On Sunday morning, we gather for congregational worship to confront together the crucial questions of life with words, music, and prayer. Worshipping together is the center of our life at First Church.

Worship services are every Sunday

Summer Services - July - August - 9:30am - Community Hall

Regular Services - September - June - Sanctuary

10:00am - 10:15am Prayer and Meditation

10:30am Worship and Sunday School

11:30am Coffee Hour

 

FROM THE MINISTER'S STUDY . . . .

“And what is so rare as a day in June?” wrote  James Russell Lowell (a Unitarian, by the way).
                      Then, if ever, come perfect days;
                Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,
                     And over it softly her warm ear lays;
                Whether we look, or whether we listen,
                We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;
                Every clod feels a stir of might,
                     An instinct within it that reaches and towers,
                And, groping blindly above it for light,
                     Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers;

And Lowell continues speaking of the “flush of life” found in the “hills and valleys,” in the plants that adorn the meadows, and in the bird expressing the full delight of song. The poet speaks of the ebb and flow of seasons as that of tide, and he celebrates the “ripply cheer” of June as the “high-tide of the year.”

                We are happy now because God wills it;
                No matter how barren the past may have been,
                'Tis enough for us now that the leaves are green;
                We sit in the warm shade and feel right well

No matter what the past has held for you, no matter what lows you might have experienced, jump with joy into this June. Don’t let another June go past without noticing the beauty about you blossoming everywhere. No matter what your age, make this June into springtime for your life. Follow the poets call to be “happy now because God will it.”

Many blessings,

Rev. Dr. Paul Hull
Minister