Twenty Years of Open Doors
150 Years of Faith · 20 Years in Our Hadley Home
Wesley UMC has been a community of faith for more than 150 years. Twenty years ago, in 2006, we moved into our home here in Hadley — and ever since, this building has been more than a sanctuary. Through music, hospitality, and partnership with our neighbors, it has been a gift to the whole community. This fall we don’t mark the age of our church; we celebrate twenty years in this place and all that God has done here.
We received this building twenty years ago. For twenty years it has served our neighborhood. We now commit it — for the next twenty years and beyond — to the work of justice and peace.
This fall, we give thanks for what God has done here, we open our doors wider, and we commit this building to the next chapter of justice and peace.
What’s Happening
🎵 The Anniversary Concert
Saturday, October 24, 2026 · 3:00 PM
Music has always been at the heart of who we are at Wesley — a congregation that deeply loves to sing, play, and gather around song. This concert, open to the whole community with a reception to follow, is our celebration of that love. Alongside our own chancel choir, bell choir, and soloists, we’re inviting the community groups who regularly rehearse, perform, and gather in our building throughout the year — our way of honoring the neighbors who share this space and opening our doors wider still. The program will include a special reprise of the piece Horace Clarence Boyer composed for the dedication of this building in 2006 — performed again to celebrate these twenty years. The afternoon also marks the launch of the Social Justice & Peace Building Fund — and, if our mortgage is paid off in time, a mortgage-burning ceremony celebrating that our building is fully ours, debt-free, for the first time in twenty years.
⛪ Celebration Sunday — October 25
Our culminating worship service, with a custom liturgy honoring our history, our mission, and our identity as a reconciling congregation. Former pastors and church leaders who have shaped Wesley over the years will take part.
📅 Sundays in October
Throughout October, our Sunday worship will include special moments marking the anniversary. Details are still being planned — watch this space.
- Sunday, October 4 — (to be announced)
- Sunday, October 11 — (to be announced)
- Sunday, October 18 — (to be announced)
Why We’re Raising Funds
The Social Justice & Peace Building Fund
As we celebrate, we are launching the Social Justice & Peace Building Fund. Gifts to this fund will allow community groups whose work centers on justice and peace to use our building free of charge, with operating costs covered by the fund. The first twenty years were spent paying for this building. The next twenty are committed to giving it away. Free from debt, free to give.
To learn how to give, contact the church office at office@wesleyfamily.org or (413) 549-1550.
✍️ Share Your Memory
What has Wesley meant to you over these twenty years? We’re gathering reflections, stories, and photos from across our congregation to include in our anniversary booklet — and a few may be shared during worship this October.
👉 Share your memory using our online form. Prefer paper? Pick up a memory card at the welcome table on Sunday, or email a short written reflection or a favorite photo to office@wesleyfamily.org.
Be Part of It
- Save the date and join us for the concert and Celebration Sunday.
- Stay connected: make sure the church office has your current email so you don’t miss an update.
- Invite someone — a neighbor, a friend, or a former member of our Wesley family.
Wesley United Methodist Church
98 North Maple Street, Hadley, MA 01035
(413) 549-1550 · office@wesleyfamily.org
Office hours: Tuesday–Friday, 9:00 AM – 12:00 noon
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