10 youth from Hemer, Germany participated in an exchange involving U.C.C. and U.E.K. in July 2013.
The German students were hosted by ten First Parish families continuing an exchange program that began in 1995.
While here the students took a cruise on the Thomas E. Landon and toured Harvard, Rockport, Boston, Salem, and Manchester-by-the-Sea.
They served dinner at The Grace Center of Gloucester and joined First Parish youth to offer worship and do mission work at H.O.M.E. Inc. during their week long stay.