FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, UCC
WELCOME TO OLDTOWN
North Attleborough, MA • September 28, 2025
Ministers: ALL of our Members and Friends
Pastor & Teacher: The Rev. Kelly Thibeault
Welcome to the Oldtown Church!
We are so glad that you have chosen to worship with us today. We invite you to join in on the bold print in the bulletin and to stand as you are able any time you see a ⇑. The restrooms are out the back door of the sanctuary to the right, as is a little space in case your little one needs a walkabout. Here in Oldtown, we are all about being curious, so don’t be afraid to ask questions, and please join us for fellowship with coffee and snacks after worship!
Finally, as a way of honoring our time together and truly loving our neighbor, we ask that you please silence your phone or, better yet, turn it off, allowing yourself to be truly present in worship.
PRELUDE
GATHERING MUSIC
WELCOME
WORSHIP WAYS
HOW’S YOUR HEART?
A TIME FOR LETTING GO
OPENING PRAYER
CALL TO WORSHIP
God calls us into community
God calls us to love our neighbors as ourselves.
It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor.
Would you be mine? Could you be mine?
Won’t you be my neighbor?
⇑ HYMN C#497–”In Loving Partnership”
TIME OF SHARING (C#323, v.1)
Sing them over again to me, wonderful words of life;
Let me more of their beauty see, wonderful words of life.
Words of life and beauty, teach me faith and duty;
Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life,
Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life.
WONDERFUL WORDS FROM THE WORLD
Mister Fred Rogers
from “Holy Troublemakers & Unconventional Saints” by Daneen Ackers
WONDERFUL WORDS FROM THE PSALMS
Psalm 133 (OT 706)
WONDERFUL WORDS FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
Acts 2:44 (NT 146)
SERMON: “Being in Community”
PREPARING OURSELVES FOR PRAYER (C#306)
Hear our prayer, O Lord, hear our prayer, O Lord,
Incline Thine ear to us, and grant us thy peace.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE and THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
CHORAL RESPONSE
OFFERING OF OUR GIFTS
GIFT OF MUSIC
⇑ DOXOLOGY (C#47)
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise God, all creatures here below.
Praise God above, Ye heavenly host.
Creator, Christ, and Holy Ghost! Amen.
⇑ PRAYER OF DEDICATION
LOVE OF THE CHURCH
⇑ SENDING HYMN C#490–”Sister, Let Me Be Your Servant”
HOW’S YOUR HEART?
⇑ BENEDICTION
⇑ BENEDICTION RESPONSE (C#583)
Lead me, guide me, along the way,
Lord, if you lead me, I cannot stray
Lord, let me walk each day with thee,
Lead me, oh Lord, lead me. (repeat)
POSTLUDE
*** Our worship has ended; let our service begin! ***
WONDERFUL WORDS FROM THE WORLD
Mister Fred Rogers – As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is. Each of us has something that no one else has or will ever have, something inside that is unique to all time. It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.
~ Akers, Daneen. Holy Troublemakers & Unconventional Saints. Watchfire Media, Inc. 2019.
WONDERFUL WORDS FROM THE PSALMS
Psalm 133 – How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down upon the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down over the collar of his robes. It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD ordained his blessing, life forevermore.
WONDERFUL WORDS FROM THE BOOK OF ACTS
Acts 2:44 – And all who believed were together and had things in common.
The Oldtown Message
September 28, 2025
OLDTOWN CALENDAR
Sun September 28: Household Huddle 9am
~ Worship 10am
~ Fair meeting following worship
Wed October 1: Coffee Connection 10am-noon
Thu October 2: NOOMA Night 7pm
Sat October 4: Second Serving Thrift Shop 9:30am-noon
Sun October 5: Household Huddle 9am
~ Worship 10am
~ Deacons meeting following worship
Check our Online Calendar for even more Oldtown, denominational, and local events, free webinars, and other resources!! Have something you’d like added to the calendar? Email calendar@oldtownucc.org with all the information, and we’ll get it posted.
OLDTOWN PRAYER LIST
Edi, Lynn, Tim, Mark, Cyndy, Joan, Justine & Nolan, the Miranda & K family, Jan & Kylie, Steven, Tegan, Dana, Ken, Lynne, Kaye, Karen, Samantha, Robin, Donna, Winnie, Carl, Michael, Sue C., Laura, Jim, Paul, Daniel, Nancy, Paul L, Jake, Muriel, Michelle, Joe, Bob, Gloria, Barry, Magda, Erik, Hailey & Bryce, Al, Denise, Rhonda, Jake, Cindi, Henry, Roxanne, Paul Garvey & family, Val, Myrtle, Deane, Rusty, Gianna, Kelsey & Nick, Jayne, John, Kait & Dom, Bill, Autumn, Judy, Kayla, Edie, Perilene, Renee, the Newell Family, Officer Paul..
To add a name to the list, email Pastor Kelly at PastorKelly@Oldtownucc.org, text 508-695-1713, or drop a note in the offering plate.
OLDTOWN UPDATE EMAIL
Do you get our Friday Email, aka “The Oldtown Update”? Our Oldtown Update is like a weekly newsletter that lets everyone know what is going on in Oldtown. If you do not receive it and would like to, drop a note in the offering with your email address or let Pastor Kelly know. Subscribe to our Friday Email Updates online, or let Pastor Kelly know your email address.
STEWARDSHIP CORNER
Weekly Giving
- Last week, we welcomed 45 people to worship with us. Our total giving to the church last week was $1,292.31, which is $130.77 less than expected.
- So far, this year’s congregational giving has been $5,400 more than expected. Keep up the great work!!
A recurring character on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was Officer Clemmons, an African American police officer in the neighborhood. Officer Clemmons was one of the first recurring African American roles on television. In 1969, when racially segregated swimming pools were still prevalent and controversial, Mr. Rogers invited Officer Clemmons to cool his feet with him in a small, plastic wading pool. Mr. Rogers lent Officer Clemmons a towel to dry his feet and then used the same towel to dry his own feet, breaking a well-known color barrier and modeling Jesus in the process.
After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had reclined again, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for that is what I am. So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
~ John 13:12-15 (NRSVUE)
First Congregational Church, UCC of North Attleborough
(Oldtown Church)
675 Old Post Road, North Attleborough, MA 02760
508-695-1713
Pastor Kelly’s email: PastorKelly@oldtownucc.org
Church Email: church@oldtownucc.org
Website: www.oldtownucc.org
YouTube: www.youtube.com/oldtownucc
Facebook: www.facebook.com/oldtownucc
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Learn more about our denomination: www.ucc.org
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