
As the Sunday before Thanksgiving, much of our worship will be focused on thankfulness. We will be singing familiar Thanksgiving hymns and the choir is singing a beautiful anthem of thanksgiving. In the church year – which runs from the first Sunday of Advent to the last Sunday after Pentecost – we are at Christ […]

November 25, 2019 Once again FCCW has shown extreme generosity in your response to the October Just Peace offering to Puppies Behind Bars. Because of your care and compassion, an offering in the amount of $2,693.50 is being donated for the purpose of training conducted by inmates of puppies to become service dogs for veterans, […]

Join us on Sunday at 10 am for worship. We’ll baptize a beautiful child of God – Silas Hamnvik-Ard – and Rev. Will will complete his two-part sermon on the Resurrection of the Dead. The question he left rattling around in the space of our sanctuary at the end of last week’s sermon was “Resurrection from […]

Don’t forget to turn your clocks back this Sunday and then join us for worship at 10 am. It’s Communion Sunday and the story of Zaccheus from Luke 19 will guide our service. The children will share communion in Ripley Chapel at the end of their Stepping Stones classes. We hope you and your families will join us. […]

We’re back in the sanctuary this Sunday after a beautiful Animal Blessing Service out on the Town Common last week. We’ll kick off our fall Stewardship Drive during worship and reflect upon another parable from Jesus and what it has to say to us about generosity in community. Immediately following worship, those in need of […]

The Chapel is looking beautiful and while the finishing touches still need to be accomplished in the coming month, the space was ready for us to gather with candlelight, song, and prayer as we offer our communal blessing to the space. The Rededication was framed around a Taizé Service. If you don’t know about Taizé […]

Jesus’ encounter with 10 lepers seeking healing, Luke 17:11-19, is the focus of the service this Sunday. It is a holiday weekend being the ironically twinned Columbus Day weekend and Indigenous People’s day There’s a lot to unpack there. The choir will be singing a Latin prayer, Ave Verum Corpus, the text attributed to Pope […]

Two of our youth gave testimonials this past Sunday on their experience of the Climate Strike. Ben Kuchma is a Junior at Winchester High and his brother Alex is a 5th grader at Morroco. Benjamin Kuchma I was asked to talk today about my experiences during the September 20th climate strike. This event encouraged youth […]

This first Sunday of October is World Communion Sunday when we share the Lord’s Supper within our congregation but pay special mind to those across the world who are also joining us in this sacred act. The kids will be waving flags from many nations and the choir’s anthem will draw our attention across the […]

October 3, 2019 It’s been a few weeks since our last report, and, boy, has there been progress! Those of you who have taken advantage of a few recent opportunities to take a peak into the chapel (such as after Worship some Sundays) have walked away feeling the same excitement that your Ripley Chapel Working […]