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Saturday Morning with No. 6 Foam
Judith Campbell of the Earth Care Committee shares her experience participating in the monthly styrofoam collection at First Church.
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Earth Care Library Recommends: Braiding Sweetgrass
The word in the Potawatomi language for the soft grass that grows near sun-filled meadows is wiingaashk, what author Robin Wall Kimmerer describes as the...
Earth Care Committee Offers Monthly Styrofoam Collection
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...
Covenant Hike Group Returns This Fall
“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...
We are a Mission Links Church. (What does that mean?)
First Church was named a Mission Links church by the Northern Illinois Conference at the 2022 Annual Conference, recognizing this congregation as one of 43 in the NIC to “live out the Beatitudes and be a blessing for projects around the block and around the world.”
Meet Sydney Harkrider
Sydney Harkrider, our new Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries, will be installed during worship on July 9. Check out her responses to these interview questions.
Practicing Our Welcome
In the first four Sundays of summer worship, we have welcomed 79 adult visitors. Summer worship typically does attract a number of local and out-of-town visitors to...