For more information on regathering for worship in the sanctuary, read this Q & A document. For information on viewing worship online, read this Q & A document.

• Our children’s summer faith formation class started June 6. Beginning July 4, we are offering one children’s class via Zoom or you can come to FPC for in-person discussion and activities, 10:00-10:30 a.m.
• The summer Faith & Community class for adults will have six weeks led by the Anti-Racism Task Force (June 6 – July 11) studying the book The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South, followed by five weeks of discussion of The Black Church, the documentary by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (July 18 – August 15). The Faith & Community class will meet via Zoom from 10:00-10:45 a.m. on Sundays, June 6 and 13.  Beginning Sunday, June 20 and following, class will meet via Zoom from 9:45-10:30 a.m. unless otherwise publicized.
• The Lectionary, Journeys and Scratch adult classes will meet this summer as well.  Start times and locations/Zoom links for each of these classes to be announced.
• The Women’s Spiritual Formation Class will not meet this summer.  They will join with the Faith & Community class via Zoom.

On Sunday, May 30, our youth and children’s Sunday School classes will not meet. Instead, we ask that families join us from 4:30-5:30 p.m. on the church grounds as we show love to our neighbors and reconnect with each other. We will be assembling items for hygiene kits that our friends at Urban Ministries will distribute. After we’re done with this project, there will be yard games and a bring-your-own picnic on the back lawn.  This is a great event for those who are fully vaccinated and ready to reconnect.

On Pentecost Sunday we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit descending in a mighty rush of wind and flame to inspire the church’s proclamation of Christ’s rising and to empower its mission and ministry to the world.

11:00 AM Worship and Holy Communion.  We will also ordain and install new officers during worship.  The PCUSA Pentecost Offering will also be received which supports children, youth and young adults grow in their faith and share their faith, ideas and unique gifts with the church and the world.  We will also receive the Hunger for Change offering

Even though we will not be together in the sanctuary this Sunday, members are asked to show their Pentecost spirit by wearing red, orange, or yellow as they worship!  AND . . . remember to assemble your elements (bread and cup) for communion prior to worship.   

Mindy Douglas is leading the discussion.  Class meets via Zoom on Tuesdays at 6:15 p.m.  Click here to join the class.

About the book: In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama’s home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness’s eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: How do we find joy in the face of life’s inevitable suffering?  This book offers readers a rare opportunity to experience their astonishing and unprecedented week together, from the first embrace to the final goodbye.

So sorry we’re not able to make this Refugee Journeys art installation available. Wind was literally ripping them off the stakes as we tried to do the install.

A link to artist Mary Button’s work can be found on our FPC Facebook group.

Throughout Holy Week you are invited to experience the Stations of the Cross through the eyes of artist Mary Button. The series explores the intersection of Christ’s journey to the cross and the global stories of forced migration, relocation of indigenous peoples, and the movement of refugees. Numbered art installations will be set along the sidewalk outdoors at the back of the church. A brochure will be available at the first station, offering information about this ancient practice, each of the stations, and a prayer.

Maundy Thursday, April 1 – 7:00 p.m. – Virtual Worship with Holy Communion (Click here to watch the service live-streamed on Thursday evening.)

Good Friday, April 2 and Saturday, April 3 – during daylight hours – Experience the Stations of the Cross (FPC grounds; see information above)

Easter Sunday, April 4 at 11:00 a.m. – Virtual Worship with Holy Communion (Click on WORSHIP on Sunday morning to watch the service live-streamed.)

Dear Friends,

It pains me so to write this, another message responding to senseless acts of violence perpetrated against communities and individuals of color. For the past year, our Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander siblings in the United States have increasingly been the victims of verbal racial slurs and unprovoked physical attacks. These attacks have arisen out of ignorance and the acceptance of faulty information related to the pandemic and because of xenophobia. This week, the violence escalated as a single white male murdered eight people – six of them women of Asian descent. This is not okay. 

Click here to read this entire letter to the FPC congregation from Pastor Mindy Douglas.