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Posts from 2016

Using the "More" Tag to Break After Specific Point

Normally, an excerpt is shown on the short view of a post (when viewing multiple posts). The excerpt is either manually entered by you or automatically generated from the first few sentences of a post. Instead of showing the excerpt, you can show the first part of your actual post content (including formatting, images, etc.) and control where it breaks.

For example, you are reading the main post content right now (not an excerpt) and the “more” tag has been placed directly after this paragraph. As a result, on the short view, no more content is shown after this paragraph. Instead, a button for reading the rest of the content is shown. The user then clicks that to view the full post.

6th Annual Quilt Show a Success!

The 6th Yuletide Quilt Show held on Saturday, December 3, 2016 was a great success. There were over 100 quilts and quilted items displayed in the sanctuary. Some quilts were new and made by the Community Quilt group and other members of the community. Some quilts were very old family treasures that had rather long and…

Youth Group Helps a Local Family

The Junior Youth Group went on a shopping trip this past Sunday to Stop & Shop to pick up over $100 in groceries for a local family in need. Each year, the church donates all the fixings for fourteen  Thanksgiving dinners for families in our community.  Distributed by Haddam Health, the dinners include stuffing, veggies,…

Bread Ministry Presents Check for Haddam Fuel Bank

At the morning service on Sunday, October 30, 2016, Ginny Evensen presented Candace Casale, Coordinator for Haddam Public Health,  with a check for $2033.  This amount represents the total raised by the FCCH Bread Ministry for their sale of artisan breads at this years Higganum Village Farmers’ Market. A big thank you to our 2016…

Quilt Show Raffle Tickets on Sale!

First Prize Entitled:  Butterfly Gift Created by the Haddam Community Quilting group, this beautiful quilt is comprised of twenty-four appliqued butterfly squares made by an unknown artist in the 1930’s.  The community group assembled and hand-quilted the quilt during the past year to produce this lovely masterpiece. Second Prize Entitled:  Gifts of Joy This lovely Christmas-…