by Mary | Jul 9, 2024 | Featured, News
Our two summer interns introduce themselves and share their experiences at First Church. Ivy Joe Kuruvila I am from India and in my second year at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary pursuing a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree. While a summer intern at First...
by Mary | May 14, 2024 | Featured, News
Join us this summer beginning June 9 for worship at our 9:00am outdoor service or at our 10:30am service in Tittle Chapel. This summer our two services will be very distinct in format. The 9am outdoor service will be conversational and reflection-focused; 10:30am...
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, News
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 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 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 | 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 Liesl Hoeldtke | Aug 31, 2023 | Events, News
The First Church Earth Care Committee holds a Styrofoam collection on the third Saturday of each month from 10:00-noon at the 516 Church Street entrance. Material to be collected includes all clean No. 6 plastic foam. Acceptable items include disposable coffee cups;...
by Liesl Hoeldtke | Aug 31, 2023 | News
“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.” – George Washington Carver The Covenant Hike Group returns this fall and invites new participants who have a wonder of the...
