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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-…

2016 VBS Penny Wars Champions

Congratulations to the NARWHALS, the winners of the 2016 Vacation Bible School Penny War Mission Project Competition!  This group of 4th & 5th graders brought in over 4,500 pennies and hundreds of other coins to become the Penny War Champions and winners of the Perpetual Penny War Trophy. All the VBS campers are to be congratulated for…

Mother’s Day Blanket Sunday

Mother’s Day Blanket Sunday Sunday, May 8th On Sunday, May 8th, the FCCH Christian Service Committee invites you to remember and honor your mother (or another cherished person in your life) by “purchasing” a blanket. Contributions of $10.00 (or more) allow Church World Service (CWS) to purchase blankets for people in crisis situations in the US and around the…

Make-A-Blanket Day

FCCH and HCC are joining forces to create beautiful hand-tied fleece blankets for the children at Riverview Hospital in Middletown, the state’s psychiatric hospital for children. We will be working on them on April 19th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 6 pm to 8 pm in the HCC Fellowship Hall.  A light lunch…

Harvest House Dinner April 17th

Harvest House Dinner Sunday, April 17th Twice a year FCCH  prepares and serves the Sunday evening dinner at St. Stephen’s Harvest House Community Soup Kitchen.  If you would like to help out for a few hours with either purchasing ingredients, cooking, and/or serving, please contact the church office or Ginny Evensen. As posted on St. Stephen’s website:…

A Beautiful Feast

This Thanksgiving, the congregation donated enough food items to fill fourteen turkey baskets (lovingly decorated by our Sunday school children!) for families in our community through Haddam Public Health. The baskets included everything needed for a Thanksgiving Feast, all but the turkeys, which were graciously donated by Michelle Crete from Northeast Clearing.  Thank you one and all!

Giv2 Feeding Children Everywhere Event

Thirty spots for Giv² participants have been reserved at the Feeding Children Everywhere Holiday Hunger Project December 12, 11 a.m. – noon We are going to be packing meals for malnourished children. This is very meaningful, especially during our holiday season so filled with food and treats. They also make these events very fun with competitions…