Extravagant Welcome
It matters who you are and where you are on life's journey. You—in all your fullness—you are here.
——  Our Welcome Statement
We love because God first loved us. Radically. Extravagantly. Pressed down and running over. Just the way we are.
Let us be glad to welcome each other as Jesus has welcomed us:
Welcome to First Congregational Church in Billerica!
Welcome to new visitors and to old friends.
Welcome to grandparents, mothers, fathers, and children. Welcome to old and young.
Welcome to single, partnered, married, widowed, and divorced people.
Welcome to people of all colors, cultures, nationalities, sexual orientations, and gender expressions.
Welcome to people across the full spectrum of abilities, financial circumstances, and mental and physical health.
Welcome to seekers and searchers, believers and questioners, and welcome to questioning believers.
In our brokenness and in our healing, in our sorrow and in our joy—we are welcome here just the way we are!
Together, let us encounter God’s love and justice.
——  Our Open and Affirming Declaration
Adopted 2013
You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your strength, and with all your mind;
and your neighbor as yourself.