Each Sunday, the offering collected during worship is split between the support of First Parish and another organization chosen by the Social Justice Committee. For December 2025, The Welcome Project will share half the plate.
The Welcome Project, founded in 1987 in Somerville’s Mystic Public Housing Development, now provides programming citywide that strengthens the capacity of immigrant youth, adults, and families to advocate for themselves and influence schools, government, and other institutions that shape their lives. TWP’s culturally responsive approach builds on immigrants’ existing strengths to forge connections across language and culture. The organization provides essential services to the vast and increasingly diverse immigrant community, including Brazilians, Haitians, individuals from the Northern Triangle of Central America, and so many others worldwide who strive to find success and community in their new city.
The Welcome Project provides English language instruction and interpretation and translation training, while helping their constituents learn to use their voices to advocate for themselves and their community. In this time of racial injustice and rising hostility to immigration, The Welcome Project is a stalwart supporter of immigrants in the community and stands ready to provide whatever resources their members need.
