Upcoming Service Projects A day for a local Habitat for Humanity build?Laura Maltby is recruiting for a local Habitat for Humanity build day in July, August, or September, either a workday or Saturday. Build hours are approximately 8:30 am – 3:30 pm. The tasks could be quite varied – Minimum age is 16, and no … Continue reading Upcoming Service Projects

Every Week – 11am – 2pm Meet in the KitchenAll welcome – open to the community The Building & Grounds Gang (Julie & Patti) & the Meeting House Hospitality Group invites you to help improve our Meeting House. This Week – June 3: Continue painting the china cabinet.  Clean & organize the shelves that hold our supplies of napkins, … Continue reading Friday’s Project ~ Caring for Our Meeting House 

Dot Day Parade Viewing at the corner of East Street and Dot AvenueFPD and Christ the King will join to view Sundays Dot Day Parade while enjoying snow cones (CTK) and popcorn (FPD Hospitality) at a reserved location at the corner of East Street and Dorchester Ave – a short walk down Meeting House Hill. We would like … Continue reading Dot Day Viewing

Habitat for Humanity has not yet resumed its international builds, but the Greater Boston chapter of Habitat is up and running at full speed. Laura Maltby would  like to put together a team from First Parish to sign up for a build day in July, August, or September. This could be either a weekday or … Continue reading A day for a local Habitat build?

Join us in an effort to provide crucial medical supplies to hospitals in Ukraine! This Sunday, you are encouraged to bring anything from the list below to support our Medical Supply Drive for Ukraine Forward. They approached us this week and asked us to support their work bringing medical supplies to the Ukraine. We will … Continue reading Medical supplies for Ukraine

Save the date for Althea Smith’s ordination! Saturday, June 18, 1 pmOur own Althea Smith will be ordained on June 18 at First Parish, pending a vote at the annual meeting in May. A celebratory party will follow the ordination. Here’s the video of this service:

Some never went away during COVID (kudos, Fair Foods!) Some, like AA, came back last year with care. Others have recently begun to fill our space again with joyful dance and singing – we’re looking at you Mather School-BalletRox and Boston Children’s Chorus!  Still others have used our space to honor lost loved ones after funerals. And … Continue reading Our regulars are all back on our refinished Parish Hall floor, plus some!

Congratulations to the A.A. Meeting House Group as they celebrate their 15th anniversary this Tuesday, Dec. 21. The Meeting House Group continues the long relationship of First Parish Dorchester with A.A. which apparently dates to 1966. As reported then in the Up-Look (FPD’s newsletter): ” A voluntary group calling themselves Alcoholics Anonymous meets in the church Kitchen on Sunday … Continue reading Meetinghouse Hill AA Anniversary

Eastern Service Workers Association (ESWA) conducted their long running annual Annual Thanksgiving Food Distribution from our parish hall in the Meeting House on Monday, Nov. 22nd. . Volunteers and staff assembled donated by  many vendors into bags. Volunteers then delivered them directly to about seventy families, mainly in Dorchester and Roxbury.. Each family received four or five … Continue reading Eastern Service Workers Association Thanksgiving distribution