Our Faith and Worship Services
Sunday Services
Worship services are held every Sunday morning at 10:30 am from September to June in our Sanctuary. Our services last about one hour and fifteen minutes. Lay-led services are held during the summer months. Dress is informal.
The beginning of the service includes our weekly announcements, a musical prelude, our opening rituals and chalice lighting, and a time for all ages. Our minister, Rev. Sophia, regularly leads the service, including selected readings, a sermon, and a spoken meditation. Several times through the church year, members of the congregation lead lay services.
Sunday worship services are also streamed live on Zoom. Links to the service are distributed to members and friends in advance via email. Newcomers are welcome to join us! To receive the link, send a request to office@fpwatertown.org.
Evening Vespers
These candlelit contemplative services offer quiet music, readings, and time for shared silence in our beautiful sanctuary. Candles can be lit throughout the service, and we ask that you please enter in silence.
We gather the second Tuesday of every month at 7pm and services run around 30 minutes. Attendants are welcome to begin arriving at 6:45pm to enjoy the silence of the sanctuary, as well as linger afterwards as needed.
You may join us from home by watching the service live cast on YouTube.
Past Sermons

Upcoming Worship
Worship Service
Sunday May 22, 202210:30AM - 12:00PM
Music Sunday
Charlyn Bethell, Guy Urban, Djalai Babazadeh and the FPW choir!
This year, Music Sunday will be all about the role of beauty in a spiritual life, and how music plays a role in that. The FPW Choir will sing an anthem that includes the congregation joining in for a familiar hymn. Djalai, Charlyn and Guy will play a piece for viola, oboe and piano. Choir members will be contributing readings and a chalice lighting. Guy will deliver a homily, probably from the piano! For the postlude, the Choir will sing a song we did at the Talent Show: “This is How We Change” from Schmigadoon. Beauty will abound!
Social Justice Offering for May For the month of March, the Social Action Committee has designated the Immigrant Family Services Institute (IFSI) the recipient of our Social Justice offering.
Located in Mattapan, the mission of the IFSI is to expedite the successful integration of recent immigrants into the social and economic fabric of the United States with justice and dignity. Using a village model by integrating children, parents, grandparents, and other stakeholders in our programs, they provide services that promote education, encourage civic engagement, and strengthen communities. The majority of the families IFSI serves are from Haiti.
For more information about IFSI, please visit their web-site: https://www.ifsi-usa.org. To make a financial contribution, please send a check made out to First Parish with "IFSI" on the memo line, or choose "Give to Special Collection" at https://fpwatertown.breezechms.com/give/online.
All are welcome! We are currenly offering in person services (masks required) that are also streamed via Zoom. If you would like the Zoom link for the service, please contact office@fpwatertown.org by Saturday.
Worship Service
Sunday May 29, 202210:30AM - 12:00PM
All are welcome! We are currenly offering in person services (masks required) that are also streamed via Zoom. If you would like the Zoom link for the service, please contact office@fpwatertown.org by Saturday.