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Pastor’s Vision Statement for 2024 Stewardship Time

“For God so loved the world, that God gave….” (John 3:16, NRSV)

We stand at a defining point in time.  We look back to German immigrants who desired to express their faith in their own way and found a way.  Today the language may be different, but we still desire to express our faith in our own way at the United Church of Clinton. We enter into a time that may usher us forth into the unknown, faithfully seeking with promise and hope.  It will take a team; it will take a fiery flock to be more specific. A fiery flock that is called to give back to God.

Rev. Kenneth Samuel writes: “There’s no better place to begin a consideration of what we should give back to God than with an appreciation for [what] God has given to us.”  As we are entering into the season of Epiphany, we embrace a sense of thanks for God’s greatest gift in sharing the Christ Child with us. “May my spirit leap as I think about your generosity, O God. May my gifts do the same.” (Kaja Dousa)

“Giving ought to be proportional to our means, too.  If we have less, we give less; if we have more, then more. Giving shouldn’t impoverish us, even though it’s good to stretch ourselves as much as we can. The point is to make sure that the community has what it needs. This year it might be you giving a lot, next year it might be someone else.” says Mary Luti.  This is all so very true. In all things, there are seasons. This is true in giving as well.

As we look to our church’s future, we need to ask ourselves, “where is God leading and how can I help?”  We seek all good things for our church, and we need assistance with that. Can you join a team that is eager to extend the love of Christ into the community and world?

Visions speak loudly these days. May the vision of this small, but mighty church stirs in your soul.  Can we trust that you can come forward and be a part of the mission and stewardship of things to come whatever they are for the United Church of Clinton?

In Peace, Gratitude, and Blessings,

Pastor Marilyn Wilcox

The Word “consecration” means dedicate in a sacred manner. On Consecration Sunday, this coming Sunday, we bring forth to dedicate our pledge cards that will help cover our financial expenses going into this year. We wait upon you for your generosity and offer our thanks ahead of time for your commitment to our church. Thanks to those who already have submitted their pledge cards.

2024 Stewardship Campaign – Moderator’s Statement

Seeking all good things and looking for new roads:

In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy and friends didn’t know what adventures the yellow brick road would lead them into, but they had faith the Wizard could help. Our church knows it must journey to a new reality to remain relevant, but we do not yet know where we are going. And that’s O.K. We can’t always know where we are supposed to be going. So this coming stewardship season please reflect on what our church means to you, what it does for you. What more it could be doing. Please pray to God for guidance for our leadership, and for all of us. Guidance that can show us road to relevance. After all it was the journey on the yellow brick road that transformed the travelers, not the Wizard.

In the next few weeks, we will be going down a road together highlighting the theme “Seeking All Good Things.” We will be going on a journey focusing on what is promising for our church and the avenues we need to take to provide for our expenses and social justice outreach work. As you will see in this mailing, the pie charts highlight those expenses and missions we attended to for the year 2023. For the year 2024, our expenses will be similar, perhaps more. We need your assistance, and therefore pledge, to make this all work. The road ahead is indeed unknown. We seek good in the journey. We can make it happen!

Our consecration Sunday will be on Sunday, Feb. 11th when we will have a waffle luncheon after worship. Also this will be an opportunity to meet our new UCC Area Minister, Rev. Carol Steinbrecher. Please bring your pledge card then or mail it to the church office (109 Haskell Avenue, Clinton, MA 01510) and mark it in care of Heather McNamara, our financial secretary. Heather will be the only one who will know that your pledge is to protect privacy and confidentiality.

Our church is doing great things! We are carrying out God’s mission to do good works, thus we celebrate seeking all good things. Please consider helping us on this path.

Looking forward to exploring this further in the weeks ahead.

Bob Lidstone, Moderator

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The United Church of Clinton is a place where many of us feel at home. We are a church home to people from all backgrounds, and we rejoice in each new person who comes our way. We hope that your use of this website becomes a means of building our community as we recognize and get to know each other better.

Our goal is to enable you to make faith in God a vital part of your everyday life. We create environments where worship is meaningful and contemporary, teaching from the Bible is relevant to life situations, friendships are significant, care is compassionately encouraging and prayer is practiced as continuing communication with God. Visitors say that they welcome our size as it provides lots of meaningful choice and an opportunity to “check things out” as they get acquainted. You may have noticed our motto on your Sunday Bulletin: “God’s people loving and serving God ”.  This is our mission—it describes who we strive to be.  We like to think it’s how you might describe us after you have an opportunity to know us better.