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Hedding Herald
Hedding United Methodist Church
A Spiritual Home, Sharing Christ in Community and Fellowship
October 2014
We Gather, We Share, We Trust in God’s Care,
Volume 29, Issue 2
As We Witness Our Faith To The World
Hedding Worship
Service:
And let us consider each other carefully
10:00 a.m.
for the purpose of sparking love and good deeds.
Hedding Sunday School
Don’t stop meeting together with other believers,
Adults & Children’s Sunday
School
which some people have gotten into the habit of doing.
9:00—9:45 a.m.
Instead, encourage each other, especially as you see the day drawing near.
Nursery is available for
infants through age 3
(Hebrews 10:24-25 CEB)
Hedding’s website:
Dear Hedding Family,
www.heddingumc.org
Peace and grace to you in the name of our Risen Savior Jesus
Inside this issue:
Christ!
Leadership LowDown
2
Outreach Ministry
3
Grand Isle UM Church
Restoration
3
Chicken Pie Supper
4
Ways to Help at Chicken Pie
Supper
5
UMW Meeting Minutes
6
Commited to Christ Study
7
Facts of Hunger in VT
8
Trustee Meeting Minutes
10
Returning to the Community 11
Women & Children First
12
Murder Mystery Dinner
Theater
13
Ladies Breakfast
13
Zimmerman’s Prayer Letter 14
September was an exciting month—we kicked off Sunday School,
celebrated our second “The Church Has Left the Building Sunday”, and
our Growing With Hope team made our first visit to Portland, ME to
explore new ways of being and doing church. God is not done with
Hedding UMC—there are many ways for us to engage with our
community and make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of
the world!
We may not be breaking attendance records (do you attend
worship EVERY week?) but we are breaking through to our community
with Jesus’ message of hope for a hurting world. Maybe it’s time to
re-think church to include those who come to the Food Shelf and the
Friday Community Supper? What if we include those who participate in
Rocking Horse and TOPS? Or those who participate in the life skills
programs offered by U-32 and Spaulding High School at Hedding? Every
day, lives are transformed at 40 Washington Street through our Sunday
AND weekday ministries!
What part are you playing in this transformation?
possibilities are endless....
Walking with you in God’s Amazing Grace,
Pastor Kim
Let’s talk—the
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submitted by Kelly DeFelice
October, 2014
Recently I was asked, “Why does the leadership team have to meet every week?” A good
question! Well, the team probably doesn’t have to meet every week. In my opinion, it’s a choice
to meet often for several reasons. The team first spends some time in prayer and quiet reflection.
We may talk about moments where someone has seen God in his or her life. In that way, the
team is a small group. It is important that individuals work in fellowship with other Christians.
Small groups allow a person to grow in faith with the help of other people who can provide
accountability and support.
Reviewing the calendar is part of many leadership team meetings. It may sound like a small
thing, but consider the activities that Hedding UMC is involved in. Just in the month of
September, HUMC…
Planned our “Fall Celebration” and resumed our children’s Sunday School.
Welcomed a representative of the Gideons.
Began a Lay Servants’ class.
Hosted the District UMW Annual meeting.
In October, Hedding United Methodist Church will…
Host a District Financial Conference.
Participate in World Communion Sunday.
Continue the Lay Servants’ class.
Prepare for our Church Council meeting on October 7th.
Begin the discipleship program, “Committed to Christ”.
Support our annual Chicken Pie supper.
As needed, the team plans, prepares, encourages volunteers, participates in, and reviews each
activity in an effort to learn, improve, and grow in Christ.
You are part of a vital community. The things I’ve listed take place in addition to the many other
activities that are planned and executed by the Hedding congregation. Some of these include the
work done by our committees and trustees, the Friday night free meals, the food shelf, ladies
breakfasts, UMW, choir, nursing home ministry, and more! You will also be given the opportunity
again this year to participate in or come and enjoy a Murder Mystery Dinner Theater!
Comments? ...Questions? Speak with Pastor Kie about participating in a leadership meeting
sometime. You are a valued member of the body of Christ here at Hedding United Methodist
Church.
“24
And let us consider how we may spur one another on
toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together,
as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—
and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” Hebrews 10:24-25 (NIV)
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Outreach Ministry News
Ok Hedding Family, September is gone and old man winter is just around
the corner. This also means that more of our neighbors will be struggling with the choice between
buying heating fuel or buying food. If you take any stock in the Farmers Almanac, they are saying
that this is going to be a very cold winter with snows as much as or more than last year. Hedding
family, there are folks who move to Vermont from other states thinking that there is employment
and low rents, but when they get here they find that most of the jobs are part-time and the rents
are high. I have met with families from Florida and Connecticut that were living in their cars. So
there is real need out there! If you can help with stocking our food shelf that would be a good
start. Most of what we need is peanut butter, jelly, tuna, pasta, sauce and macaroni and
cheese. Please come by some Friday night to visit with folks at our Friday night suppers….not only
will you get fed but you just may meet a new friend.
God Bless, Rev. Renny Azotea
Grand Isle United Methodist
Church Restoration
As you may know, Grand Isle United
Methodist Church had a kitchen fire on
Pentecost Sunday (June 2014). Thankfully no one
was injured. The fire displaced the congregation and
the community food shelf. Clean-up and re-building
are in progress with hopes of reopening in November.
The church is holding a yard sale on Friday,
October 10 from noon-5 and Saturday, October 11
from 9-3. Why not stop by and make a purchase to
help our brothers and sisters? If you wish to make a
donation: Restoration Fund, Dick Dickhaut, Treasurer,
Champlain Islands UMC Parish, PO Box 107, North
Hero VT 05474. {Please indicate if your donation is
targeted for the Food Shelf or Church Restoration.
Please keep Rev. Hyungyong Choi and the
congregation of Grand Isle in your prayers. Thank you!
Barbara Gould
Hayloft Inn
440 Clark Pond Road
North Haverhill, NH 03774
(Barb’s birthday is Oct. 3 if you’d like to surprise
her with a birthday card!)
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Chicken Pie Supper
October 18, 2014
Hedding United Methodist Church
Settings at 5:00 and 6:30
Adults $12.00
Children (ages 5-10) $6.00
Under age 5, Free
Menu: Chicken Pie, mashed potatoes, gravy,
squash, coleslaw, pickles, beet relish, cranberry sauce,
pie for dessert and beverages
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HUMC CHICKEN PIE SUPPER — OCTOBER 18, 2014
WAYS YOU CAN HELP!!
LOOK FOR SIGN-UPS IN EPWORTH HALL
Advertising!!
Tell your friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers!!!! Take a poster to put up on a bulletin board at
your work or your local store ………and call Carolyn Howe (476-8946) for reservations…………….Settings at
5:00 and 6:30 - $12.00/adults, $6.00/children 5-10, under 5 free
Supplies & Pies
Everything we need for the Chicken Pie Supper! Sign up for all or part of any item and as many
items as you want. It is very important that you bring the items no later than Friday night!!
Dessert pies – don’t want to bake – just call the Wayside, place your order for HUMC, make arrangement for
payment and we can pick them up. All pies must be at the church by noon Saturday
Friday 6:00 – 8:00 pm - Help peel squash & potatoes
The more the merrier!! And the quicker the job gets done!!
Bring your own knife and/or peeler or we have them ready and waiting for you!!
Saturday 9:00 – 11:00 am - Chicken pickers!!
Guys or gals needed! Chicken is cooked early that morning, so come and help pick the chicken off the
bone ready for the chicken pies.
Saturday 4:15 pm – Dining Room Servers
Wear white shirt/blouse and black or dark colored pants/skirt – we’ll supply the aprons. There are
two settings so if you can do one, but not both, just let us know.
Saturday 5:00 – Kitchen/Dishwashers
We serve 272 dinners so that means 272 plates, cups/saucers and silverware plus all the bowls and
pots and pans!! Can’t be on your feet for a long time…………just let us know and work as long as you can!
LOTS OF CHOICES!! NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED!!
WATCH FOR SIGN-UP SHEETS IN EPWORTH HALL OR SEE MARTHA SANBORN
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Hedding United Methodist Women – September 8, 2014
(Draft Minutes, subject to approval at next meeting)
The September meeting of the HUMW was held at Hedding UM Church at 6:00 pm. Those in attendance
were Melanie Magwire, Martha Sanborn, Charlene Calcagni-Boisvert, Charlene Helman, Carolyn Brusetti, Mary Ann
Ritchie, Pastor Kim Kie, Becky Mackin. Guests were Jim Archer and Rev. Renny Azotea.
Renny was our guest speaker for the evening and the meeting started with devotion and followed with our
September topic of National Hunger Month. A new study by the Vermont Foodbank and Feeding America shows that
1 in 4 people or an estimated 153,100 people in Vermont turn to food shelves and meal service programs to feed
themselves and their families. This includes 33,900 children and 26,010 seniors. These numbers are alarming. In Barre,
all children are now eligible for free meals at schools. Attached to this email, is the August release of facts regarding
hunger. (See Page 8 & 9 in this newsletter)
Shaw’s Supermarkets used to have food containers at their stores for customers to help support the VT
Foodbank but have removed those containers from their properties. Hannaford is a big contributor with assistance to
the food bank.
In our area, there are many people on FSU and the agency gives these individuals 4 months to find a job and a
place to live. SSI tries to give enough food for 3 meals. These items can include, but not limited to, a package of mac
& cheese, veg., cereal, tuna, drink, soup, noodles, and protein bar.
Many people have moved to VT with the notion that jobs were plentiful only to find out that this isn’t the case.
They are quickly looking for a place to live, meals, and eventually moving on to either the place that they left or
another area. The loss of jobs, downsizing, health problems, insurance costs, heating fuel expenses are causing people
to make many sacrifices. This includes trying to put food on the table to feed their families or themselves and pay bills.
Alarming facts show that a one room apartment with a shared bath and kitchen can be $650 a month. To rent, you need
a deposit of a month, plus the current rent.
Barre has four food shelves. They are located at the Salvation Army, Community Action, St. Monica’s Church
and the Hedding UM Church. Some churches will hand out food bags to those in need if they attend the services.
Renny said that currently the need for assistance is at an all time high since he has been in this area. If it weren’t for the
food shelters etc. in Central VT, where would people go? There are no family centers.
Federal funding is focused on trying to help people manage their money, have employment in place and try to
keep families together. Area shops such as Women & Children First, and the Benefit Shop help with clothing. We
were told that the Benefit Shop also has clothing for men.
If everyone would be willing to bring in one item each week when they attend church, it would be a big help to
the food bank.
Old Business –
October 4th is the Vermont Resource on Stewardship meeting at HUMC.
Our wash cloth project for the Circle Shelter and the Haven has started. Our goal is to complete 48 items. Mary
Ann is checking with Steve Bullard to see if we might be able to obtain items from the company he works for, and
Carolyn B was going to speak with Dr. Crumbaker. Melanie Magwire and Donna Fuller are each purchasing 20
washcloths and stitching them. Kim K offered to purchase 12 deodorants along with Charlene H offering the same.
We will be discussing Thanksgiving and Christmas projects for the shut ins. Some suggestions were handmade
cards, magnets, book marks, small plants. We will talk about this project and visitation at our October meeting.
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(HUMW September 8
Draft Minutes, continued)
Charlene Helman spoke on our spiritual
growth. We are currently on Chapter 8 of our
Giving God Your All. Some people were
finding that the book wasn’t giving us the
growth we were looking for and wondered if we
should find another book that we could read and
discuss in greater depth. After a discussion of
those in attendance we decided that we will
continue to finish the book we are on and look
for something different when this is finished.
Chapter 8 was not discussed at the September
meeting. We will do Chapter 8 and 9 at the
October UMW meeting.
All pledges haven’t been met for the
year. If you have forgotten to make your
pledge, please send or give your check to
Charlene Calcagni-Boisvert.
Martha Sanborn, President of our UMW
asked those in attendance on what direction our
group wanted to head for next year. Did we
want to continue being the HUMW and work on
the local, state and national level, obtain a
packet of programs and have officers as we have
done, OR work only here at Hedding and on a
local level. The group decided that they wanted
to continue what we had started and stay as the
HUMW. We need to do more with spiritual
growth, find good programs that allow us to all
work together and have the church family
support.
Charlene Helman noted that Hedding
will be doing the Mystery Dinner Theater again
this year and it will be the weekend of March
7th, 2015. More info will follow.
Chicken Pie Supper is scheduled for
October 18th. It will be advertised in the World,
and there is a sign up sheet at the church for
those interested in the areas needed.
At 7:50 Pastor Kim closed with prayer.
With Blessings,
Donna Fuller HUMW Secretary
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Sept. 9, 2014 Trustee Meeting
(Draft Minutes, subject to approval at next meeting)
Attending: Mary Ann R, Jon K, Martha S, Ken S, Chair Scott H, Jim A, Tim H, Rev. Renny, Karen Z.
Devotions by Chairperson Scott.
Approved July 18, 2014 minutes Mary Ann, second Martha.
Rev. Renny Report:
1. Our steeple needs attention. We received one quote from Southgate Steeple for around $110,000. Thoughts about
making this project a capital improvement project for Hedding. Some folks that don't attend Church regularly may
want to be involved with this project. One other quote coming from Al Smith, Burrell Roofing and others.
2. Pre bought 50 tons of pellets and $10,000 dollars worth of fuel oil for parsonage and Church.
3. Tim will work on getting the garage door installed before the snow accumulates.
4. New dishwasher was installed at parsonage from Sears $975.00.
5. The Hope Gateway workshop has been paid for Pastor Kie and team $1,300. We just have to find some
housing for the group while they attend.
6. The second half of the elevator maintenance agreement for 2014 has been paid to Kone Elevator $1093.00.
7. Financial Report - We continue to pay down our Capitol Improvement Loan at Edward Jones, current
balance is $560,856. Hans A. is doing a great job of investing our funds for Hedding.
Trustee Budget Committee was formed - Karen, Jon and Rev. Renny. The Mission Budget will be done by
different folks and Martha/Jon will discuss that.
Martha reported that the current balance in the Mission Account has over $50,000 in it. Discussions entailed
the idea of reallocating the percentage of Reynolds money to help defray the Church's ongoing building and
upkeep costs. Our building does house many missions. Ongoing discussions.
Safe Sanctuary discussion regarding the divider downstairs that is all broken up - we will throw it away
and move the one that is upstairs to Fellowship Hall.
Historian Steve Martin and Chair Scott H. had a meeting and went thru all our old documents. Trustees
decided to open a small safety deposit box for our deeds and a few other important files. Mary Ann
will place the rest of the papers in the Archives located in Fellowship hall.
Fall Work Bee....stayed tuned :)
Chicken Pie Dinner...October 18th!
Next meeting scheduled for November 11, 2014. Hans A. from Edward Jones will attend.
Respectively Submitted,
Karen Zecchinelli
Secretary, HUMC
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Women & Children First
Hedding’s Face of Christ on Main Street
Submitted by Martha Sanborn
Women & Children First is brimming with fall clothing!! Be sure to watch for the coupon in
the WORLD for 25% off during the month of October.
Please think of us if you have winter coats, jackets, snow suits, boots, sweaters etc that you or
your children no longer need.
Be sure to stop in to say Hi! to the gals and meet our new employee Jodie Murray.
Congratulations to Annette & Jim
Corliss! They celebrated their
30th wedding anniversary on
September 29!
Covenant Hills Camp News
Check out what’s happening at Covenant Hills! Hold down the CTRL
button on your computer keyboard and click on the link below. It will
take you to the July issue of the Covenant Hills Newsletter:
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs159/1104039006695/
archive/1117773924351.html
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Coming in early March!
Saturday, March 7
12:00 matinee and 5:00 evening performances
Enjoy Dinner and Dessert!
Enjoy a murder mystery with audience participation in solving
the mystery!
Needed: 6 male, 7 female actors
Set & Costume help
Kitchen/Dining Room helpers
If you are interested in being a player or helping in some way,
please contact Charlene Helman at 476-4032.
Ladies Intergenerational Breakfast
Submitted by Ginny McNamara
On Saturday, September 13th, ladies of our church gathered for a time of fellowship and a craft.
The morning began with a blessing given by Cindy Bullard.
Epworth Hall buzzed as we enjoyed our breakfast that included a breakfast casserole (which was a
new recipe tested on the group), a fresh fruit salad, and an assortment of baked goods. The four tables of
ladies shared stories of their week, of trips to the Tunbridge Fair, upcoming travel abroad, grandchildren,
and more. Each of us in different places of our lives yet united in our faith.
"Be still, and know that I am God." Pastor Kim began with Psalms 46:10 from the Bible. She
shared the history of prayer beads in the Protestant faith and how she first learned of them. Pastor Kim
brought the supplies for us to make our own prayer beads. We chose colors, rolled our beads, some
making a bead for each day of the week while others made a bead for each member of the family to use
as we pray. The beads were baked and put on a string. Each string of beads was made from the same
choices of polymer clay. They were lovely, some looking like a small globe, each as different as each of
us.
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Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers,
but fellow citizens with God's people and also members of his household
Ephesians 2:19
Dear Friends,
20 July 2014
I first met Trevor Strong in 1987. I’d come to Nepal to work as a volunteer doctor and he was the Director of a
mission hospital on the outskirts of Kathmandu. He was a large, engaging man with a shock of pure white hair and a quick
smile, his boyish lilt and gestures belying his 70 years.
Trevor invited me back to his house for dinner and I met his wife Patricia. In tandem, they ushered me into their
apartment, the one bringing out snacks and drinks while the other gave me a seat of honor and dove into conversation. A little
while later Patricia placed steaming bowls of food on the table and Trevor led me over to the feast saying, “There you have it,
Mark. Now sit right down and work away.” From the start we were like old friends. I asked about their lives and together they
told me stories that fed my imagination.
After growing up in Ireland, they’d met in medical school during the Second World War and were posted to a hospital
in London during the Blitz. They fell in love and got engaged, making their marriage conditional upon both being accepted to
go overseas as medical missionaries.
They came to India in 1947 just after its Partition and had to be escorted by soldiers over an embattled land up to the
Duncan Hospital on the India-Nepal border. Finding that the institution had been moth-balled during the War, they proceeded
to revitalize the hospital and its staff. For most of the next 10 years these two worked as the only doctors, Trevor doing the
surgery, Patricia the obstetrics, and both sharing the thousands of other patients who came in. In appreciation for Trevor’s
having operated on injured soldiers during the Nepal revolution, the King of Nepal invited him up into secluded Kathmandu –
in those days only accessible by a 3-day walk across the mountains. While working in India, they had four children, sending
each of them in turn to South India for boarding school.
I had originally planned to stay in Nepal for only four months, but was soon captivated by the place. When Trevor,
who was my boss at Patan Hospital, asked if I’d like to be posted for another year in a hospital in the mountains, I jumped at
the idea. During the week before my transfer to that hospital, I stayed with the Strongs and, picturing the span of their life, I
first came to consider the richness of making a career as a medical missionary. After my first two years in Asia – which were
the last of the Strongs’ forty – in 1990 I signed on long-term with the United Methodist Church to continue working in Nepal.
During my first furlough in 1993, I stopped for a week in Ireland to visit Trevor and Patricia. They took me on a
whirlwind tour that started with the sights of Dublin and proceeded to their cottage in the west. We drove across the farmlands
and through hamlets, stopping for a picnic lunch by a lake. I remarked to them, “It’s the very clouds that make this place so
lovely.” That day, Patricia and I managed to swim in the frigid Irish Sea in the morning and in the cool Atlantic Ocean that
evening. Trevor chortled encouragement from both beaches – ‘strands’ as the Irish call them.
In the winter of 1998, on the eve of my taking the job as Director of 300-bed Patan Hospital, I arranged for a 3-day
retreat to the Strongs’ cottage. The weather was cold, damp, and dreary. I came in from walks in the countryside to sit beside
their peat fire and talk. They listened to my concerns. We prayed. Hearty meals appeared one after another. I returned to Nepal
feeling ready to plunge into the challenging job that awaited me. Their string of aerogrammes (for 20 years, I was always one
or two letters behind) extended the conversation and prayer that I’d experienced in their home.
A year later Trevor wrote that he’d like to come to Nepal and India one last time – to bid goodbye to his old friends.
Patricia was not strong enough to make the journey. According to Trevor’s directions I arranged his itinerary. Whether he
spoke to groups of mission expatriates or to Nepali doctors, his message and presence carried an almost-physical sense of
uplift. He often exhorted his audience with a single gentle shake of two weathered fists.
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(Zimmerman Prayer Letter, continued)
One afternoon during that trip, Trevor and I took a short picnic hike. After lunch, I screwed up the courage to tell him about
my romantic hopes for a seemingly reluctant Irish woman. He was 80 by then and we’d never broached the subject before, so
I didn’t know if he’d be comfortable with this line of talk.
“You met her last night, Trevor. She’s Deirdre Lloyd.”
His face lit up and his voice turned conspiratorial. “Well, obviously you’ve chosen well, and not a bad looking girl
either. Don’t be deterred, Mark. It’s the man’s job to assure a woman of his love and to remove any shred of doubt in her
mind.” I knew that I’d just recruited the Strongs’ prayers for this new mission. A little over a year later, Trevor gave the
sermon at our wedding in a country church south of Dublin.
Trevor and Patricia from Ireland; Frank and Val Garlick from Australia; Helen Huston from Canada; Rut Peterson
from Sweden; Dick and Sue Harding from the U.S. – these were all medical missionaries who befriended me here in Nepal.
Some of my dearest friends were these folks who were quite senior to me. They’re now in their 80s and 90s, scattered around
the world in their home countries. Most made the transition from aerograms to email, but none managed to completely leave
this mountainous place that we’d all wandered into years before. First, they inspired me and now their prayers seem to sustain
us here.
Last week, Deirdre’s father dropped me in the center of Dublin and I boarded a bus for the west of Ireland. Now
holding dual citizenship, I’m always glad to see more of my adoptive country. On another day of dappled sunshine, I looked
out across the same scenery as my journey with the Strongs 21 years before. The names of neat towns were distantly familiar –
Longford, Charlestown, Swinford. The bus careened down narrow country roads, sometimes brushing against the leaves of
overhanging branches. The evergreen fields held horses, lazy cattle, and rusting farm ploughs. And there were the clouds:
seeming to emanate from just over the horizon and sweep close overhead, billowing stacks of cumulus streaked and
undergirded gray. Pastel-colored houses washed in sunlight stood against this brooding sky.
The directions to my destination held true. Deirdre had said to me that morning, “You can just ask as you go. They’re
friendly – the Irish are.” The bus journey took 4 hours and I walked down into the town of Foxford, past the Woolen Mill
established during the Irish famine, along a road by the River Moy, and into the Black Rocks Nursing Home. I introduced
myself to an attendant who asked me to wait in the Day Room.
I heard his voice from down the hallway. The attendant murmured my name, and he said to her, “Oh my! Mark
Zimmerman! Well you have brought tidings of great joy. Mark’s a dear old friend.”
She pushed Trevor into the room. He’d lost a great deal of his vitality since I last saw him 6 years before. His voice
was now childlike; his body sunk into the wheelchair.
I was the only one there, but he looked at me quizzically. “I’m Trevor Strong. And who are you?!”
“I’m Mark. Mark Zimmerman, Trevor.” Then he exuberantly greeted me as an old friend.
How was he doing? I described my trip that day. And then gradually I touched on our shared history. Nepal. Their
time in India. Patan Hospital. My trips to visit them in Ireland. My wedding and growing family. He seemed to remember
none of it. He spoke tenderly and repeatedly of his loss of Patricia two years before, and of physically letting her go, ‘as the
Good Lord took her home to Gloryland.’
Someone had warned me, saying ‘Trevor’s not the person he once was.’ But after I laid aside my initial sadness, I
found him in the most important way unchanged. He took my hand in his or slapped me on the knee with a laugh to emphasize
his
appreciation of something I said. He spoke of Jesus like the Lord had taken residence in a client room just down the
hall. ‘He doesn’t keep me at a distance, our Lord, not just some high-and-mighty far-off God.’ We prayed twice during my
visit, conversation melding with prayer.
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(Zimmerman Prayer Letter, continued)
After lunch they put him to bed. When I came into his room, he sat up, propping his head against the wooden headboard.
Eventually our conversation died out and when he appeared tired I suggested he lay his head down on the pillow. But he’d
resolved that he wouldn’t surrender to sleep while I was still there. I cherished a last, long embrace and as I walked out of his
room, he was saying, “You’re a great man, Mark. You’re a great man.”
This summer Deirdre, the boys, and I spent a month in our birth countries. Out on the Dingle Peninsula in Country
Kerry, we joined Deirdre’s clan to celebrate her father’s 70th birthday. In Pennsylvania and the New Jersey shore, my Mom,
sisters, brother, and I were all together for the first time in 15 years – celebrating my Mom’s 90th and before that my Aunt
Marie’s 80th. It was a time that will only happen once.
Seeing our families in their houses, settled in
lands that appear familiar, all of them getting on with
their careers, their friendships and growing kids – leads
me to consider our unexpectedly long run here in Nepal
and to wonder about ‘home’. How all these folks like
Trevor have come to feel like kin. What our final
destination will be like – towering Himalaya or tidy
farms nestled by the sea. And whether there will be
someone there to welcome us in, sit us down with a
lilting laugh, and maybe slap us on the knee.
Love, Mark, Deirdre, Zachary, and Benjamin
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Wesley Groups:
Monday Morning Women’s
Wesley Group
DATES
9:30 am — See Carolyn
Peake or Charlene
Calcagni-Boisvert
TO
REMEMBER
5 — Crop Walk, beginning at 1 pm
7 — Church Council Meeting, 7 pm, Rm. 1B
7 — Committed to Christ class, 6-7pm
16 — Returning to the Community event, 4:30-8:30pm,
Alumni Hall, Barre
18 — Hedding’s Chicken Pie Supper,
seatings 5:00 & 6:30pm
27 — Bishop’s Visit, Trinity UMC, Montpelier 2-5pm with
clergy; 6:30-8:30 pm with interested laity
SAVE THE DATE — March 7, Hedding Murder Mystery
Dinner Theater, 12:00 matinee & 5:00 evening
performances
Hedding
Community
Food Shelf
UMW Meeting
October 13
— 6:00 pm
at Hedding
Hedding is operating a food shelf
twice a week on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3-5
pm and with the down turn in the economy we have
been serving more and more families. If everyone
could bring in at least one canned food item a week it
won't take long to fill our shelves. Spaghetti sauce,
tuna, peanut butter and canned fruit are some of the
things we need most. So as you shop for yourself,
please pick up an extra can for our food shelf. Remember every little bit helps.
Thank you and God Bless,
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Volume 29, Issue 2 — October
October Birthdays
Hedding United
Methodist Church
1
Charlie Martin
3
Barbara Gould
Pastor:
Pastor Kim Kie
Outreach Minister:
Rev. Br. Renny Azotea
E–mail address:
[email protected]
Office Hours:
Cassandra Garland
22
Vickie Gauthier
Steven Cayia
23
Houghton Cate
Lauren Preddy
24
Sonya Spaulding
5
Steve Lightholder
25
Peter Gomez
9
Maurice Fortier
10
Jasmine Smedy
27
Lori Chartier
Grace Pierce
29
Amanda Pierce
16
Timothy Hudson
30
Sarah Helman
17
Alba Rossi
18
Brad Young
4
[email protected]
Wed. is Pastor Kim’s Sabbath (as
noted on calendar)
Shirlee Inglis
Vivian Cayia
E-mail address:
Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 9-12
and Fri. 1-5 or by appointment
19
Caroline Quigley
James Mackin
If your birthday is not listed and you would like it to be, please contact
Carolyn Howe (476-8946 or [email protected]) or the church office.
Tuesday, 9-3 & Friday,
9-5, by appointment only
Wed. & Thurs., 9-5
Vouchers & Food Shelf:
Wed. & Thurs. 3-5
The next issue of the Herald will be the November issue.
The deadline will be October 16.
The deadline for the monthly Herald is the third Sunday of each month.
You may email submissions to Carolyn Howe ([email protected]).
Administrative Assistant
Kelly DeFelice
Office Hours:
Hedding Herald Staff
Executive Editor — Pastor Kim Kie
Tuesday—Friday
General Editor — Carolyn Howe
9:00 am—Noon
Contributing Reporters
Phone 476-8156
Outreach News — Rev. Renny Azotea
E-mail: heddingumc
Ladies Breakfast — Ginny McNamara
@hotmail.com
Women & Children First — Martha Sanborn
Organist:
Chicken Pie Supper—Martha Sanborn
Vicki Gauthier
Choir Director
Charlene Helman
The Gardens Pastor
Carolyn Peake
Church Council
Meets Quarterly
UMW Minutes — Donna Fuller
Trustee Minutes — Karen Zecchinelli
Leadership LowDown — Kelly DeFelice
Murder Mystery Dinner Theater — Charlene Helman
Grand Isle Methodist Church Restoration — Pastor Kim Kie
Prayer Letter — Mark & Deidre Zimmerman
The Hedding Herald is published by Hedding United Methodist Church.
Pastor Kim Kie, Office (802-476-8156); Parsonage (802-476-7904)
Charlene Helman,
Chairperson
Have You Considered Remembering Your Church In Your Will?
Volume 29, Issue 2 — October
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