Category Archives: Outreach
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Spring Flower Sale for RIM Metro North Cluster!
Posted on April 6, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, OutreachNow that it’s finally spring, get into the spirit by ordering flowering plants from the RIM Metro North Cluster. Profits support our cluster’s clients, who are in the process of seeking asylum. To order your plants: Print and fill out the Order Form. Make a check for the amount payable to RIM and […]
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Part-time Employment Opportunity with The Dwelling Place
Posted on March 31, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, OutreachThe Dwelling Place is looking for an individual that would be available every Monday, Wednesday & Saturday evenings from about 4:45 to 6:45 to act as a continuous presence at each serving night. The individual should be interested in interacting and supporting individuals and families in need. This individual will need to have compassion, understanding […]
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Easter Offering
Posted on March 30, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Giving, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, OutreachDear Members and Friends of First Congregational Church: Happy Easter! He is risen! There has never been a better year to shout that from our houses, rooftops, and across our gradually opening town. Jesus brings hope and light and love right into life’s realities. It is a gritty story that takes the mountains […]
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RIPLEY PRESENTS: Artist/Professor/Activist Willie Baronet and We Are All Homeless
Posted on February 22, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, RipleyFriday evening, February 26, 7:00 pm Zoom Event! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81338333362?pwd=a3Q5OVhYNzdEYkhrRis5YlJoK2RQdz09 On Friday, February 26, 7:00 pm, Ripley Presents will host an interactive Zoom presentation with Artist/Activist Willie Baronet and his project entitled We Are All Homeless. Willie will offer his passionate reflections, sharing the stories of people on the streets, interweaving them with […]
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Hello from the newly formed FCCW Racial Justice Working Group!
Posted on February 19, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Community, Environment, Latest News, Outreach, Small GroupsThis update follows discussions and activities launched by the congregation last year at the “Talk, Learn, Act” Juneteenth eve session, with follow-up Zoom meetings on the book How to Be an Antiracist. In response to an open invitation, several volunteers formed a Racial Justice Working Group with a charge to: “Provide opportunities for the […]
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Ripley Presents: Artist/Activist Willie Baronet’s Signs of Humanity
Posted on February 4, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, RipleyDON’T MISS OUR ALL-CHURCH DOCUMENTARY WATCH PARTY! Ripley Presents: Artist/Activist Willie Baronet’s Signs of Humanity Friday, February 19, 7:00 pm On Friday evening, 2/19, please join us for an all-church Watch Party – where we can, from the safety of our homes, watch the same film together! The watch party format allows us to communicate […]
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3 TRANSGENDER AWARENESS WEBINARS FEB and MAR
Posted on February 1, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Community, Health and Wellness, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, OutreachWe are an Open and Affirming church, having declared ourselves so in 2001. We have done much to welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex people to our church. But there is always more we can do and more we can learn about the LGBTQIA+ community. The Open & Affirming Coalition of the […]
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Successful Yarn Bombing!
Posted on January 28, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Community, Giving, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, OutreachEight knitters created 92 (!) hats and scarves and distributed them last week at the Dwelling Place in Woburn and at common cathedral’s BostonWarm day shelter in Boston. The recipients were very thankful and quite moved that individuals created these items by hand for them. Special thanks to Rev. Lisa Loughlin for locating great places […]
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2021 Winter Needs of RIM Metro North Cluster Clients
Posted on January 15, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, OutreachAs we think about service to others this January, please consider helping these clients of the Refugee Immigration Ministry who are in the process of seeking asylum. M + 4 (Single mom M and 4 children) from Africa: Prepare (or buy) and deliver a meal for 5 (mom and 4 children) for Saturday night […]
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Confronting the Crises in our Backyards
Posted on January 8, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Environment, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, OutreachSaturday, Jan 9 at 10 am Summoning the church to be courageous in the face of global warming’s existential threat to current and future generations “Racial justice requires climate justice…It’s not merely enough to assert that black lives matter; one must fight against the forces that believe that black lives, black lungs, and black bodies […]
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