From The Front Landscape and Accessibility Committee

Published in Enews March 8, 2024

We’re delighted to report that, after 11 months of research, review and interviews, St. Andrew’s has engaged a landscape architect to design the renovation of the front landscape! With safety, accessibility and hospitality as priorities, this committee is exploring with him how best to embody the spirit and the welcome of our congregation, and shepherd people in through our red doors. Goals include improving entry access and the way we use and navigate our front property; enhancing the presence of the whole of our Main Street frontage; designing a beautiful look that is harmonious with the surrounding village; and implementing best environmental and horticultural practices. As this is a “hundred-year” project, and as it affects the physical, outward “face” of our church, we are discerning with great care. It is exciting to begin this new stage in the development of the project!

Rebecca Briccetti, Chair; Liz Carey, Jeff Collins, Shelli Gay, John McCausland, Melissa Trafton, Binney Wells, Jim Whinn

Thanks Be to God!

“For what was, for what is, for what will be, thanks be to God!”

The work of our parish community is a call-and-response. If we attend closely, we become aware of these exhortations echoing from two hundred years of St. Andrew’s past. When we roll up our shirtsleeves today, we step right into the loving responsibility of care. And as for the future, the energy of St. Andrew’s family, together with the resources of the Capital Campaign, will help us meet challenges we have yet to face.

May the Lord make his face shine on you, and be gracious to you.

St. Andrew's and Our Neighbors

“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” If it were easy to forego our personal wishes for ourselves, it would be easy to give our wealth to others, right? When you are weighing how or whether to make a gift, it may help to remember how St. Andrew’s strives to contribute to both our literal neighbors and to the wider community – around New Hampshire, and even abroad. For example, our neighbor-love extends from Got Lunch with local school kids all the way to solar panels added to Head to Head school in rural Haiti. The Mission Tithe plank of the Capital Campaign ensures that our generosity in this work reaches a wider community, too.

 2 Corinthians 9:6-8 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.