Category Archives: Outreach

• Outdoor Church

  Posted on January 26, 2017 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Outreach

  Outdoor Church Many thanks to the members and friends of FCCW for your abundant response to the call to serve The Outdoor Church of Cambridge this Sunday! Since the email went out on Monday we have had almost 30 people volunteer to buy ingredients, donate socks & scarves, make sandwiches, and deliver necessities and hope […]

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• Outdoor Church January 29

  Posted on January 20, 2017 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Outreach

  The Outdoor Church is a church for homeless men and women in Cambridge. Our church serves there when there is a 5th Sunday in the month. Together, we purchase ingredients, make sandwiches, and send them (and some fresh, new socks) with two or three congregants to Cambridge. There our members help to serve the Outdoor […]

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• The Dwelling Place Needs Volunteers for Saturday, January 21st!

  Posted on January 4, 2017 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Outreach

    We are looking for 4-6 volunteers to prepare and serve a meal for about 20 people at the Dwelling Place on Saturday, January 21st. The Dwelling Place is a collaboration of area churches that prepares and serves meals at the United Methodist Church in Woburn for individuals and families in need.  Our FCC is responsible for preparing and serving the meal on the third Saturday of each […]

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  Preparing for Myanmar

  Posted on December 28, 2016 by Nancy in Community, Outreach, Spire link

  Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new water-mark on your excitement And love. Change rooms in your mind for a day. All the hemispheres in existence lie beside an equator […]

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• Epiphany Celebration January 6 at 6PM

  Posted on December 22, 2016 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Outreach

  JOIN THE WISE MEN IN SEARCHING FOR THE BABY JESUS Most people know that the reason we exchange gifts on Christmas is to mirror the gifts that the Wise Men brought to the Christ Child.  What you might not know is that those gifts were given, not on Christmas Day, but on Epiphany.  Epiphany is […]

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• Cookie Walk December 11, 11:30 AM, Chidley Hall

  Posted on December 1, 2016 by Sarah Marino in Outreach, Youth

  The Middle School Class will be hosting our annual Cookie Walk. Here’s how it works: Families and individuals sign up beforehand to bring in a plate of nut-free cookies. Those cookie plates come in before church and the Rite 13 class sets up a display of the different cookie trays. After church everyone comes down, […]

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  Advent Visitation Sunday on December 4

  Posted on November 23, 2016 by Sarah Marino in Community, Health and Wellness, Outreach, Spire link

  On December 4, we are planning in-home visits with several of our elders and congregation members who aren’t able to make Sunday worship routinely.  Many of you have expressed interest in participating in these visits as part of your own faith journey. Our seniors look forward to these visits as a way to stay connected […]

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• Habitat for Humanity Workday Saturday Dec 3

  Posted on November 21, 2016 by Sarah Marino in Community, Outreach

  Please join us for a build day at our site in Lawrence. All adults and youth age 16 and up are welcome. Please contact Doug Taylor at 617-448-8327 (cell) or mccall.taylor@verizon.net or Andrew Beltz at andrewjbeltz@yahoo.com for more info.

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• Thanksgiving Food Baskets

  Posted on November 2, 2016 by Sarah Marino in Community, Outreach

  FAN and the First Congregational Church of Winchester are excited to be teaming up again this year to provide Thanksgiving meals to those in need in our community and the surrounding areas. Please sign up to donate and we hope this will be a great activity for the whole family to participate in as the […]

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• Linen Drive for Mission of Deeds

  Posted on November 2, 2016 by Sarah Marino in Outreach

  At Mission of Deeds their sole mission is to provide basic home necessities, without charge, to those in need. As the weather turns colder the families who were recently homeless need warm bedding for the winter. From Nov 1-13 the Outreach Ministry will be collecting new and gently used linens: comforters, sheets and blankets of […]

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