Category Archives: Worship

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  Join Us for a Healing Service This Sunday (October 12, 2025)

  Posted on October 10, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Health and Wellness, Latest News, Worship

  Over the past few weeks in my sermons, we have heard a lot about discipleship. This week in our texts we find the people of Israel in exile in a foreign land called Babylon. God’s advice through the prophet, Jeremiah is to build, plant and pray while in exile. We will also have the Health […]

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  Join Us for our Jazz Blessing of the Animals

  Posted on October 8, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship, Youth

  Sunday, October 19, 2025, 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 […]

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  Choral Arts New England Names Jane Ring Frank as 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

  Posted on October 8, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Ripley, Worship

  Sunday, October 26th Afternoon Ceremony hosted by First Congregational (Winchester). Free to All. Reception After. First Congregational Church is pleased to present the Choral Arts New England 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony and its latest recipient, our Minister of Worship and the Arts Jane Ring Frank. This free event will honor Ms. Frank’s 35-year contribution […]

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  World Communion Sunday (October 5, 2025)

  Posted on October 3, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  October 5 is World Communion Sunday, wherein we celebrate the gift of the vast and diverse Body of Christ around the globe. Though we are many people, we are one in Christ: strengthened and connected by the love of Jesus’s ministry and enduring legacy of peace, fellowship, and justice. Our Scripture readings this Sunday come […]

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  Join Us for Worship This Sunday (September 28, 2025)

  Posted on September 26, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  This Sunday we will hear the story of the unbinding of Lazarus. Lazarus was an avatar of God’s mercy. We too are asked to unbind ourselves and be avatars of God’s mercy. We bear God in our hearts, bodies, and spirits in spite of our flaws and failings. We bear the Christ out in to […]

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  Just Peace Offering

  Posted on September 25, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Giving, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Worship

  Just Peace Offering Update With your help, we have raised almost $800 for this year’s Just Peace Offertory recipient: Friendship Home in Norwell! As a reminder, the Outreach Ministry chooses one recipient every September. Founded in 1999 by two mothers of adult children with developmental disabilities, Friendship Home helps guests lead meaningful and productive lives […]

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  Join Us for Worship This Sunday (September 21, 2025)

  Posted on September 19, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

  This Sunday, we will meditate upon the words of the Prophet Jeremiah (8:18-9:1) and the author of the Gospel of Luke (16:1-13), whose passages ask us: do we hear the cries around us, and, if so, to which do we respond? We will also welcome a daughter of God into the Body of Christ through […]

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  Join Us This Sunday in the Sanctuary at 10 am or Online (September 14, 2025)

  Posted on September 11, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  It was great to see everyone last week and meet a lot of you! In this week’s sermon, I will share with you a story of getting lost when I was very young. The text in Luke is about the shepherd leaving the 99 to go look for the One lost. Jesus challenges us in […]

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  Join Us for Welcoming Sunday Worship (September 7, 2025) in the Sanctuary at 10 am

  Posted on September 5, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  I am looking forward to being with you all for the next six weeks. I have enjoyed getting to know the church staff already! This Sunday we will hear the text in Luke that talks of discipleship. Jesus asks his disciples to be willing to let go. Jesus reminds us that we are not in […]

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  Calling All Ringers and Singers

  Posted on September 2, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Ripley, Small Groups, Volunteer Opportunities, Worship

  It is hard to believe that summer days are drawing to a close. I am excited to begin my 23rd year at the church, and I look forward to another year of collaboration with the choir, organist, Jeffrey Mead,  soloists, Susan K. Navien and Peter Owens, Carilloneers, the Ripley Presents roster, the youth, the ministerial […]

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