Join us for Worship each Sunday at 11:00am
Church School for all ages begins at 10am every Sunday
Adult Sessions
Finding Comfort in Difficult Times
November 3
Structured discussion of A Girl in the River. If you were not able to attend the showing on October 20, you can watch it on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7a-nOOXdtA
November 10
The speaker will be from the RI Rapha Project An organization that focuses on women of color in the community who struggle with substance abuse, mental health disorder, and trauma. Their main focus is to help women access treatment and care. They provide “Rapha Circles” which are healing circles that include discussions and activities that help women prioritize themselves in a way that helps lead them to a successful wellbeing.
November 17
Lectio divina: – leader TBD
“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.” Psalm 46:1-3
November 24
Bible Stories of Comfort and Hope
A Time for Quiet Meditation and Reflection
Tuesdays – 12:00 – 1:00
Join us in the Auditorium for a few minutes or the full hour. Please enter and leave silently.
Book Groups
Wednesday Ladies Group at 1:00 via Zoom
Practice the Pause : Jesus’ Contemplative Practice, New Brain Science and What It Means to Be Fully. Human by Carolyn Oakes
Thursday Evening at 5:45 via Zoom
Sessions with Psalms by Eric and Alicia d. Porterfield
For more information contact Linda Bausserman
Garden of Earthy Delights
Stop by daily and grab a bite to eat or pull a weed.
We will have a work day at the end of October to close the garden for the season. There are still peppers, tomatoes and root crops waiting for you.
Choir
You are invited to join the choir. We meet in Fellowship Hall each Thursday evening at 7:30 pm and on Sunday morning at 9:30.
Did you know? The Meeting House will be 250 years old in 2025. There will be celebrations next year. While you wait, check back here for some building facts from the book First by J.Stanley Lemons. (You can purchase the book at the Meeting House.)
- Until 1802, the basement of the Meeting House was primitive and unfinished. It had been rented out to local businessmen, was a practice room for an incipient church choir, and had been used to store the hearse which the Charitable Baptist Society had imported from England in 1791.
- In 1802, it was improved to create a meeting room, which was still dim and damp when the Sunday School began in 1819. As the Sunday School grew, more space was carved out. In 1837, the floor was leveled and finally in 1857, after years of debate, the whole lower region was excavated and reconstructed.
- In February 1774, some of the leading men associated with the church began planning for a new larger building. In addition to deciding on the design of the building, they needed land. Unfortunately, the main parcel they wanted was owned by John Angell who despised the Baptists. So, an Anglican friend, William Russell Purchased the Angell property and sold it to the Charitable Baptist Society.
- Monetary pledges were made to cover most of the cost of the meeting house. Those who could not give money donated labor and materials. Daniel Hawkins pledged £6 to be paid in timber & bords, and John Pettis pledged £9 to be paid in stones. The expense accounts also record “Licker at Raiseings & at other times…£22.
- James Gibbs sketched four designs for the steeple of the Church of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fieldsin London, one of which was chosen and used in 1726. The other three appeared in Gibb’s Book of Architecture (1728), and Joseph Brown, architect for the Meeting House, picked one of those for the Meeting House.
- The steeple was erected in 3 1/2 days in June 1775.
