Where everyone is welcome...NO EXCEPTIONS!
Welcome to Central Congregational Church Attleboro Falls, Massachusetts
United Church of Christ
Welcome to Central Congregational Church Attleboro Falls, Massachusetts
United Church of Christ
WELCOME
You are Welcome Here...
You are welcome here. You are celebrated here with all the diversity you bring in race, background, country of origin, beliefs and doubts, class, education, age, abilities. You are celebrated here with all the diversity you bring in gender orientation, gender identity; our LGB TQ+ siblings you are welcome here ….
In a world where it sometimes feels unsafe to be who you are you are safe here;
You are seen here
This is God’s home
This is sacred space
God is here with us and we are here with God.
We are a people who honor God experienced by us as father and mother, Christ and Holy Spirit, but we don’t have a religious test for participation. So come with your beliefs, questions and doubts. Just come…with an open heart to where God is still speaking in your life and ours.
Because, we seek to honor the dignity of every human being, speak the truth to one another in love, listen with compassionate hearts and walk humbly with each other and our God. We’re not perfect, neither are you, and you don’t need to be.
So bring your traumas and triumphs, your fears and fervor, your anxieties and awakenings, your worries and weariness, your joys and laughter.
Bring the sounds of children and the sounds of silence and the songs we sing together.
You are welcome here, you are safe here, you are loved here, you are home here.
Sunday Worship In-Person Cancelation Policy
Weather Cancelation Policy 2025
In the event of the cancelation of a Sunday Worship service, the Deacons will work to notify Church members via committee chairpersons and personal phone calls.
If you have not received a phone call and are wondering about whether we will hold Sunday's service, you may call the church at 508-699-7700 and listen to the outgoing message, which will be changed to inform the caller of a cancelation.
(No phone calls will be returned on Sunday mornings).
When In-person Sunday morning worship is cancelled, please look for us on Zoom, starting a few minutes before 10am, using this link:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2148198082?pwd=b2krNFNOODRTQjVuWVRZSDJTVnc5dz09
About Us
Worship
Please join us - no matter your age or stage in life - young families, singles, seniors, empty-nesters or young adult - there's a place for you here at Central Congregational Church.
Come and see!
Worship is at 10:00 am each Sunday in the Sanctuary September through Memorial Day.
Join us for Worship at 9:30am June - August in our Air-Conditioned Sanctuary.
Our Church building is easily accessible and air-conditioned.
We have plenty of accessible parking and an elevator
with trained staff to assist you.
Join us - come as you are! You are welcome here!
Pastor's Ponderings
March 2025
LENT: Lent comes from the ancient word for lengthening of days. As we look forward to spring we also look forward to Easter. It is one of the foundational and pivotal stories of our faith and of our living. Lent is a time set aside to reflect on our lives and how we can deepen our faith and our impact on the world. It contemplates what we need to release and what we might take on in order to live life more fully. It invites us into the story of death and resurrection.
The 40 days of Lent (which do not include Sundays which early Christians considered a ‘mini-Easter’) reflect the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness, the 40 days of Noah and the Ark and the 40 years of wilderness wanderings of the Exodus. Each of these are stories of release and transformation.
There is so much in our world and lives that distracts us, invites us, alarms us, compels us. And there is no better time or reason to pull away periodically to reconnect with the Holy Spirit. We’ll guide ourselves through this season with the grounding of worship. Our worship theme will look at one of my 3 favorite scripture passages. This one, from Matthew 25, speaks of finding and serving Jesus in ‘the Least of These’. We’ll explore what that means within our selves and within the relationships we have and within the world around us.
We’ll also have a Lenten Wreath. Similar to the Advent Wreath it marks the passage of time. However, where the Advent Wreath adds light each week, the Lenten Wreath removes light as we journey towards the cross and name the things in our world that cause suffering.
All of this is meant to help us prepare for the light of Easter’s dawn that brings the gift of joy, compassion and life to our world.
