• ASP Fundraiser Dinner

    Dining Room

    Come join us as our youth and adult volunteers tell you all about our annual Appalachia Service Project mission trip! We need your help to help the people of Appalachia! Please join us for a pasta dinner and consider our auction table so you can donate to our cause and get a gift out of […]

  • Visitor Coffee and Tour

    Visitor Coffee and Tour
    Glenna Hall

    Curious to further explore First Church? Want to meet others in the congregation and tour the building? Visitors and others new and not-so-new to First Church are invited to stay after worship on March 30 or April 13 for a Visitor Coffee. The event will include informal conversation, coffee and snacks, and tours of rooms in the building […]

  • Children in Action

    Children in grades 1-6 are invited and encouraged to step into service on Palm Sunday, April 13 from 12:00-1:30 p.m., with lunch provided! This month, we’ll help inspect and sort plastic Easter eggs to reuse all we can for this year’s Easter Eggstravaganza before painting and decorating real eggs of our own! Registration required. See […]

  • Lent Contemplative Prayer Group

    Lent Contemplative Prayer Group
    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 […]

  • Bookends and Beginnings hosts author Colm Toibin

    Sanctuary

    Evanston bookstore, Bookends & Beginnings, hosts author Colm Toibin, for the paperback release of his latest book, Long Island. They anticipate 300 attendees. Program to begin at 7:00 with doors open at 6:00. Contact person for the church: Krys Juleen