY  

It’s time to get in the game. No more sitting on the bench!

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE START OF THE 2014-2015 SUNDAY SCHOOL YEAR WITH OUR KICK OFF DAY ON SUNDAY, September 14, 2014.

CLASSES WILL BE HELD FOR ALL AGES!!

The Board of Christian Educations is inviting everyone to join us in our Rally Day Celebration. Sunday School will start at 9:15, with a Rally Day Potluck Lunch immediately following our morning service. Everyone is asked to wear their favorite “Sport Themed” attire!

No matter how old you are, you can learn more about what it means to be on God’s team!

  RALLY DAY  

It’s time to get in the game. No more sitting on the bench!

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE START OF THE 2014-2015 SUNDAY SCHOOL YEAR WITH OUR KICK OFF DAY ON SUNDAY, September 14, 2014.

CLASSES WILL BE HELD FOR ALL AGES!!

The Board of Christian Educations is inviting everyone to join us in our Rally Day Celebration. Sunday School will start at 9:15, with a Rally Day Potluck Lunch immediately following our morning service. Everyone is asked to wear their favorite “Sport Themed” attire!

No matter how old you are, you can learn more about what it means to be on God’s team!