
Holly and ivy, greens and wreaths, poinsettias and Christmas trees, stockings and creches, stories and songs… Join us this First Sunday in Advent for an All-Age Intergenerational Service of Worship as together we prepare our sanctuary for the Advent/Christmas Season. All Church School Classes will attend worship with their families and will have a part […]

Every year for Christmas we as a church give presents to those who are in need. This year we will be giving to girls at the Germaine Lawrence Residential Program in Arlington, boys and girls from the Council of Social Concern and people at the Lowell Transitional Livining Center. Please bring your gift, unwrapped and labeled, Sunday December 3 for […]

City Mission’s principle of Engagement is strongly felt in our annual Christmas Shop. Each year, we partner with local churches, businesses, and individuals who give gifts of time, talent, and treasure to families and children in need in the Boston area. Communities get involved in a number of ways: Churches organize congregation-wide gift drives, where […]

Saturday, Nov. 18th from 9:30-11 AM in Chidley Hall FCCW joins FAN in the season of giving thanks and giving back! This is a great opportunity to begin teaching our little ones about gratitude and giving. One way is to go together to the market and ask your little one to search for items on your list. You […]
We continue to move forward living into the final stages of the transition period of the new church structure approved by the congregation in 2015. From that congregational meeting at the start of the transition period: …for a three-year trial period, the existing church governance structure be replaced by a new governance structure that will […]
Money. What is money? Did you ever ask yourself that? It’s actually a very tricky question. It’s paper plus faith. That’s it. Paper plus faith. I work across from the Federal Reserve in Boston. I see the armored trucks drive in and out of their underground bunker all day. Trucks of paper. The US Government […]
We move into something new and we become new. Over the last year or so our congregation has joined in the vision of Rev. Jena Roy and decided to engage in the renovation and rejuvenation of The Ripley Chapel and the sanctuary’s Fisk Organ. Whether you prayed about it, questioned it, went to a meeting […]
Dear Friends, It is pretty typical for the pastoral reflection in a November newsletter to address gratitude. This one will follow suit especially because I’ve found myself thinking thoughts of gratitude as we’ve gone through our celebration of the Reformation anniversary (oh, no – not more reformation!). There are always people who come before us […]

Our fall Reformation series come to its culmination this Sunday as we celebrate the 500th anniversary. We will have a special worship service to draw our series to a close followed by a luncheon with an appearance from Martin Luther himself. Please join us!

On Sunday, October 29th (two days before the 500th anniversary of the Reformation) we will have a special worship service at 10 AM as the culmination of our fall series. Immediately following the service is a Reformation Luncheon down in Chidley Hall. There will be German food and drink (sourced from local German establishments) and […]