Saturday, November 20, 2021 8:30 am near Lawrence, MA Please join our crew at the Habitat for Humanity site around Lawrence for our upcoming work day. Instead of carpooling, we will meet right at the work site at 8:30; we’ll know the exact location later next week. We’ll work until late afternoon. The Habitat organization appreciates when we can provide […]

STEPPING STONES This week we will be reading the story of how God chose David to be King of Israel. This is a wonderful lesson that reminds us that “The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel […]

Join us at 10 am in-person or online for our worship service on this the first Sunday of November when we gather at the Lord’s Supper and share in his offering of himself to His church. This worship service comes in the midst of the We Are All Homeless installation in Ripley and Lisa Loughlin’s […]

Every year for Christmas, we as a church, give presents to those in need. This year we will be giving to boys and girls from the community-based program Youth Villages LifeSet (formerly Germaine Lawrence Residential Program in Arlington), boys and girls from the Council of Social Concern in Woburn, and to the people at the […]

NURSERY Based on responses from our younger families, we are temporarily closing the Nursery. Families with infants and toddlers are always welcomed in the sanctuary for Sunday services, but the Family Room (located just outside the door on the right of the front of the sanctuary) is also available. In the Family Room parents can […]

Join us in person or online for our worship service this Sunday at 10am. We have a rich service on tap for the congregation for the morning of All Hallow’s Eve. Rev. Will will be preaching on All Saints and All Souls and with Jane Ring Frank’s accompaniment we’ll show the slides of the dearly departed among us. Kathleen […]

In the midst of our Stewardship campaign, we ask you to consider the myriad ways that our church and church family has an impact on the world around us. This is an important time of year as we attempt to plan how we will live into the strategic vision we have set forth, […]

Art Installation by Artist/Activist Willie Baronet Installation on Display November 6-19 Ripley Presents hosted an opening gallery talk with Artist/Activist Willie Baronet and his compelling art installation entitled We Are All Homeless on November 6. View the gallery talk here. Baronet has created exhibits featuring these signs across the U.S. and the UK. The project […]

Following worship this Stewardship Sunday, there will be an 11th Hour presentation with representative(s) from the Leadership Team. On the basis of FCCW’s Strategic Plan, they will be discussing how we can become a carbon-free church while promoting economic sustainability. The first step is to generate our own clean energy through solar power, thereby eliminating our current […]

We begin our Stewardship Drive this Sunday focused upon the scripture from I Peter 4 that encourages us to be “faithful stewards of the manifold grace of God”. Isn’t that an important call for our lives, to be stewards of the grace of God to a world in need of God’s grace? We’re worshipping in person […]