Our church will again have a table at this year’s Old Home Days (from August 14 to 17). This is a great opportunity to allow the community of Hudson to get to know us.

We still need people to staff the table during the event.

We will have handouts to share with visitors that will help them get to know us better and share our witness with the community.

Please contact any member of the Diaconate Board with questions or to let us know if you can help.

If you’d like to learn more about Hudson’s Old Home Days click here to visit their official web page.

  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!

Sermon: Called To Be The Salt of the Earth

Scripture: Mark 9:38-50

In this passage Jesus is challenging us: “Those of you who are My disciples should affect the world in a positive way by the way in which you live.” We will learn about how we are called to be moral antiseptics–in order to make a positive impact in our society and in the world.

Please come and join us at FBC Hudson on Sunday @ 10:00 a.m.

Mark 9:38-50

Mark 9:35-50  35 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all.”  36 He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,  37 “Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”  38 “Teacher,” said John, “we saw a man driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.”  39 “Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “No one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me,  40 for whoever is not against us is for us.  41 I tell you the truth, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to Christ will certainly not lose his reward.  42 “And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck.  43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.  44   45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.  46   47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,  48 where “‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’  49 Everyone will be salted with fire.  50 “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”

Our next Cabinet Meeting is scheduled for 6:30pm, on July 29. All church members are encouraged to attend! Each Board and Committee should prepare a report of the activities from their board for the past 3 months to be read by the chairperson of the board/committee, or a specified designee.

Note: the previous update incorrectly stated the meeting was taking place at 6pm…

A reminder…A session is being held on Thursday, July 24th, at 7.pm., in Memorial Hall, on the history of FBC Hudson.

Ruth Parker (our church historian) will lead the session.

Please come to learn about the amazing history of how God has lead this church for more than 200 years!

And, you are encouraged to invite friends.

Blessings! Pastor Moa

Our next Cabinet Meeting is scheduled for 6:30pm, on July 29. All church members are encouraged to attend! Each Board and Committee should prepare a report of the activities from their board for the past 3 months to be read by the chairperson of the board/committee, or a specified designee.

Our church will again have a table at this year’s Old Home Days (from August 14 to 17). This is a great opportunity to allow the community of Hudson to get to know us.

We will need people to staff the table during the event. There is a sign-up sheet available at each entrance of the church for you to indicate which time-slot(s) you are available to help.

We will have handouts to share with visitors that will help them get to know us better and share our witness with the community.

Please contact any member of the Diaconate Board with questions.

If you’d like to learn more about Hudson’s Old Home Days click here to visit their official web page.

Sermon: The Bethesda Experience

Scripture Reading: John 5:1-9 :

1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.  2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.  3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie– the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.  4   5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.  6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”  7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”  8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”  9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,

What: Survivor Party/Church Picnic

When: Saturday, August 23^th @ 11:00AM 

Where: 283 Rolfe Pond Drive, Hopkinton, NH

(click on the address for directions)

Who: You, your family and/or guest

SURVIVOR ROLFE POND VII

Seven years in the making – better than ever, harder than ever, victory sweeter than ever!!

Once again, the day will start at 11:00AM and end by the fire pit at Tribal Council. Bring your bathing suit, (you will get wet), water shoes, old sneakers, sunscreen, bugspray, towels and anything else you feel will help you survive.

This year, as last year, you will be assigned a tribe. Based on your demographics, or the host’s mood, you will be placed on the tribe that best characterizes you!

As always, in order to keep your strength and morale at peak, a culture-filled barbecue loaded with exotic foods found only in the remote Rolfe Pond area will be served mid-day. Please RSVP to Terry and Bruce Mostrom via email (tamostrom@gmail.com) or call 603-566-7345 by August 7th. Make sure you let us know who will be playing and who will be a spectator. This is a “rain or shine” event! Don’t be a wimp! 

Get ready to Outwit, Outplay, Outlast and Outparty!

Want to learn more about where our incoming Pastor (Rev. Moa Imchen) and his wife (Akum Longchar) are from: originally?

View this video from American Baptist International Ministries for World Mission Offering 2012 which covers the history of Nagaland and Christianity. Simply click on the image below.