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 Liesl Hoeldtke | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured
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 | 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 Liesl Hoeldtke | Dec 6, 2023 | Featured, Message
A Message from the Earth Care Committee While you are observing your holiday traditions, the Earth Care Committee has some suggestions for reducing the waste they often generate. When hosting parties, use your china, glassware and cutlery instead of plastic or paper...
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 | 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...
