Author Archives: Sarah Marino

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  Healthy Holiday Decisions In the time of COVID

  Posted on November 12, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Health and Wellness, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News

  Balancing your head with your heart. Holidays provide us with an anchor, something familiar, trusted. Our traditions are comforting. But in this time of COVID, we may need to open our hearts and minds to something new and different. Yes, change! Making decisions about how to have safe holidays can be stressful and possibly divisive […]

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  Join Us This Sunday for Worship

  Posted on November 5, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

  A lot of watching and waiting fills our lives these days and this will be the theme for our worship service this Sunday which is being pre-recorded and made available on Sunday morning. Our guiding scripture is Matthew 25:1-13, Jesus’ parable of the 10 bridesmaids. You might want to go find and listen to the well-known […]

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  Church School & Youth News Nov 5

  Posted on November 5, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Youth

  Dear all, Given the recent orders from the governor, and in keeping the safety of our families and youth in mind, we have begun the process of reorganizing and reimagining how our youth programs will look! It feels like just as we got in the swing of things, the rug’s been pulled out from under […]

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  Transgender Day of Remembrance

  Posted on November 5, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Health and Wellness, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Spiritual Practice, Worship, Youth

  Vigil Nov. 20 1 pm FCCW Zoom Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives have been lost in acts of anti-transgender violence and raises awareness about the violence affecting the transgender community. This year, on the 21st anniversary of this tradition, […]

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  Eat Well to Stay Well This Winter

  Posted on November 5, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Community, Health and Wellness, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News

  A Virtual 11th Hour This Sunday Sunday, Nov 8 at 11 am Hosted by Health Ministry   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82796533772?pwd=cmZGWDRjZmhGcFZjMWlPRTRDUFNOdz09

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  Join Us on Zoom for Communion Worship (November 1, 2020)

  Posted on October 31, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

  In worship this week we will be joining several themes that all converge on this Sunday. We will be sharing Communion. In this Zoom worship, from each of our homes we will eat bread and drink juice together – with the congregation and with Christians everywhere. Despite its secular nature, the election is not far […]

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  Erasing Medical Debt

  Posted on October 27, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach

  As the Covid pandemic rages on, it sometimes evokes a feeling of helplessness in all of us. On a note of encouragement, a recent article in the Boston Globe highlighted how more than $200,000 of direct payments from SNEUCC provided a total of $26.2 million in medical relief. Our congregation donated $5000 towards that effort […]

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  Stewardship Drive 2020: Planted in Love, Built on Love

  Posted on October 27, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Giving, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News

    Good afternoon, and welcome to Stewardship Season! If you were able to see yesterday’s worship service, you know that our stewardship theme this year is “rooted in love, built on love.” As we watch the trees show off their color, leaves flying through the October breezes, it is good for us all to think […]

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• I have more questions – who can I ask?

  Posted on October 23, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Giving

  Please contact any member of the Financial Resources Commission (contact information below).  Also visit https://fcc-winchester.com/giving.   Yours faithfully,   The Financial Resources Commission Taylor Tresselt, Chair taylortress@gmail.com 617-538-1755 Doug Clarke dclarke@riemerlaw.com 781-729-3612 Jonathan Goodell jcg.3bell@gmail.com 781-835-8133 Ben Keeler bkeeler22@yahoo.com 781-777-2278 Lisa Loughlin lisa3abp@aol.com 781-346-1241 David Peretti perettidm@gmail.com 617-538-7966 Jennifer Wilson jsamswils@aol.com 781-729-5268  

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