First Sunday of Christmas, January 1

10:00 a.m. worship in person and online

Rocky Supinger preaching

The worship bulletin is available to download and print

In person and streamed from the Sanctuary on our YouTube channel: www.bit.ly/fpcvideos

Audio available by phone (toll free) by calling 888.916.9166

Livestreamed worship services and concerts are accessible by going to www.bit.ly/fpcvideos, subscribing to our YouTube channel, or clicking on the photo with a “Play” arrow on the home page of the Fourth Church website.

On New Year’s Day there will not be nursery care. As on every Sunday, children are invited to be with their parents in worship. Nursery care will resume on Sunday, January 8.

The Jazz at Four afternoon service will not be held on January 1 but will return on Sunday, January 8.

At the turning of the year we will come together with neighbors for our annual New Year’s Eve service in the style of Taizé.

This quiet 7:30 p.m. service in Buchanan Chapel offers moving music, space for prayer, and meditative pause for reflecting on the year past and looking ahead to the year to come.

New Year’s Eve

Saturday, December 31

7:30 p.m.

in Buchanan Chapel (in person only)

For those who have inquired about how to have year-end gifts to Fourth Church and Chicago Lights applied to our 2022 budgets and credited to your 2022 giving statement—

• Gifts must be charged to your credit card by midnight on December 31
• Or, if they are mailed, they must be postmarked with a date no later than December 31, 2022
• If dropped off at the church, they must be dropped off between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on either Thursday, December 29 or Friday, December 30 (as the church offices are closed on Saturday, December 31 except for the evening service)

—in order to appear on your 2022 statement of giving.

Credit card gifts can be made online via the Fourth Church website. Gifts can also be made using Venmo (@Fourth-Church).

Gifts by mail should be sent to

Resource Development

Fourth Presbyterian Church

126 E. Chestnut St.

Chicago, IL 60611.2014

If you have any questions about year-end giving or if you would like information about making gifts through stock transfers or required distributions from one’s IRA or prepaying one’s 2023 pledge, please email giving@fourthchurch.org.

In this Christmas season, we invite you to join us for a brief midweek pause for scripture, music, and prayer as offered in our Christmas “Rhythm and Word” video. To view it, click here (or on the image below).

Also available as a resource for personal meditation and prayer are Christmas devotions written by Fourth Church members and staff.

To receive the devotions daily by email sign up at www.bit.ly/fpcdevotions; you can also read them online on our website.

New Zoom Small Groups

New Zoom Small Groups are starting again in January.

Some groups will use Nanette Sawyer’s Hospitality as a resource and others will use The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby.

If you would like to connect with five to seven other people via Zoom for a time of fellowship, relationship building, and spiritual formation or would like more information about small group opportunities, please email Simon Crow.

Deep Listening Dinners

Are you interested in taking part in Deep Listening Dinners early in the new year?

Groups of six to ten people each will dine together twice in home settings, gathering for a time of discovering and better understanding our differences while honoring our shared humanity and telling our life experiences to one another.

To learn more about this opportunity to get to know each other more deeply, email Simon Crow.