Water is Change – Water is an important part of our lives. The human body is comprised of at least 60% water. We need it to sustain our lives, to bathe, wash everything and to cool or warm us on occasion. We float on water for recreation or travel. Water flows and...
In 2018 we donated diapers to this worthy cause. Once again let’s help provide Metrowest families in financial distress with diapers for their infants and toddlers to keep them clean, dry and healthy.
The first Women’s Alliance meeting of the church year is scheduled for Tuesday, September 10 in the Commons. A potluck supper starts at 6:30 pm—any food or beverage offerings, home-made or purchased, are welcome, or just come hungry if you’ve no time to do either. Our meeting begins around 7 pm. All those who identify as women with any connection to the church are welcome to come to any of our meetings. Newcomers are particularly welcome. At this first meeting we will have a speaker, First Parish member Rebecca Parkhill, who will share with us information about her Metrowest Women’s Fund, which she founded with Sudbury attorney Rachel Sagan to “identify the needs of women and girls in our community and to raise resources to meet those needs.” She will tell us about projects already accomplished, including a school supply drive for the Moms and Me program at MCI Framingham with which First Parish was involved through our Faith in Action Committee. And she will answer questions about ongoing projects and ways we might contribute to them. We will also have time to discuss Women’s Alliance events planned for the rest of the year. Please come—no need to RSVP.
The service begins with everyone – adults and children –
gathered in the Sanctuary. As part of the service, everyone is invited to bring a small amount of water from a place or places that have been meaningful to you during the summer. (The water can be from the actual place or tap water used to represent the place). During the service, this water is collected in a large bowl and, later, after lots of boiling to sterilize it, used throughout the year to dedicate children, comfort those who are ill, and other appropriate uses. Remember to bring your water!
POTLUCK at 11:30 a.m. After the service, everyone is invited to greet each other and enjoy a potluck lunch in the Parish Hall and on the terrace.
The First Parish Annual Poetry Jam is coming up on Sunday, August 25th! Each year we end our summer services with a morning of poetry reading. All poems are welcome. They might be funny or profound. They could be classics that you memorized years ago or free verse you...
As children we feasted on lying in the grass watching ants carry big loads, on the swing going higher and higher in anticipation of actually touching those clouds; we carried endless curiosity into exploring the way the frog zipped his tongue out - so fast - and...
Seth will be talking about why guns occupy the position they do in our society, how this is evidenced in the level of gun violence in America, and what this boils down to in his life.
Join the First Parish Earth Centered group as we celebrate Lammas, also known as Lughnasadh and First Fruits, comes from the Anglo-Saxon hlaf-mas, "loaf-mass". It is a Cross Quarter Day, along with Halloween, Groundhog Day and May Day, half way between the solstices...
Leslie Bryant will be speaking about her ongoing "year of no shopping", how it has impacted her thoughts on consumerism and influenced her behavior in a manner that allows her to be more mindful and more able to share her resources of time and money with her community.