Author Archives: Nancy

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  Making Room This Advent

  Posted on December 4, 2019 by Nancy in Latest News, Spire link, Spiritual Practice

  It is the irrational season, when Love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason, there’d have been no room for the child. —Madeline L’Engle Pondering my favorite Advent poem this year, I am convicted more deeply by the words, “No room for the child.”  Realizing there is much for me to do […]

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  Ripley Presents: The Atwater-Donnelly Trio, November 15

  Posted on October 16, 2019 by Nancy in Latest News, Ripley

  The Atwater-Donnelly Trio with Cathy Clasper-Torch Tickets available at the door. Cash Only. Contact Jane Ring Frank jringfrank@gmail.com for reservations. Text 857-919-0983. Almost Sold Out.  A special coffee house concert in celebration of the renovation of Ripley Chapel, featuring traditional American and Celtic folk music and dance Friday, November 15, 2019, 7:30 PM Please join […]

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  Ripley Chapel Rededication Service: Photo Gallery

  Posted on October 16, 2019 by Nancy in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Ripley, Worship

  The Chapel is looking beautiful and while the finishing touches still need to be accomplished in the coming month, the space was ready for us to gather with candlelight, song, and prayer as we offer our communal blessing to the space. The Rededication was framed around a Taizé Service. If you don’t know about Taizé […]

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  Ripley Chapel Re-Dedication: Opening to the Spirit and to the Future

  Posted on September 18, 2019 by Nancy in Community, Latest News, Ripley, Worship

  Friday, October 18, 2019, 7:30 PM As work on Ripley Chapel continues, the contractors have broken through the main chancel wall to create an opening through which new light is shining, with a view to God’s natural world – our beloved Jena Roy’s imaginative and long-ago vision coming to completion. On Friday, October 18, 2019, […]

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  Environmental Ministry and Justice Fall Update

  Posted on September 13, 2019 by Nancy in Ministries/Task Force News, Spire link

  “You have been born on the hinge of history. —The Rev. Dr. Jim Antal, climate activist and public theologian   “The earth is what we all have in common.” —Wendell Berry, poet and author On a warm, sunny day on February 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 9:47am.   As […]

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  Dwelling Place Volunteers Needed This Fall

  Posted on September 13, 2019 by Nancy in Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Spire link

  We are looking for 4 -5 volunteers to prepare and serve a meal for about 30 people at the Dwelling Place on three Saturdays this fall, September 21, October 19, and November 16. The Dwelling Place is a collaboration of area churches that prepares and serves meals at the United Methodist Church in Woburn for […]

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  From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians

  Posted on September 13, 2019 by Nancy in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Small Groups, Spire link

  Continuing This Sunday, October 27, 2019 Please join us this Sunday, October 27, 2019 11:30 a.m (after church) Palmer Room for our third session.  This week we take a look at the Gospels, the first attempts to write down the story of Jesus’ life and death.  We will explore how each Gospel is different, reflecting the […]

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  The Next Five Years at FCCW Begin Now!

  Posted on September 12, 2019 by Nancy in Community, Ministries/Task Force News, Spire link

  As your Lead Pastor, I offered a State of the Communion Address at our Annual Meeting last May.  In that address I challenged the congregation to begin thinking seriously and strategically about the coming 5 years and what steps we needed to take to be brave and bold in making plans for the future, plans […]

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  The Insufficiency of Everything Attainable

  Posted on September 12, 2019 by Nancy in Pastor's Blog, Spire link, Spiritual Practice

  Sept 12, 2019 The theologian Karl Rahner wrote about “the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable.” This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive for success, victory, expertise, accomplishment and achievement in this life. It means that we should hold them lightly knowing that even the greatest of these will not satisfy. This doesn’t suggest that […]

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