Keeping the Home Fires Burning at First Parish — A Special One-Time Request [ 2010-02-03 10:07 ]
With the annual giving mailing set for the first week of February, members and friends of First Parish Church are asked to renew — or begin for the first time — financial support of this beautiful community.Special One-Time Gift: This year, once you have decided on how you can continue to grow in generosity with your pledge for annual support of the church, all who can are being asked to dig even deeper and make a special one time pledge or gift (payable over two years) toward the cost of replacing our ancient and odd oil heating systems in the Meeting House and Parish House with entirely new, highly efficient, cost-saving gas systems.
Our New Gas Heating System: Scheduled to be up and running within the next two weeks, these new systems will give us cleaner air inside and outside, lower fuel and maintenance costs, provide extensive alarm systems, and provide greater ability to heat just the spaces we want to heat, as we use them. We are confident that the contractor chosen for the job — Weather Wise, of Brookline, NH — and the cost, $64,170, are the best possible. If you want to know more about the process, contractor, design, and equipment, please speak to any of the trustees; they can steer you to the experts.
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Guess Who's Coming To Dinner Auction, 2010 [ 2010-01-28 13:22 ]
Four fun events are planned for our Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Auction. Here is a description of the events and a list of FAQs (PDF). Bidding will start on Monday, February 8 and end at the close of Coffee Hour on Sunday, February 21. You can bid to attend these events during Coffee Hour on two Sundays — February 14 and February 21. You can also place email bids to Ellen Todd. As these dinners are successful as both fund-raisers and community-builders, we are trying to make them more financially inclusive. Please note that the kitchen shower is a very affordable event. Donations will also be accepted to help people attend an event who would not ordinarily be able to attend an event. Please contact Ellen Todd or Elea Kemler if you wish to make a donation so that someone else may attend.Audio and Transcripts of Recent Sermons [ 2010-01-11 15:31 ]
The new audio system in the sanctuary is making it far easier to post audio from the services on the Web. In addition, in this church year we are making a more assiduous effort to get sermon transcripts posted. To listen to a sermon, click the audio link to open an audio player in a new window; or right-click (on a Mac, ctrl-click) to download and save it to your computer. Transcripts also open in a new window.February 07 ; January: 31 , 24 , 17 , 10 , 03 ; December: 24 , 13 [transcript], 06 ; November: 15 , 08 , 01 ; October: 25 ; September: 27 [transcript], 20 [transcript].
Order Your Bricks for the Remembrance Garden [ 2007-09-09 18:45 ]
Have you visited the Remembrance Garden recently? It's on the east side of the Parish House back porch. It is a beautiful, peaceful spot enhanced by the intentions of those who have chosen to remember loved ones, places, or events in their lives. It's not too late to order your brick for the Remembrance Garden.