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CHILDREN’S Ministry

The Children’s Ministry Committee offers activities to families for enhanced spiritual growth.

Our children will learn of God’s love as they deepen their relationship with God. Through the sharing of joys and concerns, our children will experience a community of faith, build empathy with their classmates, experience prayer, and know that God is always with them as a friend and comforter. They will foster a personal relationship with the loving God revealed in Jesus Christ by exploring Bible stories. They will engage with scripture messages through activities that provide examples of how they might become messengers of God’s love. 

GREEN TEAM

The Green Team has as its mission to promote environmentally responsible behavior within the church and by its members and the greater community. Toward that end, the Green Team seeks to provide guidance to our congregation and community on wise practices to preserve and protect God’s creation.

The Green Team is always working on ways to make the church and church activities more “green,” and consists of small committee groups to pursue:

  • Solar initiatives
  • Environmental education
  • Community partnerships

Chair: Sue Klein

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JUSTICE & INCLUSION COMMITTEE

Co-Chairs: Rachel Shaw Callahan, Alex Onion and Terri Rivera

Preschool Committee

The Preschool Committee is a group of church members whose children are currently enrolled in the preschool program. The committee acts as a link between the preschool community and the Church. It works closely with the staff to set and attain common goals. The committee assists the preschool with staffing decisions, planning and maintaining overall finances and a yearly budget, creating marketing and registration materials, identifying and funding capital improvements, and coordinating special events and fundraising efforts.

Co-Chairs: Lauren Maus and Molly Zureich

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REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT

Working under our Mission and Outreach committee and in conjunction with an agency called RefugeeOne, our mission is to help resettle refugee families from countries like South Sudan, Syria, Eritrea, and Afghanistan. Our church has been involved with this ministry for more than 55 years.

For more information, click here.

Chair: Kim Nichol

Technology Team

The Technology Committee reviews, assesses and recommends opportunities for how technology trends and products might be used to further our congregation’s ministries, both within the church and with the world. The Technology Committee needs individuals with both knowledge of technology products and trends and their potential creative applications so that they might enhance our church’s worship and ministry programs.

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Welcome Team

While the purpose of our Welcome Committee is to help both new and old members feel welcome in the church, it also focuses on assimilating new members into the life of the church, getting to know them as visitors through the orientation process, and keeping in contact with them as members.

Chair: Marcy Dusza

The Welcome Committee has several connected positions and functions, including:

Ushers – Seat members before each service, and collect the offering during the service

Greeters – Greeters need only be available once every six weeks, and serve as a friendly face by greeting members as they enter our church before services.

Welcomers – This team wears gold ribbons on Sunday morning, looking for and welcoming all visitors and being a regular presence before and after worship. All members can help by passing the red pew pad, so we can gather visitors contact information, meeting visitors in your row and introducing them to Jeannette or the Welcome Team member, and by wearing your name tag to worship.

Coffee Hour hosts – receive members and guests a coffee hour. Introducing visitors to members and helping old and new friends fellowship after worship.

Sponsors – Sponsors are paired with new members during the orientation process and serve as a guiding resource to answer questions along the way.

Sunday Morning Bagel Pickup – Assistance is needed in picking up our standing bagel bite order from Great American Bagel on Saturday afternoons.

If you are interested in learning more about the Welcome Committee, contact our chair, Marcy Dusza, or staff liaison, Jeannette Lloyd.

If you know of someone interested in finding out about membership, we would love to extend an invitation to our next New Member Orientation.

WOMAN’S SOCIETY

Woman’s Society is an intergenerational group of over 100 women who promote the values of fellowship, hospitality, and service. The group is open to all women of the church, as well as non-member friends of the church.

Woman’s Society meets once or twice a month from September through June. Once a month, smaller groups (chapters) meet in a member’s home, often for lunch, but sometimes just for dessert and coffee. Most chapters meet midday on the first Thursday, with chapters also meeting in the evening and on Friday morning to better accommodate different schedules. Five times a year on the third Thursday of the month, all members gather in Plymouth Hall for lunch or dessert at 12:30PM and a special program from 1:30–2:30PM.

President: Susan Becker
Vice President: Nancy DiCiurcio

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Youth Ministry Committee

The Youth Ministry (YM) Committee exists to include, inspire and empower 6th–12th grade students in order to grow in faith, serve others and build a welcoming and supportive community through God’s love. Specifically, the committee works to improve current programming, enhance transition times between different grades and create an infrastructure to better support the YM program at FCC. Members of the YM Committee meet monthly September through May and serve a 2-year term.

Chair: Colleen Whittingham

Church Committees

These groups meet to consider, plan, and carry out the work of the church.

  • Church Council
  • Christian Education
  • Christian Ventures
  • Endowment Fund Trustees
  • Executive Committee
  • Finance Committee
  • Diaconate
  • Music Committee
  • Nominating Committee
  • Mission & Outreach
  • Properties Committee
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