Author Archives: Sarah Marino

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  Mission & Outreach Ministry: 2025 Year in Review

  Posted on December 4, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Giving, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach

  The FCCW Outreach Ministry would like to thank our wonderful and generous congregation for all of the support over the last year. Most recently, during the fall “Just Peace” offering, you raised $3,430 for Friendship Home, an overnight respite and activity center in Norwell, MA. Friendship Home provides day and evening programs for individuals with disabilities and […]

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  Women’s Advent Gathering: Next Monday, December 8!

  Posted on December 2, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Small Groups, Spiritual Practice, Youth

  Please join us for our yearly tradition! We will start in the Tucker Room at 7 PM for social time, and then we will move into the Palmer Room at 8 PM for a spiritual program based on this year’s theme, Welcoming the Stranger. All donations from WAG will support Immigrant Support Alliance (ISA). For […]

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  Tree Lighting Pizza Party

  Posted on December 1, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Youth

  Join the Children and Faith Formation Ministry for some food and fellowship as we celebrate the season with a Christmas Pizza Supper before the Town Tree Lighting on Friday, December 5th at 5:30 PM. RSVP’s are encouraged to help us plan. Invite your friends and neighbors – All are welcome! The more the merrier!

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  Join Us for Hanging of the Greens Worship (November 30, 2025)

  Posted on November 26, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship, Youth

  Hanging of the Greens November 30, 10:00 AM Lighting of the 1st Advent candle, the candle of Hope At Advent, we enter into a 4-week season of waiting and preparing for Christ’s coming at Christmas. It’s a season of evergreens and wreaths, of lights and colors, of gifts and sacred story. Join us on Sunday for […]

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  Join us for Worship on Thanksgiving Sunday (November 23, 2025)

  Posted on November 21, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  This Sunday is the last Sunday on the church calendar before we begin the church year at Advent next Sunday. We’ll celebrate the coming of Thanksgiving with old familiar Thanksgiving hymns and begin turning our attention toward the advent of Advent. We do this by reading in the Gospel of Luke, the birth announcement of John (the one […]

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  Ripley Presents: The Pandora Consort

  Posted on November 20, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ripley

  Hildegard Reanimated – Vision in Vision Passionate and daring, The Pandora Consort crafts re-imagined programs dedicated to historically under-represented voices. Friday, Dec. 12, 7:30 pm Live in person and live streamed from the stunning Ripley Chapel, First Congregational Church  is pleased to present The Pandora Consort, an early music ensemble dedicated to reimagining classical music […]

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  Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) 2025

  Posted on November 20, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Justice, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach

  Today, we are recognizing and remembering our lost non-binary, trans, and gender-expansive siblings on Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). Twenty-six years ago, transgender activists organized the first TDoR in Boston (Trans Remembrance Project). Co-founded in 1999 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester and Chanelle Pickett, two transwomen […]

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  Join Us for Pledge Sunday Worship (November 16, 2025)

  Posted on November 14, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  As we come another week closer to the start of Advent on November 30th, we hear Jesus speaking in apocalyptic terms of trials and tribulations to come, encouraging the disciples to endure through difficult times (Luke 21:5-19). It’s all pointing to the climax of salvation history, at the end of all things, just before we […]

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  The Giving Tree 2025

  Posted on November 10, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Giving, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach

  The Outreach committee is excited to launch this year’s Giving Tree. This is one of the most important thing we do together as a congregation – putting our faith into action and making our theme of ‘Walking in Love’ real. We collect gifts for Youth Villages, grocery store gift cards for the food pantry through […]

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