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Visit our Youtube channel and see recorded sermons from Pastor Doug Williamson.

www.youtube.com/@firstcongregationalchurchofW.B

You can also find a link on our website.  Look under the NEWS tab and you will find SERMONS.

Bible Study

It’s time for our spring Bible study!!!!

Our six-week Bible study will begin on Wednesday, April 8 and run for six weeks.  We will gather at 5 p.m. each week, begin class at 5:15 and end at 6:30.

The books for our Bible study on The Sermon on the Mount have arrived and will be available at the church during my office hours on Friday or on Sunday.  I was able to get a really good deal on the books, so the cost will be $12 each.  Please make checks payable to the church and give them to me, and I will pass them on to Mary once I have collected them all. Thank you!

Maundy Thursday

We will be having a Maundy Thursday service of worship in our sanctuary on Thursday, April 2 at 7 p.m., and we have invited folks from the George Whitefield United Methodist Church to join us for that service.  The service will last about 40-45 minutes and we will invite everyone to stay after the service to share in a quiet time of fellowship over a simple dessert before heading home.  Karen Andersen has graciously volunteered to make that dessert, Indian pudding (with ice cream), a confection that is quintessentially New England, dating back to the first European settlers in the Plymouth colony learning to make it from the Native Americans living in the area. Please consider joining us that evening for a special time of worship and fellowship.

Good Friday

Pastor Sandy Dam of the George Whitefield UMC will lead a cross walk, with devotional readings, around the West Brookfield Common beginning at 12 noon on Good Friday, April 3.  The walk will begin from our church lawn, and all members of our congregation are welcome, as are all members of our wider community.

Easter – Sunrise

We will be joining friends from George Whitefield United Methodist Church for an ecumenical Easter Sunrise Service of worship on Foster Hill Road at 6:15 a.m. that morning (timed so that we experience the sunrise at 6:24 a.m. as we are singing an opening hymn, accompanied by Mike Spencer’s trumpet).  That service will be followed by breakfast at our church, as our United Methodist friends cooked last year, and Karen Andersen has graciously agreed to coordinate the breakfast.  Our 10 o’clock worship service on Easter morning will include communion.  We look forward to celebrating the joy of the resurrection together that morning!

With Sadness

As a church family, we offer our condolences to Dave Fitzgerald on the death of Joan this past Monday night.  Joan has requested there be no formal services, but please keep Dave in prayer during this time of sadness and loss.

Let us also keep in prayer the family of Pat Turner, a friend of this community of faith, upon her recent passing. Pat also requested no formal services for her.

The Sharing Cupboard will be open April 2nd (Maundy Thursday) from 7-8pm.

Maundy Thursday and Sharing Cupboard

As this is the first Thursday of the Month, we expect the Cupboard to be busy. Clients have been known to arrive around 6.00 P.M.

I’m asking folk who are setting up for, or attending the service to park on the left hand side (from the Church Street entrance)   or the back wall of the car park. The clients park on the right hand side. I’ll have the Sharing Cupboard parking signs placed before 6.00pm.

Apologies for any inconvenience and thank you all for your help.

Sharing Cupboard Needs:

The Sharing Cupboard always needs wet dog food,mayo, mustard, ketchup, canned carrots, cookies, crackers cereal and coffee. Thanks to the wonderful community outreach, our shelves are well stocked with other items. Please leave all donations in the donation box at the church entry.  Thank you.

 Meetings this Week

There are no meetings this week.

***Does your committee or Board have a meeting planned? Please let others know!  Send your meeting date and time to Bonni before any Friday as she posts on Friday mornings. The church email address is fccwbworship@gmail.com. Thank you.