Alright, looks like we’re leaning toward Saturday mornings, starting Saturday, January 20th. Another option is Sundays right after church.

Update: We’ve decided! We’re meeting on Sundays, right after church (well, about a half-hour after second service to give people time to converse and connect with others). We’ll start meeting on Sunday, January 21st!

We’ll go for about eight weeks, meeting in the chapel room at the Belchertown UCC parish house on the common, with light refreshments and pastries and juices and such. It promises to be a boatload of fun!

[Okay, I'm not sure if you've ever had anyone describe a prayer group as "a boatload of fun"...]

While we wait, here’s something to get you started:


Question: What do you expect out of prayer?

Feel free to spend some time this week reflecting on that question. You can post your thoughts here. Or, if you’d prefer not to make your thoughts known online, you can write them down in a journal. The point is - write them down someplace. It’s going to be valuable for you.

You may have a surface-level answer to that question right off the bat. That’s fine, go ahead and write it down.

Then take a breath and ask yourself what kinds of assumptions you made. A good place to start might be : What did the word “prayer” mean to you when you encountered it in that question? Why? What things about your spiritual experiences so far in your lifetime have influenced you to think about prayer that way?

Go ahead, reflect. This time you may need a few days.

Write it down …

I have a follow-up question for next week :-)