Dear First Church, I write with sad and joyous news. I am sad because my last day with you all will be Sunday, December 25; and I am also joyous because I am blessed to have served and been a…
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Please help us make worship as delicious as it is spiritually sustaining! For Coffee Hour each week we are looking for 3 households to bring 3 dozen cookies each, or the equivalent of snacks such as cheese & crackers or…
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In October, over 50 members from First Church (UCC), First Parish (UUA), and Christ Church (Episcopal) joined for one of two six-stop tours of Harvard’s “Landscape of Slavery.” Dan Smith has been working with Harvard Chaplains, especially Alden Fossett and…
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With hundreds of subscribers, and sometimes hundreds of views of our services and sermons, our reach is growing beyond our in-person and livestream attendance! First Church’s YouTube channel is home to lots of meaningful content, including sermons, music, church school…
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Will you help us thread together a montage of video images for our 2023 Stewardship campaign? Our hope is to use our hands to symbolically “lend” items that represent Jesus’s humble, selfless and sacrificial love to others. What you pass…
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Beginning in January 2017, the Cambridge Interfaith Sanctuary Coalition (of which First Church was a founding member) was an active network of volunteers walking alongside a family living in sanctuary at a time of great need. Many First Church members…
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The 2022 hurricane season started slowly – until, in the space of 10 days, two catastrophic storms slammed Florida, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Bermuda, and even Canada. The United Church of Christ has launched an emergency appeal to help with response…
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Join us for a fall series of events exploring our shared history as communities of faith in Harvard Square. Landscape of Slavery Tours Sunday, October 9 at 12:30 p.m. OR Sunday, October 30 at 3:00 p.m. The Sunken Garden at…
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You are warmly invited to sign up for a Fall Faith & Life Group! Led by First Church members, Faith & Life Groups are designed to encourage meaningful connections through shared interests, and they involve making a short-term commitment (a…
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The Shelter Oversight Committee hopes you will make time to attend this year’s Doris Beauvais Luncheon on Sunday, October 30, at 12:30 p.m. The event commemorates and recommends the leadership and example of the late Doris Beauvais, a First Church…
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