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COVID19 Update: November 2020
Dear Friends: It is with heavy hearts and great disappointment that the Executive Committee has to inform you that we have determined not to begin holding in person worship on Sunday mornings just yet. Our staff and committees had been working out details – we were poised and ready to begin in person worship just […]
2021 Stewardship Campaign: Welcome to the Journey, Part 3
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept, remembering Zion. On the poplars of that land we hung up our harps, There our captors asked of us the lyrics of our songs and urged us to be joyful. “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” they said How could we sing a song […]
2021 Stewardship Campaign: Welcome to the Journey, Part 2
Dear Friends: First Church has changed quite a bit since I first arrived here in 2008, but all institutions and people change with time; circumstances, both good and bad affect how we engage the world. Those changes in turn demand our spiritual work in discerning where God’s Spirit is directing our attention. When civil unions […]