Raise your hand if you’re an over-thinker. I see that includes pretty much everyone! Thanks for your honesty! I think we’re all over-thinkers, really.  It’s part of…… Read more “Are You an Over-Thinker?”

This coming Sunday is Confirmation Sunday!  We will have 4 of our young people confirmed in the Christian faith and brought into membership at First Congregational Church. …… Read more “Where Are You on the Path?”

The importance of connecting with the wider community.  That, in a nutshell, was the crucial takeaway from our 175th Anniversary Sunday on May 5th. Our guest preacher,…… Read more “How Do We Want to Be Remembered?”

We were recently blessed with the attendance of United States Congresswoman Katherine Clark at our worship service and at a post-worship forum that followed.   I think all…… Read more “Rep. Clark’s Call to Us”

If you’ve ever taken the commuter rail from Melrose into Boston (or vice versa) you’ve ridden on a piece of First Congregational Church history. You see, by…… Read more “Two Homes and a Railroad”