The Flash! – March 13, 2014
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Greetings and salutations from your Church Administrator! Andy has been gracious enough to share this space with me as he travels with his family for the next couple of days. What an interesting time of year to begin a journey of work with Hanover! Lent has begun, a time of slowing down and reflecting on […]
The Flash! – March 6, 2014
Andy Jacob
March 6, 2014Last evening foreheads were smudged with ashes to mark the first of forty purple days of repentance. Each smudge reminds its bearer of the circle of life: that “we are dust, and to dust we shall return.” One of the passages read each year on Ash Wednesday is from the sermon on the […]
Hanover Youth Events
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Beyond Box City 25% of families in New Castle County live in poverty. Children make up 45% of Delaware’s homeless population. Family Promise of Northern New Castle County is an interfaith organization providing food and hospitality for homeless families. It engages 800+ volunteers through over 30 congregations to help families with children get back on-and […]
Soup Dinner & Taize Service
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Each Wednesday in Lent we will gather for a soup and bread meal and fellowship at 5:30pm in the Church School Hall. At 6:30pm we will make our way into the sanctuary for a Taize worship service. The services will invite us through music, readings, and prayer to quietly and contemplatively enter into God’s presence […]
The Flash! – February 27, 2014
Andy Jacob
February 27, 2014 This Sunday will be a carnival during and after worship! This being that last hurrah before Lent, we will joyfully, playfully, and yet reverently, worship God in the spirit of Mardi Gras. All are invited to don your favorite masks, beads, and bright colors. Masks will be the key. With a mask […]
The Flash! – February 20, 2014
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February 20, 2014 It was one of the most riveting moments in Olympic history. On Saturday morning the American hockey team faced off against the Russian team on their home ice. Tied 2-2 at the end of regulation play, and after a 4:00 minute sudden-death overtime period, the American team won in a “shootout”: a […]
The Flash – February 13, 2014
Andy Jacob
February 13, 2014 Mr. Webster says: Freedom: a) the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice of action, b) liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another; independence, c) the quality or state of being exempt or released from something onerous. As we continue and conclude our march of freedom through […]
The Flash! – February 6, 2014
Andy Jacob
February 6, 2014In the inexorable grip of heroin addiction and clinical depression, in the desperation of a failing musical career, and deep from valley of the shadow of the death by suicide of a close friend, folk singer James Taylor wrote the 1970 ballad Fire and Rain. The second verse is an unforgettable and timeless […]
The Flash! – January 30, 2014
Andy Jacob
January 30, 2014 When you arrive at 18th and Baynard on Saturday morning to attend the Freedom Forum, you will cross clear, clean, and safe sidewalks because a set of hands shoveled and salted. You will pass through doors adorned with bright fliers produced by gifted and creative minds. Once inside you will receive a […]
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