Bring your pets (leashed or in a carrier) for Blessing of the Animals at our Celebration! service on Sunday, October 13 at 9 AM in the sanctuary. If you can’t bring your pet, bring a photo of your pet to be blessed.

On Sunday, July 7, at 10 AM we will combine Celebration! and Traditional worship in a single service in the sanctuary to sing God’s praises together.  Hymn requests from our blue hymnal will be taken at the service.

After the service the Deacons will host an ice cream sundae social in Old Buttonwood Hall.  Please join us!

Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent.  First Church will services with imposition of ashes 12 noon and 7:00 PM.  The evening service will be live streamed.

On street parking is available with placard.

Join us for a fun Mardi Gras Celebration service on Sunday, February 11 at 9 AM. Let the good times roll!

Please join us for a joyous Service of Lessons and Carols for Christmas Eve.

On-street parking is available with placard. This service will be live streamed.

Christmas Eve Family Worship for all ages. Communion will be served.

On-street parking is available with placard. This service will be live streamed.

On Christmas Eve, we will have 3 services:

• Traditional Worship @ 11 AM
  Fourth Sunday of Advent

• Christmas Eve Celebration! @ 4 PM
  Christmas Eve family worship service for all ages.

• Service of Lessons & Carols @ 8 PM
  Our annual joyous Service of Lessons and Carols.

On-street parking is available with placard and live stream will be available for all services.

A Service of the Longest Night will be held in the church sanctuary.  This is a winter service of hope and healing that encourages those going through times of sorrow and grief during the holidays.  Inspired by the solstice, winter’s longest night, this service will have special music and liturgy while allowing you space “to be.”  We hope you will join us as we worship God during this special time.

On-street parking is available with placard. This service will be live streamed.

On December 3 we will celebrate traditional worship at 11 a.m. with a Service of Lessons and Carols for Advent.  This service, different from our Lessons & Carols for Christmas on Christmas Eve, will be focused on the Advent texts and music, allowing us to focus on the prophetic news of the coming of Christ.

Our year of Celebration of 325 years as a congregation concludes with worship services on November 5.

Our year of commemorations concludes on Sunday, November 5. As we celebrate All Saints Sunday we will give thanks for the generations who have gone before us. Following the Celebration Service we will place our time capsule in the church vault to remain for the next 25 years. For the traditional service, our choir is preparing special music with guest music director Donald Nally, director of the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble The Crossing. Former clergy of First Church will be present and participating in worship. The day culminates with a champagne reception in Old Buttonwood Hall. Please join us!

On Sunday, July 9, at 11 AM we will combine Celebration! and Traditional worship in a single service in the sanctuary to sing God’s praises together.  Hymn requests from the blue hymnal will be taken at the service.  If you would like to request a hymn that is not in the blue hymnal, please send your request to Andrew Senn so we can include it in a hymn booklet. (We can’t promise that we’ll be able to sing every requested hymn during the service!)

After the service the Deacons will host an ice cream sundae social in Old Buttonwood Hall.  Please join us!

Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent.  First Church will offer in-person services with imposition of ashes 12 noon and 7:30 p.m.  The evening service will be live streamed.

On street parking is available with placard.

Please join us for a fun Mardi Gras Celebration service on Sunday, February 19 at 9 AM.

On Christmas day, we will offer one service of worship, at 11 AM. Our worship service will take the form of a Moravian Lovefeast. The Lovefeast is an historical liturgy that involves singing hymns (in our case, Christmas Carols) and an Agape Meal. An Agape Meal is different from communion in that there is not a memorial component, but similar in that it seeks to draw Christians together in fellowship. Join us for this worship service to sing carols and have a cookie!

On-street parking is available with placard.

Please join us for our annual joyous Service of Lessons and Carols, held this year on Christmas Eve. Festive brass prelude music starts at 8:30 pm, and will then join with the choir, congregation, and organ to lead our favorite carols in the service at 9 pm.

On-street parking is available with placard.

Christmas Eve family worship service for all ages.

On-street parking is available with placard.

A Service of the Longest Night will be held in the church sanctuary.  This is a winter service of hope and healing that encourages those going through times of sorrow and grief during the holidays.  It is also for those who may be discouraged, depressed, or hopeless, or may be reliving past memories of holidays spent with loved ones or family—for better or worse. Inspired by the solstice, winter’s longest night, this service will have special music and liturgy while allowing you space “to be.”  We hope you will join us as we worship God during this special time.

On-street parking is available with placard.

On December 4 we will celebrate traditional worship at 11 AM with a Service of Lessons and Carols for Advent.  This service, different from our Lessons and Carols for Christmas on Christmas Eve, will be based around the seven ancient “O Antiphons.”  Each of the antiphons highlights a different Messianic name for Christ from the Old Testament.  It is a more mystical and introspective service than its Christmas counterpart, and really helps us to focus on the prophetic news of the coming of Christ.

On Sunday, July 31, we will combine the Celebration and Traditional services at 11 am in the sanctuary to sing God’s praises together, followed by an ice cream sundae social in Old Buttonwood Hall. All are welcome!

Please send your favorite hymn requests to Andrew Senn so that they can be included in the hymn booklet. (But we can’t promise that we’ll be able to sing every requested hymn during the service.)