Category Archives: Worship
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Taizé Service in Honor of the Summer Solstice
Posted on June 1, 2023 by Nancy in Ripley, WorshipTaizé chants + prayers + candle lighting Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 7:30 p.m. Live in-person from the stunning Ripley Chapel As we welcome the return of the light and the coming Summer Solstice, please join us for a joyful and poignant service, featuring the ecumenical prayers and gorgeous musical chants of France’s Taizé community. All […]
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Join Us for Worship This Sunday (May 28, 2023)
Posted on May 26, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, WorshipMemory … fascinating and fickle at times … is our topic for this Sunday. We will explore the ways we shore up memory in our lives. And we will respond to the Holy Spirit’s gift of new memory… the special resources of our faith that keep essential memory, core memory, memory that undergirds our identity … alive […]
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Health Ministry Smoothies
Posted on May 19, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Health and Wellness, Latest News, WorshipCoffee Hour this Sunday Come on Down to Chidley Hall after worship. The blenders will be humming!
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Join Us for Worship this Sunday at 10 am in the Sanctuary (May 21, 2023)
Posted on May 19, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, WorshipThis Sunday we will look at Psalm 30:1-5, 11-12 and Paul’s letter to the Romans 5:1-5. In Romans, Paul talks to the believers then as well as to us today about this idea of justification or grand forgiveness that comes to us through God. In addition Paul walks us through how grace, suffering, endurance, character […]
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Join Us for Worship This Sunday at 10 am (May 14, 2023)
Posted on May 12, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, WorshipThis week, we’re honoring the mothers in our lives at FCCW. We’ll read Psalm 139:1-18 and Luke 1:39-45 through the lens of “leaping for joy.” Rev. Maeve will deliver the sermon, and Rev. Jessica will lead us in prayer time. As always, our beautiful music team will lead us in songs that fit this Sunday’s […]
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Join Us This Sunday for Worship at 10 am (May 7, 2023)
Posted on May 5, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, WorshipIn a world swirling with choices, fevered schedules and chaotic events, the topic of “stability” can seem like a true sanctuary topic, a shelter. But stability has a unique invitation from this week’s passages. It takes us into the dynamism of Jesus’ life and ministry. His focus on life instead of permanence makes this kind of “stability” more […]
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Join us for Worship This Sunday at 10 am in the Sanctuary (April 30, 2023)
Posted on April 28, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Environment, Latest News, Outreach, WorshipOn this Fourth Sunday after Easter, Creation Care Sunday, we will focus on Genesis’ symbolic and mythic retelling of Creation, moving then eons later to the first Easter and Christ’s resurrection. Using scripture while drawing upon the thinking of Wendell Berry and others, Sabbatical Team Member Rev. Jessica McArdle will ask, “What is our Most Ancient […]
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Join Us in the Sanctuary or online This Sunday at 10 am (Apr 23, 2023)
Posted on April 21, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Outreach, WorshipOn this third Sunday after Easter, we will be reading Psalm 116:1-4,12-19 and Luke 14:7-14 through the theme of invitation. Inspired by the works of Dorothy Day and John O’Donohue, Rev. Maeve will preach on this question: “Who would you invite to the banquet?” Members of our three-person Sabbatical Team, Rev. Jonathan Goodell and Rev. […]
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Join Us for Worship This Sunday at 10 am (April 16, 2023)
Posted on April 14, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, WorshipJoin us in person or on-line for our second Sunday of Easter, a perfect time to baptize another child of God (Tom and Cindy Mahoney’s granddaughter) and reflect on another rich resurrection story (doubting Thomas). We’ll have an opportunity to offer up prayers together as a community and we’ll send Rev. Will off on his sabbatical and […]
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Easter Sunrise
Posted on April 7, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, WorshipWright Locke Farm 5:30 AM Yoga in the Barn; 6:00 AM Worship Outside As the women gathered around Jesus’ tomb in the very early hours of the Sunday after He had been buried, we will gather for a joyful and celebratory service. When we greet the sunrise we know that there is also the eternal […]
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