First Congregational Church UCC

05/29/2026

TOMORROW is the Spring Clean Up beginning at 9am! Bring your favorite yard tools and we'll prune, w**d, plant, and mulch together 👏🏻

05/28/2026

Join us for a fun and delicious cake walk to benefit Mary’s Lotts Creek work trip on May 31 in fellowship hall following worship. Cake baker sign-up sheet located outside of Mary’s office. Tickets will be $1.00 each, $5.00 for 7 for participants, and $5.00 for 10 for bakers/donors (available for purchase on day of event).

05/27/2026

Linda, our church secretary, is out of the office healing from surgery. She'll be away for a few weeks and will return on June 15th! Please send her gentle, healing, and loving prayers during this time. ❤️‍🩹

Others will be covering the office as Linda rests ☺️

05/27/2026

Pastor Kearstin is taking some time away from the office to rest, read, and pursue creative projects! She'll be back in the office on June 1st 🥰

05/26/2026

Join us for a fun and delicious cake walk to benefit Mary’s Lotts Creek work trip on May 31 in fellowship hall following worship. 🍰 Cake baker sign-up sheet located outside of Mary’s office. Tickets will be $1.00 each, $5.00 for 7 for participants, and $5.00 for 10 for bakers/donors (available for purchase on day of event). 🎟

05/26/2026

If you would like to walk with us in the Cleveland Pride Parade, there is a sign-up sheet on the table at the front of the sanctuary. 🏳️‍🌈 Join us for the easy mile-ish walk on Saturday June 6th and help us represent First Congregational Church! You don't need to be a member in order to walk with us -- just email [email protected] to let us know you'll be coming 👏🏻

The march/parade kicks off at 11 am and is about a mile long through the (blocked off) streets of downtown Cleveland. The easy walk takes about an hour-ish starting at Public Square and ends at Mall C, where there is a bustling all-day festival featuring a diverse array of vendors - areas of interest include healthcare, activism, social groups and nonprofits - as well as live music, entertainment and DJs to keep you dancing all day. Stay and enjoy the festival or head home after the march - it's up to you! Because getting downtown and parking is difficult that day, we recommend taking public transportation (RTA rapid transit) and meeting in Public Square by 10:45 am.

People of all ages are welcome - bring wagons or strollers for little ones. You can even bring your dogs to walk with you! (must be kept on a leash)

05/25/2026

Will you join your heart with ours to pray this Memorial Day prayer? 🕯❤

05/25/2026

Did you see the rainbow above the church this evening!? 😍🌈

Special shoutout to Jake for sending us this photo!

05/24/2026

Outreach has organized a Dine to Donate event for Thursday, June 18 at the Avon Commons Red Robin restaurant. Red Robin will donate 20% of all the dine-in and to-go food sales that day to our church. Fundraiser flyers needed to present at the restaurant will be available at church or you can photograph or screenshot the flyer with your smartphone to share with friends and neighbors. A flyer photo may be presented at the restaurant in lieu of a paper flyer for our church to receive credit for the sale. Proceeds have been designated to support the Lotts Creek work project!

05/24/2026

05/24/2026

TODAY is Pentecost -- the unofficial "birthday" of the Church Universal. Make sure you wear red to worship to celebrate the Holy Spirit descending on the disciples in tongues of flames! 🔥