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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.

A rainbow bouquet of flowers on the altar in front of the cross

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.”

Second Sunday after Pentecost

(June 22, 2025 10:00 a.m.)

Prelude: Air from Water Music (G.F. Handel)
Preaching: Rev. Susan Fast
Sermon: “A Good Old Story About Loving People”
Anthem: We Can Be Kind (David Friedman, 1994)
Postlude: Sinfonia from Water Music (G.F. Handel)
Bulletin: LINK

After Service Events:

  • Coffee and refreshments

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)

Blue Cabinet Teaser

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.

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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.

If you’re interested in subscribing to Highland Highlights, our email newsletter that contains all of our latest announcements and news, please contact the church office.

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Visit our YouTube channel to see recent Sunday Worship services, Sunday morning previews for children and youth, and Progressive Christian Bible studies.

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