Category: Expired-Events

Everyone is invited to attend the July 4th Interfaith Service on June 29th this year at:

First Congregational Church
at 300 High St., Bristol, RI 
on Sunday, June 29, 2025
at 2:00 p.m.

The Interfaith Service brings together the clergy from Bristol’s houses of worship in a patriotic, multi-denominational prayer gathering. The Interfaith Speaker for 2025 is Chaplin, Colonel, Father Robert L. Marciano. Father Marciano presently serves as Pastor of Saint Kevin Parish and school in Warwick and Chaplain for the Warwick Police Department with the rank of Colonel and Chaplain, Deputy Chief for the Warwick Fire Department as well as Chaplain, Deputy Assistant Chief for the Providence Fire Department and Chaplain for the “100 Club”, Rhode Island Chapter, which assists families of first responders killed in the line of duty.

All are welcome. Join us on this day of celebrating the spiritual roots of our nation’s Democracy.

Sorry you will need to bring your own chairs.

We need your help! We’re building a church float for the July 4th parade. We have more than 13 walkers signed up, but we are aiming for 25. Would you and your children step up to either WALK IN FRONT OR BEHIND THE FLOAT OR SIT on the flatbed trailer? (We’ll provide the hay bale.) We need to know, hopefully, by the end of this month. We could also use a few more PAINTERS some time in June to paint some stones and windows on the replica of the sanctuary and belfry. And we could use a few people to ASSEMBLE THE SIGNS AND BUNTINGS on the flatbed trailer around July 2, after our terrific construction team have set up the float on the trailer.

Building this reusable church float is one of the great ideas that came out of our 2024 Congregational Gatherings. We had built one back in 2005 (You can see the video here). But it was not saved, and, to tell the truth, it was very heavy and not able to be taken apart and stored.

With the help of are architect member, Alan Berry, who is designing the new float, and our team of builders. we are well on our way to getting that float built. It will be about the size of a large garden shed and we plan to build it in the back yard of the Guiteras House. We have the kind loan of a driver, a huge truck and flatbed trailer from ELJ Construction.

If you or someone you know will take on the challenge of walking in front or behind the float or sitting up on the flatbed to make our float as lively as possible, WE NEED SIGNED WAIVER FORMS FROM EACH WALKER – OF ANY AGE – BY APRIL 27th. You can download a copy of the waiver form here and give it to Caroline Jacobus or Barbara Watts in the office.

Hope you can join the church float. It is a special way to celebrate the Fourth!

You can take the flowers home after the service or ask that they be given to a member who would appreciate them. All you have to do is print out the order form, complete it and add your check, and drop it in the offering plate or at the church office by March 14. Order Easter flowers here!

Members of the SNEUCC Haiti Task Force will offer a presentation on their long-time work bringing vital service to schools, orphanages, and health clinics in Haiti during our coffee hour on Sunday, March 16. (This is the presentation postponed from February 9 due to a snowstorm.) Rev. Soukup’s message during the service will reflect on the Haiti’s legacy as the first Black republic in the world following the revolution by the enslaved in the French colony. After the service, Suzanne Swanson, Shirley Hardison, and Linda Sable will give an update on the Task Force’s current initiatives, especially in light of the heightened violence in the country. The Task Force has been “providing education, quality health care, orphan relief, spiritual support, and community-based services for the people of Haiti for over 30 years,” as a sponsored mission in the Historic Rhode Island Conference and now the SNEUCC. Please join us for the worship service at 10:00 a.m. and the presentation at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 16. For additional information about the Task Force, visit Haiti Task Force – Southern New England Conference of the UCC.

Monday evenings at 7:00pm, Guiteras House.