If you wish to donate memorial flowers for loved ones this Easter, please send the names of those to be remembered to Kirsten Manville in the First Church office by Sunday, March 28. Contributions of $20 to help defray the…
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As we continue to live into the increased capacity of our website, First Church is developing new strategies for communications, both within the congregation and with the wider world. Join Sarah, Lexi, and Dan at Zoom Coffee Hour on March…
Read MoreIn 2019, as part of our ongoing efforts to reckon with our slaveholding past, the Beloved Community group contracted with First Church member Karlene Griffiths Sekou to conduct focus groups with small segments of some impacted communities to gain insight…
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First Church is committed to a Vision for Being an Antiracist Church. Part of living into our Vision includes support for individual, local, and churchwide reparations. Recently as a guest preacher at Pentecostal Tabernacle Church in Central Square, Senior Minister…
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Filmed over three years, beginning with the 2017 Muslim Ban, this 39-minute acclaimed documentary “profiles the story of two ordinary women, one Muslim and one Jewish, who join forces to stop the surge in religiously motivated hate crimes that have…
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First Church Homeless Ministries held its first-ever virtual fundraising gala on February 20, raising $36,000 to support the First Church Shelter and Friday Café. It was the largest amount the ministries have raised to date, and exceeded their goal of…
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The United Church of Christ provides twice-weekly webinars called Tuesdays for Nurture and Thursdays for the Soul. These offerings unite, uplift, and equip the Church for such a time as this. Recent webinar topics include: Church-Based Reparations The State of…
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Dan Smith was recently invited to preach at the Pentecostal Tabernacle Church (PTC) in Central Square to share about our journey towards becoming an antiracist church. A video of PTC’s worship service with Dan’s sermon on February 21 is now available,…
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Beloved community, During the season of Lent, First Church is offering a midweek prayer service for all who are seeking a time for contemplative and embodied prayer. Pastoral Associate Jaz Buchanan asked her wife Jackie, a cellist, if she would…
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As you know, vaccinations against COVID-19 are underway. The City of Cambridge and Cambridge Public Health Department are currently engaged in an assessment to understand how Cambridge residents feel about the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as the kind of information…
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