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FPW Fellowship Events 2023-2024
Harvest Potluck Gathering Saturday October 28th – 6pm to 7:30pm We will gather in the Social Hall to enjoy this good ole’ Meet and Eat Potluck meal Deck the Halls Saturday December 2rd 2023 – 3pm to 5pm Get the holiday season rolling by helping to decorate FPW inside...
Musically Speaking – September 2023
I write this while visiting my family in the Pacific Northwest I hope you are still in the same aura of calm as I am even as the summer winds down. We all look forward to being together again as our church season begins anew. Welcome Samantha!! There is much to look...
The View From Here – September 2023
Where you go I will go Beloved/Where you go I will go/Your people are my people/Your people are mine/Your people are my people/Your Divine, my Divine. I was taught this sweet song at this year’s General Assembly, by the remarkable Music Director Dr. Glen Thomas...
FPW Summer Services
As our church year comes to a close, the Worship Committee has put together 7 summer services. The format and 10:30 time will not change, and services will be zoomed to those not able to join in person. Zoom links will be emailed on Sunday morning, as usual. The...
Musically Speaking – June 9th, 2023
I am delighted to speak about the many generous, hard-working, and creative musicians at First Parish as we close out the church year. I think of all the music that was presented as worship that helped to make this a transformational year. I refuse to name names...
“Radical Kinship” – June 4th, 2023
“Radical Kinship” READING: The reading today was written by UU minister and celebrated activist Rev. Theresa Soto and was published in her 2019 book, “Spilling the Light: Meditations on Hope and Resilience.” “The Spark Between” There must be fuel. There must be a...
“The Church of the Earth” – May 14th, 2023
READING: Adapted from “The Moor,” by Welsh poet R.S. Thomas It was like a church to me. I entered it on soft foot, Breath held like a cap in the hand. It was quiet. What God was there made [themselves] felt, Not listened to, in clean colours That brought a moistening...
“The Wild Unknown” – 5/28/2023
This morning’s reading comes to us from contemplative writer and thinker Thomas Merton. The language has been adjusted to be more gender inclusive. From “No Man is an Island”: “…There must be a time of day when [a person] who makes plans forgets [their] plans, and...
The View from Here – June 2nd, 2023
Greetings church family! I pray that you and yours are well these days. I love this month’s theme. Delight. One of my favorite activists is the fierce Dorothy Day who devoted her life to working on behalf of the poor and homeless in the early 20th century. Her faith...
From the Parish Committee – May 26th, 2023
It’s the last week of May and the summer changes of the church year approach! The annual May Pot Luck dinner and Talent show was a wonderful joyous celebration! It was full of inspiring poems, amazing magic tricks, stories, songs, music and the fabulous FPW Choir and...