WELCOME TO
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF SONOMA
WELCOME TO
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF SONOMA
FCC Sonoma is excited to offer many ways to be together in Christian love. Our Sunday gatherings are held at 9:30 a.m. for Meditation in the Redwood Grove (excluding the 1st Sunday of the month) and at 10:30 a.m. in the Sanctuary for our regular service. Chair Yoga is every 1st Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m in the West Wing. Details for the current Sunday's services can be found by clicking the "This Week" tab located at the top of this page. Our Earth Care Team offers monthly learning opportunities and spiritual walks, our Social Action Team organizes outreach activities. We enjoy being together to pursue new ideas and grow spiritually, to seek justice and serve those in need, and to advocate for the care of the earth. We invite you to join our community of love, acceptance, and service. Click here to learn about our Mission and Values. Click here to contact us directly.
We laugh freely and rejoice in the wonder of God’s love and care, while investing our energy, our courage, and our creativity in building a world of justice and equal opportunity for all.
We affirm our high calling to care for all creation and to seek justice for the oppressed, ever-conscious of the socioeconomic dimensions of climate change and ecological disruption and its effects on global inequality.
We are spiritual seekers who embrace Jesus’ message of love and compassion, and often find ourselves more comfortable with questions than answers. We value science, culture, and the wisdom of other religious traditions.
In the spirit of love, we welcome people of every age, economic status, ethnicity, physical ability, nationality, race, religious background, and sexual orientation to participate fully in all aspects of our church’s life and ministry.
The vision I have for our congregation is to be the church people would go to if they went to church. I want visitors to walk through the sanctuary doors and feel the authenticity from the moment they enter to the moment they leave. It is my experience over this past decade of service that the love this congregation has to share is palpable and trustworthy. We are a group of faithful seekers who wrestle together with some of life’s most important questions. We are the church of justice and joy, embodying God’s invitation to practice radical abundance.
Each week, on Sundays and throughout the week, we practice our faith in God and our indomitable hope that what we do can and does have an impact on the world around us. We at First Congregational Church Sonoma are committed to our neighbors and community. It is our vision that each one of us, in small and larger ways, is a living prayer and champion for right action in our beautiful and hurting world.
We hope you will come and see us soon.
Rev. Curran Reichert
5/25/2026
Greetings Beloved,
Today is Memorial Day, a day we honor those who served and died for this country’s freedom. We honor their memories, as well as the memories of anyone who has taken up the charge to defend democracy and lost their lives because of it; brave journalists, activists, and truth tellers.
Today we also grieve for those families who have lost loved ones to war and godless violence. We grieve those who did not die in battle but returned home with scars that cannot or will not ever heal.
We grieve for broken families, abandoned children and spouses, and those living on the streets due to inadequate psychological care. We grieve for veterans suffering from PTSD, and/or addiction. We grieve for those who have suicided because it was all too much to live with back in civilian reality.
I honor my uncles and cousins who served in Vietnam and consequentially died of cancer or lost body parts due to exposure to Agent Orange. I grieve the self-inflicted death of my first cousin Jeff, whose war demons were impossible to shake.
Mostly today, I pray that everyone will vote for the next Governor of our great State and that we all stay engaged in the policies and politics that will shape our shared future.
I pray that kindhearted people find the courage to work together to take back our Democracy which is so worthy of defense.
As always, I pray for each of you.
With Love,
Curran