Religious Education/Religious Exploration for Children

6 Eliot Street Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 office@firstchurchjp.org 617-221-3059 We are on the unceded territory of the Massachusett people, who have lived in reciprocity with the land for thousands of years. Our church building sits at a junction of roads that were once Indigenous trade and travel routes. First Church’s Puritan ancestors are responsible for the theft of these lands and for cultural and physical violence against Indigenous people. At least three of the church founders enslaved people of African descent. This church was also financially supported by members who were merchants profiting from the unpaid labor of enslaved people and the commodities they produced. Our congregation has begun the work of repair by learning and telling our more complete history. We will continue to work with community and denominational partners as we strive to make our community whole. We invite you to bring your open heart, your ideas, and your commitment into this work.

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The great end in religious instruction is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own; not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own; not to give them a definite amount of knowledge, but to inspire a fervent love of truth...

-William Ellery Channing, Unitarian Theologian

We would love to have you join us for any or all of these events as we work to rebuild our family programs at First Church JP, and to foster a community that seeks social-justice-based religious exploration opportunities for young people in Jamaica Plain and the surrounding neighborhoods.

RE activity alongside reading the book The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
Outdoor painting project in support of Common Cathedral
Intergenerational worship activity/mosaic
Friday family game night, 2019

First Church in Jamaica Plain

First Church in Jamaica Plain

Join us for Sunday Worship at 11AM!

Religious Education/Religious Exploration for Children