Get connected or deepen your connections to your church family by hosting or participating in one or more of our summer small groups (this program is now in its fifth year!). Fill out this brief survey to let us know what offerings you’d like to see and if you’d like to host a group. Groups can be centered around an interest …
Operation Love Notes for May and June
Contact Stan Boghosian, [email protected], to participate. The deacons will conduct another round of Operation Love Notes this month for those in our congregation who are experiencing health issues or other hardships. If you would like to write to a church member expressing friendship, admiration or encouragement, or if you would like to receive such a letter, please contact Stan Boghosian at [email protected]. …
Homemade Honduran Food on Pentecost!
Sunday, May 23, 4 pmAt In-Person Lawn Church Not only will you be fed spiritually this Sunday afternoon at Pentecost Lawn Church outdoors on our campus (4 p.m.), you don’t have to worry about what to make for dinner! Melissa and Any, the two Honduran mamas our church is accompanying, are preparing homemade food for takeout. While they wait up …
Pentecost Lawn Church! on May 23 at 4 pm
Sunday, May 23, 4 pmAll Ages, Sign in RequiredArrive early if you would like to assemble a Pentecost craft We describe Pentecost as the “birthday of the church” and this Pentecost, as society begins to re-open with falling COVID rates and rising vax rates, marks our spiritual rebirth as a community. On Sunday morning at 10 am, we’ll have virtual …
Learning Hour: The Saint Patrick You Never Knew
Sunday, May 23, 12:15 pmhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88967740143?pwd=M1pqRE92SnZBbjZKNmpvelBKVTNRdz09ID: 889 6774 0143 Passcode: 261432 Disappearing forests, shifting place names, an ancient university and mysterious calls from God: this is not your parents’ Saint Patrick story. Walk with amateur hagiographer Dr. Kate Lucchese through recent scholarship and her personal experience with the places and politics surrounding the origins of Ireland’s patron saint. Complete with maps!
Staffing Path Forward
We offer Reverend Kit our best wishes as she and her family prepare for a return to the East Coast in July, and we offer our support in their transition. With Reverend Kit’s upcoming departure, we have developed the following approach to our staffing needs. We are pleased that Reverend Kelly will move from 80% time to full time for …
Transition News from Associate Minister Rev. Kit Novotny
May 13, 2021 Dear beloved First Church community, It is with mixed emotions that I share a major life update: My husband Nate and I have made the bittersweet decision to move back to Massachusetts this summer, in order to raise our children closer to our families. My last Sunday will be July 11. While we’ve long imagined a “one-day” …
Art Meets Life Sunday: “The Night Lake” Author Rev. Liz Tichenor
Sunday, May 9, 10 amYouTube | Facebook | Vimeo This Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 9, we will delve into the complexity, grief, and gift of mothering in a suffering world, as we welcome special guest Rev. Liz Tichenor — part of our occasional “Art Meets Life” series bringing artists and other luminaries into conversation-as-preaching-moment. Liz is the author of The Night Lake, which Anne …
