Excitement, Warmth, and Commitment
First Parish: People, Spirit, Justice
This Week’s Sunday Service
“The Something I Can Do”
Annual Shinn Service
Dr. Amy Smith, 2025 Shinn Speaker, preaching
Sunday, April 27, 10:00am
In the Meetinghouse Sanctuary and on Zoom
Spring Clean It / Fix It Day
Saturday, May 3, 9:00am – 12:00pm, at the Meetinghouse
The entire First Parish community is invited to help out on the spring Clean-it/Fix-it day. Click here for more information.
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Events and Programs
Looking to connect with folks through spirituality and community? Check out the upcoming events or learn more about ways to get involved.
Upcoming EventsSpirituality
We believe that personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion, and that in the end religious authority lies not in a book or person or institution, but in ourselves.
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Find out about our services, religious education program, social justice efforts and community involvement.
Start hereUpcoming Events
May 18, 2025
April 24, 2025
April 26, 2025
Meet our Ministers
Rev. Marta Morris Flanagan and Rev. Erica Richmond
First Parish is served by the elected leaders, volunteers, and staff. First Parish is also served by two full time ordained ministers. Both ministers preach and participate in worship services and are available for pastoral care, weddings, and memorial services.
Rev. Marta Flanagan is the Lead Minister called by a vote of the congregation in 2009 and is generally called “Marta.” Rev. Erica Richmond is the Parish Minister hired by the Parish Committee in August 2020 and is generally called “Rev. Erica.” They say their ministry together is grounded in “a sense of a Spirit moving within and among us, service to First Parish, and a call to work for justice, both within and beyond the walls of the meetinghouse.”