Welcome to Follen Community Church! This is a congregation of about 300 adults and 150 children and youth that wears its heart on its sleeve, knows how to laugh and cry, and cares deeply for one another and the world. We come from many walks of life. We’re honest with one another about what matters. Spiritually we are diverse, yet because we have worked for years to hear and understand different perspectives, we have humanists, agnostics, mystics, theists, naturalists, and Unitarian-Universalists who honor and attend to faithful observance of Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist practice.
We are known for many specialties. Some call us “the Music Church,” because of ourstanding choirs for children, youth and adults, five regular Concerts for a Cause performances, and two annual “Music Sunday” services before Christmas and Easter with full scale classical or modern masses sung by our choir. Some call us “the Religious Education Church,” because of our long focus on providing qualitative and diverse religious experiences and training for our children and youth. We have a “Spiritual Pathways” program of adult education classes offered on a rotating basis for new and long-time adults. Some call us “the Social Justice congregation” because of our commitment to both be and continually become a truly welcoming congregation, as well as because of our high proportion of articulate, passionate activists for civil liberty, world peace, and interfaith understanding.
Over the past five years we have brought one third of the congregation together monthly in structured discussion groups, which we call Covenant Groups. New folks are especially welcomed to try this experience. We have found that it is a highly effective way to find a group of diverse, caring, wonderful friends and to share who you are, as well, in relation to the topic of the month.
We don’t do everything well. We’re busy folks, just like you. Sometimes we forget people’s names, drop the ball, or get stressed out. But we do care deeply about one another, laugh easily, and come to each other’s side when hard times arise.
My life-long interest and professional specialty is interfaith issues and pastoral care. Please call the church office (781)862-3805(X208) to make an appointment to come on in and get acquainted. I’d love to know you better!
With warm regards,
Lucinda Duncan
Minister, Follen Community Church
