Announcement of Congregational Meeting, May 18, 2025 The Church will gather for a Congregational Meeting after worship services on May 18, 2025. The topics on the agenda will include: Sustainability Task Force Report Update on the 2025 budget Church Retreat in the Fall Other reports/issues from the community. You may attend the congregational meeting via...
Join us at 10:30 in the sanctuary or click here to join us by Zoom on this Sunday as we welcome six new members into the life of First Church and bless Rev. Amanda’s departure on sabbatical. Our opening hymn, Come O Fount of Every Blessing, will be led by Casey Capsambelis on guitar, Katie Koza on...
Dear First Church, I am pleased to announce that Ulung Tanoto has been selected as our next Director of Music Ministry. As you will see from his bio below, Ulung is a composer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist who brings a multicultural sensibility to music and worship. His current church setting has been a predominantly Cameroonian congregation...
Hannah Long-Higgins’ film “Speaking Their Names: Remembering the Enslaved People Who Worked This Land,” beautifully shows the historic All Saints worship service at First Church in October 2023. This 13 minute film features excerpts from Dr. Renee K. Harrison’s sermon and interviews with Meg Maguire, Rev. Amanda Hendler-Voss, and Antonio Austin, the Howard University Ph.D. student whose research uncovered the names of the enslaved...
To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of First Congregational United Church of Christ (FCC), we invited Dr. Renee K. Harrison to deliver the keynote address on March 7, 2015. Her presentation, Hidden Histories: Honoring Those Who Helped in Building a Just and Loving Community, challenged us to look at the history of our land and its...
From Nora Marsh: For the past few years, I have had a regular spiritual (non-religious) practice of participating in our Wednesday 12:15-12:45 PM meditation group. We met in person prior to the pandemic and then met on Zoom. Now we are meeting on a hybrid basis, both in person and on Zoom. We do a...
