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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In this season of so much grief and gratitude, loss and love, we hope you will all find ways of sharing the Lenten journey with us, whether in learning sessions, small groups, or spiritual practices both contemplative and creative.
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Each year on the final Sunday of January, we gather as a church community for our Annual Meeting. The meeting consists of the standard components of any corporation, like approving the annual reports of officers, committee chairs, and staff, as…
Read MoreDear First Church, We have sad news to share. We recently learned of our first two cases of COVID-19 at the First Church Shelter, this after 10 months of being COVID-free. Cambridge Pubic Health and the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA)…
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Good news, church! Thanks to renewed funding from our BU School of Theology Creative Callings Project grant, Carlyle Stewart, our Community Minister for Racial Justice, will continue to be with us through most 2021. Carlyle will be preaching on February…
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A group of over 100 Cambridge Rindge and Latin students, including our own Allison and Christina Korn, has stepped up in a big way to make bag lunches for the Friday Café. Since the start of the pandemic, the Friday Café has…
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This pastoral note was sent via email on January 6, 2021. If you would like to receive all-church emails from First Church please sign up here. Dear Friends, On this Epiphany day, as we celebrate the revealing of the Light…
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Join us for virtual morning worship at 11:00 a.m. on the Second Sunday of Christmastide to welcome guest preacher Rev. Darrell Goodwin, the new Executive Conference Minister of the Southern New England Conference. Rev. Goodwin has most recently served the…
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Give me light in the darkness, light in the darkness, light in the darkness to sing my soul awake. Over the past few Advent seasons, we have sung these words as part of our Advent liturgy. They are set to…
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