Category Archives: Environment
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Invitation to All Winchester Residents
Posted on May 6, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Community, Environment, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, YouthA Movie Night to Foster Intergenerational Interaction and Discussion The Intergenerational Leadership Team was formed this fall to promote greater interaction between Seniors and Youth in Winchester. The movie is a documentary, The Biggest Little Farm (available on DVD from the Winchester Public Library, also streaming on Hulu and Amazon Prime). Watch the film […]
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Earth Day
Posted on April 22, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Environment, Latest NewsIn honor of the 51st commemoration of Earth Day as well as speaking to “spring-song” of justice long-denied for those in the black community, a poem by the late African-American poet, Langston Hughes An Earth Song It’s an earth song, And I’ve been waiting long for an earth song. It’s a spring song, […]
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Environmental Justice Newsletter: April 2021
Posted on April 15, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Environment, Latest NewsSubmission for FCC Environmental Justice Newsletter 041521
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Join Us for Jazz Earth Sunday (April 18, 2021)
Posted on April 15, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Environment, Latest News, WorshipEarth Day is Thursday, April 22nd and it is our tradition to lift up eco-justice and creation care in our worship of God during this week. Please join us on Sunday for a pre-recorded Jazz Earth Sunday worship service where we will have a guest preacher in Rev. Jim Antal who is the Special Advisor on Climate […]
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Environmental Justice Newsletter: March 2021
Posted on March 25, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Environment, Latest NewsSubmission for FCC Environmental Justice Newsletter 032521
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Carbon Lenten Fast 2021
Posted on February 19, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Environment, Latest NewsTaking Part in Fasting from Carbon during the Season of Lent Environmental Justice What is it? A “Carbon Fast” is a way for individuals and communities to engage in a conscientious and earth-honoring spiritual practice. It was originally developed by the Church of England in 2008. Since then it has been adopted by congregations of many […]
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Hello from the newly formed FCCW Racial Justice Working Group!
Posted on February 19, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Community, Environment, Latest News, Outreach, Small GroupsThis update follows discussions and activities launched by the congregation last year at the “Talk, Learn, Act” Juneteenth eve session, with follow-up Zoom meetings on the book How to Be an Antiracist. In response to an open invitation, several volunteers formed a Racial Justice Working Group with a charge to: “Provide opportunities for the […]
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Confronting the Crises in our Backyards
Posted on January 8, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Environment, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, OutreachSaturday, Jan 9 at 10 am Summoning the church to be courageous in the face of global warming’s existential threat to current and future generations “Racial justice requires climate justice…It’s not merely enough to assert that black lives matter; one must fight against the forces that believe that black lives, black lungs, and black bodies […]
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Election Day Vigil
Posted on October 8, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Community, Environment, Latest News, Outreach, WorshipOn Tuesday, November 3, the Sanctuary will be open for quiet and prayer. Unfortunately, we need to limit attendance to one person or ‘covid pod’ at a time. We will begin at 7:00 a.m. and continue until 9:00 p.m. in 20 minute blocks. So the first opportunity is at 7:00 a.m. to 7:20 a.m.; the second 7:30 a.m. […]
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Warm Up America! Made With Love
Posted on September 17, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Community, Environment, Giving, Health and Wellness, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Volunteer OpportunitiesWe are planning to “yarn bomb” a homeless neighborhood this January with handmade hats, gloves and scarves. You can help! We need knitters and/or crocheters to make adult-size hats, scarves and mittens which we will hang from trees and fences. You can use any pattern you like, and the only rule is that the yarn […]
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