Earth Day is Thursday, April 22nd and it is our tradition to lift up eco-justice and creation care in our worship of God during this week. Please join us on Sunday for a pre-recorded Jazz Earth Sunday worship service where we will have a guest preacher in Rev. Jim Antal who is the Special Advisor on Climate […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Join us for the 2nd Sunday of Easter as we gather together live on zoom for worship and communion at 10 am. Last week Easter fell on the first Sunday of the month so we decided to wait and hold communion this Sunday. You are encouraged to bring to the virtual worship space your own bread and cup so that […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...8 pm Maundy Thursday/Good Friday Overnight Prayer Vigil Beginning at 8:00 p.m. the Sanctuary will be open for Vigil. Slots will be for 1 individual or 1 pod at a time. Each will be 45 minutes long allowing for time in between for the air to settle and to ensure safety during change overs. Here is a link […]
Comments Off on Maundy Thursday/Good Friday Overnight Prayer Vigil Continue Reading...6 am, 8 am, & 10 am In-person Parking Lot Easter Services! We will hold a simple Easter Sunrise service for early-risers who are inspired to greet the rising sun and the Risen Son. Then there will be two more traditional Easter services with triumphal music pouring out of the windows of our sanctuary and a quartet from […]
Comments Off on Easter Worship Services Continue Reading...Easter Plants You are invited to donate a chancel Easter plant as a memorial or as a gift. Plants will be distributed to our shut-ins on Saturday, April 3. The cost of plants is $20.00 each. All orders are due by Palm Sunday, March 28. Order here
Comments Off on Easter Plants Continue Reading...Join us this Sunday for Palm Sunday on-line for a zoom worship service to begin Holy Week. Ideally you will have dropped by the church for palm branches on Saturday and will bring those to your worship space and together we’ll celebrate Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem even as we acknowledge what awaits him down […]
Comments Off on Palm Sunday (March 28, 2021) Continue Reading...Thursday, April 1 at 7 PM A reading of Jesus’ passion by the Deacons of the church with special music from Susan Navien and Peter Owens. This will be a pre-recorded service but we encourage you to watch at 7 pm on Thursday evening.
Comments Off on Maundy Thursday Service Continue Reading...It’s the fifth Sunday in Lent. The scriptures – Jeremiah 31 and Psalm 51 – both deal with the Lenten theme of Sin. Which can sound like a dour and depressing service but when we engage with God about our Sin the result is a closer relationship with God and with ourselves. We will pray together, sing (apart) […]
Comments Off on Join Us for Worship This Sunday at 10 am (March 21, 2021) Continue Reading...Join us online for worship this Sunday morning. It’s been one full year this week since we left the sanctuary and began worshipping online. We’ll acknowledge that with a brief slideshow of images from our year together and read from our scriptures about the importance of lament in such times. We hope you’ll join us on Sunday morning when the […]
Comments Off on Join Us This Sunday for Worship (March 14, 2021) Continue Reading...It was one year ago, Sunday, March 8, 2020, the second Sunday of Lent, that the choir of First Congregational Church gathered in the sanctuary to sing the second movement of Haydn’s Seven Last Words. Sadly, it was our last Sunday together, in person. We never finished that beautiful cantata, but despite missing one another […]
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