Stewardship – We are the First Congregational Church in Winchester

Join Us for Stewardship Sunday (October 27, 2024)

Sarah Marino — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:23:42 +0000

This Sunday is the start of our fall Stewardship Campaign as we consider together how we “Open Doors to God’s Realm”. Rev. Jonathan Goodell will be preaching on the Blind Bartimaeus passage in the Gospel of Mark chapter 10 encouraging us to turn our eyes to God’s Kingdom and how we manifest it on earth as it is in heaven. Maggie will invite the children into their own process of giving for the sake of those in need during the Time for the Young and the choir will share a beautiful rendition of the Lord’s Prayer. We hope you’ll join us at 10am in the sanctuary or online.

Download the Bulletin Here: OOW 10-27-24.docx

Join Us for Worship This Sunday at 10 am in the Sanctuary (October 30, 2022)

Sarah Marino — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:18:57 +0000

It’s Stewardship Sunday when we begin our pledge drive and this year our theme is a Handful of Flour/ A Heart full of Gratitude. The story of Elijah and the widow of Zarephath will be our point of contemplation while pledge giving and bread baking will be our resulting action as we consider how gratitude leads us to generosity. We’ll also welcome a member of the Environmental Justice Team of the Southern New England Conference of our denomination, the UCC, who will present our congregation with an award for our efforts towards becoming a green congregation (see below for more). See you Sunday at 10 in the sanctuary or on-line!

View the Bulletin Here: _OOW 10-30-22

2022 Stewardship Campaign

Sarah Marino — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:29:46 +0000

In the midst of our Stewardship campaign, we ask you to consider the myriad ways that our church and church family has an impact on the world around us.

This is an important time of year as we attempt to plan how we will live into the strategic vision we have set forth, and support the wonderful work of our different ministries. Laura Bailey offered a stewardship testimony this past Sunday, highlighting how the generosity of First Congregational has had an impact on so many at-risk women and teens. It was a perfect example of our intention to increase our reach beyond us to share our faith, love and hope with others. Other goals in the strategic plan include deepening faith and community through small groups, branching out through worship, arts, and justice work, and growing our children, youth and family program.

This coming year we will be seeking and hiring a new Associate Pastor who will be responsible for our youth program. This is an exciting time for our church and this person will be an important addition to the ministry team. With an addition in 2022, and two retirements, one in mid-2022 and one in 2023, there will be a period of a temporary increase in the size of the ministry team and we will need to finance accordingly.”. Please consider how your own pledge will be used to support our church’s existing ministries and bringing in this important new member of the ministry team.

Know that the earlier you can offer your pledge for 2022, the better the Leadership Team can plan with ministries for the upcoming year. You can use this form to make your pledge

Thank you!

And thank you to all who were able to send pictures to share with the congregation. We know you’ll enjoy the end result below!

Peace,

Your Financial Resource Ministry Team,

Taylor Tresselt, Doug Clark, Jonathan Goodell, Ben Keeler, Penny Sparrow, John Wilson, Rev. Will Burhans, Janet Hall (Treasurer) & Anne Hoenicke (Assoc. Treasurer)