Category Archives: Small Groups
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NAMI Support Groups Serve Specific Interests
Posted on June 23, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Health and Wellness, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Small GroupsThe number of NAMI Support Groups offered in the Commonwealth that cater to specific interests is growing. Virtual meetings help make this possible. Check the list below to see if there is one that matches your situation. As always, NAMI’s “standard” groups welcome all and will continue to meet virtually throughout the summer. Click […]
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SUMMER READ: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Posted on June 10, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial Justice, Small GroupsIsabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. She examines different caste systems around the […]
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Resurrection Study: 4 Gardens, 3 Trees, 2 Breaths, 1 Love
Posted on May 27, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Small GroupsRemember no session this coming Monday Night and Tuesday morning but we will resume Monday, June 7 and Tuesday, June 8 with our third session entitled 2 Breaths. Here is a recording of our last session on 3 Trees if you’d like to catch up with us and join.
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Resurrection Study: 4 Gardens, 3 Trees, 2 Breaths, 1 Love Class 1
Posted on May 20, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Small GroupsMonday 7 pm (zoom), Tuesday 10am (Reno Garden) How can a few trees, left-handedness, and rainbows give us any clearer a picture of the Resurrection? Come and find out Monday night on zoom or Tuesday morning in the Reno Garden for our 2nd in the series of our Resurrection Study. It’s not too late to […]
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New-Comers Inquiry Session 2 (on zoom)
Posted on March 4, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Small GroupsWednesday, March 10 at 7pm Join a handful of us on Wednesday night for our second informational session for new-comers to our community when we’ll be sharing specifically about First Congregational Church, it’s purpose, theology, ministries and operations and what it means to be a member of our church. In the first session we talked about our […]
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Tuedays with Jesus
Posted on March 4, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Small GroupsTuesday, March 9, 2021 6 pm This Tuesday we’ll gather for our 3rd session and read the third chapter of “Trouble the Water” which leads us into a consideration of why white people and specifically white Christians and the church have work to do to address racial injustice in our society. We’ll listen and discuss while […]
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Tuesdays with Jesus
Posted on March 1, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Small GroupsTuesday, March 2, 6 pm Join us for soup and chapter 2 of “Trouble the Water: A Christian Resource for the Work of Racial Justice”. How can we become more conscious of our own assumptions, blind spots and privileges around race and how can that better enable us for building God’s beloved community? Chapter 2 is […]
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Tuesdays with Jesus
Posted on February 23, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Small Groups, Worship6 pm this Tuesday (NOTE TIME CHANGE, NOT 7PM BUT 6PM!) Come, bring a bowl of soup and bread to your computer and we’ll gather together for our annual Tuesdays with Jesus. This year we are providing recipes from members of the church and encouraging you to make your own soup to have while we read […]
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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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New-Comers Inquiry Session (NCIS)
Posted on January 28, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Small GroupsWe will be holding a couple of informational sessions about our church and denomination in February for anyone interested in joining the church or simply learning more about it. What are the fundamental tenets of our denomination, the UCC (United Church of Christ)? What do we believe as a progressive Christian church? What’s different about […]
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