Worship online and on TV with Jason Wertz! 2020 Annual Report online, please vote!
FIRST CHURCH
January 22 - 29, 2021
Read and Vote on Church's
Annual Reports and 2021 Budget
Since we cannot meet in person this year to conduct the business of the church at the Annual Meeting, this email will serve to present the information and reports usually offered at that meeting. Contained in this email are links to the Annual Reports of the Boards and Committees of First Church, including the Nominating Committee Report, and reports on 2020 operating income and expenses and the proposed 2021 Budget. Please read carefully and direct any concerns, corrections or questions you have to the person or persons who wrote the reports. Any reports that require revision or correction will be resent to the congregation with links to those reports.
If you have no concerns, corrections or questions, please “vote”by email to accept the reports and to approve the slate of officers and Board members, and to approve the proposed budget. The email to the church office (FirstUCCIpswich@gmail.com) should have your full name and that you vote to accept the reports, slate and budget as presented. Church by-laws require the approval of at least 20 active members of the church.
A printed copy of the Annual Reports is available on request from the Church Office.
Moderator, Bette Bailey and Lynn Lenhart, Moderator -Elect
The reports from Reverend Rebecca Pugh, all Boards and Committees. The Treasurer, Finance Committee, and Nominating Committee reports have separate links.
In view of the new Covid-related restrictions and the winter weather, the leadership of the church has concluded that it would be best to suspend outdoor worship on Sundays until further notice.
A message from Stacey Keane Blagg
During the month of February on Sunday mornings
(time TBD: either 9-10 am or 11-12) a 4 part virtual series entitled: 'Deepening our Spirituality through exploring Nature, Contemplation and the Arts' will be offered with
Stacey Keane Blagg. The guiding text for the series will be the book:
'Earth: Our Original Monastery' by Christine Valters Paintner.
If you have questions, would like more information or would like to sign up, please email us at firstuccipswich@gmail.com
Youth Groups
Highschool and Middle School youth group meet Tuesdays to build community, listen to local young theologians, pray, and reflect on Scripture.
Young Adult Fellowship meets every other Sunday at 7:30. Books, reunions, prayers. All on Zoom!
Next Book Club
We will read " How to be an Anti-Racist "
by Ibram X. Kendi
You are welcome to join us.
Let us know if you need a copy.
If you would like to send money securely to the church,
Click on the giving online icon above.
Prayers
For members and friends in grief
For members and friends in recovery:
Barbara S
Parker B
For members and friends of the church in prison:
Juan P
Charles B
Sayed M
David W
Danny L
Steve K
Leonard P
For members and friends of the church in nursing homes:
Maggie C
Julie B
Mary Helen C
Frank C
Betty W
For members and friends of the church seeking healing for chronic headaches:
a church leader,
for Valeria
For members and friends seeking a cure for cancer:
Noah D
Jim T
Carol H
For the release for the captives,
for an end to racism,
for end to warfare.
For the youth group as they pray and work this winter and spring.
May our powerful God hear all of our prayers
God is good, all the time
First Church in Ipswich, UCC AN OPEN AND AFFIRMING CONGREGATION Gathered in 1634