One virtual service at 10:00am on the church YouTube channel. Worship Leader: Rev. Hank Pierce. Service Description: In his famous sermon at the Riverside Church, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. reminds us that tomorrow is today. It means that not only is the time to make a difference today, it was also yesterday and … Continue reading MLK Sunday: The Fierce Urgency of Now
One virtual service at 10:00am on the church YouTube channel. Worship Leader: Rev. Hank Pierce. Service Description: No one thinks that beginning on January 1st all that had made 2020 a horrible year, will be done with. What we have now is hope, and with it we should spend some time on what we can … Continue reading Casting Your Vision
One virtual service at 10:00am on the church YouTube channel. Worship Leader: Rev. Hank Pierce. Service Description: On this final Sunday of the year we look back at what we have done and who we have become, and give a little shape to what lays before us. Helpful links: Click to watch the service on … Continue reading Is It Over Yet?
Two virtual services on December 24 at 5:00pm and repeated at 7:00pm on the church YouTube channel. Worship Leader: Rev. Hank Pierce Service Description: We will welcome Christmas with stories, carols, candles plus special music from our choir and featured musicians! Our service will remind us all that we are moving towards the light of … Continue reading Christmas Eve Service
One virtual service at 7:00pm viewable on Zoom. Worship Leaders: Rev. Hank Pierce, Ministerial Intern Katie McQuage-Loukas & the Pastoral Care Team For many of us, the holiday season is complicated. It may stir feelings of loss, difficult memories, or it is a season that makes us feel more alone or sad than we would … Continue reading Soulful Sundown: “When The Holidays Hurt”
One virtual service at 10:00am on the church YouTube channel. Worship Leader: Rev. Hank Peirce. Service Description: Creating space for something to come to us, rather than making something happen is one of the hardest things for us to do. In a culture that rewards the Type A personality, ready to go out and get … Continue reading The Sacred Pause
One virtual service at 10:00am on the church YouTube channel. Worship Leader: Rev. Hank Peirce. For many of us we will be a different sort of Thanksgiving, many will not be traveling. Many will be spending it alone or with a smaller group. We, however, will once again be celebrating the bounty of our lives … Continue reading Thanksgiving Service and Bread Communion
One virtual service at 10:00am on the church YouTube channel. Worship Leader: Rev. Hank Peirce. Anyone familiar with Harry Potter will recognize this title. It was about coming to terms with an end of how things have been, unaware of how things will be. We live at a time when one way of being is … Continue reading I Open at the Close
One virtual service at 10:00am on the church YouTube channel. Worship Leader: Rev. Hank Peirce. …Wait…Pray…Cry…March…Organize…Heal? Will any of these actions apply to us by this date? Whatever, it is we will focus on healing and moving forward as a community and as a nation. Helpful links: Click to watch the service on our … Continue reading And Now We…
One virtual service at 10:00am on the church YouTube channel. Worship Leader: Rev. Hank Peirce. Election sermons have been preached in our congregations since Puritan times. Unlike sermons in the Church of England, which were supposed to “please and inspire,” New England Congregationalists inherited a rational tradition and argued that a good sermon was to … Continue reading Vote With All Your Might
