Winthrop Congregational Church

07/22/2026

Come celebrate our 250 years in the Winthrop community.

07/22/2026

06/23/2026

Our sermon from 6.21.26 (including some lovely loon songs): It Only Takes a Spark
http://www.wccucc.org/sermon-blog/sermon-for-june-21-2026-it-only-takes-a-spark-based-upon-matthew-514-16

05/26/2026

Introducing our Preaching Resident

While Pastor Chrissy is taking sabbatical time in July, Patricia Boyle-Wright, an MID from the Oxford Union Association, will be preaching and leading worship.

Patricia Boyle-Wight is originally from Connecticut and was raised in the Roman Catholic Church. She moved to Maine in 1991, and western Maine in 2000. She has been a music performer and teacher, and with her husband, Eric, has raised two beautiful kids, now both late twenty-somethings. Patricia graduated from Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Center, MA with an M.A. in Theological Studies in 2017. She then began a six-year position as C.E. Coordinator for Youth and Family Ministry at West Parish Congregational Church, in Bethel. Patricia loves to dance, play the flute or drums, sing, write stories, and spend time with family and cats! She is passionate about social justice and believes in a God whose love for us all exceeds anything we could possibly imagine. She's going to worship with us a couple times in June to introduce herself and get to know us a little bit.

05/26/2026

Some pictures from last Sunday.

We're so proud of Ricky for receiving an Earth Care award from the Winthrop Center Friends Meeting. I've attached some photos below

Thanks to the Winthrop Center Friends, Ann Mitchell, and Jen Phillips for providing the goodies at the reception.

04/21/2026

Our sermon from 4/19/26:

Luke 24:13-35 The Walk to Emmaus (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition) Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and...

04/11/2026

For this Easter season

I think my mother and Mary would have been friends.
For on their darkest days,
Both have gone to the garden.
So I imagine that on their darkest days,
Both Mary and my mother
Have willed new life from earth’s cold ground—
meticulously tending stubborn soil while praying for a miracle—
praying that seeds will grow into flowers
that will take our breath away and remind us again that we are small.

—from the poem “My Mother & Mary” by Rev. Sarah Speed, part of our “A New Creation” Easter 2019 series.

Art featured: “Fullness of the Tomb" by Rev. Lauren Wright Pittman

04/02/2026

Our Maundy Thursday service is tonight at 7 pm.

02/17/2026

Our Ash Wednesday service is on Wednesday, April 18th at 7 pm.

02/17/2026

Our sermon from 2.15.26:

Matthew 17:1-9 The Transfiguration (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition) Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by...