31 May 2024 0 Comment

A Season of Braiding Sweetgrass

As summer’s warmer weather beckons us to spend more time outdoors – hiking and picnicking, First Congregational Church’s Social Justice Ministries have planned a variety of activities for our communal reflection, recreation,...
29 May 2024 0 Comment

Celebrate 2024 PRIDE with First Congregational Church

Celebrate 2024 PRIDE with First Congregational Church Join First Congregational Church as we celebrate PRIDE 2024 the entire month of June. Each Sunday you are invited to wear your rainbow bandanas, colors and t-shirts. Make plans to...
28 May 2024 0 Comment

Reflection After Service of Covenant & Installation

You can listen to this week’s Devotional here Author: Linda Kowatch I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because of your sharing in the gospel from the...
21 May 2024 0 Comment

As You Have Loved Us

You can listen to this week’s Devotional here Author: Martha Palmer  If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Ecclesiastes 4:10 10 Above all, love each...
14 May 2024 0 Comment

Acceptance

You can listen to this week’s Devotional here Author: Joanne O’Keefe “Accept one another then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.” Romans 15:7 Recently, I watched a human interest story on CBS...
7 May 2024 0 Comment

A Place of Safety

You can listen to this week’s Devotional here Author: Lianna Campos I was at the gas station last week when the attendant looked at my wrist and said “Oh, that’s not a cave!” Important context here is that I have an ichthys...
30 Apr 2024 0 Comment

Creed

You can listen to this week’s Devotional here Author: Carolyn Gard When I was in eighth grade I became a member of a Presbyterian church. One of the things I remember doing was memorizing the Apostle's Creed. I had no trouble with...
23 Apr 2024 0 Comment

Reflections from the Path of Totality

You can listen to this week’s Devotional here Author: Karen Hoover And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and God made the stars also. And God set them in the...
16 Apr 2024 0 Comment

A Christian Meditation on Earth Day

You can listen to this week's Devotional here Author: Chris Rozoff In Psalm 104, the Bible conveys the idea of ecosystems in God’s creation. In a most poetic way, Psalm 104 (NIV Version) states God “makes springs pour water into the...
9 Apr 2024 0 Comment

Panentheism and the Resurrection of Jesus

You can listen to this week's Devotional here  Author: Kevin Pettit “The news of God’s resurrection, first encountered through perplexity and dismissed as an idle tale, ultimately gives way to a life-giving power unleashed among the...