Leicester First Congregational Church

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  • Harvest Fair Success -Sept 20, 2008

    How do you make 39 pans of apple crisp in one night? You get Cindy LaPointe to organize the event. And what a success!

    Check out the new First Congregational Banners hanging at our booth. They look wonderful. Another big thanks to Cindy
    Check out the new First Congregational Banners hanging at our booth. They look wonderful. Another big thanks to Cindy

    As we were assembling the apple crisp the night before the fair, the thought occurred to us that we were crazy. How are we going to keep them warm? How much ice cream do we need? What if we only sell four pans of apple crisp? Is this really going to work? But we were having a lot of fun and figured we could make the congregation eat a lot of apple crisp at coffee hour for the next month.

    And these little piggies bought apple crisp
    And these little piggies bought apple crisp

    As it turned out, we had nothing to fear. In fact, there were a lot of disappointed fair goers who had decided to wait until the end of the day for their treat. Bad idea. We were sold out by 3:30.

    And while we were busy serving up our dish, Nick Mandella just as busy trying to keep up with all the popcorn and soda sales. Ron LaPointe, Neil Mulrain and Bob Kelly split their time between running apple crisp trays to the booth and helping Nick. This is definitely an event we want to repeat. It was beautiful day, we had a lot of fun and we made over a $1,000. Thank you everyone for your help.

    Click here to view more Harvest Fair pictures
    Click here to view more Harvest Fair pictures

  • Welcome To Leicester First Congregational Church

    Welcome,

    What are you doing the rest of your life?

    It is our hope and prayer that you will want to spend some of that time becoming a part of our faith family.

    We are the newly reorganized First Congregational Church of Leicester Massachusetts and we want you to know that we are very interested in both you and your spiritual journey including your specific needs and individual talents.

    In these web pages we invite you to read about our life together as we serve our Lord Jesus Christ through Worship, Music, Christian Education, Outreach, and Stewardship.

    In the future we will make every effort to serve you in whatever ways we are able as we heartily welcome you to the love and care of our parish.

    If you have any questions please give me a call at 508-892-3274 and I will be very happy to speak with you.

    In the meantime we all look forward to meeting you and making you a part of our exciting new ministry here at the first Church

    In Christ’s Service

    Rev. Nancy A. Milton

  • Do We Miss God’s Plan For Us?

    As the floodwaters rise, a man named Sam calls for God’s help.
    First a neighbor offers him a ladder.

    “Nope, my God is coming,” Sam replies.

    Then the police arrive with a rescue boat. “Hop on board!” they instruct him.

    “Thanks but no thanks,” Sam says, “God will save me.”

    And finally the national guard provide a helicopter, and he tells them to go away, too. Sam dies, goes to heaven, and asks God, “Why didn’t you rescue me?”

    “I sent a ladder, a lifeboat, and a helicopter…what more could I do?” says God.

  • Strawberry Hill Fair – Nov 8, 2008

    New feature this year! In addition to the beautiful knitted table, the Holiday crafts and the Basket raffles, there is limited space to rent a table. If you have a craft or know someone that has a craft they would like to sell, this is a great opportunity. All craft rentals will be subject to approval of the Fair committee. This is to avoid duplicate items. We want the fair to have a variety of quality items, expanding our reputation as one of the best fairs in town.

    For more details, contact Ann Orsi at 508-890-9470

  • Harvest Fair 2008

    Can you believe Sept is right around the corner already! Wow! Summer is flying by. But as the days shorten and the cool air settles in, we look forward to the most beautiful season in New England, the Fall. We are so lucky to have our church on the common, enabling us to share in all the fun filled festivities on Harvest Fair Day. We will host the Art Show upstairs in our church and Russell Hall will be used for children’s show and possible artisans.

    This year, for the first time, we will also join the Food Booths. To be successful, we really need your help. Our booth will be selling Pastor Nan’s Heavenly Apple Crisp!

    Friday night, Sept 19th, will find us busy in the kitchen baking apple crisp or setting up our booth on the common. Baking may also be done at home. Disposable pans will be provided. If you can spare one, two hours or even all day, we would be thrilled to have you join us. The Harvest Fair is very well attended. We need to make a ton of apple crisp! Come and help us represent our fine church and taste the best apple crisp ever. With the long cold winter ahead of us and the high price of oil, every bit of fund raising will help offset the cost of heating our church.

    Any questions, please call Cindy LaPointe at home 508-885-9875.

    Update: See pictures from this years festival, click here!

  • Children’s Sunday June 8

    The children will be sharing what they have learned about Gentleness, Goodness, and Joy this year.  We will sing, put on a play, and make a rainbow! 

    We will be asking the congregation what brings you joy to be added with the children’s thoughts onto our rainbow.  So come armed with your happy thoughts! 

    The children will demonstrate Gentleness by nurturing the flowers they planted last year as well as updating our gardens with new flowers again this year. 

    Please join us for this special service as well as planting and an ice-cream social!  Dress is casual for this special service.  I promise God won’t mind! 

  • Interview with Marie Feeney

    Marie is originally from Philadelphia.  When her son and daughter were young, she was a single mother who had recently moved to Falmouth, Ma.  This prompted her to start a Newcomers Club.  It grew to over 1000 members and continues to this day with over 33 chapters.  The Newcomers Club recognized Marie for her efforts.  Her name, along with other “Women who have made a difference in other peoples lives” (including Oprah Winfrey) are engraved on a plaque at Falmouth Hospital. 

    Marie has lived on Leicester for over four years with her fiancé, Paul Gravina.  Upon arriving in town, she joined the Red Hat Society where she met Betty Allen, who invited her to come to our church.  It was not long before Marie joined the church as a Congregational member and eventually become a deacon.  Marie has a bubbly personality and is very easy to talk with.  She loves to shop on QVC, is a weekend sports watcher (especially the Red Sox!) and enjoys flower gardening.  Ask her about her pets. 

    By Carol Mulrain

  • Singers Needed

    As our choir saw itself gradually reduced to a trio, Bob Shauris, our talented organist/director, tackled the time-consuming chore of rewriting some of our sheet music, reducing the four-part harmonies to soprano and alto only. For this reason, we decided that our choir will remain an all-female choir, at least for the immediate future.

    We are desperately seeking both soprano and alto voices. Although knowing how to read music would be helpful, it is not required and certainly not essential to the joy of singing. There is no audition process, but you must, however, be able to stay on key and carry a tune. Rehearsal is Wednesday evenings from 5-7 pm (a lot of fun and not the least bit scary!) If 5pm is too early, we can always negotiate a time suitable for the majority. We rehearse again on Sunday at 9am for a quick brush-up of that morning’s pieces.

    The church and the choir are asking for your help. Won’t you please think seriously about joining us? And as you do, consider also the words of Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher: “Music is well said to be the speech of angels”.

    www.leicesterfcc.org/about/music/