Amidst a wider season of staff transition at First Church, we are preparing to celebrate and say farewell to our two wonderful Pastoral Associates, Ahmaad Edmund and Carla Arevalo. Please find some time in the coming weeks to say thank…
Pentecost announces “Ordinary Time.” We Christians are sent forth to practice the Way of Jesus over warm months that summer us through autumn. First Church member and artist Henry Gates portrays our ordinary time in twenty paintings of psyche in…
On Pentecost, we celebrate the birthday of the church, and this year, we mark the day with the Rite of Confirmation and joining of new members. Nine young people in our community have been meeting throughout the year to learn…
Join us for hybrid worship on Pentecost Sunday—a day where we celebrate the gifts of the Holy Spirit among us through movement and song, prayer and reflection. Pentecost will be a special celebration this year with baptisms and the Rite…
Children from PreK to 7th grade leave worship after the Greeting of Peace for their age-based classes in Godly Play, Middler Book & Bible Study, and Bible 101. Teachers meet their students by the Children’s Book Corner and lead them…
Community Minister in Latin America Rev. Dr. Mónica Maher will be with us to share a testimony during Morning Worship and a presentation about her current work after church in the Harter Room. Mónica is a Social Ethicist with decades…
Night Song will end its program year on Pentecost, May 19. You are invited to come in person or online to hear all three ensembles of Night Song sing together. Night Song will resume on September 8. Night Song is…