Palm Sunday Worship Service

Please join us Sunday, March 29th for Palm Sunday Service at 10:00 am in the Meetinghouse. The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, 4 Lyme St, Old Lyme, CT. (or 2 Ferry Rd in your gps).                      ...

Walt’s Pottery Classes

Sunday, March 8th from 11:15-12:15: “Parents of Younger Children (infants to 4th grade) Fellowship Hour” in the Hoag Parlor right after the service. Parents can meet and connect while the kids play!! We will be asking YG babysitters to be there to help!...

Maundy Thursday Reading of “Paradise Lost”

For the past three years, it has been our habit to gather on Maundy Thursday to read and to listen to Dante’s Divine Comedy.  In 2023 we read the Inferno in full, in a Meetinghouse glowing red from the flames of hell.  In 2024 we read the Purgatorio in full, this time...

Reflections on the Red Maple Tree

Farewell to our beautiful red maple that has graced the corner of Ferry Road and Lyme street for so many years. Here is an excert from the sermon on July 20th given by Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager: “Poems of Praise: On Trees, Treasures and Other Timely Gifts” “I think...

“DINE” New London Community Soup Kitchen

Members of our congregation also prepare and serve a meal on the last Sunday of each month at the urban New London Community Soup Kitchen, now called DINE.As the numbers of hungry people continue to rise at the New London Meal Center, we are finding the need to ask...

Save the Date: ARC Blood Drive

  On Thursday, August 7th from 1:00 – 6:00pm there will be a Blood Drive at the First Congregational Church in Old Lyme, CT.To pre-register click the link below: https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/donation-time?zipSponsor=06371 Note: Donors get free...

The Next Summer Sing August 10th

Sunday, August 10th. Rehearsal 9:15am, 10:00 am Worship Service. Now, to everyone reading this; It’s Your Turn!! The next  Summer Sing, or better known as “Turn up to FCCOL at 9:15am and rehearse for the 10:00am service, yes, it feels like the seat of your...