Category Archives: Outreach

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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 Opportunities

  The 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, Youth

  First 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, Outreach

  9:00 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, Outreach

  Your 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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  Build-a-Bed Signups

  Posted on January 18, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Outreach, Volunteer Opportunities, Youth

  Our annual Build-A-Bed project, coordinated by A Bed for Every Child and Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, will be on Sunday, February 4, 2024 11 AM – 1 PM with a lunch break at noon! Sign up today to be part of this meaningful, hands-on project, open to all ages and experience with building and […]

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  2023 Christmas Offering

  Posted on December 14, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Giving, Latest News, Outreach

  Dear Members and Friends of First Congregational Church, How blessed we are during this holiday season to gather in such a beautiful, warm, and brightly lit church or from the comfort of our own homes through the gift of technology. To help bring some of that warmth and comfort to those less fortunate, the Outreach […]

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  Can you (or a friend) help with immigrant housing?

  Posted on November 30, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Justice, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Volunteer Opportunities

  On Thanksgiving Day, a young man from Haiti walked out of an airplane terminal at Logan Airport into the welcoming arms of a group of volunteers. MSL (we prefer to use a recent immigrant’s initials to preserve their privacy) was sponsored to come here under a new USCIS program that vets Haitians seeking to come […]

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  Immigrant Support Alliance

  Posted on November 9, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach

  Would you like to volunteer to help recent immigrants? Can you open your arms – and maybe your home?   This 2023-2024 year, Immigrant Support Alliance, (formerly known as the Metro North Cluster/RIM) is working with a 37 year-old man from Haiti who will arrive this month and a family from Afghanistan that is here […]

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  2023 Giving Tree, Christmas Gift donations

  Posted on November 8, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Giving, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Youth

  Every year for Christmas we, as a church, give presents to those in need. This year we will be giving to children from the community-based program Youth Villages, children from the Council of Social Concern in Woburn, and to the people at the Lowell Transitional Learning Center. You can sign up for gift giving here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0E4FA8A82F4-45950101-fccholiday#/ […]

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  Enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner At The Church!

  Posted on November 1, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Community, Giving, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Small Groups

  Thanksgiving day (November 23rd) from 12:30pm. Once again, we have an opportunity to eat Thanksgiving Dinner together at the church. This has been a wonderfully welcoming and relaxed event in recent years. It will be multi-generational. The event is free, with options to bring a dish only if you wish. Vegetarian options available – but turkey, […]

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