Category Archives: Racial Justice
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Recent Refugee Families Need A Little Help
Posted on January 23, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Racial Justice, Volunteer OpportunitiesImmigrant Support Alliance (ISA), in cooperation with the Outreach Ministry is looking for volunteers to assist refugees now living in Burlington. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Boston (CCAB), the refugees’ resettlement agency, is providing the refugees housing at an extended stay hotel. But these people need regular wellness checks to see if their basic […]
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ISA Clients Have Much to be Thankful For—and Some Needs
Posted on December 11, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial Justice, Volunteer OpportunitiesThe Afghan family that Immigrant Support Alliance (ISA) took on support for in March, 2024, has much to be thankful for. Thanks: Beginning in March of 2024, ISA has collaborated with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Boston (CCAB) to support a family of four. The family—a mother, father, daughter (now 7), and son (now […]
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Ripley Presents: Syldason – You Are Welcome Here
Posted on November 10, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Racial Justice, RipleyTONIGHT’S CONCERT IS CANCELLED due to a family emergency. Friday, November 15, 7:30 p.m. Live in-person and live streamed from the stunning Ripley Chapel at First Congregational Church, Winchester. Dedicated to the immigrant experience, please join us for Syldason, a duo concert featuring Sylvie Zakarian, marimba and Daniela Tosic, voice. Taking inspiration from their shared […]
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Belonging
Posted on October 8, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Community, Outreach, Racial JusticeUnfortunately, this event has been postponed. When a new date has been scheduled, we’ll be in touch again to let you know. The Congregational Library & Archives, located at 14 Beacon St, brings old and new together, carrying forward a tradition of care for the world’s future by preserving and interpreting the 400+ year Congregational […]
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You’re Invited! Justice Ministry’s Non-partisan Voter Drive
Posted on October 2, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Environment, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial Justice“Shout out; do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Loose the chains of injustice!” (Isa. 58:1,6). God calls us in Scripture to boldly work together and make the world a more equitable and loving place. One of the ways that we can do just that is by lifting our voices and […]
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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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Can you (or a friend) help with immigrant housing?
Posted on November 30, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial Justice, Volunteer OpportunitiesOn 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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Pastoral Letter – Israel and Palestine
Posted on October 10, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Outreach, Racial JusticeRev. Will Burhans October 10, 2023 In the story of our Savior’s birth, at the beginning of his days, his parents fled to Egypt because of a massacre of Jewish children at the hands of Rome. To tell the story, Matthew quotes from Jeremiah referencing another massacre in an earlier century: “A voice is heard […]
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Children & Youth News 1/12/23
Posted on January 12, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Community, Giving, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial Justice, YouthStepping Stones and Junior Forum will be commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. with a special lesson and joint service project on Sunday morning. Forum will meet at 7:30 PM for their own service project and a much needed study break.
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Join Us for Worship This Sunday at 10 am in the Sanctuary (January 15, 2023)
Posted on January 12, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial Justice, WorshipThis week, we celebrate the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s faith-based activism, justice, and hope. Our Scripture for this service will focus on Isaiah 42:1-7 and Matthew 3:13-17 through the themes of belovedness, calling, and inherent dignity/divinity. Pastoral Resident Maeve Hammond will preach and lead us in a meditation from the […]
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