July 23, 2020
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While we are not gathering in person this summer, there are many opportunities to connect online with the Fourth Church community and one another.

You will find these online opportunities posted on the church calendar, which is easily accessible from the “Calendar” button of our website (in the upper left corner). Included among them are—

  • A new Youth Theology Reading Group starting this Thursday afternoon
  • Family Pizza-Making Night this Thursday evening
  • Sacred Pause meditation on Saturday and Tuesday mornings
  • Youth Worship Discussion on Sundays following online worship
  • Men’s Online Bible Study on Tuesday mornings
  • Junior High Gathering on Tuesday evening
  • Senior High Gathering on Wednesday evening
  • Youth Family Trivia Night on Friday, July 31
  • Vacation Bible School on Monday, August 3 to Friday, August 7

For information about whom to contact for an event’s Zoom details, simply click on the down “arrow” to the right of the event name in the calendar.
Sunday, July 26

11:00 a.m. worship online
Organ prelude beginning shortly after 10:45 a.m.
Shannon J. Kershner preaching
Worship bulletin to download and print in advance

Livestreamed from the Sanctuary at www.bit.ly/FPCworship

If our 11:00 worship time does not fit your schedule, the service will be available for viewing throughout the week.

You can also subscribe to our worship and sermon podcasts available via iTunes and Spotify and sign up to receive the weekly sermon by email.
There is still time to sign up to participate in one of our four-week small groups that will be starting in August.

Some groups will engage in conversations about race. Others will discuss a book, and others will reflect on faith journeys.

If you would like to connect with five to seven other people next month via Zoom for a time of fellowship, relationship building, and spiritual formation around one of these topics, please email Anne Ellis.
Enjoy the tastes of the season: stop by the Chicago Lights Urban Farm (444 W. Chicago Ave.) on Friday afternoons and shop the Farmstand! All purchases support the community and the Farm, a program of Chicago Lights, our nonprofit community outreach arm.

The Farmstand is open Friday afternoons between 1:00 and 5:00 p.m.

Guests are required to wear a face covering and practice social distancing while at the Farm.
Please take a moment in the coming days to think of Fourth Church members who have demonstrated gifts for leadership and a commitment to the life and ministry of this congregation.

Then add their names—self-nominations are welcome!—to the Leadership Candidate Form online at www.bit.ly/nominating2020.

The Nominating Committee greatly appreciates your taking the time to send them these names of candidates for the positions of Elder, Deacon, Trustee, and Nominating Committee and Chicago Lights Board members that will be open in 2021.
Are you looking for healthy ways to cope with the stresses and anxiety, anger and frustration, grief and uncertainty that so many of us are experiencing?

The staff of our Replogle Center for Counseling and Well-Being is available to offer suggestions and support through phone appointments or teletherapy, whether for just a few sessions or on an ongoing basis.

To set up a time to talk or for more information about how the Center can be a resource for you, call the Center at 312.787.2729, ext. 2260.

Our Stephen Ministers are also available to be God’s listening presence during this season when many of us are struggling to sort things out.

If you would like to be in phone contact with one of our Stephen Ministers, who are trained in providing emotional and spiritual care, please leave a confidential message at 312.573.3365.

Additionally, if you would like to talk to a pastor, please call the church (312.787.4570), and your request will be forwarded to someone on the pastoral staff.
Our online jazz concerts continue this Friday, July 24 with guitarist Andy Brown presenting this week’s performance.

Next up on the concert schedule will be vocalist Wydetta Carter on July 31 and pianist Stu Mindeman on August 7.

Our online concerts are streamed each Friday at 12:10 p.m. at www.bit.ly/fpcprograms, where they are also available to enjoy throughout the week.
The plan approved by the Session of Fourth Church for our life together as a church in the summer of 2020 includes the decision to have livestream-only worship throughout the months of June, July, and August.

Also during that same time period—June through August—the Fourth Church campus remains closed, and programming is taking place online, from Center for Life and Learning exercise classes to VBS to Summer Day to Bible studies and more.

The meeting of essential needs by Fourth Church Meals Ministry and Chicago Lights Social Service Center continues to be offered outdoors, as it has been since mid-March.

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