Pastor Chris Green and his wife Rebecca

Deacons help with communion

Coffee hour fellowship after worship

We are a kind, caring, small rural Christian community located in the villages of Etna and Hanover Center, New Hampshire. Our "yoked" single congregation includes members from the American Baptist Church, the United Church of Christ, and a range of other Christian backgrounds.

Our regular 10 AM Sunday worship service follows Protestant traditions and includes Nursery and Sunday school for elementary/middle/high school children and a post-service coffee/fellowship time.




Our Sunday services start at 10 AM and run about an hour followed by a coffee/fellowship hour.  We share communion the first Sunday of every month.

Our congregation is truly a kind and caring community with great diversity across socioeconomic and church backgrounds.  One of the strengths of our community comes in part from a broad spectrum of church backgrounds which includes both long-time members from the United Church of Christ and American Baptist traditions and a majority who have come from a variety of denominations and theologies (e.g., Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Southern Baptist, Presbyterian, and Bible churches).  Our unofficial motto has become “unity without unanimity” reflecting the peace and harmony within our congregation.

Our parish is located in the picturesque rural villages of Etna and Hanover Center, New Hampshire. We are a  single“yoked” congregation which includes members from two rural churches: the First Congregational Church United of Church of Christ (FCC) of Hanover in Hanover Center, NH and the First Baptist Church of Hanover American Baptist Church (FBC) in Etna, NH.  Both of these churches were established in colonial times and their historic buildings have been in continuous use for services since the early 1800s. The small, rural congregations were combined in 1964 to share one pastor and one worship service.


Our staff :
Pastor:  Rev. Chris Green 
Church secretary: Carol Edwards
Communications:  Carol Edwards (bulletin), Marjorie Rose (website), Mark Hardy, weekly emails
Etna Facilities support:  Ken and Norma Pelton
Treasurer: Steve Schuchman
Choir Director: Christine Hoskin
Pianist accompaniment:  Julian Wu
Guest accompaniment:  Gini Hawes/Kay/ Harold Frost/Carol Edwards/Jenny Voelker
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NOTE: The Inter Church Council covers all joint church operations and issues.  Each church has its own officers (see below).

Inter-Church Council
 Chairman:   Marjorie Rose
 Inter-Church Council Hanover Center:
            Garlan Hoskin
            Harold Frost
            Elaine Hawthorne
            Dina Cutting
            Ellie Fullington
 Inter-Church Council Etna:
            Susan Johnson
            Becky LaHaye
           Christian Passow
            Laurie Wadsworth
            Marjorie Rose
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First Congregational Church
of Hanover in Hanover Center
 
Church Officers:
             Moderator: Dina Cutting
             Clerk:         Torey Elder
             Co-treasurers:  Dina Cutting & Jane Rice
Trustees:
            Harold Frost
            Jeff Balch
            Glenn Elder
Deacons: 
            Rob Rice
            Marci O’Keefe
            Shawn O’Keefe
            Elaine Hawthorne
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First Baptist Church   
of Hanover in Etna
(as of 3/21)
 
Church Officers:
            President:         Eric Wadsworth
            Vice President: Doug Irwin
            Clerk:             Carol Edwards
            Treasurer:        Steve Schuchman
​             Ass't Treasurer:  Skip Stanger
 Trustees:
             John LaHaye
            Mike Tischbein
            Ken Pelton
 Deacons: (pastoral concerns)
            Susan Johnson
            Todd Hess
            John LaHaye
            Cora Moses
            Norma Pelton
            Maxine Wallace
            Ken Pelton