Help provide a good meal and welcoming space for our unhoused neighbors. First Cong’s September Soup Kitchen is Sunday, 9/27 and we still need 5 volunteers for the Second Shift (11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Serve Sunday Meal and Clean Up.) Reminder that this is the day of the Boulder Marathon so check routes as you come into town. Sign up here as an individual, family or small group. Invite a friend and serve! For info or questions contact: Soo Rhee or Linda.

Brian and Brenda Laartz invite you to consider something new at the September 25 FOG gathering at their home. Please bring a weird/obscure grape or wine you have never tasted. Maybe Xinomavro, Pais, Schiara, or Carignan grapes. Or just a new wine you haven’t tried. Join us on Friday, September 25, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. to gather with old friends and meet new ones! Please bring a hearty appetizer and a bottle of wine (singles bring either appetizer or wine). Non-alcoholic beverages will be provided. All over 21 are welcome.

All youth grades 6-12 are invited to spend some time at the Anderson Farms Pumpkin Patch. We will meet there at noon and enjoy some of their autumn activities. Please complete the waiver and RSVP to Lianna by September 25th.

On Sunday, September 27 we gather for Dinner Church at 5:30 p.m. in Plymouth Hall. Come share a meal, sing, pray, and celebrate community around the table. We need your help to create this special evening! Come a little early to set tables or to help prep the food and service tables. We need four more bakers, one table setter and three folks to join the clean-up crew. Sign up now!

The Discernment Team for the Mission & Social Justice Initiatives of the Capital Campaign presented a Forum on August 30 providing the Timeline and Proposal Submission process for initiatives. If you would like to submit an Initiative Proposal, please answer each of the questions from this sheet and submit it electronically to... discernmentteamfcc@gmail.com no later than 10/18. You may also submit your proposal by filling out an online form. If you have questions, please contact the Discernment Team. Click here to see the Timeline.

Join us Friday, for a reception celebrating Abundance, a vibrant new art exhibition exploring the many forms of richness, beauty, creativity, and connection in our lives. Come enjoy the artwork, meet the artists and community, and celebrate together. All are welcome! Abundance is on view in the Heritage Room and Chapel Hallway through early November.

The start of school and the changing of seasons is a natural time to explore how we're growing. We'll have lunch, talk about what helps us be brave during times of change, and for our homes, we'll make a family height tracker. This is event is geared towards families with Early and Elementary Schoolers. Please RSVP to this event using this link.

With deep sadness and gratitude, we share the death of Jeanine Reeves, beloved wife of Marty Heuduck and a treasured member of our church family for 25 years. Jeanine shared so much of herself with us – her warmth, her generosity, her joy, and her beautiful voice through many years of singing in the Chancel Choir. We give thanks for her life, her gifts, and the love she shared among us.

From UCC to FCC is an opportunity for newcomers, visitors, and new members to learn more about the United Church of Christ and First Congregational Church. We’ll explore what makes the UCC distinctive, the story and values that shape FCC, and how you might find your own place within this community. There will be time for questions, conversation, and sharing something of your own faith journey. Come share a meal, meet others finding their way into the life of our church, and discover more about this community we call home. Please RSVP to churchoffice@firstcong.net so we can plan for food and childcare.

Step away from the usual routine and make space to rest, reconnect, and be renewed. Surrounded by the beauty of the mountains in autumn, this women's retreat invites you to breathe deeply, linger in conversation, make art (without pressure), worship together, and deepen friendships, both old and new. Inspired by the rhythms of the Christian year, together we'll explore practices that cultivate resilient faith: waiting with hope, living with wonder, embracing renewal, receiving God's gift of rest, finding joy that dances even in the darkness, and discovering God's presence in the ordinary days of our lives. We'll begin with dinner Friday evening and conclude Sunday morning after worship. A Saturday-only option is available. 

This year to celebrate Halloween, we are hosting Trunk or Treat. We’ll decorate our car trunks so children and folks of all ages can come trick-or-treating! Come for a fun afternoon of Halloween festivities.

We are looking for Trunk Hosts and lots of treats! Trunk hosts decorate the trunks of their vehicles and pass out treats. P.S. There will be prizes for the top 3 decorated trunks! Please sign up to be a trunk host here. Treat donations will be collected in the Link starting October 4th.

Creativity is alive and well at First Congregational! Share your artistic gifts in our Fall Member Art Show, on display from early November through early January. All mediums are welcome—including painting, drawing, photography, fiber, textiles, and more. There are no size limits!

Interested in participating? Contact Melody Fuller at for details and submission information.

Thank you to everyone who donated to our recent food drive! Together, you gave 898 pounds of food to the Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA), helping provide nourishing food to local families and neighbors. That brings our total so far this year to 3,533 pounds. With one more food drive to go this fall, our goal of 2 tons is within sight! Thank you for helping our church put love into action!.

Join us for four meaningful opportunities to gather, reflect, learn, and connect this November. Our events include...

Those Who Sing Pray Twice, an Evening of Prayer and Song.

Sunday, 11/1, 5:30 p.m. | Sanctuary

The Annual Sawyer Memorial Organ Concert featuring Clarion

Friday, 11/6, 7:00 p.m. | Sanctuary

Special Worship service and conversation with Peter Marty

of The Christian Century

Sunday, 11/8, 10:30 a.m. Worship, 11:45 a.m. Conversation & Lunch

A screening of Louder Than Guns followed by a conversation about gun violence and finding common ground.

Monday, 11/9, 7:00 p.m. | Dairy Arts Center

We hope you’ll join us for one or more of these special gatherings.

For dates, times, locations, and more information, please visit our

online calendar.

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