Events

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Ongoing
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service We enjoyed a lovely candlelight service and we enjoyed the guest cellist Patrick Chatham. Below is a link so you can listen to Oh Holy Night: https://youtu.be/lgePcKUg5JU

White Gift Service on December 12th

Ongoing
White Gift Service on December 12th This Advent, as we celebrate the coming of God’s love into the world, our Church again provided gifts for children at Elmwood St. School who are in need. We also provided Goretti's gift cards to the Millbury Senior Center for those in need that visit the center. The children's wishes were listed on tags hanging on the Christmas Tree at the back of the sanctuary. Deanna Murray then delivers all the gifts to Elmwood St School and Jeri Stead delivers the Gorett... [read more]

We are an Open and Affirming Church

Every day
The certificate makes it official! Millbury First Church welcomes all people as children of God: people of all ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, family configurations, physical, cognitive, or emotional abilities, education, spiritual and religious traditions, and those with no religious background. In the United Church of Christ, our denomination, we are now designated as an Open and Affirming Church. Wherever you are on your journey, we’d love to ... [read more]

Notes from the Organ Bench

Ongoing
“In my eyes and ears the organ is the king of instruments” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart This is the first of a series of articles about our beloved E. M. Skinner organ. My writings about the pipe organ are prompted by our church’s web organizer Audrey Rossow inquiry about the instrument’s beautiful sounds. Our original organ was a George W. Stevens tracker organ and was installed at the back of our church sanctuary in the late 1800’s. George Stevens (1803-1894) a pipe organ manufacturer from E... [read more]