Category Archives: Outreach

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  Join Us in Ripley Chapel This Week for Worship (July 26, 2026)

  Posted on July 23, 2026 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Mission Trip, Ripley, Worship

  Join us on Sunday for our summer worship series in Ripley Chapel at 10am. This week we have the pleasure of hearing Julianne Zimmerman preach on Matthew 25:31-35 – “what you do to others, you do unto me.” Within her reflection, she will share some of what she gained from her participation in the Service […]

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  YOUTH VILLAGES BackPack Heroes Collection Drive 2026

  Posted on July 20, 2026 by Sarah Marino in Giving, Latest News, Outreach, Volunteer Opportunities, Youth

  The Outreach Committee and all of us at FCCW have a long standing partnership with Youth Villages and their mission to support kids and youth with behavioral and emotional issues – working to keep them in their homes and support transitional placements as well. One of their major initiatives is to provide each Youth Villages kids […]

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  Pine Ridge Reservation Service-Learning Update Poetry, pictures, and reflections by trip participants

  Posted on July 6, 2026 by Sarah Marino in Community, Justice, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Mission Trip, Outreach, Small Groups, Worship, Youth

  Dear FCCW family: greetings from Pine Ridge, South Dakota and the Re-Member compound! You are very present in our hearts and spirits as we work to serve and learn together with our Lakota relatives here on the reservation. Halfway through our week here, we have already experienced extraordinary grace, beauty, suffering, and compassion. The reservation […]

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  Bibles4Kenya Collection Drive

  Posted on July 6, 2026 by Sarah Marino in Community, Giving, Justice, Latest News, Outreach, Worship

  This summer, we will collect gently-used Bibles from around the church and from homes for an organization called Bibles4Kenya, which hopes to send 20,000 Bibles to equip 500+ congregations in remote “last-mile” areas of Kenya. Drop off your donations in the large plastic bin labeled “Bibles4Kenya” in the church lobby. If you don’t have any […]

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  Pine Ridge Service-Learning Trip

  Posted on June 25, 2026 by Sarah Marino in Justice, Latest News, Mission Trip, Outreach, Volunteer Opportunities, Youth

  This Saturday we are sending out 11 members of our church to Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, to spend time learning from and serving the Lakota community through the local organization Re-Member. We thank you for the support you’ve given this effort through the Christmas Offering and the youth bake sale and we ask […]

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  Jesus and the Disinherited

  Posted on June 18, 2026 by Sarah Marino in Justice, Latest News, Outreach

  Beginning in the early 1930’s, a young black preacher delivered a series of lectures. Later billed as “Good News for the Underprivileged,” the lectures were directed to black Americans, who were subjected to extreme poverty, segregation, limited access to housing, and educational opportunities. Poll taxes, literacy tests, and all-white primaries also effectively denied blacks the means to […]

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  Dwelling Place Cooks & Servers Needed This Saturday

  Posted on June 16, 2026 by Sarah Marino in Community, Justice, Latest News, Outreach, Volunteer Opportunities

  We’re Serving Burgers & HotDogs! Saturday, June 20, 2026 4:30-6 pm UMC in Woburn We would love your support in preparing and serving a summer meal at the Dwelling Place on June 20th from 4:30-6:00pm. We tried breakfast for dinner last month for the first time and it was such a hit! So we thought we would […]

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  Repair Cafe: Saturday, June 20 , 2026

  Posted on June 12, 2026 by Sarah Marino in Environment, Justice, Latest News, Outreach, Volunteer Opportunities

  9:00 AM-12:00 PM in Chidley Hall Signups are open for our next Repair Café on June 20 starting at 9 am in Chidley Hall. sewing & knitting repairs knives or scissors sharpening electronics and lamp repair furniture fixing We also repair childrens toys including stuffies Sign-up Here for a Repair  

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  Sponsor a Chair

  Posted on June 5, 2026 by Sarah Marino in Community, Giving, Justice, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Volunteer Opportunities

  We’re inviting members of our congregation to help us create a warm and welcoming space by sponsoring a new Adirondack chair for the front lawn of the church. Our current ones are beginning to fade and blow around in the wind and the chairs we are looking to purchase are heavier, more durable and have […]

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  Summer Picnic – June 14, 2026

  Posted on June 5, 2026 by Sarah Marino in Community, Health and Wellness, Justice, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Volunteer Opportunities, Worship, Youth

  Annual Summer Church Picnic Dear Fellow Congregants, the annual Summer Picnic is just around the corner on June 14th, and the Justice Ministry want to make it another delicious celebration this year. We are hoping that some of you would be willing to help contribute to the feast; we have the basics covered, but we’d […]

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