Friends Congregational Church

The Midweek Message is a devotional offered by the pastors of Friends Congregational Church.
The Midweek Message for July 29, 2026, is written and read by the Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon, our Senior Pastor.
 

The Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon, our Senior Pastor, delivers a message reflecting on Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52, (CEB) on this 9th Sunday after Pentecost.
 
For more information about our church and our mission, please visit friends-ucc.org
 

The Midweek Message is a devotional offered by the pastors of Friends Congregational Church.
The Midweek Message for July 22, 2026, is written and read by the Rev. Brooke Dooley, our Associate Pastor.
 

The Rev. Trent Williams, our Executive Pastor, delivers a message reflecting on Genesis 28:10-19a (NRSV) on this 8th Sunday after Pentecost.
 
For more information about our church and our mission, please visit friends-ucc.org
 

The Midweek Message is a devotional offered by the pastors of Friends Congregational Church.
The Midweek Message for July 15, 2026, is written and read by the Rev. Trent Williams, our Executive Pastor.

The Rev. Trent Williams, our Executive Pastor, delivers a message reflecting on Matthew 13:1-9,18-23 (NRSV) on this 7th Sunday after Pentecost.
 
For more information about our church and our mission, please visit friends-ucc.org
 

The Midweek Message is a devotional offered by the pastors of Friends Congregational Church.
The Midweek Message for July 8, 2026, is written and read by the Rev. Kyle Riley, Public Witness Mobilizer for Texas Impact.
 

Our Gospel Reading is Matthew 5:1-11 (NRSV) on this 6th Sunday after Pentecost.
 
Promise, Reckoning, Hope: Historical Readings on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Excerpts and readers are as follows:
The Declaration of Independence (paragraph 2) by Trent Williams
George Washington: Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, RI by Ruthie De Leon
Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus by Kathy Miller
Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July (excerpted) by Al Broussard
Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (excerpted) by Jill Cetina
Julia Ward Howe: Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World (excerpted) by Tracy Han
Martin Luther King, Jr.: How Long? Not Long (excerpted) by Dan De Leon
For more information about our church and our mission, please visit friends-ucc.org
 

The Midweek Message is a devotional offered by the pastors of Friends Congregational Church.
The Midweek Message for July 1, 2026, is written and read by our Senior Pastor, the Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon.
 

The Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon, our Senior Pastor, delivers a message reflecting on Matthew 10:40-42 (NRSV) on this 5th Sunday after Pentecost.
 
For more information about our church and our mission, please visit friends-ucc.org