Be prepared for holiday gatherings, meals, and community events to help save a life. Receive CPR training (including CPR and choke-saver aka “Heimlich”).
Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 6:45 PM
Open to the community
Cost is $50 (cash or check)
Email office@churchofreading.org or call the office at 781-944-0205 to register or fill out the form below.
Join us on Sunday, October 23 at 10 AM for a jazz-inspired service. This Sunday will feature live jazz musicians, a piece composed by Jeongweon Lee just for the occasion, choir, and soulful music. It’s a Sunday you won’t want to miss!
Childcare will be available, including our all-ages Sunday School classroom which will be doing a special activity this week. There’s always something for everyone at the activity table as well.…
Interested in joining our ringers? We rehearse on Wednesdays at 7 PM.
Choir is up and running again and Orchestra will also be returning – interested in joining in?
Contact the office at office@churchofreading.org or 781-944-0205 for more info.
Pressing Pause is a once-per-month meditation prayer service on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. Each month we “press pause” and find a moment to recharge our spiritual needs in quiet in the middle of the month on a weeknight. Each service follows the same format. Come for 10 min of quiet or stay for the whole hour.
6:30 PM – the Sanctuary is open with quiet meditative music and candlelight for quiet meditation
7 – 7:30 PM – a brief meditation service is offered with a different theme each month
Upcoming Dates include:
October 18 – Walking the Labyrinth
November 15 – Lectio Divina
September 18 is Homecoming Sunday — when we all come back from our summertime adventures and vacations to join together to kick-off the program year at church. Worship will begin at 10 AM in the Sanctuary and online (on Zoom and Facebook Live).
It’s also the kick off to Sunday School, and a special Blessing of the Backpacks! Bring your backpack, tote bag, work bag, briefcase, laptop bag — whatever it is you daily carry to get to school and work. We’ll bless these bags together as we bless bags of school supplies going to kids in need through Church World Service.
See you there!…
The Faire is on Saturday, October 1 from 10 AM to 2 PM. But you don’t have to wait to get your fall favorites! Order mums, food, peanut brittle, and fudge online and check out the silent auction online, too (bidding starts Sept. 24). Click here!
Interested in getting involved? Click the link above for information on how to donate books, puzzles, jewelry, and baked goods for the faire.
During July & August 2022 we will worship in a variety of locations each Sunday at 9 AM (in-person and online), unless otherwise noted.
Please note locations may change based on weather;
check the weekly e-news to make sure you are in the right place! Email office@churchofreading.org to sign up for weekly e-news mailings.
| August 7 | Communion Sunday – Outdoors* on the lawn on Sanborn St. *weather permitting; in Guild Hall downstairs in case of inclement weather |
| August 14 @10 AM | Worship with Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading (239 Woburn Street) in their fellowship hall (air conditioned). This Sunday we will explore what it means to be in relationship together as a wider community of many faiths. |
| August 21 | DIY Sunday – Outdoors* on the lawn on Sanborn St. *weather permitting; in Guild Hall downstairs in case of inclement weather |
| August 28 @ 10 AM | Worship on the Cape We join our coastal neighbors on the Cape at First Parish Truro for worship this Sunday. Click here if you’re interested in carpooling (as a driver or rider). Spend the day on the Cape or join us online. There will be no in-person worship on site in Reading this week. |
| September 4 | Communion Sunday/Labor Day Weekend Outdoors on the lawn on Sanborn Street (weather permitting; in Guild Hall in case of inclement weather) |
| September 11 | Outdoors* on the lawn on Sanborn St. *weather permitting; in Guild Hall downstairs in case of inclement weather Reading Street Fair after church |
| September 18 @ 10 AM | Homecoming Sunday – We return to our 10 AM time and worship in the Sanctuary |
The box is beginning to be “fed” by your generosity of spirit. Thank you for thinking of those who are in need. School supplies seem like such a simple thing – something youngsters in our communities might not find exciting. Fresh paper, pencils, crayons, and related items will undoubtedly bring smiles to the faces of the children who receive our kits.
We are in need of the items listed here, or financial donations to off-set related expenses.
One pair of blunt scissors (rounded tip, only)
Three 70-count bound notebooks or notebooks totaling 200-210 pages (no loose-leaf or filler paper)
One 12” ruler
One hand-held pencil sharpener
One large eraser (no pencil cap erasers)
Six new, unsharpened pencils with erasers
One box of 24 crayons (only 24)…
On Sunday, August 14th, we continued our partnership with Common Cathedral. Together we supplied 164 sandwich bags filled with turkey, ham and cheese, or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and numerous snacks.
We distributed food receiving many thanks from recipients. We then listened to a heartfelt memorial service for one of their own Common Cathedral artistically gifted community members who passed recently of a heart attack.
Common Cathedral shares their gratitude for our community’s continued partnership and financial support, requests that we become storytellers sharing the power of the Common Cathedral experience, and invites us to be in prayer with their community as their team also prays for those participating in the previous week’s service at their Wednesday meeting.
With our commitment to support, storytell, and pray with the Common Cathedral Community, the Reading FCCR partnership continues.
Book Group resumes its monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM beginning Tuesday, September 6.
We will be discussing This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger. To be added to the email list to receive the Zoom link, please email office@churchofreading.org…