Greetings from Parish Committee! What a busy time it has been for all. The month began with Parish Committee coordinating a meeting to discuss the Multi-Platform services and our in-person protocols with a wider scope of people. The meeting included three Parish Comm members, the Opening Up group, 3 staff and committee representatives from Worship, RE, Personnel and Safe Congregations. The group had an in-depth discussion focused on clarifying the in-person attendance protocols. We also...
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FPW Multi-Platform Worship Survey
As we continue to enhance multi-platform worship, Parish Committee and the AV Group want to hear about your experience attending in-person and/or online worship services.
Parish Committee News – November 26th, 2021
Greetings and Gratitude! Our church continues to thrive in this church year. We now have a new way to look at the total numbers of people attending our Sunday services. When you log into zoom on a Sunday morning, you may see 47 screens logged in as you did last week, a number of these are 2 (or more) attendees. Then we add the number of members who are live at the service plus our Choir members. This past Sunday, we reached over 90 adults before adding the number of youths enjoying the Sunday...
Parish Committee News – October 29th, 2021
Greetings from Parish Committee, We are on our way in a new church year. In this time of change, there has been a flurry of important items and questions to attend to as we try to find a way to recover from the pandemic and begin to gather again in a safe way that includes all. We hope we have answered some of your questions or created a path to explore the issues at hand and resolve them in way that is mutually satisfying to all. We deeply appreciate all the work the church members and...
Parish Committee News – September 24, 2021
As Rev Sophia says at the beginning of our services, “Welcome Welcome Welcome” to our new minister and the new church year! It is wonderful we have now begun this new path together.
From the Parish Committee – May 28, 2021
Greetings from the Parish Committee! Our month began with the congregational meeting unanimously voting to call Reverend Sophia as our next settled minister! Thank you again to the Search Committee for the time and effort you gave to the search process as well as organizing the Candidating week. As the next step in preparation to support our new minister, the Committee on Ministry has been formed. Judy Kamm will be the representative from the Search Committee and Norah Mulvaney-Day will...
From the Parish Committee – April 23, 2021
Greetings from the Parish Committee! What an exciting, gratitude-filled month it is has been! As our church year came to an end, the annual meeting had a full agenda with productive zoom dialog culminating in approving updates to our by-laws, approving Article 5 of the warrant “Vote on expenditure of funds for infrastructure to enable The First Parish of Watertown to provide hybrid services,” and our ‘21-‘22 budget. Many thanks to our treasurer, Matt Calabro and the Finance Committee for all...
Annual Meeting Warrant
The 390th Annual Meeting of the First Parish of Watertown will be held online on the 11th of April, following the Sunday Worship Service.
From the Parish Committee – March 26, 2021
Updates from the Parish Committee on the reinstallation of our Black Lives Matter banner and the upcoming Annual Meeting.
From the Parish Committee – February 26, 2021
This month, the Parish committee continued “tying up loose ends” by discussing several “who does what?” questions. In the last two years, we have been discovering gaps in our understandings of who does what. We have found many things for which we, as a congregation, need to take responsibility. Wendy has led the Parish Committee with her gentle questions – how does this get done, how does this work? We have been puzzling out the best use of the remaining money in the Capital Campaign Fund...