Olde Home Days Fair 2019

Thursday May 30, Friday May 31 & Saturday June 1st Rides open Thursday and Friday 6-10 PM, Saturday noon-10 pm Ticket booths open ½ hour before rides – Wristbands Thursday 6-10 and Saturday...

Missions

The Missions committee would like to thank everyone for their donations and help during the month of February. We are still hoping that the money contributions to Missions will increase. As Christians of...

Musical Happenings this Month

GOT TALENT? We want YOU to be a part of the First Church Talent Show – Sunday April 28th 3 pm All Ages, all talents welcome! If you can rap, dance, sing, juggle,...

Support the Food Pantry

The Christian Education Team would appreciate your help… in striving to support our local Food Pantry. While we can always use canned and dry goods, seems there is a serious shortage for other...

Rosie’s Place Collection

Grace Schultz has chosen First Church and Rosie’s Place for her Senior Project for National Honor Society. She will be collecting Hats, Mittens, and Scarfs here at First Church and delivering them to...

Fundraising Team

Congratulations and thank you to Bonnie Hadaway VanBuskirk, Beth Kitson, Francine Palmer, Jane Hodge, Linda Bean, JoEllen Graham and Gail Sim for taking on the challenge of coordinating and inspiring Fundraising. Kristen Schultz...

Trustee Message

Working for Christ The Finance and Buildings and Grounds members of the Trustee Team wish to extend a HUGE Thank you to those who so generously have funded Parsonage repairs. Donations of money,...

Deacons Corner

Greetings from the Diaconate!Hello from the Deacons Team! The Deacons Team reminds you that the 2019 Flower Chart is posted on the door of the closet. You can remember a special person or...

Stewardship

On November 18 our fall Stewardship campaign will come to an end as we accept and bless our pledges for the coming year. Stewardship means giving back to the church, caring for it...

Working for Christ

The Trustee Team will be providing the opportunity for everyone to work together to care for our church. The plan is to gather between 9:00 am and 1:00 pm the first Saturday of...

City Reach

City Reach and Barefoot Sunday are Upon Us! This Sunday, March 3rd, is Barefoot Sunday! Please bring your gently-used or new shoe donations to church with you. We would also appreciate new...

Transition Team Update

Thank you to everyone who took time to review our Church Profile. We have reviewed the comments which you have left for us and made a few minor additions and clarifications based upon...

Divine Escape May 20, 2019
Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot mystery The Clocks features antagonists who commit a series of murders. Although their initial plot targeted a single victim, they found it necessary to take more lives in order to cover up the original crime. When confronted by Poirot, one of the conspirators confessed, lamenting, “It was only supposed to be […]
The Crooked Steeple May 19, 2019
Turns out that crooked church steeples make people nervous. When we visited with some friends, they shared how, after a fierce windstorm, their church's proud steeple was . . . crooked, causing some alarm. Of course, the church quickly repaired the flagging spire, but the humorous image got me thinking. Often church is seen as […]
We Need Each Other May 18, 2019
While on a hike with my kids, we discovered a light, springy green plant growing in small clumps on the trail. According to a signpost, the plant is commonly called deer moss, but it’s not actually a moss at all. It’s a lichen. A lichen is a fungus and an alga growing together in a […]
God’s Amazing Hands May 17, 2019
Twenty minutes into a flight from New York to San Antonio, the flight plan changed as calm gave way to chaos. When one of the plane’s engines failed, debris from the engine smashed through a window causing the cabin to decompress. Sadly, several passengers were injured and one person was killed. Had not a calm, […]

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