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In-person worship: Sundays at 10:00 a.m.
Our doors are open for in-person worship each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. Masks are currently optional. We will continue to offer for our remote members and visitors the live stream service, listed below.
Online Live Stream Worship Service: Sundays at 10:00 a.m.
Click here to live stream our Worship Services or view our Progressive Christian Bible Study.

Guns to Garden Tools
Church members are working on a creative solution to gun violence. Partnering with RAW Tools we are considering becoming a “disarming site,” which means FCCI-ers would get trained on disarming guns so the pieces can be melted down by blacksmiths and transformed into garden tools. It’s called “guns to garden tools.”
Ascension and Seventh Sunday of Easter
(June 1, 2025 10:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Fugue in C Minor (J.S. Bach)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. David A. Kaden
Anthem: God So Loved the World (John Stainer, 1887)
Sermon: “The Art of Faith is More How to Believe than What to Believe”
Communion: The Lord’s Supper will be served
Postlude: Prelude in C Minor (J.S. Bach)
Bulletin: LINK
After Service Events:
- Coffee and Refreshments (Dish-to-Pass is paused in June, July & August)
- Conversations about Faith (Chapters 7-8) with Rev. Dr. Kaden (11:30 a.m.)
Sanctuary Ministries at FCCI
With the support of the Ithaca Sanctuary Alliance (ISA), the First Congregational Church of Ithaca (FCCI) in July 2020 welcomed a teen mother and her young daughter into the apartment they built to provide sanctuary for immigrants at risk of deportation. Drucila Francisco Mateo and Jessie lived at the church for more than two years, moving out in September, 2022.
For more information on our Sanctuary Ministries, please click HERE
Adopt a Cabinet Initiative
(Beginning in June 2025)

The Outreach Action Group is excited to support the launch of FCCI’s Adopt a Cabinet Initiative during the month of June. You can help by volunteering to deliver and fill blue cabinets on a Sunday or by donating items needed or money to buy items. Blue cabinets provide food and personal items and are located in neighborhoods throughout Tompkins County to allow for easy access to needed items.
To learn more, please visit the Adopt a Cabinet page or email neighborhoodconnection@fccithaca.org. To donate, click HERE.
Soap for Hope
(Collections in June 2025)

The Outreach Action Group received a request from Catholic Charities to support their annual, community-wide Soap for Hope drive… any and all kinds of soap… through June. People with food stamps cannot buy these products. Look for their collection bin by the front doors. Shampoo, hand soap, dish soap, laundry soap, shaving cream and toothpaste.
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We are open for in-person worship at our Sunday 10:00am service. See above for details. We will continue to offer our worship services online as a live stream each Sunday as well.
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