We
welcome you!
During the fall, winter, and spring there are two
Sunday services: Come
as you are. Dress comfortably, as you define comfort. Bring
your children. We have a full religious education
program. 
We
hope that you will enjoy our warm, casual, energized, celebrating environment.
Laughing Together:
Potluck
May 10th at 6 p.m. in
the Fellowship Hall Your
invitation to gather with friends in the Fellowship Hall for food and merriment!
For no good reason at
all, we will share a potluck dinner, some good conversation and a bundle of laughs. Please
bring a joke and something to eat. A
Conversation about First Parish Update
on our Congregational Conversations
As of this message, we have held the first two (of five) of our small group congregational
conversations and the reaction has been very positive. One reason is that the
focus—originally the generation of a new mission statement—has evolved. This has
happened because of conversations that have been going on online and among the
Committee on Ministry, through which two things have become clear. First,
the church’s mission statement isn’t the problem; it’s actually a pretty good
statement.
Second, and more fundamentally, we really need to have a different kind of conversation
in which we can talk with one another openly, honestly, and safely about what
is and isn’t working for us as a community. And
that’s what this first round of conversations has become—a chance to hear from
one another what it is that we deeply and truly value about our spiritual home,
what is important to us, what makes (has made, or could make) this place “home”
for us. So
if you were planning not to get involved because you didn’t want to do “that mission
statement work” again, and if you have something to say about your experience
here in recent years, please try to make it to one of the upcoming conversations.
(Each is 1 ½ hours long and are being held in Room 4 of the Barn) - Thursday,
May 8th, 7:00 pm
- Saturday,
May 10th, 9:00 am
- Monday,
May 12th, 7:00 pm
And
don’t forget the all-congregation meeting on Saturday, May 17th at 1:00 in the
Parish Hall. Read
Rev. Eric Walker Wikstrom's Challenge to First Parish Members.
(PDF
version) Microsoft
WORD Version of Eric's Sermon Read
Rev. Dr. Denis Meacham's Sermon: Getting to the Future: Not What But How
(PDF
version) Microsoft
WORD Version of Denis's Sermon Join
the Conversation Food
for Thought: The
Wayside Pulpit 
"Never
look down on anybody unless you helping him up." -Jesse Jackson "What
lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies
within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Click
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