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  • A Festival of Lessons & Carols

    Posted on December 5, 2024 by in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

    The Music of Hildegard von Bingen: Chants for the Blessed Virgin Mary With chant specialist/guest vocalist, Justina Golden MUSIC NOTES: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2024, 10:00 A.M. Please join us on Sunday, December 15 at 10:00 am. for First Congregational Church’s annual Festival of Lessons and Carols, a beloved tradition from England wherein God’s word is […]

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  • Hanging of the Greens

    Posted on November 27, 2024 by in Latest News, Worship

    December 1, 10:00 AM Lighting of the 1st Advent candle, the candle of Hope At Advent, we enter into a 4-week season of waiting and preparing for Christ’s coming at Christmas. It’s a season of ever-greens and wreaths, of lights and colors, of gifts and sacred story. Join us on Sunday for our annual Hanging of […]

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  • Join us for Thanksgiving Sunday Worship (November 24, 2024)

    Posted on November 22, 2024 by in Latest News, Worship

    This week in worship we’ll sing the familiar hymns of Thanksgiving and consider how we gather around our tables in a spirit of gratitude and welcome that reflects Jesus’ way of radical hospitality. We’ll also celebrate the 3rd graders among us by giving them their first Bible, which comes with no small amount of wrapping […]

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  • All Saints & All Souls (November 3, 2024)

    Posted on November 1, 2024 by in Latest News, Worship

    Tonight is the night of death and monsters, ghosts and ghouls, witches and of course mini-Taylor Swifts. Halloween originated as a pagan holiday that was absorbed by Christendom to prepare for the feast days of All Saints and All Souls with an evening of embracing and even enjoying the spectors of evil, death, darkness and […]

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  • Join Us for Stewardship Sunday (October 27, 2024)

    Posted on October 25, 2024 by in Giving, Latest News, Worship

    This Sunday is the start of our fall Stewardship Campaign as we consider together how we “Open Doors to God’s Realm”. Rev. Jonathan Goodell will be preaching on the Blind Bartimaeus passage in the Gospel of Mark chapter 10 encouraging us to turn our eyes to God’s Kingdom and how we manifest it on earth as it is […]

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