We are a Welcoming Congregation. We welcome and affirm people of all ages, abilities, races, ethnicities, gender identities, family structures, sexual orientation, and faith backgrounds. View our Covenant of Good Relations.

Publications

Annual Report

Our Annual Report is a review of all of our Ministry Team's goings on this past Church year and also features their goals and objectives for upcoming years.

Annual Report 2013 Template and Instructions

Annual Report 2012

Annual Report 2011

Annual Report 2010

 

Our Electronic Membership Directory can be accessed in our Member Area.

Our offerings

We offer several publications to keep the communication flowing here at First Church.

The Window Bulletin: Our Weekly Newsletter.

Visit our Window Weekly Bulletin page to read current and past issues.

First Words Magazine

First Words Magazine is our monthly publication featuring in-depth stories and news from around our campuses and faith.Check it out at the First Words Magazine page.
Submissions are due the 1st of the month and will appear in the next month's issue. Each article should be 500 words or less and will be edited for clarity, brevity and style. For additional information, please contact First Words editor Nancy Fisk at nfisk1@juno.com.

Ministry Teams Magazine

The Ministry Teams Magazine periodically outlines the plans and activities of our Ministry Teams. Visit our Ministry Teams page to download a copy.

Annual Report

This yearly document provides an overview of all Church administrative functions. You can download copies here.

Home Connection

Home Connections are a way for us to personally connect with the monthly worship themes. They contain chalice lightings that may be used at home, stories and much more. Read more at our Home Connections page.

Wisdom Circles

"Covenant groups (at First Church, called Wisdom Circles) are a transformational practice (based on each month's Transformational theme) through which we, with others, can discover our own underlying assumptions about reality and examine our ways of being, some of which have become so habitual that they seem to us just 'the way things are.' The practice of Small Group Ministry does ask us to suspend judgment long enough to hear respectfully the understandings of others, even those vastly different from our own."
—Hill, Robert L., The Complete Guide to Small Group Ministry: Saving the World Ten At a Time. Boston: Skinner House Books, 2003.
Read more at our Wisdom Circles page.