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The Adult Ed Committee and the Board of Community Life present:

AND bring joy to many:

This Sunday is Pentecost Sunday, which by tradition is celebrated as the birthday of the Church. Birthdays, whether personal or institutional, offer us a chance to reflect on our heritage. Part of our heritage as Christians is a distrust of violence, a suspicion that violence is ineffective for doing God's work here on earth.

Now that spring has finally arrived...

Every year the Wisconsin Conference plans and executes the Annual Meeting. This year it is June 7-9 at Green Lake Conference Center. We are always invited to attend the conference, to reconnect with friends, experience the wider church in Wisconsin and attend workshops intended to reinvigorate, expand, or support our church's worship and ministries. 

Somewhere that is peaceful, 

Why we should CELEBRATE!!

Madison-area Urban Ministry (MUM) will be celebrating their 40th anniversary on Saturday, May 18, from 6-9pm at the Madison Concourse Hotel. It is important for the members of First Congregational UCC to celebrate the forty years of service to the Madison community because FCUCC was a founding influence. I want to share some of the history of MUM, as written by Alice Schacht, an integral part of MUM and a member of FCUCC.

The annual meeting is May 5, and here is....

One decision, one person at a time. First Cong member Melissa Baumann writes about what she and her family have done to significantly reduce their ecological footprint.