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Candlelight Service

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Pastoral Care

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Matt Meyers Sing for Justice

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Membership and Welcoming

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People’s Climate March, Washington DC

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Pride Parade

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Square Dance

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Grub’s Place

Gospel Choir

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Gospel Choir

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Blessing for the Women’s March

Religious Education

<img width="480" height="270" src="https://firstparish.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/KidsPuzzle2.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Religious Education" srcset="https://firstparish.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/KidsPuzzle2.jpg 480w, https://firstparish.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/KidsPuzzle2-300x169.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" data-attachment-id="54" data-permalink="https://firstparish.org/wp/front-page/kidspuzzle2/" data-orig-file="https://firstparish.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/KidsPuzzle2.jpg" data-orig-size="480,270" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.4","credit":"Stonewall Ballard","camera":"NIKON D800","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1352575895","copyright":"Stonewall Ballard","focal_length":"24","iso":"720","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Religious Education" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://firstparish.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/KidsPuzzle2-300x169.jpg" data-large-file="https://firstparish.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/KidsPuzzle2.jpg" />

Religious Education

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Celebration Sunday

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Pot Luck

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Black Lives Matter Banner

Laurel Gray has joined First Parish this year as the Ministerial Intern. She is a native New Englander – she grew up in southern Rhode Island and then attended college in Vermont – and is a lifelong UU. She just finished her graduate work at Yale Divinity School, and plans on going into large church ministry. Between college and graduate school, she lived in San Francisco and worked in the wedding and event industry. Laurel looks forward to meeting everyone at First Parish in Concord!