Welcome to Park Congregational Church!

Located in the spacious facilities of First Baptist Church at the corner of Salisbury Street and Park Avenue, Worcester, Massachusetts, we welcome everyone to become a part of our community of faith regardless of where you are on life’s journey. We worship in Davis Chapel at 10:00am on Sunday. The door to Davis Chapel can be accessed directly from Park Avenue.  The parking lot is along the side of the chapel and can be entered from Park Avenue. The parking lot and Davis Chapel are the first section of the building of First Baptist Church driving north on Park Avenue. We are a mainline/liberal Protestant church and offer a reverent and thoughtful worship service with an accomplished organist, choir, and sermons by a former professor of theology and philosophy, Rev. Dr. Gary Shahinian. We also have an active Sunday School and Confirmation program with a Children’s Message during the service.

Life At Park Congregational Church
We have a Movie Matinee one Sunday a month following lunch whereby we watch together a Hollywood film, suitable for children, and afterward discuss the values and/or spiritual themes presented. Movie Matinee is an important component of our Christian Education program.  In the past we have for Movie Matinee watched such films as High Noon, Wall-EThe Incredible Shrinking Man, and The Bride of Frankenstein. We also have an evening Bible Study on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. We are currently reading and discussing The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s who was martyred for his faith because he spoke and wrote against the Nazis and their tyrannical agenda. In the past, we have read such novels as The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Shack, as well as studied the books of 1 and 2 Maccabees, 1 and 2 Corinthians, and the Gospel of Mark. We have special events throughout the year including suppers, a Lenten Series, which this  past year featured episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond and The Vicar of Dibley, a Christmas and Easter Cantata by the Adult Choir, a Children's Choir once a month, an ecumenical Vacation Bible Camp, and special worship services such as Blue Christmas, Evolution Sunday, and Maundy Thursday, which in the past have featured our Sunday School children and Youth Group.

We believe that God is transforming the entire creation through Jesus Christ and invites us at Park Congregational Church to enlist in that redemptive mission.

Schedule of Upcoming Events

 

 

Date Event Title
  5-15-12
11:00am-
2:00pm

Office Hours

 5-16-12
 11:00am-
2:00pm
Office Hours
   5-20-12
 10:00am
    
Worship Service
   5-20-12
11:15am

Annual Meeting Potluck Luncheon in the Lee Room

   5-20-12
12:00pm

Annual Meeting in the
Lee Room

Quick Links
Pause For Praise:

ANNUAL MEETING POTLUCK LUNCHEON WILL TAKE PLACE ON SUNDAY, MAY 20, FOLLOWING THE WORSHIP SERVICE IN THE LEE ROOM

 

 

EVERYONE IS WELCOME! YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A MEMBER OF PARK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH TO ATTEND THE POTLUCK LUNCHEON OR THE ANNUAL MEETING

 

 

 


 

 

 



 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 Benny, our NEADS puppy.   Benny, our NEADS puppy.

NEADS NEWS: Our Sunday School sponsored NEADS DOG, "Bella", was so "full of spirit", that she was unable to continue in her training as a NEADS DOG. However, God placed "Bella" where she would be most able to share her gifts - with a wonderful and loving family!

As God would also have it, our Sunday School was given another pup to sponsor, "Benny"! "Benny" has graduated and has been placed with a Methodist pastor from New Hampshire and will work as a ministry dog visiting schools and nursing homes.