Category Archives: Outreach
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Can You Serve at the Dwelling Place This Saturday (July 20, 2024)
Posted on July 16, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Community, Giving, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, YouthSaturday, July 20 4:30-6 pm The Dwelling Place is a dinner meal served three times a week at a sister church in Woburn. Forty guests take a meal and eat together. We prepare one of those meals each month on the third Saturday. Dessert can be cookies or banana bread, we would need 2 or 3 of […]
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2024 Backpack Heroes
Posted on July 16, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, YouthSchool Supply Donations & Volunteers Needed Benefitting Children and Teens through the Youth Villages Backpack Heroes program To donate school supplies, please purchase from the Amazon Wishlist. All items must be DELIVERED by Monday, August 5th. To volunteer for packing backpacks, plan to stay after Church on Sunday, August 11th Please reach out to Virginia Seay with any questions.
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Join us for Pride Sunday Worship at 10 am in the Sanctuary (June 2, 2024)
Posted on May 31, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Outreach, WorshipThis week, we’ll kick off Pride Month and celebrate being an Open & Affirming church. We’ll consider our Christian call to love God, neighbors, and ourselves through the lens of queer theology and selections from Genesis 37 and 1 Corinthians 13. We will also celebrate the Holy Sacrament of Communion. All are welcome to partake–in […]
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Youth Serve The Dwelling Place
Posted on April 12, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Community, Giving, Latest News, Outreach, Small Groups, Volunteer Opportunities, YouthWe invite all middle schoolers and high schoolers to join our one-day service project on Saturday, April 20 at The Dwelling Place in Woburn! Sign up here.
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ISA Takes on Support of a New Family!
Posted on April 4, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial JusticeImmigrant Support Alliance has a new family to support: an Afghan family of a dad, mom, and a boy and a girl, ages 5 and 6. We have found them an apartment in Medford, near a school and public transportation. Now we want to help them settle in at their new home. Here’s a preliminary […]
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Easter Plants
Posted on March 15, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Giving, Health and Wellness, Outreach, Small Groups, Volunteer Opportunities, YouthYou are invited to donate a chancel Easter plant as a memorial or as a gift. Plants will be distributed to our members at home and in assisted living centers. The cost of plants is $20.00 each. All orders are due by Palm Sunday, March 24. Order here or download this form. Want to celebrate the Easter season with members of our church […]
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Can you serve at the Dwelling Place This Saturday?
Posted on March 8, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Volunteer OpportunitiesThe Dwelling Place, a beautiful meal program hosted by a sister church in Woburn, is looking to our church for the meal next Saturday evening. The menu is a Saint Patrick’s Day theme: shepherd’s pie. You can cook a portion of the meal and/or serve. Go to our sign up genius to see what is available. If you […]
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Seeking Leadership Team Nominations
Posted on February 22, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Community, Giving, Health and Wellness, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Small Groups, Worship, YouthFirst Congregational Church’s Leadership Team is the strategic decision-making body of our church community which is charged with the task of ensuring the achievement of the mission and purpose of the church on behalf of the wider congregation. In our congregational church, the Leadership Team is made up of lay members who are invested in […]
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Repair Cafe Saturday March 9
Posted on February 15, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Community, Environment, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach9:00 am- 12:00 pm Chidley Hall REUSE/RECYCLE/REDUCE Do you have a special pair of jeans or sweater that needs mending, a lamp in need of repair, a bicycle that needs attention or kitchen knives that could use sharpening? Come and be a part of the sustainability movement and community by repairing and restoring rather than […]
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Reach Out Friendship Celebration – February 11th!!
Posted on January 31, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, OutreachYour Outreach team is excited to once again provide our Reach Out! event! In celebration of Valentine’s Day, please join us as part of our Friendship gathering on February 11th at 1PM on Zoom. Here’s the plan! We are looking for folks to make soup (in containers to serve 2-4 people) and then deliver the soup, a card, and […]
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