by Stacey Hilliard | Mar 19, 2025 | News
On the eve of International Trans Day of Visibility, please join your neighbors and friends at a special VIGIL OF LOVE AND SUPPORT for our Trans Community:
Sunday, March 30 at 4:00pm
Woburn United Methodist Church
523 Main St., Woburn.
This event is being hosted by Pastor Bill Hoch of the Woburn United Methodist Church. Additional sponsors include Woburn PRIDE, LexPRIDE, Know Your Neighbor Woburn, WMHS Spectrum Club, Woburn Welcomes, and Mystic Valley NAACP.
Additional Faith Leaders taking part include Rev. Derek White (he/him), North Congregational Church, Rev. Raphaela Mueller (she/her), Montvale Congregational Church, and Rev. Emily Hamilton (she/her), Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
MUSIC to be provided by:
JOHANNA TULLOCH (she/her)
Lead Singer, “Trophy Wives”
ANDREW GIORDANO (he/him)
Singer, Broadway Actor
TODD THIEERAULT (he/him)
Piano Accompanist/Music Director
Hear from guest speakers including Lead Speaker, Dr. AC Goldberg (he/him), Intersex/Transgender Professor, Northeastern University, and Internationally recognized Trans Activist and Thought Leader and others, including:
Lizebeth DeSelm (she/her, they/them)
Chair, Melrose Democratic City Committee:
Former Melrose School Committee Member
Billie Bee (she/her)
Writer, Carographer, and Leader of the
Sleepy Cities Club Trans Support Group
Siobhan Mazor (she/her)
Member of Kahai B’raira
Secular Humanistic Jewish Congregation
Noah Mammino (he/him, they/them)
Spectrum Club, Woburn Memorial High School
by Stacey Hilliard | Mar 16, 2025 | Sermons
As we continue to explore the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23, we are (as CS Lewis put it) “Surprised by Joy.” Joy does seem to take us by surprise when it comes. So how can it be a predictable fruit?
– Pastor Anne
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by Stacey Hilliard | Mar 10, 2025 | Conversations
“Mary Magdalene is a prominent figure in the story of Jesus’ life and resurrection. She is one of the few named women who is a follower of Jesus. She has a pivotal role in the Gospels, because she is the first to see him resurrected (Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, John 20).
“This Lent, let’s consider using Mary Magdalene as our guide, following Jesus as she did…
“We are invited to listen to his teachings and witness his healing work as described in the Gospels. We are asked to journey with him to Jerusalem and witness his final days and crucifixion. Like Mary Magdalene, we are also beckoned to wake up early on Easter and go to the tomb, only we know that we will find it empty! We are called to share the good news with each other. We are charged with sharing our encounters with the risen Christ.”
This is just the beginning of a devotional written by Rev. Tiffany McDonald. Read Rev. McDonald’s complete devotional, as published in the March 10 issue of UM Now, HERE.
by Stacey Hilliard | Mar 9, 2025 | Sermons
The first Sunday in Lent almost always focuses on Jesus’ being tempted by Satan in the wilderness. And while the wilderness in Judea isn’t known for its edible fruit, Jesus gets through the temptations by drawing on a different kind of fruit entirely—the fruit of the Spirit.
– Pastor Anne
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by Stacey Hilliard | Mar 2, 2025 | Sermons
On this particular Sunday I had the honor of baptizing Susan Caruso’s new great grandson, Lorenzo Michael Vardaro. Methodists call Baptism both a sacrament and a covenant. We call marriage a covenant but not a sacrament and Holy Communion a sacrament but not a covenant. So what’s a covenant anyway?
– Pastor Anne
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