Category Archives: Ministries/Task Force News
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Open Doors Winter Update
Posted on December 22, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, WorshipDecember 19, 2025 What has the Open Doors Working Group (the group tasked with spearheading the work of discerning the future of our wonderful and challenging building) been working on this fall? We will answer that question in two ways! First we would like to invite you to spend time with ODWG as we host […]
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Green is Good, Greener is Gooder
Posted on December 17, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Environment, Health and Wellness, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship, YouthThe Justice Ministry would like your participation in a pilot to improve our church’s efforts to reduce trash and improve sustainable practices. We are launching a six month pilot to include composting of our food waste in the building. You will begin to see buckets labeled COMPOST with illustrations of all the things you can dispose […]
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Christmas Eve Worship: Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Posted on December 17, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Spiritual Practice, Worship, YouthChristmas Eve Family Candlelight Service Wednesday, Dec. 24, 5:00 PM A beautiful Christmas Eve service with participation from some of our children and the traditional lighting of candles in the darkened sanctuary to celebrate the birth of the Christ Child! Join us in person or online. Download the 5 pm Bulletin Here: 12-24-25 – Family […]
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Special Christmas Offering 2025
Posted on December 16, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Giving, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Volunteer Opportunities“My soul proclaims your greatness, O God, and my spirit rejoices in you.” – Mary’s Prayer, Luke 1:46 Dear Members and Friends of First Congregational Church in Winchester, MA, UCC, The Christmas season calls us to see God’s face in our neighbors. Where do we see Mary, the mother who valiantly protected her baby? Where […]
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This Week in Worship: 2nd Sunday in Advent (Dec 7, 2025)
Posted on December 5, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, WorshipThis Sunday, we celebrate the Second Week of Advent and light the Candle of Peace. Our lectionary readings come from the Prophet Isaiah and the Letter to the Romans. We will consider the language of Advent and the peace we can find in this message: “Then a shoot will sprout from the stump of Jesse; […]
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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, OutreachThe 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, YouthPlease 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, YouthJoin 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, YouthHanging 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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Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) 2025
Posted on November 20, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Justice, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, OutreachToday, 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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