This Week at Tabernacle
THIS WEEK AT TABERNACLE CHURCH, UCC
June 14th, 2026
Please join us this Sunday, June 14th, at 10:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary for our Sunday service followed by fellowship time in the Bigelow Room.
Betsey Bennett will be conducting the Service. If your interested in history you won’t want to miss her sermon!
The title of Betsey’s sermon is: “Missions, Yesterday and Today”
A Message from Betsey…..
Dear Friends,
While Rev. Joe is away on a well-deserved R&R, Rusty and I have filled in on Sundays. Last week, Rusty introduced us to Abram and Sarai, who were called by God to go to a new place and make a new life. This week we will hear how they become Abraham and Sarah, entertain strangers, and have a son named Laughter. Along with this timeless story of “making descendants’, you will be treated to a story about Missions at Tabernacle Church.
Come hear how Samuel Worcester came to Salem, changed the course of Tabernacle Church and influenced the beginnings of foreign mission work. We will also see a display of ‘cans’ on our altar. These cans being the same that were donated by Judge John Treadwell and Edward Kitchen, both were outstanding late 18th century figures in Salem and members of Tabernacle Church.
In addition, it is Pride Month 🏳️🌈. Looking forward to the last weekend in June, Tabernacle will be joining the Pride parade on Saturday, June 27. See Betsey if you will be walking.
Then on Sunday, June 28, at 2:30 PM, the North Shore clergy will gather at Tabernacle Church for a powerful interfaith Pride Worship and Celebration. We are responsible for refreshments following the service. Please volunteer to help with this important opportunity to provide hospitality just as Abraham and Sarah did so long ago.
See you in church or on Zoom this Sunday.
Blessings,
Betsey
The Deacons for the month of June are Betsey Bennett
and Brenda Lewis.
Maire and Jack MacLean are lighting the steeple for the month of June to honor the 25th anniversary of their daughter Catherine’s curative bone marrow transplant, and to honor the love and support they received from the Tabernacle Community throughout her illness.
Monday Theology Circle
The Monday afternoon Theology Circle Group will be meeting Monday, June 15th, in the Bigelow room at 3 PM.
Our theme for the next several weeks will be “Mothers of the Church”.
We will begin with St. Hildegard of Bingen.
Future figures will include Teresa of Avila, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Katherina von Bora, Catherine Parr, and Anne Bradford.
Never heard of some or all of them? Curious? Come join this incredulous group. It doesn’t require a lot of reading. In fact you can just come and listen and you will learn a lot. Join Us!….
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Please join the Missions Committee and the Friends & Family of
Marc Lemieux for the annual World Needs You Here Walk
Sunday, August 2nd at 10am.
Register at the link below and join Team Tabernacle in memory of Marc. More details about that Sunday’s service will follow.
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MISSIONS IS COLLECTING NEW ITEMS FOR THE SALEM PANTRY
“SOAPS AND SUDS”
To support the Salem Pantry during the months of April, May, and June, Missions is collecting items such as bars of soap, liquid body wash, dishwashing liquid soap, and laundry detergents.
These are items the Pantry does not receive from other resources, but they are much needed products.
Thank you as always for supporting members in our community.
Missions Group
WE NEED HELP SERVING LIFEBRIDGE MEALS
THE SUMMER MONTHS OF JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST
Sign-up Sheets are on the board in the Bigelow Room
or Call Martha Bagby: 508-932-0221
CHOOSE YOUR MONTH TO SERVE
4-6- P.M. the fourth Monday of the Month
WITHOUT VOLUNTEERS WE CANNOT MAKE THIS MOST IMPORTANT COMMUNITY SERVICE HAPPEN!!
AND WE ARE STILL COLLECTING …..
Missions is collecting plastic tabs from bread and fruit bags, and the pull tabs from cans. Collection Jars are in the Bigelow Room.
Calendar
Sunday, June 14th, 2026
10:00 a.m. Worship Service in the Sanctuary and via Zoom
11:00 a.m. Fellowship Time in the Bigelow Room
Monday, June 15th, 2026
3:00 p.m. Theology Circle
7:00 p.m. Alanon Meeting downstairs in the dining room.
Tuesday, June 16th, 2026
7:00 p.m. Council meeting via zoom
6:00 p.m. Zilber Beatles rehearsal downstairs classroom
7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Jubilate Choir Rehearsal in the Bigelow Room
Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
7:00 p.m. Bible Study via Zoom
Friday, June 19th, 2026
6:30 p.m. AA Meeting downstairs in the dining room
Sunday, June 21st, 2026
10:00 a.m. Worship Service in the Sanctuary and via Zoom
11:00 a.m. Fellowship Time in the Bigelow Room
BIBLE STUDY TONIGHT
June 10th, 2026
7:00 pm via Zoom
TONIGHTS READINGS
Hebrew Reading
Genesis 18:1-15, (21:1-7) The call of Abraham and Sarah
18:1 The LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day.
18:2 He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent entrance to meet them and bowed down to the ground.
18:3 He said, “My lord, if I find favor with you, do not pass by your servant.
18:4 Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
18:5 Let me bring a little bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on–since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.”
18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah and said, “Make ready quickly three measures of choice flour, knead it, and make cakes.”
18:7 Abraham ran to the herd and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, who hastened to prepare it.
18:8 Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared and set it before them, and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.
18:9 They said to him, “Where is your wife Sarah?” And he said, “There, in the tent.”
18:10 Then one said, “I will surely return to you in due season, and your wife Sarah shall have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent entrance behind him.
18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
18:12 So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I be fruitful?”
18:13 The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’
18:14 Is anything too wonderful for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, in due season, and Sarah shall have a son.”
18:15 But Sarah denied, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “Yes, you did laugh.”
21:1 The LORD dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as he had promised.
21:2 Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken to him.
21:3 Abraham gave the name Isaac to his son whom Sarah bore him.
21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
21:5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
21:6 Now Sarah said, “God has brought laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
21:7 And she said, “Who would ever have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
Christian Reading
Matthew 9:35-10:8, (9-23) The sending of the twelve
9:35 Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness.
9:36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
9:37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;
9:38 therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
10:1 Then Jesus summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure every disease and every sickness.
10:2 These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee and his brother John;
10:3 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus and Thaddaeus;
10:4 Simon the Cananaean and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed him.
10:5 These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not take a road leading to gentiles, and do not enter a Samaritan town,
10:6 but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
10:7 As you go, proclaim the good news, ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’
10:8 Cure the sick; raise the dead; cleanse those with a skin disease; cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment.
10:9 Take no gold, or silver, or copper in your belts,
10:10 no bag for your journey, or two tunics, or sandals, or a staff, for laborers deserve their food.
10:11 Whatever town or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy, and stay there until you leave.
10:12 As you enter the house, greet it.
10:13 If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
10:14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town.
10:15 Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
10:16 “I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
10:17 Beware of them, for they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues,
10:18 and you will be dragged before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them and the gentiles.
10:19 When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you at that time,
10:20 for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
10:21 Sibling will betray sibling to death and a father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,
10:22 and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
10:23 When they persecute you in this town, flee to the next, for truly I tell you, you will not have finished going through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.”