First Lutheran Church - Waltham, MA

06/02/2026

This Sunday, we celebrated Cynthia Niiler’s 30th anniversary at First Lutheran Waltham! 🎉 Cynthia has been our Director of Music since 1999 and Parish Secretary since 2000. She is also to thank for our gorgeous garden! We are so grateful for her and the gifts she brings to our community!

05/27/2026

05/24/2026

🔥 Pentecost Reminder🔥

You are a child of God, tattoos and all! And you are always welcome at our table, where Jesus is the host of the meal.

05/17/2026

Copyright Information

Liturgical Music from Evangelical Lutheran Worship ©2006 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Reprinted and
Livestreamed by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License .
Worship Texts: Copyright © 2025 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted and Livestreamed by permission
under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License .
Scripture: New Revised Standard Version Updated EdiƟon, Copyright © 2021, NaƟonal Council of Churches of Christ in
the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Psalm refrain and tone reproduced by permission from Psalter for Worship Year A © 2007 Augsburg Fortress
Hymns as below. Reprinted and Livestreamed with permission under OneLicense.net License Number: A-709997 or
CCLI License #20823990. All rights reserved.
“Now We Join in CelebraƟon”
Text: Joel W. Lundeen, 1918-1990 © Joel W. Lundeen, admin. Augsburg Fortress
Music: Johann Cruger, 1598-1662
“Halle, Halle, Hallelujah”
Music Caribbean tradiƟonal; arr. Mark Sedio, b. 1954 © 1995 Augsburg Fortress
“God, We Gather as Your People”
Text and music: David Lohman, b. 1961 © 2007 Welcome Song Music, admin. Augsburg Fortress
“Come Down, O Love Divine”
Text: Bianco da Siena, d. 1434; tr. Richard F. LiƩledale, 1833-1890
Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958
“You SaƟsfy the Hungry Heart”
Text: Omer Westendorf, 1916-1997
Music: Robert E. Kreutz, 1922-1996
Text and music: © 1977 Arch diocese of Philadelphia
“Let Us Break Bread Together”
Text and music: African American spiritual
“Alleluia! Sing to Jesus”
Text: William C. Dix, 1837-1898, alt.
Music: Rowland H. Prichard, 1811-1887

05/13/2026

Thank you to The Waltham Times for this feature! We can't wait for another year of our VBS program this July. Registration is open! (Link in the comments below)

First Lutheran Church will host its 25th annual Vacation Bible School July 6-10, offering a free week-long summer program that has evolved from a modest

05/12/2026

Join us after worship on May 17th for FLC Sustainability Day! ♻️ 🌎 📚 Drop off your books for the book swap by May 10th!

05/12/2026

Through this Easter season, Vicar Trevor will be hosting a book study via zoom on the 2025 book "For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional" by Hanna Reichel. We will discuss Part One at the first session on April 15th!

The author is a professor of systematic theology at Princeton Theological Seminary who will guide us through theologians, philosophers, historians, and advocates the likes of Karl Barth, Reinhold Niebuhr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Viktor Frankl, Martin Niemoller, Sophie Scholl, and Hannah Arendt as they navigated the choppy and dangerous waters of N**i Germany in the 1930s and 40s.

05/10/2026

Copyright Information

Liturgical Music from Evangelical Lutheran Worship ©2006 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Reprinted and Livestreamed by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License .

Worship Texts: Copyright © 2025 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License .

Scripture: New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition, Copyright © 2021, National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Psalm refrain and tone reproduced by permission from Psalter for Worship Year A © 2007 Augsburg Fortress

Hymns as below. Reprinted and Livestreamed with permission under OneLicense.net License Number: A-709997 or CCLI License #20823990. All rights reserved.

“Now We Join in Celebration”
Text: Joel W. Lundeen, 1918-1990 © Joel W. Lundeen, admin. Augsburg Fortress
Music: Johann Cruger, 1598-1662

“Halle, Halle, Hallelujah”
Music Caribbean traditional; arr. Mark Sedio, b. 1954 © 1995 Augsburg Fortress

“To Be Your Presence”
Text: Delores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 © 2000 GIA Publications, Inc.
Music: Charles V. Stanford, 1852-1924

“Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation”
Text” Latin hymn, c. 7th cent.; tr. John Mason Neale, 1818-1866, alt.
Music: Henry Purcell, 1659-1695; arr. Ernest Hawkins, 1802-1868

“God, Be the Love to Search and Keep Me/ O Christ Surround Me”
Text and music: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan, b. 1937 © 2004 This Here Music, admin. Augsburg Fortress

“Lord Jesus, You Shall Be My Song”
Text: Les Petites Soeurs de Jesus and L’Arche Comminity; tr. Stephen Somerville, b. 1931
Music: Les Petites Soeurs de Jesus and L’Arche Community
Text and music © 1987 Les Petites Soeurs de Jesus, admin. Augsburg Fortress
Tr. © 1970 Stephen Somerville, admin. Augsburg Fortress

“Making Their Way”
Text: Delores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 © 2011 GIA Publications, Inc.
Music: A. Valerius, Nederlandtsch Gedenckclank, 1626; arr. Adrian Engels, 1906-2003 © 1967 Gooi en Sticht, BV, Baarn,
The Netherlands, admin. OCP

“My Life Flows On in Endless Song”
Text and Music: Robert Lowry, 1826-1899

Other music Livestreamed under OneLicense.net License Number: A-709997
Prelude: “Simple GiŌ/I Danced in the Morning” American Shaker melody/arr. J. Wayne Kerr © 2000 Augsburg Fortress
Musical offering: “God Has Work for Us to Do”
Text: Carl P. Daw, Jr. © 1996 Hope Publishing Co.
Music: Mark A. Miller © 2012 Choristers Guild
Postlude: “How Can I Keep from Singing” Robert Lowry/arr. Jeremy Young © 2000 Augsburg Fortress

05/07/2026

Don't forget to drop off your books by *this Sunday* for our book swap on May 17th!

Join us after worship on May 17th for FLC Sustainability Day! ♻️ 🌎 📚 Drop off your books for the book swap by May 10th!

05/07/2026

❄️ Our Vacation Bible School registration is open! Join us for winter in July at our Snowball Mountain Challenge! ❄️