We have some people - specifically some young people - at our house who are very excited about Christmas. Sometimes, when he wakes up in the morning, the first thing our three-year-old says will be something like, “Is it Christmas?” Now, from a human-development point...
As a bald Southerner, I’m not ashamed to admit it: I get cold in New England and so I dress accordingly. Now, I know that there are those kids that you can see waiting for the school bus, wearing little more than a t-shirt and shorts in below-freezing weather. And I...
This past Monday night, the Session held its regular monthly meeting. In addition to approving a balanced budget for 2026 (which includes salary increases and an increase in Mission funding) the Session also voted to approve a BPC Concert Series. The Concert Series is...
As I write this, on Friday afternoon, it is snowing outside. Maybe it’s not that big of a deal for snow to fall in New Hampshire on the day after Thanksgiving, but for this Georgia-raised boy, the first snow of the year is always a little surprising and brings a bit...
Bedford Presbyterian Church is very thankful and proud to host the Bedford Community Food Pantry in our building. The Pantry - which was started here and is a partnership between several local churches, the Bedford Lions Club, and other community organizations -...
Thankfully, the government shutdown ended this week, with Congress agreeing to fully fund the SNAP food benefits for millions of Americans. At the same time, with upheaval in food aid over the past few weeks, as well as rising food prices, the ongoing need of people...
This past week, families, food banks, and food pantries across the country have been thrown into confusion about the status of SNAP benefits. There has been plenty of finger-pointing in Washington, D.C. over this issue - probably more than enough finger-pointing....
Yesterday, after we carved our family’s pumpkins for Halloween, our almost-3-year-old son wanted to go for a walk around the neighborhood to look at Halloween decorations. There is one house, not far from our own, that has a lot of decorations: scary scarecrows, a...