West Gloucester
Trinitarian Congregational Church
Worship is on Sunday mornings at 10am in person
We would love to have you join us for Sunday worship in the Sanctuary.
On the 1 st Sunday of each month, we invite all who desire Christ’s presence in their lives to participate in Holy Communion.
Join us for
worship on
Facebook Live
Our labyrinth is open to all. Please feel welcome to walk and pray.
Bobby Jo Valentine Concert
West Gloucester Trinitarian Congregational Church invites you to a special concert with Bobby Jo Valentine on Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM.
Bobby Jo Valentine offers heart-opening, award-winning folk/pop music filled with thoughtful lyrics, spiritual depth, humor, compassion, and hope. His songs speak to love, belonging, courage, faith, and the work of moving closer to one another.
Bobby has performed at theaters, house concerts, festivals, and faith communities across the country. He has been invited to perform at the Wild Goose Festival, the international Emerge Conference, and the United Church of Christ General Synod. His music has won Song of the Year twice through the West Coast Songwriter’s Association, and his work has appeared on radio, television, and in feature films.
Event Details
Date: Saturday, June 6, 2026
Time: 5:00 PM
BUY Tickets: $25
Location: West Gloucester Trinitarian Congregational Church
Address: 488 Essex Ave, Gloucester, MA 01930
Phone: (978) 283-2817
A Strawberry Shortcake Social will follow the concert. Suggested donation is $10. The social will include dessert, lemonade, iced tea, and coffee.
WGTCC is a welcoming and inclusive United Church of Christ congregation in Gloucester, MA. We are glad to host this evening of music, community, and connection.
Happenings at WGTCC
June
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Wednesday, June 3, 6:00 pm, Exploring the Bible Together: Your Lens, How You View Scripture
Online via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/tyc-dsji-qas -
Saturday, June 6, 5:00 pm, Bobby Jo Valentine Concert and Strawberry Shortcake Social
Tickets are $25. A Strawberry Shortcake Social will follow the concert, with a suggested donation of $10. The social will include dessert, lemonade, iced tea, and coffee. Bobby Jo Valentine offers thoughtful, spirit-focused music with hopeful songs about love, faith, belonging, and openhearted life. He has performed at Wild Goose Festival, the international Emerge Conference, and the United Church of Christ General Synod. -
Sunday, June 7, 10:00 am, Pride Service
Led by Katherine DeSilva with Mary Bernard of Cape Ann Pride. -
Sunday, June 7, 3:00 pm, Service of Installation for Rev. Kate Dalton
The Congregational Church of Topsfield; 9 East Common St, Topsfield, MA 01983
Rev. Kate Dalton has been called as Pastor to The Congregational Church of Topsfield. -
Wednesday, June 10, 6:00 pm, Exploring the Bible Together: Optional In-Person Meet Up
Details to be announced. -
Saturday, June 13, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Giant Yard Sale
See Lauri to volunteer or rent a table. -
Monday, June 15, 6:00 pm, Monthly Cribbage Tournament
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Wednesday, June 17, 6:00 pm, Exploring the Bible Together: The World Behind the Text, Session 1
Online via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/tyc-dsji-qas -
Friday, June 19, 9:00 to 11:00 am, Gloucester Juneteenth Freedom Day Celebration
Gloucester City Hall; 9 Dale Ave, Gloucester, MA
Free and open to all. Activities include a flag raising, a reading of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” followed by a facilitated discussion, and a Freedom Button activity. -
Friday, June 19 through Sunday, June 21, A Love Letter to the Earth: An Eco-Spiritual Retreat
Annisquam Village Church
Led by Rick Blue, Lindsay Crouse, Rev. Carla Mattioli, and Rev. Sue Koehler-Arsenault. All are welcome. Register by June 1 at annisquamvillagechurch.org/programs. -
Sunday, June 21, 10:00 am, Celebration of Men
Curt Williams preaching. -
Tuesday, June 23, 7:00 pm, Ecclesiastical Council for Dr. Mark Allman
First Church in Ipswich; 1 Meetinghouse Green, Ipswich, MA 01938
Online and in person. Churches and ministers of the Northeast Association are invited to examine Mark Allman as to his ordination in the United Church of Christ. -
Wednesday, June 24, 6:00 pm, Exploring the Bible Together: The World Behind the Text, Session 2
Online via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/tyc-dsji-qas
July Preview
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Wednesday, July 1, 6:00 to 7:30 pm, Identity and Belonging Book Discussion: Pretty: A Memoir
At the firepit; salad potluck with marshmallows. -
Wednesday, July 8, 6:00 pm, Exploring the Bible Together: The World in the Text, Session 1
Online via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/tyc-dsji-qas -
Wednesday, July 15, 6:00 pm, Exploring the Bible Together: The World in the Text, Session 2
Online via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/tyc-dsji-qas -
Wednesday, July 22, 6:00 pm, Exploring the Bible Together: Optional In-Person Meet Up
Details to be announced. -
Wednesday, July 29, 6:00 pm, Exploring the Bible Together: The World in Front of the Text, Session 1
Online via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/tyc-dsji-qas
More to come this summer!
Identity and Belonging: Reading Together
Join us on Tuesday, July 1, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM for a community book group conversation about Pretty: A Memoir by KB Brookins. This gathering is part of the Gloucester Racial Justice Team and Cape Ann Pride’s community-wide reading experience, Identity and Belonging: Reading Together, which invites neighbors across Cape Ann to read, reflect, and build a more welcoming community for all.
We will gather in the Sacred Grove for an evening of conversation, food, and fellowship. Weather permitting, we will meet outside around the fire, toast marshmallows, and share a potluck-style salad dinner. Please bring something that works for you and your own food needs, and/or bring something to share with the group. Chairs will be provided, so there is no need to bring one. If the weather does not cooperate, we will move indoors to Fellowship Hall.
Pretty: A Memoir explores race, gender, transness, Blackness, identity, and belonging with honesty, poetry, and power. Our conversation will offer space to reflect on the book, listen to one another, and consider what it means to create communities where people are not merely tolerated, but truly welcomed and known.
This book group is also a chance to prepare for the author talk with KB Brookins on July 14. Whether you have read the whole book, started it, or are simply interested in the conversation, you are welcome to come. The evening is meant to be relaxed, thoughtful, and community-centered.
Event Details
Tuesday, July 1
6:00 to 7:30 PM
Sacred Grove, weather permitting
Fellowship Hall, if needed
Bring something special for yourself and your food requirements, and/or bring something to share. Chairs will be provided.
Part 1 — Finding Your Hermeneutic Stance
Before we can read scripture together, it helps to know how we each come to it.
A hermeneutic stance is simply the lens you bring — your experiences, your tradition, your questions, your doubts. In these first two sessions we will explore what shapes the way each of us reads and interprets the Bible, as a church and as an individual, and why that matters for how we understand it together.
Part 2 — The Three Worlds of the Text
Every biblical text exists in three worlds at once, and learning to move between them opens up a rich way to interpret.
The world behind the text is the world that produced it: the authors, their communities, the political and cultural pressures they were living under, and what they were trying to communicate and to whom.
The world in the text is the created world of the text itself: this refers to the created text itself, including its words, characters, chronology, logic, and narrative.
The world in front of the text is our world, where we stand as readers, what we bring to the page, and how meaning gets made in the encounter between an ancient text and a living community.
Part 3 — Theological Themes
In these final sessions we bring the tools we have built to three themes that run through scripture and speak directly into our lives and our world today.
What does the Bible say about our responsibility to care for creation?
How does scripture challenge and resist the power of empire: then and now?
And what does radical hospitality actually look like when we look at scripture?
Led by Katherine DeSilva, Ministry Intern at West Gloucester Trinitarian Congregational Church and Member in Discernment in the United Church of Christ.
This is a tentative schedule and may shift as the summer unfolds.
All sessions meet Wednesday evenings at 6:00 pm via Google Meet and run approximately 40 to 50 minutes.
In-person meetups are optional and open to anyone who wants to gather face to face.
Wednesday evenings with
West Gloucester Trinitarian Congregational Church
Exploring the Bible Together
A summer series on how we read, where texts come from, and what scripture says about the world we live in.
6:00 pm · 40–50 min via Google Meet
