Music Ministry
2025-06-22 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Conference Room

HOME: A Musical Worship Experience
2025-06-22 18:00 - 20:00
HOME (by Tim McKinley) is a musical-liturgical project being reprised by singers in Northern Il Conference and led by Mark Bowman, one of the first directors of the Reconciling Movement in the UMC to open the church to LGBTQIA+ folks and all!
Two HOME worship experiences are being offered in the Chicagoland area on June 22nd at Trinity UMC in Mt. Prospect and July 13 at Broadway UMC in Chicago. There will be the music of HOME with some of our FUMC folx involved, and testimonies of queer and trans siblings’ journey to find home in the faith community. Admission is free!

Creation Camp
2025-06-23 - 2025-06-27
First Church’s Children’s and Youth Ministry programs are returning to Camp Wesley Woods in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, June 23-27, 2024. Join us for an extended five-day overnight camp experience suitable for children and youth entering grades 2-8 in the fall of 2025 as together we seek to create life-giving relationships and life-changing memories in Christ.

Bundled Blessings Diaper Packing with Vineyard Middle School
2025-06-26 10:00 - 11:30 | Room M
This is a closed group–no church volunteers needed. Keep an eye out for more opportunities to come!

Social Justice Intersections Planning Meeting for 2025-26
2025-06-29 10:00 - 13:00 | Dining Hall

Chicago Coalition of Welcoming Churches Pride Parade
2025-06-29 11:00 - 16:00 | Broadway UMC
FUMC Evanston is proud to be a member of the Chicago Coalition of Welcoming Churches and has the opportunity to have up to four people march in the 2025 Pride Parade on Sunday, June 29, 2025.
This year’s theme is “Together in Faith, United in Pride, Rooted in Love.” A brief worship service will be held before the parade begins.
If you’re interested in representing our church in the parade, please sign up by contacting info@chicagowelcomingchurches.org.

Tittle Chapel Booking: Felix
2025-06-29 13:30 - 15:00 | Tittle Chapel

Religious Service (Private)
2025-06-29 14:00 - 15:30 | Tittle Chapel

Centralia Opera Concert
2025-07-07 18:30 - 20:30 | Tittle Chapel
6:30-8:30pm room reservation–more details to come!

ASP 2025
2025-07-12 - 2025-07-19
Calling all youth! Those who have completed 7th grade all the way to graduating seniors are invited to the Appalachia Service Project. We head to somewhere in Appalachia and serve the people by conducting home repairs. First Church will be attending their 27th year of this mission trip, and this tradition runs deep in the Youth Ministry. Contact Sydney for more details.

Peace Circle
2025-07-12 13:00 - 14:30 | Dining Hall
Peace Circle is a place of building community, where the emphasis is listening to others, responding to prompts or questions that addresses issues of personal concern or places of division and separation in our lives. Some themes that arose in a previous Peace Circle were concerns of health, mortality and family. For many it was beginning to know others on a deeper level, without being intrusive. This is a non-cross talk format. In order to allow for adequate personal space, the group will be limited to 14 participants.
REGISTER HERE: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4CA4AA2BA0FF2-57319033-peace

Earth Care Committee
2025-07-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Conference Room

Faith Formation Council Meeting
2025-07-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Zoom

Race and Ethnicity Committee Meeting
2025-07-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Conference Room

Visitor Coffee and Tour
2025-07-20 11:30 - 12:20 | Glenna Hall
Visitor Coffee and Tour

Sundays after 10:30am worship on July 20, August 24, Sept. 21 & Nov. 2

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 10:30am worship on any of the dates listed above for coffee, informal conversation, and a tour of the church building where “the magic happens” (to quote Pastor Grace). For example, we’ll see the kitchen, nursery, diaper pantry, and overnight shelter space. Information on the Inquirers Class will be available for those who are curious to learn more about First Church.

Please RSVP for your preferred date as you complete this registration.
Register here!

Questions? Please contact Mary Taylor-Johnson, Director of Membership and Engagement, at mary@faithafirst.com .

Church Council
2025-07-22 18:00 - 20:00

Andy Hullinger Memorial
2025-07-26 13:00 - 16:00 | Glenna Hall and Tittle Chapel

Music Ministry
2025-07-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Sanctuary
Space reservation

Church Council
2025-07-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Glenna Hall

Earth Care Committee Meeting
2025-08-03 10:15 - 11:30 | Conference Room

DS Clergy Interview
2025-08-07 08:00 - 19:00 | Glenna Hall

Moving On Ceremony
2025-08-07 15:30 - 16:30 | Dining Hall

Leadership Retreat
2025-08-09 08:30 - 12:30 | Dining Room
Our annual Leadership Retreat for all current chairs, co-chairs and vice chairs of church committees. Join us for breakfast, lunch and getting to know each other and preparing for the year ahead in between the two meals!

Register here: https://onrealm.org/faithatfirst/PublicRegistrations/Event?linkString=YTQxOGJhZGQtMzJiZi00ZmNiLTkzY2UtYjMxYjAxNGM5Y2Nm

Bundled Blessings Diaper Packing for church community!
2025-08-10 09:45 - 10:30 | Dining Hall

Faith in the Wild Vacation Bible School
2025-08-11 09:00 - 2025-08-14 13:00 | Dining Hall
“Faith in the Wild” is an environmentally rooted Vacation Bible School program inspiring children to explore their place and relationships in creation. Through imaginative Bible storytelling and outdoor, immersive study of trees, water, birds, bugs and conservation, children will uncover elements of wildness and rootedness within and how experiences of wilderness can help us cultivate a deep and lasting connection with God.

Featuring daily ecological expeditions, multi-sensory activities, and special guests in partnership with the Evanston Ecology Center, Clark Street Beach Bird Sanctuary and more, families with children entering kindergarten through grade 4 won’t want to miss this free half-day program, with snacks and lunch provided!

Social Justice Intersections Seminar on Religious Nationalism
2025-08-17 12:00 - 15:00 | Glenna Hall

Adult Education meeting
2025-08-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Glenna Hall
Monthly meeting of Adult Education Council

Orientation Day
2025-08-20 07:30 - 10:30 | Glenna Hall

Youth Collaboration Meeting
2025-08-21 14:00 - 15:30 | Conference Room

Budget meeting
2025-08-22 09:00 - 11:00 | Glenna Hall
