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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.”
Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany
(February 16, 2025 10:00 a.m.)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. David A. Kaden
Sermon: “You Gotta Believe in Beatitudes”
Anthem: “O How Blessed” (Anton Bruckner)
Bulletin: LINK to Bulletin/Order of Service
After Service Event
Coffee and refreshments (narthex)
Foote Workshop Series

Join us on March 8th and 9th for the Foote Workshop Series entitled “Heavenly Minded and Earthly Good: Contemplative Activism and Restoring the Soul of the Nation.” We will be joined by Rev. Bruce Epperly in presentations, discussion and preaching.
- Saturday evening talk with dish-to-pass dinner (March 8th, 6:00 p.m.): Mystics in action: Spirituality that joins heaven and earth
- Sunday morning sermon (March 9th, 10:00 a.m.): The world is healed one act at a time
- Sunday morning talk (March 9th, 11:30 a.m.): Living the beloved community: Jesus as a model of contemplative activism
- Wednesday evening Zoom meeting with Rev. Epperly (March 12th, 7:00 p.m.)
Lead-up activities include a book study of Rev. Epperly’s book, “Homegrown Mystics” on Tuesday evenings at 7:00-8:30 p.m. via Zoom (link TBA) on February 18th, 25th and March 4th.
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.
In the fall of 2023, we welcomed a new family of sanctuary guests. If you would like to view the coverage of the press conference held on September 27th at FCCI covering our sanctuary guests and work that Ithaca does to support refugees, please follow the links to Spectrum News 1, The Ithaca Voice, WHCU 97.7 FM/870 AM and WENY News.
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.
Outreach Clothing Drive

Starting March 2nd, the Outreach Action Group will collect new or clean used adult sized coats and wool socks in good condition, and hot chocolate packets for Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County. A coat rack will be by the front entrance to leave your donated coats as well as bins marked for socks and hot chocolate packets. This organization serves about 230 free meals every day and there is a great need for coats and warm socks during these cold months.
UCC Hygiene Kits for Disaster Relief

In a collaborative effort, the Outreach Action Group and the Youth of FCCI are collecting donations of items to make UCC Hygiene Kits for Disaster Relief. A poster to sign up for needed items is in the Narthex. All donated items are due by March 23rd. The Youth and Outreach members will assemble the kits during Sunday service on March 30th. Due to the California fires there is a dire need for these kits. Please help us reach our goal of 100 kits!
UCC's California Wildfire Appeal

Soon after the initial fire ignited, the United Church of Christ issued a California Wildfire appeal for donations. Read the full article and donate HERE
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