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A TASTE OF WINCHENDON 2025

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I love this little town in Northern Massachusetts and the community it is practicing Our church had the opportunity to participate in The Taste of Winchendon festival. We played a part in the tie-dye table, the face painting table, the welcome table and a few other spots as volunteers. Above Lisa Johnson and Pastor Amanda are setting up the face painting tables.

Below Debby Parker is setting up chairs in the auditorium. She and her husband Ray, who is one of our new deacons helped set up and break down the tie-dye room. Debby stayed all day to help people tie-dye.

Heavy rain drove us inside to the Winchendon Senior Center for this event. What a wonderful venue. It was not lost on any of us that this building is one of the buildings that will be shuttered by June 30th if the town budget is not ratified to include the override.

Below is tie-dying team number one: Sandy Freeman, Debby Parker, Sean Taylor and Shaun Brierly.

The face painting crew. Herb Scott, Wendy Brouillet and Lisa Johnson.

More of our face painter Dani Taylor and Dawn Sandoval.

Pastor Amanda frying empanadas for the town luncheon.

Paul Hackett started the day manning the welcome center.

Our church DLT and outreach coordinator, Carrie Hackett posing with Morton Converse AKA David Alexander.

Below is my daughter-in-law Kristine with her friend Athena who is visiting from Australia.

My son Joe is buying some raffle tickets.

Deacon Michelle Ramos and friend Jessica Walker came into help with tie-dying too.

Later in the day Paul put on another of his hats and helped man the transportation table along with Walter Lahood and Walter’s wife Natalia.

My daughters share a moment over the uncommonly good cupcakes.

Sam and Mandi pictured below came in to have their faces painted and then stayed to help us clean up.

Here is the yearly community picture of the taste of Winchendon crew.

What kind of events does your community have coming up?

Share Your World Week #33 2016

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My participation in challenges has been exceedingly spotty in recent weeks. That is not for lack of trying but for lack of timing. The rhythm of life has been a bit catywhompus and I find myself in a constant state of readjustment to new events and “opportunities” that are arising.

This week I have posted my anchor blogs through Wednesday and I have chosen to come in to the office on a day when I am “not in” to do some creative writing. Answering challenges is a great warm up for my writer’s brain which feels a bit rusty just now from lack of use though definitely not from lack of material. I have been living life large and storing away a vast sea of experiences as fodder for the blank page.

But I digress. It is time to SHARE MY WORLD.

This is the challenge where our hostess, Cee, shares five questions and we, her contributors, answer them, thus, sharing with you, the readers, our world!

Click the underlined link to find all of Cee’s contributors and their worlds.

Here are the questions from week 33 and my answers:

Would you travel into outer space?

Of course I would! What an opportunity that would be and I bet there are fewer meetings in outer space meaning more free time.

Which country/city in the world (that you have never been to) would you most like to visit and why?

I would love to visit Reykjavik. I have flown into Keflavik airport before but this is all I saw of Iceland.

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Iceland

 

What could you do to breathe more deeply today?

Take and hour to just listen for the voice of God.

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Complete this sentence:  This creamy peanut butter sandwich could really use some …

Chunk spaghetti sauce.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? 

I am so grateful to have been able to meet with the staff of Calvary Christian Church in Lynnfield MA for a training on how to run a large church. I am also truly grateful for the hospitality of Pastor and Mrs. Schmidt who took such wonderful care of us while we were among them.

This week I am looking forward to the Toy Town Fall Fest at Ingleside. We are celebrating the acquisition of this property as a community recreation/ makerspace.