Below you'll find a list of all posts from July, 2017
Worship – 9:30 a.m. Childcare is available during worship (9:30-10:30) for infants through preschool age, downstairs in Rooms 4 and 5. ReVision Mission Study Session One – 11:00 a.m. From the Pastor/Head of Staff You can see it in the painting, “The Hidden Treasure,” by Rembrandt. Shovel in hand, treasures laid in clothes, not yet covered, but will be in …
Worship – 9:30 a.m. Childcare is available for infants through preschool age, downstairs in Rooms 4 and 5. From the Pastor/Head of Staff Suppose you live in a community that has had a market in an old building. After 60 or so years, the enthusiasm for the market wanes, and finally the market closes. What to do with …
Childcare is available for infants through preschool age, downstairs in Rooms 4 and 5. From the Pastor/Head of Staff Parables are more than simple stories. They reveal their meanings in layers. Megan McKenna, in her book Parables: Arrows of God, makes the case that parables are often best understood in the light of other stories. Noting that the parables can …
Location: 607 West Elm Street, Urbana (Between Orchard & Coler) Hours: 9 am – 3 pm on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Phone: (217) 328-2724 First Presbyterian Church invites you to visit Twice is Nice, a thrift shop located in a graceful old house which the church owns. The shop is open Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Twice …
Prayer of Ordination and Installation Gracious God, pour out your Holy Spirit upon your servants whom you called through baptism as your own and marked as your own. Grant them the same mind that was in Christ Jesus. Give them a spirit of truthfulness that they may show the compassion of Christ in the actions of daily living and rightly …
Food & More Partnership Program. On the third Tuesday of each month our church family expands to include about 30 “partners” from the larger community who come to select food for their families. Our partners have helped us build the program. For example, we added no salt and low carb food items when our partners with health problems, such as …
We are planning to send a delegation to Domasi, Malawi the summer of 2018 to visit our sister church, the Jeanes Church. We have received new guidelines, with an earlier deadline, for submitting a travel request from the Shelbyville Keilman Trust Committee. The earlier deadline means that anyone interested in traveling next summer will need to make a commitment by …
