Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving, FPC family! I, personally, am very grateful for this caring congregation and the wonderful staff at FPC. I am looking forward to a meaningful Advent and Christmas season this year. You can count on next week's Connector to be full of all the upcoming holiday events at FPC. Enjoy the Thanksgiving weekend. Janna Leslie, FPC's Communication … [Read more...]

Every new leadership spot at FPC is filled! Last weekend, at the all-congregation meeting, FPC elected new leaders to help guide the church in 2022. Every spot for a new Elder, new Deacon, and member for next year's Nominating Committee has been filled! If you missed last week's service, you can read these about these men and women below: New Elders: From Left to Right: Brice Kettner, … [Read more...]

Taking Laughter Seriously We're just footsteps away from entering the most wonderful time of the year... but it also can be the busiest, most stressful, and most frustrating time as well! Here's an excerpt from the article: Americans Need to Take Laughter Seriously Again by Paul Batura, to remind us about the importance of keeping a bit of levity in our lives especially when life gets crazy. … [Read more...]

Tidbits From the Past Dianne Larson, Clerk of Session Pastor Kirk and I looked through First Pres’s first minutes book hoping to find information on the 1918 pandemic. There weren’t any minutes from those years, but it was interesting to read. Here are some tidbits from the past: The first entry is July 16, 1877. A group of several persons met in the school house in the Village of … [Read more...]

A night out suggestion from Pastor Kirk! Pastor Kirk came across this upcoming event at the Overture Center and would like to encourage our FPC family to attend: An Evening with C.S. Lewis – starring David Payne – is a captivating evening in 1963 where C.S. Lewis hosts a group of American writers at his home near Oxford. Throughout the evening he recalls the people and events that … [Read more...]