The Missions & Social Justice Team invites all to participate in our sixth annual Tree of Warmth Project. We’ll be collecting new or gently used hats, mittens, scarves, socks and gloves to hang on downtown Belfast’s Christmas tree for those who need these items. Please drop off any donations to the basket in the narthex. Thank you for helping us keep our neighbors warm this winter!

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Gather with us following the Sunday Worship Service for fellowship and refreshments. Child Care is available and Youth Sunday School meets during the Worship Service. Adult Choir rehearses prior to Worship Service and Youth Choir rehearses after the Service. 

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Our Facilities, Parking and ADA Access

Parking:  Street parking is available on Church, Spring and Court Streets, or in the Town parking lot adjacent to the Probate Court.  Designated handicapped parking is close to the church office at 8 Court Street, which is also the church address for mail. 

Parish House/Fellowship Hall:  The entrance to the Parish House and Fellowship Hall is on Spring Street, which is ADA accessible.  At this entrance is an elevator to assist accessing the Fellowship Hall where many community functions take place.  

Main Entrance:  The Main Entrance to the Sanctuary faces Church Street at Spring Street.  An ADA ramp is accessible on the Spring Street side.  

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No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here! You are always welcome to join us at Sunday worship or any of our church activities and events.

Come visit us or call the church office if you would like to speak to our pastor. He would be happy to set up a time to meet you and answer your questions about First Church. 

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Zoom into worship with us every Sunday morning at 10am or watch previous Sunday Services on your schedule.

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I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

– Parker J Palmer, Author/Educator/Activist

Creator God, cultivate within us a life which proclaims your praise. Sow within us your love and compassion for our neighbors and creation. Nourish us always with the outpouring of your grace ... and lead us to tend a life that shares you with the world.

– Pastor Joshua Fitterling

You gave me blue and I gave you yellow./ Together we are simple green. You gave me/ What you did not have and I gave you/ What I had to give - together, we made/ Something greater than the difference.

– Excerpt from the poem “When Giving Is All We Have” by Alberto Ríos, 2014.  Shared during 2022 Stewardship Reflections by Judy Williams.

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Our connection strengthens our Community; our Community strengthens our connection.

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The First Church in Belfast Welcomes Interim Pastor Loren McGrail

First Church warmly welcomes Interim Pastor Loren to our pulpit beginning December 22, 2024. Pastor Loren has written the Congregation a letter of welcome and cooperation in the discernment process for a settled pastor.  

Rev. McGrail graduated from Andover Theological Seminary with honors and was ordained as a hospital chaplain in 2007. She has worked as an interim and bridge pastor since 2019. See her bio here.

Pastor Loren is leading a book study about the First Advent in Palestine on 12/18.  This is a good chance to get to know her, and more about her work in and connection to Palestine. 

Deborah Woodbury
Moderator, First Church in Belfast, UCC