by Mary | Mar 27, 2024 | Featured, News
For the 26th year, First Church will send a group of youth and adult leaders to spend a week in July serving with the Appalachian Service Project (ASP) making homes warmer, safer, dryer. Our youth are eager for this experience; we need your support to make it happen!...
by Mary | Mar 19, 2024 | Featured
Stories are powerful – powerful for the storyteller who reflects on meaningful insights, turning points, revelations, memories big and small and then articulates them into words. Stories are also powerful for the listener/reader who gains a close look of those big...
by Mary | Feb 22, 2024 | News
In the winter of 2023, a malfunction with our outer door access system required repairs and upgrades. Under the direction of Bill Brown, Omando Bastian who was serving in Interim Operations, and the Board of Trustees, the decision was made to replace our outer door...
by Mary | Jan 3, 2024 | Featured, Message
Other churches might envy the steady visitor traffic we have at First Church. We do not have trouble attracting visitors. Our challenge is welcoming and retaining them. Robert Crossman of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership proposes that worshippers pay attention...
by Mary | Dec 19, 2023 | Events, Featured, News
On Tuesdays beginning January 2nd, you are invited to a thirty-minute Night Prayer Service to end your day in community and peace. These services from 8:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., available online via Zoom, are patterned after the ancient monastic tradition of Compline...
by Mary | Dec 5, 2023 | Events, Featured
The family-friendly Walk for Warmth on January 15, 2024 is hosted in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Day of Service. Join us in the fight against homelessness in our community. There is no charge to register for the walk, but advance registration is required....
by Mary | Oct 18, 2023 | Featured, Message
Melissa Appelt, a longtime member of First Church and current Board President of Interfaith Action of Evanston, made the following remarks near the beginning of worship on October 15, 2023. Rabbi Rachel Weiss of the Jewish Reconstructionist Synagogue in Evanston...
by Mary | Oct 11, 2023 | Message
By Mary Taylor-Johnson, Director of Communications and Membership The second Member Spotlight features Elizabeth Raymond, who first visited worship in March 2022, joined First Church that summer, and jumped right in to serve in volunteer roles. When she isn’t...
by Mary | Oct 1, 2023 | News
First United Methodist Church of Evanston invites local singers to participate in our upcoming Festival Choir concert featuring Bach’s Cantata No. 147 and Willan’s cantata The Mystery of Bethlehem. Bach Cantata No. 147 was premiered 300 years ago and features the...
by Mary | Jul 12, 2023 | News
Guest writer: Alli Henry, Mission and Outreach Committee Chair First Church Evanston was one of 43 congregations awarded a “Mission Links Church” designation at the 2022 Northern Illinois Annual Conference. The Mission Links program enables...
