
Taizé chants + prayers + imposition in honor of All Souls/All Saints WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023, 7:30 P.M. WINCHESTER, MA: Live in-person from the stunning Ripley Chapel at First Congregational Church, Winchester. First Congregational Church offers a poignant and meditative service, featuring the ecumenical prayers and music of France’s Taizé community. All denominations are […]

This Sunday, our middle and high schoolers will lead the service! We will reflect on a Psalm and the Beatitudes and focus on what matters to us. We invite youth and families to stay after the service for a waffle brunch at 11:30 AM. Download the Bulletin: OOW 10-15-23
Sunday, October 22, 2023, 10 AM, Town Common Rain Location: Chidley Hall Please join us on the Town Common where we will swing, celebrate and give thanks for all of God’s creatures, blessing our animal companions. We welcome all pets—furry, scaly, hairy, feathery and even plush! Photos of beloved pet companions are welcome in place […]

Jesus’ parables were intended to lead his hearers from the narrow confines of tightly held assumptions to the more spacious place of God’s vision for the world (and for their world). This week in worship we’ll place before us Jesus’ Parable of the Tenants from Matthew 21 and allow our worship of God to bring us […]

Join us this Sunday in the sanctuary or online for our annual World Communion Sunday. Many languages will invite us to the communion table to begin our new week, month and season together. Rev. Will will reflect on how the cross at the center of the Christian faith invites a global community to gather and […]

Our service this Sunday (in person and on livestream) falls on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement for our Jewish siblings and the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Suggested by our Music Director, Jane Ring Frank, our service takes inspiration from the Days of Awe (High Holidays). Rev. Maeve will preach on […]

You belong with us this Sunday in our house of prayer (whether in person or by livestream) as we reflect on the deep hospitality and radical welcome of God’s reign. This week we consider chapter 6 of the Gospel of Luke and Jesus’ gathering of his disciples into a house of belonging in order to manifest the beloved […]

Welcome to the beginning of our church program year! As we all return from summer vacations and endure the last heat wave of the season (hopefully!), we invite you to come lift your voices in song and prayer together in the sanctuary on Sunday mornings at 10am (also on livestream). Rev. Will Burhans will offer a reflection on […]

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. (Johann Sebastian Bach) Speaking to one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs of the Spirit, sing and make music to the Lord from your heart…(Ephesians 5: 19) It is hard to believe that summer days […]

Join us on Sunday for worship at 10am in Ripley Chapel or online. Laurie Roby will be preaching a sermon entitled “Lost and Found” based on the scripture in John when Jesus asks Peter to feed his sheep. Rev. Lucy Sanders will be offering a special piece of music with Todd Gordon. And we’ll have an opportunity to […]