Bring a side or dessert to share and join your church family for good food, fellowship, and seasonal activities for all ages on the first Wednesday of each month! Please register to aid in preparations, noting dates you plan to attend and any dietary restrictions or food allergies in the memo field.

Compline Night Prayer Services Return On Tuesdays beginning January 7th, 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 via Zoom, are patterned after the ancient monastic tradition of Compline (meaning completion)--the final prayer of the day. […]

Bundled Blessings Diaper Bank hosting ETHS Community Service club for diaper packing on Thurs. 4/10, 4-5:30 pm in room M. Contact Nancy Brown at 847-271-1712.

Come Join us for some lively conversation and friendly moms of all ages!!!! Every MOM is Welcome! Julie Womack's home with Jess Chadwick as Cohost RSVP to womackjulie@gmail.com Bring something to share if you wish - no guilt!

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 […]

Help us enter Holy Week! At 9:15 a.m., come together with area churches (and a live donkey!) in the Ecumenical Palm Sunday Parade. Following the walk, gather in the church kitchen to learn a bit about the history of hot cross buns — an early spring and Easter favorite — decorate one for yourself or […]

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 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 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 […]

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

Children's Ministry Month Dinner Gathering, Contact: Colin McDonald, colin@faithatfirst.com

Labyrinth Walk during Holy Week: Walk the labyrinth at the church in our Memorial Garden during Holy Week. Walking a labyrinth is a spiritual practice that involves walking a path (at our church, a circular single path design) to the center and back out again. It can be a time for prayer, reflection and healing. […]

On Maundy Thursday, we remember that Jesus invites us to His table that we may leave strengthened and repurposed to love as we are loved. While Maundy Thursday worship tends to be a bit heavy, help us lighten the mood and look forward to Easter’s joy at Pizza Potluck. Following the Maundy Thursday Family Service […]

Chancel Choir rehearsal in Tittle Chapel balcony before worship.

The Music Ministry of First Church present 30-minutes of music as we prepare for our Easter worship service. The Festive Prelude and worship will feature the Chancel Choir, Brass, and Organ.

Immediately following Easter Sunday worship, children of all ages are welcome to join in the fun of this year's outdoor egg search! Exit through the fountain foyer into the Memorial Garden for three designated locations divided by age. Pick up a "map" and take-home treat bag from an usher at any entrance to the Sanctuary, […]

Bundled Blessings Diaper Bank will be hosting volunteers from Producemobile team to pack diapers on Tues. 4/22 from 10:30-12. Contact Nancy Brown at 847-271-1712 or nandbrown@comcast.nst

Come enjoy Sips and Dips with Couples Salon on Saturday, April 26th from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at Susan and Steve Prout's home in Evanston. Please RSVP to Susan at swprout@comcast.net to let her know you are coming and whether you are bringing a sip or dip to share.

SOCIAL JUSTICE INTERSECTIONS GROUP MEETS SUNDAYS, 9:15AM, DINING ROOM Hi First Church sisters and brothers - Many focus on a daily practice, especially during Lent. This Sunday, continues our Lenten study,  “Anti-Racism as Daily Practice.” Our leader will be Joyce Hodel. We are using a book by the same name which adds a sub-title, “Refuse […]

Bundled Blessings Diaper Bank hosting Junior Girl Scout troop to pack diapers in room M on Thurs. May 1 from 6:30-7:30 pm. Contact Nancy Brown at 847-271-1712.