First United Methodist Church of Evanston, IL

Distribution of One Church/One Book copies
2025-02-23 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Fountain Foyer
One Church/One Book Distribution, Sunday mornings, 2/23 and 3/2 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Two distribution tables will be staffed by ACE members who will distribute the books and collect the $10 fee. All church members and guests. Dennis Barbour, ACE Chair–dennisbarbour@sbcglobal.net, 815-806-9434.

Children's Choir Rehearsal
2025-02-23 10:00 - 10:15 | Sanctuary
Children’s Choir prepares to sing in worship. Please meet on the front steps in the Sanctuary for our brief rehearsal. Participation in Wednesday rehearsals is required to participate.

Children in Action: Fill in the (SNAP)Gap!
2025-02-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Dining Room
Children in Action is teaming up with Mission & Outreach to help prepare items for Interfaith Action’s SNAPGap collection. Toothbrushes and toothpaste will be distributed at Interfaith Action Evanston’s March 11 Producemobile, located at the Robert Crown Community Center. Each month the Producemobile and SNAPGap serve 225-300 households with as many as 1,260 people.
Children in grades 1-6 are invited and encouraged to step into service of our greater community on Sunday, February 23 from 12:00-1:30 p.m., with lunch provided! See details and register here.

Inquirers Morning of Service and Lunch
2025-03-01 10:00 - 13:00 | Dining Room
Our 2025 Winter Inquirers Class along with others in their households are invited to a Morning of Service on Saturday, March 1, 10-1:00pm. In the morning we will pack hundreds of diapers for Bundled Blessings diaper bank’s monthly distribution to families in and around Evanston through a dozen local social service agencies. At noon we’ll enjoy a casual lunch together in the dining room. Depending on our numbers and needs we may also make sack lunches that day for the Good News Shelter in Rogers Park. Good News provides transitional housing for women and children.

Bundled Blessings Diaper Packing groups
2025-03-01 10:30 - 14:30 | Room M

Music Ministry Recording
2025-03-01 12:00 - 15:00 | Sanctuary

Memorial Service
2025-03-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Glenna Hall and Tittle Chapel

Join the Sandbox Revolution!
2025-03-02 09:15 - 10:15 | Dining Room
After gathering in the Dining Room for First Church’s first Sunday of the month time of “celebration,” keep the intergenerational party going with Children’s Ministry and Social Justice Intersections! In dialogue with older youth and adults, children of First Church will share what contributing to various mission and outreach activities means to them before leading us down the hall to Messy Church where all ages are invited to help make sack lunches with children as our guide.

Learn A New Prayer Practice For Lent
2025-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Dining Room
Learn a New Prayer Practice for Lent
John Wesley encourages us to pray without ceasing. In our busy lives, with so many distractions, it can be difficult to keep to a regular prayer practice. Beads have been used by many faiths over the centuries as a meditative way to focus attention on prayers. Join us on Sunday March 2 to create a set of beads and learn about this ancient prayer practice just in time for Lent. We will meet in the dining room at noon. There will be a fee of $12.00 to cover materials costs. Contact Mari Leonard with questions and to register for the class. mari.leonard@comcast.net

Bundled Blessings Diaper Packing with Woman's Club of Evanston
2025-03-04 19:00 - 20:30 | Room M

Ash Wednesday Morning Service
2025-03-05 06:30 - 08:30 | Tittle Chapel

Bundled Blessings Diaper Packing with First Bank Chicago and Kellogg group
2025-03-05 10:30 - 12:00 | Room M

Bundled Blessings diaper packing with Cadette Girl Scouts
2025-03-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Room M

Men's Fellowship Gathering
2025-03-09 08:00 - 09:00 | Dining Room

Men's Fellowship Lenten Study Group
2025-03-09 13:00 - 14:30 | Glenna Hall

Faith Communities & ICE
2025-03-09 14:00 - 15:30
First United Methodist Church members are invited to an information session regarding how faith communities can prepare and respond in this time of ever-changing immigration policies. At this event, folks will learn ways to respond if ICE enters your building, Know Your Rights basics, and learn how to prepare congregations to respond. This is a great event for usher/welcoming teams, safety teams, immigration justice teams, etc.! Speakers include Rev. Luke Harris-Ferree, Rev. Eileen Wiviott, Commander Scott Sophier, Evanston Police Community Relations Unit, and Liza Roberson-Young, City of Evanston – Welcoming City Ordinance.

Lent Contemplative Prayer Group
2025-03-10 10:30 - 11:30 | Zoom

Lent Contemplative Prayer Group
2025-03-10 10:30 - 11:30 | Zoom
Lent Contemplative Prayer Group In the 1960s, the well-known Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, brought contemplative practice out of the cloister into the realm of ordinary people. In the 1970s, Father Thomas Keating developed a form of contemplative practice called centering prayer; and John Main, a Benedictine monk, advocated a practice of contemplative meditation. We will be utilizing the small group format for contemplative practice outlined in the book “Where Two or Three Are Gathered” by Rev. Daniel Prechtel with an emphasis on lectio (reading), meditatio (meditation), oratio (prayer), and contemplatio (contemplation). The contemplative practice group will meet on Mondays, March 10th – April 14th during Lent, from 10:30am-11:30am on zoom and will be facilitated by Glynis Doyle and Maryellen Scott. If you have any questions, would like to receive an outline of the format of the class, or would like to register, you can contact Glynis at dleedoyle@gmail.com.

Organ Tuning
2025-03-12 08:00 - 17:00 | Sanctuary

Piano Tunings
2025-03-13 09:30 - 15:30 | Sanctuary

Mom's Night Out
2025-03-13 18:00 - 21:00
Join us for the Woman’s Club of Evanston Revue, “Life is But a Meme!” benefiting the Ted Fund. Ladies night is Thursday, March 13 at 8 PM. Doors open at 7:30 at the WCE clubhouse, 1702 Chicago Ave. Tickets are $50 each. Evelyn McGowan reserved a table for us. There are several seats left! Come for the songs and skits, laugh about Evanston and our world , support the all-volunteer cast, and benefit the Ted Fund! http://tedfund.org/ (a great cause!). We will meet for dinner at Prairie Moon at 6pm before the show. If you just want to come for dinner, please email Linda Federer at lfederer30@gmail.com.
You can pay Evelyn McGowan via cash, check , PayPal (em4mail@gmail.com), or please email for Venmo or Zelle. It’s always a fun event!

Apollo Chorus of Chicago Concert
2025-03-15 05:00 - 21:00
Thursday, March 13, 2025 rehearsal (evening, time TBD)
Saturday, March 15, 2025 concert (Brahms’ Requiem)
Will need dining room and Glenna Hall

Jerry Specht Memorial Service
2025-03-15 10:00 - 13:00 | Tittle Chapel

Peace Circle
2025-03-15 13:30 - 15:00 | Dining Room
Peace Circles are one way to join the separated. In areas of conflict and misunderstanding around areas of division, be it race, gender, age, sexual orientation and many isms that you may identify, it is a format of listening to each other’s stories by responding to prompts. This is an effort to join what divides and joins us in being a beloved community. I am requesting a sign up of a limit of 14 participants. Once people have registered, I will send information on the circle format.

New Member Sunday
2025-03-16

Creation Camp Informational Session
2025-03-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 34
Parents, caregivers, counselors and campers interested in learning more about this year’s Creation Camp are encouraged to join Children’s and Youth Ministry camp leaders after Worship on Sunday, March 16 for an information and Q&A session designed for new and returning families alike. Get informed and get excited before we get going!

Bundled Blessings diaper packing with Northfield Girl Scouts and moms
2025-03-16 14:30 - 16:00 | Room M

School Picture Day
2025-03-18 08:00 - 15:00 | Glenna Hall
Total Child will host a school picture day for current students. The photographer will set up and take photos in Glenna Hall.

All-Bach Organ Concert
2025-03-21 19:30 - 20:30 | Sanctuary
Dr. Brian Schoettler presents an all-Bach organ concert in observance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday. Included on the program is Bach’s monumental Passacaglia and, maybe the most famous work for organ, the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. The 7:30pm concert is free and open to the public.

New Members-First Friends Lunch
2025-03-23 11:40 - 12:40
