What’s Happening this Sunday, April 29th, at First Church

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9:30 a.m. Welcoming Breakfast: All are welcome to join us in the Dining Room for the Welcoming Breakfast. Share a yummy morning meal with us as we build community and get to know each other a little better. Please RSVP to Paul Miller. Longtime members, let him know if you can bring a dish to the potluck breakfast.

11:00 a.m. Sunday Service: Please join us for a sermon by Rev. Burke titled “Security.”

Join us after the service for Coffee Hour in the Parish Hall.  Thank you to our Coffee Hour hosts, the Trust.

12:30 p.m. Tea with the Trust: A tea and conversation with the Trust.

Please note that the Big Show, scheduled for the afternoon, has been cancelled.

 

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Weekly Newsletter: April 26th

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CHURCH HAPPENINGS

***This Sunday, April 29th, at First Church***

Please join us for a sermon by Rev. Burke titled “Security.”

At 9:30 a.m. there is a Welcoming Breakfast. All are welcome to join us in the Dining Room for the Welcoming Breakfast. Longtime church members, first-time visitors, and everyone in between are warmly invited to attend. Share a yummy morning meal with us as we build community and get to know each other a little better. Please RSVP to Paul Miller. Longtime members, let him know if you can bring a dish to the potluck breakfast.

The Trust will host a tea with conversation following the service. At 4 p.m., return for the Big Show!

Thank you to our Coffee Hour hosts, the Trust.
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A few words on Gerry Wright

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Rev. Terry Burke writes: I made these introductory remarks for Gerry Wright’s plays “Frederick Law Olmsted and Walt Whitman:  The Civil War Years” at our church on Sunday night, April 22, 2012, Earth Day.

What a joy to introduce my friend Gerry Wright tonight.

Gerry and this congregation have a longstanding relationship.  I remember teens from Kiev rehearsing in this parish hall with kids from JP and Roxbury for Gerry’s Peace Child shows in the 1980’s.  Jamaica Pond Project events have been held here throughout the last 25 years.  Gerry created a Stewardship Club for the church that focused on the environment and history.  He got the Stewardship Club activists to unwind and go bowling once.  Another time we dressed up as our personal heroes. Continue reading →

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What’s Happening this Sunday, April 22nd, at First Church

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11:00 a.m. Sunday Service:  This Sunday is Earth Day.  Please join us for a sermon by Andree Collier entitled “Earth Day:  Sources of Hope.”

Join us after the service for Coffee Hour in the Parish Hall.  Thank you to our Coffee Hour hosts, Carol Bell and Jom Michel.

12:30 p.m. Earth Day Potluck: The Social Action Group is sponsoring an Earth Day potluck, following the regular service, with Nurse Practitioner Becky Reed.  She will be speaking on “Connecting the Dots:  Farms, Food, and Health.”

7:00 p.m.:  Gerry Wright will be performing “Olmsted and Whitman, the Civil War Years.”

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Weekly Newsletter: April 12

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***This Sunday, April 15th, at First Church***
What are the intersections of transgender identity and religious experience?  How does being trans impact faith formation?  And what lessons does that experience hold for all of us?  These questions will be explored in a worship service led by Jamez Terry, founder of the Tranny Roadshow and MDiv candidate at Harvard Divinity School.

Service followed by a workshop titled Understanding (Trans)Gender Identity Continue reading →

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Important Clothing Swap Information

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How Clothing Swaps Work.
There are as many types of swaps as there are swaps, but there’s one thing they all have one thing in common: people trading clothes and having a great time doing it!

Our upcoming swap on Saturday April 14 for men AND women promises to be all this and more.  Here’s what you can expect:

If you dropped your clothes off in advance, you’ll breeze right through the express check-in.  Just give your name to the checker who’ll have your exchange tickets all ready for you, along with your $2 CASH BACK for choosing the advance drop-off option.

If you do not drop your clothes off in advance, you’ll queue up to have your items counted and looked over for swappability, and for each swappable item you’ll receive an exchange ticket.

If you bought your tickets in advance, we’ll check your name off our list (but please bring a printout, just in case!) The space will be set up like a boutique. Clothes will be sorted by type and size and hung on garment racks and folded neatly on tables.

Visit the sewing station to find out how to make repairs, or to fancy something up – or you can even do it yourself!

Grab your FREE beverage. Included in the price of admission is a free non-alcoholic beverage!

Purchase a snack to keep your stamina up. We’ll have a selection sweets, treats and cute little sandwiches available for sale, along with non-alcoholic beverages.

Buy a raffle ticket or two. Tickets are $5 each.  Items include a lovely handmade necklace by local artisan Alta McDonald; a Reiki/sound healing session by Reiki Sound Healing of Boston; and a ONCE a Week share of prepared local food from Cuisine en Locale.

You can try on your selections in make-shift dressing rooms. We’ll set up room dividers so the modest among us can get a little privacy.

When you’ve got your selections, head over to the checkout table and in your exchange tickets in lieu of cash.

Voila! You’ve just participated in one of the coolest and thriftiest activities of the century.

To find out more about the clothing swap movement, and to see what others are doing around the world, check out http://events.swap.com/

Clothing drop-off:

Friday 4/13… 6:30 – 8:30pm
Saturday 4/14…. 9:00 – 11:00am
By arrangement… FirstChurchSwap@gmail.com

Event Info:

Saturday April 14th, 1pm to 4pm
First Church in Jamaica Plain
6 Eliot Street (near the Monument)
Questions, comments:FirstChurchSwap@gmail.com 

Advance Ticket Sales:

Brown Paper Tickets

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Easter Sermon, April 8, 2012: “Going Home”

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Rev. Terry Burke:

Bunnies. Our order of service today has on its cover a stylized Easter bunny. They’re one of my childhood associations with Easter. I didn’t know anything about the Jesus Easter story. I was like the young kid in the old joke about Easter. During the service, a minister asks a child to tell the story of the holiday. ‘Wasn’t Jesus killed by the Romans and people were very sad.’ ‘Yes, that’s right.’ ‘And he’s placed in a tomb, and after three days .. ‘

‘Yes, go on.’ ‘He comes out and sees his shadow and there are six more weeks of winter!’ That’s about how much I knew about Easter. Continue reading →

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Weekly Newsletter – April 5

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CHURCH HAPPENINGS

***Special Services this week at First Church***

Tonight, Thursday, April 5th 
6PM in the Sanctuary, we will have a simple communion service for Maundy Thursday. We use grape juice for reasons of inclusion, all are welcome.
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