This Week:
02/28 - 8 am Sunday Worship: Sermon Series: The Examined Life
02/28 - 10-11 am Lenten Adult Ed Classes on ZOOM
03/04- Noon Thursday EBlast
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Lenten Music Series
During Lent, we will share special music in coordination with our Wednesday Noon Prayer services. Videos will be viewable anytime afterward as well. You will hear Baroque music on the organ, classical flute, jazz piano, acoustic guitar, contemporary vocals and harp from our talented music staff and volunteers. We invite you to take a few moments out of the busyness of the day to listen and reflect on God's goodness through the beauty of music.
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Easter Flowers
It's time to order your beautiful Easter flowers that will adorn our sanctuary for our Easter Worship recording, then your own Easter table, filling it with beauty and gentle, flowery smells! Order them here no later than March 8th.
Contact Jennifer Darnall at 708.712.3712
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Lenten Sermon Series:
The Examined Life
Now-March 28
It's been said that the unexamined life is not worth living. This Lent, in honor of spiritual practices like prayer and the Ignatian Examen, we'll be exploring the intersection of spiritual practice and divine encounter. Join us, along with notable figures like Jacob, Jesus, and Ruth, as we discover how spiritual practices like guided self reflection, meditation, and even friendship can lead to encounters with God.
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Holy Week
Palm Sunday: March 28th online
Maundy Thursday: April 1st (live on ZOOM)
Good Friday: April 2nd online
Easter Sunday: April 4th at Blackwell Forest Preserve at 8:00, 9:30 and 11:00 am. Watch for more information!
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Giving to FCCGE
Did you know our church budget depends entirely on generous folks like you to fund the daily goings-on, mission giving, church school, music, heating bills, mortgage, salaries etc.? Without your donations, we couldn't exist. Please consider giving to Annual Fund 2021-22. Planned/recurring giving especially helps in our planning of programs and mission giving. Click here to set up a lump sum or scheduled giving online. Call/email the church office if you have questions at 630.469.3096 X 10. We thank you in advance for supporting FCCGE's future.
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Day Light Saving Comin' Up! |
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Don’t Forget to
Spring Ahead!
Daylight Saving Time begins at 2:00 am, Sunday, March 14
Don’t forget to turn your clocks ahead one hour! It's “Pajama Sunday” for the children and they are invited to come to church in their “jammies” ... er...like they have been for the past 11 months!
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Book Club
March 10th, 7:30 pm
Our next church book club and will be March 10 at 7:30 we will be reading
the story of Gifty, a fifth year PHD student at Stanford studying neuroscience. Gifty wrestles with the grief of her past and present trying to find answers in both her work as a scientist and in the faith of her childhood.
In honor of the books Ghanian American characters there will be a Ghanian dessert delivery the day of the book club.
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Euchre 2021
March 12th
7-10:00 pm
February brings much more than flowers and candy; it brings FCCGE Euchre season! This year will be played a little differently, via the Trickster app right from your computer in your own home. It's fun and easy and we'll have a video tutorial to help you. Register here for a bracket. No partner? No problem! We'll match you up! Read more here. Questions? Contact Pastor Kendra. Sign up by March 8th!
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Lenten Adult Ed Classes
Now- March 28
10:00-11:00 am
During Lent we will be inviting you to live and examine life, entering into this spiritual season with intentionality and taking this time as an opportunity for reflection. For six weeks we will be joining together to learn about ourselves- one another and God using the tools of the Enneagram as a framework. The class will be led by Pastor Kendra and our Seminary Intern Sarah Swindall and will meet every Sunday from 10:00-11:00 AM. Make sure to register for the class here. Please contact Pastor Kendra with any questions.
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Mental Health Ministry Resource Guide
For Problematic Behaviors
Did you know there are other organizations that deal with
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Therapy 101
What you need to know
After living through a year of pandemic, with all its stresses and pressures, we are all probably ready for a little therapy--if for no other reason than to get a much needed annual mental/emotional tune-up. But what is therapy? Read this comprehensive article and learn more? Is therapy for you?
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Flowers 2021
We are starting to schedule altar flower donations for 2021. Please give your calendars a gander and see which Sunday(s) you would like to donate. We will need flowers for 4/25; 5/9; 7/4, 11, 18, 25; 8/15; 9/5, 12, 26; 10/10, 17; 11/7, 14, 21, 28; 12/5, 12, 26. It's super easy-just call or text Jennifer Darnall at 708.712.3712.
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Church School 3 Ways!!!
Sundays from 11:00 - 11:30
Kids who are in preschool through 5th grade have three options to join us and their friends for church school! Read More. |
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Children's Sermons Beginning in Lent
(Non-Communion Sundays)
Beginning Sunday, families are encouraged to worship together and view a new Children's Sermon each Sunday led by either Director of Christian Education, Catherine Curtis
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Church School Offering:
January - June
Bricks to "Build" New
Glen Ellyn Food Pantry
Between now and the end of June all of our church school offerings will be donated to the Glen Ellyn Food Pantry capital campaign to help renovate the new location for the Glen Ellyn Food Pantry. Our goal is to raise $150.00 and the Children of First Congregational Church will have a customized brick to greet thousands of our neighbors who visit the GE Food Pantry at their new home for assistance. Click here to donate.
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