by Liesl Hoeldtke | Dec 12, 2024 | Featured
As we anticipate the coming of the Christ Child this Advent, how can we live more deeply into our call to be good stewards of our earthly home? The Earth Care committee has a few ideas to make our Christmas celebrations more sustainable and just as joyful. ·...
by Mary | Sep 17, 2024 | Featured, News
Guest Contributor: the Earth Care Committee Judith Campbell (chair), Phyllis Bird, Kathryn Calkins, Alex Chadwick, Eileen Chambers, Scott Fosdick, Marianne Griebler, Jason Lewis, Paula Scholl, Roxann Specht Does it really matter if we use plastic forks for the cake? ...
by Mary | Sep 3, 2024 | Featured, News
Are you looking for greater community at First Church? Are you an early Sunday morning riser and waiting for church to begin at 10:30? Do you wonder what God is telling us in our everyday lives? If you are asking one or more of these questions — or are just...
by Mary | Jun 24, 2024 | Featured, Message
By Guest Writer Judith Campbell, Vice Chair of the Earth Care Committee On Saturday morning Phyllis Bird and I stood on the church steps at the Church Street Entrance with a big box to collect foam #6 for recycling. Most of us know it as styrofoam. It comes...
by Liesl Hoeldtke | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured, News
By guest writer Kathy Cheney-Egan on behalf of the Reconciling Congregation Task Force On February 9, 2014, FUMC Evanston made a somewhat formal but very important decision. We decided to become a Reconciling Congregation in the United Methodist Church which by...
by Liesl Hoeldtke | Jan 10, 2024 | Featured
As a young woman, Jane Goodall was the first person to study great apes in the wild. Her subject animals were Chimpanzees of Africa, and her observations had a broad impact on the study of animal behavior.Today, Jane Goodall travels the world with the message of...
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 | Jul 5, 2023 | Featured, News
Sydney Harkrider will be installed during July 9 worship as our new Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries. Between the two worship services on that day, the congregation will have the opportunity to welcome her to Evanston and First Church. We had a...
by Mary | Jun 13, 2023 | Featured
Originally written and published in the June/July 2013 issue of Faith at First, First Church’s former print newsletter, this piece outlines how and why Worship in the Park began. The story is worth revisiting as we begin our 25th year of Worship in the Park....
by Mary | Jun 7, 2023 | Featured, Message
By Chris Webler, Guest Contributor If a church is fortunate, there are a few people in the congregation who decide to donate a significant portion of their time to their church. First United Methodist Church of Evanston has been the recipient of such a...
