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September 21, 2026

2026-2027 Reading List

  • October 6 – Marsha by Tourmaline
  • November 3 – Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristen Kobes Du Mez
  • December 1 – The Motion of the Body in Space by Lionel Shriver
  • January 5 – Going Home by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • February 2 – This is Happiness by Niall Williams
  • March 2 – Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
  • April 6 – Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
  • May 4 – Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
  • June 1 – Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

Reach out to the church office at 781-944-0205 or office@churchofreading.org to learn more or be added to the email list.…

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Join a Music Ministry

Do you play an instrument or sing in the shower? Have you wondered what it’s like to ring handbells? Now’s a perfect time to try one of our Music Minsitries!

Our Chancel Choir rehearses before Sunday worship, our Church Orchestra rehearses on some Sundays before or after worship, and our Handbell Choir rehearses on Wednesday evenings.

Join one or all! We’d love to have you. Reach out to the church office at office@churchofreading.org or 781-944-0205 to learn more.…

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Memorial for Barbara Philbrick

August 25, 2026

A service of Thanksgiving & Celebration for the life of Barbara Philbrick will be held on Saturday, September 12 at 11 AM EDT at First Congregational Church of Reading.

Visiting hours will be held on Friday September 11 at the Douglass, Edgerley and Bessom Funeral Home 25 Sanborn St. (corner of Woburn St., directly across from the church) Reading from 4-7PM.

If you would like to attend the service on September 12 by Zoom, please click the button below to fill out a form. A Zoom link will be sent to your email the morning of September 12.

Click here to fill out the Zoom Link request form

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Music Ministries Return

August 19, 2026

Interested in ringing bells, singing with the choir, or playing an instrument with our music ministries this year?

Choir returns on Sunday, September 20 (with rehearsal at 8:30 AM), Orchestra returns the same day to rehearse after church at 11 AM, and bells will be rehearsing on Wednesdays at 7 PM starting September 9.

Reach out to the church office at office@churchofreading.org or 781-944-0205 to learn more.

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Silent Auction

August 13, 2026

Seven weeks to go until the Olde Redding Faire and Silent Auction!

Baskets do well at the Auction. Do you have a variety of things that you can give that would be perfect in a basket? Imagine gathering items for a “Rainy Day Picnic Indoors” or even “Dinner Under the Stars” or “When the Kids and Grandkids Need Different Things to Do” or even “Basket of Chocolates” for the chocolate lover in your life. You don’t have to do the whole basket, but if you let us know what you will provide, we can put the basket together.

Please use the button below to let us know what you want to give to the auction.

Donate to the Auction

Reach out to the church office at office@churchofreading.org or 781-944-0205 with any questions.…

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