This year, The First Congregational Church in Winchester will be celebrating Earth Day on Sunday, April 28th. In order to build on the momentum of the Earth Day service that Sunday, the Green Congregation Taskforce is sponsoring an 11th Hour Presentation in the Palmer Room. A big thank you goes to the Children and Youth Faith Formation […]

June 24th-28th 9-12:30 pm Calling all preschoolers-5th graders! Join us this summer as we host “Athens: Paul’s Dangerous Journey to Share the Truth” from June 24th-28th. Families step back in time at Athens, exploring some of the adventures the Apostle Paul faced. Kids and adults will participate in a memorable Bible-times Marketplace, sing catchy songs, play […]

Reflections From a Youth Mission Trip Chaperone By Susan Rozmanith February 17 – 23, 13 youth (3 seniors, 3 juniors, 4 sophomores and 3 freshmen) and 4 adults (Ben Pulaski, Christine Tresselt, and Marty and Susan Rozmanith) went to Tuskegee, Alabama for a home repair mission trip with Alabama Rural Ministry. Three of the students […]

Join us at 10am this week as we baptize another of God’s children – Madison Nordstrom – and reflect upon Jesus’ powerful words in the Gospel of Luke wherein lies the most famous of passages – “do unto others what you would have them do unto you.” The children will participate in the baptism and […]

The Faith Formation Ministry has decided to postpone the Talent Show. We realized that there was not enough time given to allow people to sign up and we wanted to make sure that everyone who wanted to be a part of it can be. We will choose a new date this weekend and send […]

This Sunday, 13 youth and 4 adults are heading down to Tuskegee, Alabama to work with the Alabama Rural Ministry or ARM for a week. ARM focuses on helping families make their houses warm, safe, and dry, and that is exactly what the youth will be doing there. Some of them will be skirting a […]

Saturday, March 16 at 9:30 AM A Bed for Every Child is a program of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless created five years ago to provide beds for children whose families could not afford separate beds for their children resulting in tired and unfocused children who could not learn adequately in school. To meet […]

Join the Wise Men in Searching for the Baby Jesus Most people know that the Wise Men brought gifts to the Christ Child. What you might not know is that those gifts were given, not on Christmas Day, but on Epiphany. Epiphany is January 6th – the 12th day after Christmas. That’s right – the […]
Join the youth for their annual Cookie Walk happening on December 9th after the service in Ripley Chapel. For those who are new to the Cookie Walk here’s what it is all about! We ask people to bake their favorite (nut free) Christmas cookies and drop them off before the service starts on 12/9. After […]
Every year for Christmas we as a church give presents to those who are in need. This year we will be giving to boys and girls from the community-based program YVLifeSet (formerly Germaine Lawrence Residential Program in Arlington), boys and girls from the Council of Social Concern and people at the Lowell Transitional Learning Center. 2018 Giving Tree Signup Please bring your gift, unwrapped […]