Climate Hope Advocacy Chapter Launch Workshop: Date April 5th 2025, 9:00 am-11:30 am Venue: Edwards Hall Edwards Church UCC, 39 Edwards St. Framingham, MA People of faith and conscience are inspired, energized and empowered as they learn and practice proven effective advocacy techniques in a supportive group. We aim to catalyze the community, the media […]
Lenten Devotion–Thursday, March 27, 2025
He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, ‘I do choose. Be made clean!’ Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. –Matthew 8:3 May we use our hands in the service of healing, hope and love. Amen.
Lenten Devotion–Wednesday, March 26, 2025
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another-and all the more as you see the Day approaching.–Hebrews 10:24-25, NIV I’d like to tell you a story about building […]
Lenten Devotion–Tuesday, March 25, 2025
I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand, which is the distinguishing mark in all my letters. This is how I write.–2 Thessalonians 3:17 In 2017 at some point I filled out a form asking about how I might volunteer for a climate organization I had followed for some time, 350 Massachusetts. I said […]
Transgender Day of Visibility Community Dinner–Mon, March 31, 6:30 pm
Join us on Monday, March 31 at 6:30 pm for a community dinner honoring Transgender Day of Visibility in Sue Dickerman Hall. We gather to share a meal to offer support, encouragement and friendship to one another, to celebrate our trans siblings, and to find strength and determination to stand together! Bring a dish if […]
Lenten Devotion–Monday, March 24, 2025
Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices–Psalm 16:9 Bless our hearts, O God–all of them. Amen. –Photo by Art Norton
Lenten Devotion–Sunday, March 23, 2025
Going Forth For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become enslaved to one another. For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:13-14 Communities can take many different forms, but are […]
Lenten Devotion–Saturday, March 22, 2025
Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? What do you read there?’ He answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, […]
Lenten Devotion–Friday, March 21, 2025
‘ Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.–Matthew 10 On Monday, March 31, we are hosting a community dinner in honor of Transgender Visibility Day. In a time when our transgender siblings are facing loss of rights, acts of hatred, and efforts to make them invisible, this […]
Lenten Devotion–Thursday, March 20, 2025
You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. –Deuteronomy 10:19 When Edwards Church first learned of the arrival of many new Framingham residents in the summer of 2023 they jumped in and tried to do what they could to help them feel welcome. We provided meals, a space […]