This Week at Tabernacle
THIS WEEK AT TABERNACLE CHURCH, UCC
June 21st, 2026
Please join us this Sunday, June 21st, at 10:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary for our Sunday service followed by fellowship time in the Bigelow Room.
Reverend Joe is back from vacation and is conducting the service this Sunday.
The title of his sermon is :
What do we mean when we say “Hear Our Prayers, O God” ?
PRIDE PARADE
JUNE 27
12 NOON
Team Tabernacle will once again march in the North Shore Pride Parade in Salem! Please come be part of this great event and help to represent Tabernacle. We will meet at Shetland Park, 27 Congress Street at 11am and proceed at noon with the parade to Salem Common.
Contact Betsey Bennet if planning to March. 508-843-5780
Not Marching….Cheer us on along the Parade Route!!!
INTERFAITH SERVICE
SUNDAY, June 28th
Sunday, June 28, at 2:30 PM, the North Shore clergy will gather at Tabernacle Church for a powerful interfaith Pride Worship and Celebration in the Sanctuary. ALL WELCOME!
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 22nd, 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 21st, 2026 Father’s Day
10:00 a.m. Worship Service in the Sanctuary and via Zoom
11:00 a.m. Fellowship Time in the Bigelow Room
Monday, June 22nd, 2026
3:00 p.m. Theology Circle
7:00 p.m. Alanon Meeting downstairs in the dining room.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
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 24th, 2026
7:00 p.m. Bible Study via Zoom
Friday, June 26th, 2026
6:30 p.m. AA Meeting downstairs in the dining room
Saturday, June 27th, 2026
11:00 a.m. Pride Parade
Sunday, June 28th, 2026
10:00 a.m. Worship Service in the Sanctuary and via Zoom
11:00 a.m. Fellowship Time in the Bigelow Room
2:30:p.m. Pride Interfaith Service in the Sanctuary
BIBLE STUDY TONIGHT
June 17th, 2026
7:00 pm via Zoom
TONIGHTS READINGS
HEBREW BIBLE READING
Genesis 21:8-21 The rescue of Hagar and Ishmael
21:8 The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the
day that Isaac was weaned.
21:9 But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to
Abraham, playing with her son Isaac.
21:10 So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the
son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac.”
21:11 The matter was very distressing to Abraham on account of his son.
21:12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed because of the boy and
because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells
you, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be named for you.
21:13 As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also,
because he is your offspring.”
21:14 So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water
and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and
sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of
Beer-sheba.
21:15 When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the child under one of the
bushes.
21:16 Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the
distance of a bowshot, for she said, “Do not let me look on the death of
the child.” And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.
21:17 And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar
from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be
afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
21:18 Come, lift up the boy and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make a
great nation of him.”
21:19 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went and
filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
21:20 God was with the boy, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness and
became an expert with the bow.
21:21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him
from the land of Egypt.
CHRISTIAN TESTAMENT READING
Matthew 10:24-31
10:24 “A disciple is not above the teacher nor a slave above the master;
10:25 it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher and the slave like the
master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much
more will they malign those of his household!
10:26 “So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered up that will not be
uncovered and nothing secret that will not become known.
10:27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what you hear
whispered, proclaim from the housetops.
10:28 Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear
the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the
ground apart from your Father.
10:30 And even the hairs of your head are all counted.
10:31 So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.