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 31, 2024 | Message
In this short book, Annie Proulx (author of The Shipping News; Barkskins) relates what interests her most about these often misunderstood landscapes, which were decimated in both Europe and North America in the past few centuries. For Europeans–both at home and in...
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 Liesl Hoeldtke | Dec 6, 2023 | 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 | Oct 18, 2023 | 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 Liesl Hoeldtke | Aug 31, 2023 | Message
The word in the Potawatomi language for the soft grass that grows near sun-filled meadows is wiingaashk, what author Robin Wall Kimmerer describes as the “sweet-smelling hair of Mother Earth” while also noting that its scientific name, Hierochloe odorata, means “the...
by Mary | Jul 3, 2023 | Message
In the first four Sundays of summer worship, we have welcomed 79 adult visitors. Summer worship typically does attract a number of local and out-of-town visitors to First Church, yet these numbers are amazing. With a strategic plan that articulates that we will...
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...
by Mary | Jun 22, 2022 | Featured, Message
On June 19, 2022 our congregation celebrated Juneteenth, co-sponsored the YWCA annual Ricky Byrdsong Race Against Hate, and continued to celebrate Pride Month. That morning — a perfect June morning– First Church also began the 23rd summer of Worship in...
