Sunday Services
​If you view this on your smartphone, you will need to download the Zoom app first. If you watch on a computer, once you click the link, it should direct you how to download Zoom. 
Special thanks to:Hallie and Bill Sorensen, Dave Irvine, Dave Bell, Robin Rubendunst, Cynthia and Dave Damer, Jen and Billy Yoxall, and Dylan Kormylo.
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Obviously, we prefer to worship together in person. While creating worship experiences remotely from different locations is a new challenge for us, we are glad to be able to offer an online experience. Technology has been a great gift to us during this time of physical isolation and social distancing, and NGCC is working on ways that we can better utilize it. We are working toward Zoom meeting for committees, for our children's ministries, and of course, for worship. As we slog our way through life during a pandemic, God is continually blessing us with new ways to minister!
Please remember that if you need anything, I am available by phone or email. You are all in my continued prayers!
Stay safe and healthy!

Faithfully, Judith
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EASTER SUNDAY
April 12, 2020
HALLELUJAH!  CHRIST IS RISEN!  HE IS RISEN INDEED!
With joyful hearts, we celebrate the Resurrection on this Easter Sunday. While we cannot gather in person in our own worship space, we still gather in spirit as the community of believers. 
Our NGCC Easter worship can be found here.  
Additionally, the Southern New England Conference of the United Church of Christ is offering an online Easter worship experience, led by our Conference leaders. While this service is intended for churches without the ability to create their own worship online, we wanted to offer it to you as well, since there is never too much worship on Easter.
To access this service, please use this link
Palm Sunday
April 5, 2020
Palm Sunday is when Christ began his journey into Jerusalem for the final week of his earthly life.
​​As we honor this sacred and special day, we have two Zoom recordings for worship. The first is the Palm Sunday worship with music and message. The second is a children's conversation for our younger members.
Maundy Thursday
April 9, 2020
Maundy Thursday is the day when we commemorate the events surrounding Christ's arrest. The traditional Maundy Thursday worship is a service of tenebrae, which involves reading the different scriptures of the final days of Christ's earthly life. For our online worship experience of Maundy Thursday, please use the link below.
Please remember that if you need anything, I am available by phone or email. You are all in my continued prayers!
Stay safe and healthy!

Faithfully, Judith

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Good Friday Message
April 10, 2020
This Friday does not feel “good.” Today, there is a heaviness in the air – a mix of sadness and anxiety. Commemorating the crucifixion is always heart-wrenching, as we remember the abuse and execution that Jesus endured. But, this year is especially difficult. With COVID-19 afflicting so many, people are feeling especially somber, even apart from the mournfulness of Good Friday. Staying home to be safe makes good sense, but it also makes people feel almost imprisoned.

This sense of confinement is also a theme of Good Friday. After Jesus died, his body was wrapped in burial cloths and confined in a tomb. All of the hopes and beliefs of his followers were crushed. Their spiritual leader, who had healed the sick and performed miracles and preached the good news, had been killed like a common criminal. They had thought Jesus was unstoppable. But now, his body lay in the darkness of the tomb.

And yet, what makes Good Friday “good” happened in that tomb. What we see as a place of death, was actually where a miraculous rebirth happened. Like a caterpillar inside a cocoon that grows and changes into a new creation, Christ’s body did not remain a lifeless corpse. What we see as the Good Friday tomb, God saw as the Good Friday womb.

Today, we sit with the discomfort of confinement. We know that God has promised new life, yet this is not when we celebrate it. This is the day to wait with heavy hearts, mourning the suffering around us, grieving the loss of life, and struggling to make sense of it all.
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On this dark day as we hold fast to God’s assurance of new life, may we remember that Christ’s grave became the womb that holds the promise of resurrection.