Enjoy our October 25 service celebrating First Church's 333rd Birthday!
Updated: Oct 26
ONE WORSHIP SERVICE at 10:00 am (Meetinghouse and livestreamed)
Join us for Common Fellowship in Schultz Hall following the
service to celebrate with cake and pumpkin decorating!
Preacher: Kate VanDerzee-Glidden, Senior Pastor
Director of Music Ministries: Dr. Angela Salcedo
Music: Chancel and Cantate Choirs; Jubilate Ringers; Arwen Norman, conductor; Anna Chen, piano; Frank Tamburro and Ken Bell, trumpeters
Dear Friends,
For 333 years, the people of First Church have been a community of light, compassion and hope.
For 333 years, we have lived out our faith by practicing peace, leading with love, working for justice and serving others.
For 333 years, First Church has been a soft resting place and a home to people of all ages and backgrounds.
Even as our hearts are heavy with all that’s going on in our own lives and in the world, we come together to pray, sing, connect and find a community where we are welcomed and loved.
We hope you will join us for our ONE festive worship service this Sunday celebrating the church’s birthday at 10:00 a.m. in the Meetinghouse or you can watch online.
The bulletin, large print bulletin and announcement slides are available on our website. You can watch any of our livestreamed or recorded services on our YouTube channel.
We give thanks for our church community and acknowledge the blessing of doing life together. As Samuel Wells wrote, "Church means giving up the fantasy that we can find fulfillment and righteousness alone. It means doing things at inconvenient times with eccentric people in sometimes clumsy ways - because life is a team game, and on judgment day God will have nothing to say to us, if we think we can come without the others."
It's a blessing to be on the First Church team with you! Hope to see you Sunday!
Love,
Kate
