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Join Us for Worship
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.”
Fifth Sunday of Lent
(April 6, 2025 10:00 a.m.)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. David A. Kaden
Sermon: “Faith and Newness”
Anthem: “Richard de Castre’s Prayer to Jesus” (R.R. Terry, 1923)
Faith Journey: Tim Fraser
Communion: Will be served
Bulletin: LINK to Bulletin
After Service Events:
- Refreshments and Coffee
- Congregation meeting: Call Agreement for Rev. Susan Fast
Easter Egg Hunt
(Sunday, April 13, after Palm Sunday Service)
Easter Egg Hunt for ages 0-12 held here at FCCI (outdoors if weather permits) after Palm Sunday Service (visitors welcome!)
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
Lent & Easter Services
Palm Sunday (April 13, 10:00 a.m.)
Maundy Thursday (April 17, 7:00 p.m.)
Good Friday (April 18, 5:30 p.m.)
Easter Sunday Sunrise (April 20, 6:30 a.m., Lake View Cemetery)
Easter Sunday (April 20, 10:00 a.m., Church Sanctuary)
Help Feed the Underhoused
Help the FCCI Code Blue Team feed the underhoused on these freezing days: If you can’t volunteer your time, you can donate gift cards from local grocery stores (or cash if you don’t go to grocery stores). The Team can shop at Wegmans, Tops, BJ’s, Aldi’s, and Greenstar! Each weekly meal costs about $140 to prepare. Sponsor a meal! We also need crockpots. To sign up to help cook or to drive the food to the shelter, click this LINK. For more information, please contact the church office.
Hygiene Kits for Kitchen Cupboard
During the month of April, the Outreach Action Group is collecting donations of items to make hygiene kits. Items being collected include diapers (especially larger sizes), baby wipes, toilet paper, deodorant, toothpaste and toothbrushes for Kitchen Cupboard. A poster to sign up for needed items is in the Narthex.
Latest News
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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