Category Archives: Outreach
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Youth Serve The Dwelling Place
Posted on April 12, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Community, Giving, Latest News, Outreach, Small Groups, Volunteer Opportunities, YouthWe invite all middle schoolers and high schoolers to join our one-day service project on Saturday, April 20 at The Dwelling Place in Woburn! Sign up here.
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ISA Takes on Support of a New Family!
Posted on April 4, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial JusticeImmigrant Support Alliance has a new family to support: an Afghan family of a dad, mom, and a boy and a girl, ages 5 and 6. We have found them an apartment in Medford, near a school and public transportation. Now we want to help them settle in at their new home. Here’s a preliminary […]
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Easter Plants
Posted on March 15, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Giving, Health and Wellness, Outreach, Small Groups, Volunteer Opportunities, YouthYou are invited to donate a chancel Easter plant as a memorial or as a gift. Plants will be distributed to our members at home and in assisted living centers. The cost of plants is $20.00 each. All orders are due by Palm Sunday, March 24. Order here or download this form. Want to celebrate the Easter season with members of our church […]
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Can you serve at the Dwelling Place This Saturday?
Posted on March 8, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Volunteer OpportunitiesThe Dwelling Place, a beautiful meal program hosted by a sister church in Woburn, is looking to our church for the meal next Saturday evening. The menu is a Saint Patrick’s Day theme: shepherd’s pie. You can cook a portion of the meal and/or serve. Go to our sign up genius to see what is available. If you […]
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Seeking Leadership Team Nominations
Posted on February 22, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Community, Giving, Health and Wellness, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Small Groups, Worship, YouthFirst Congregational Church’s Leadership Team is the strategic decision-making body of our church community which is charged with the task of ensuring the achievement of the mission and purpose of the church on behalf of the wider congregation. In our congregational church, the Leadership Team is made up of lay members who are invested in […]
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Repair Cafe Saturday March 9
Posted on February 15, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Community, Environment, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach9:00 am- 12:00 pm Chidley Hall REUSE/RECYCLE/REDUCE Do you have a special pair of jeans or sweater that needs mending, a lamp in need of repair, a bicycle that needs attention or kitchen knives that could use sharpening? Come and be a part of the sustainability movement and community by repairing and restoring rather than […]
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Reach Out Friendship Celebration – February 11th!!
Posted on January 31, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, OutreachYour Outreach team is excited to once again provide our Reach Out! event! In celebration of Valentine’s Day, please join us as part of our Friendship gathering on February 11th at 1PM on Zoom. Here’s the plan! We are looking for folks to make soup (in containers to serve 2-4 people) and then deliver the soup, a card, and […]
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Build-a-Bed Signups
Posted on January 18, 2024 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Outreach, Volunteer Opportunities, YouthOur annual Build-A-Bed project, coordinated by A Bed for Every Child and Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, will be on Sunday, February 4, 2024 11 AM – 1 PM with a lunch break at noon! Sign up today to be part of this meaningful, hands-on project, open to all ages and experience with building and […]
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2023 Christmas Offering
Posted on December 14, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Giving, Latest News, OutreachDear Members and Friends of First Congregational Church, How blessed we are during this holiday season to gather in such a beautiful, warm, and brightly lit church or from the comfort of our own homes through the gift of technology. To help bring some of that warmth and comfort to those less fortunate, the Outreach […]
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Can you (or a friend) help with immigrant housing?
Posted on November 30, 2023 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial Justice, Volunteer OpportunitiesOn Thanksgiving Day, a young man from Haiti walked out of an airplane terminal at Logan Airport into the welcoming arms of a group of volunteers. MSL (we prefer to use a recent immigrant’s initials to preserve their privacy) was sponsored to come here under a new USCIS program that vets Haitians seeking to come […]
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