Serve the Lord with Gladness!

Gathering at 3 Durham Churches, June 17-19 & End-of-Summer Reunion at New Hope Camp and Conference Center, August 5

Click here for more information and to register for this fun inter-generational event!

Sunday, April 29 will be a Fifth Sunday Inter-Generational Sunday School Class in Watts-Hill Hall for young and old at 9:45 a.m. (Adult, children and youth classes will meet together.)

Since we celebrated Earth Day during worship on last Sunday, we will do activities together this Sunday that celebrate planting, growing, nature, rocks, and all things natural made by God. Surveys tell us that families want to get to know members outside of their own immediate age group. Christian Education hears this desire and has designed this hour with that goal in mind. So, we invite adults, youth, Scratch, children, one and all, to meet us in Watts-Hill Hall for an active Earth Day celebration.

Sunday, May 6, 2018, at 3:00 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church Sanctuary

Choral music on the plight of the refugee and the role of Mary in the Abrahamic faiths with Latin American and Middle Eastern sounds

This concert will feature Artistic Director Allan Friedman’s new refugee song, Miriyam, Maria, and Maryam, a dramatic piece written in response to the present reality of millions of displaced people around the globe. Accompanied by guitars, oud, percussion, and interpretive dance, with text from Psalms, Rumi, and Hafez, Friedman imagines three women of different faiths as they are swept up in tragic historical events.

The spring program will also include modern and Renaissance choral works by women on the Virgin Mary; Ariel Ramirez’s romping and lively South American folk mass, Misa Criolla; and international songs of peace, including an Iraqi lullaby and a Palestinian-American’s song on the longing to be free.

Tickets are $17 for adults and $7 for students. To purchase advance tickets online, please visit our Square store. All tickets purchased online will be available for pickup at the ticket table in the lobby on the day of the concert.

Sunday, March 25

9:30 a.m. EASTER EGG HUNT  (FPC playground for families w/young kids) —

9:45 a.m. Hot Cross Buns & Coffee Fellowship in Watts-Hill Hall for all to enjoy! (No Sunday School) —

10:15 a.m. PALM PARADE through downtown Durham with friends from neighboring churches —

11:00 a.m. WORSHIP with lessons and songs about Christ’s passion

Holy Listening: Poetry Reading & Writing – An introduction to poetry as a spiritual discipline: both reading and writing.  Class meets on Sundays from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. at the church.

Spiritual Autobiography – In this Lenten class, we will take time to reflect upon what God might be saying to us through our life stories.  In order to have a quality experience together, participants will commit to attending at least three of the four classes.  Class meets Wednesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at FPC.

Click Lenten Class Offerings 2018 for more details.

North Carolina HIP FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

February 17, 2018, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM, First Presbyterian Church sanctuary

Hear HIP (historically informed performance) musicians from all over the United States come together and perform!

Led by renown flutist and conductor Barthold Kuijken.

Tickets $25 general admission/ $5 children and students at the door

Buy online https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=82879

SPECIAL OFFER for First Presbyterian parishioners, contact Kathy Parkins in the church office.

PROGRAM
Archangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso in F Major, Op. 6, No. 2
Georg F. Händel Water Music Suite 1 in F major
Johann Christian Bach Symphony in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 6
W.A. Mozart Flute Concerto in D Major K.V. 314