On the church calendar are many opportunities to connect online with the Fourth Church community and one another. Included among them are—

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 (which is easily accessible from the “Calendar” button in the upper left corner of our website).

For highlights of some of the opportunities you will find on the calendar, keep reading!

Shannon J. Kershner preaching

The worship bulletin will be available to download and print on Friday

This Sunday’s service will include the installation of Joe Morrow as Associate Pastor for Evangelism and Community Engagement. We hope you will join us for this celebratory occasion as we give thanks for our unfolding partnership in ministry with Joe.

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

Our online worship services are available live at 11:00 a.m. (Central) via

For those who do not have Internet access, we also make our worship services available to listen to via the phone. If you know of someone for whom this audio opportunity would be welcome, please encourage them to call 888.916.9166 (toll-free) at the time of the service.

The Sunday service is available for viewing throughout the week at www.bit.ly/FPCworship.

Worship and sermon podcasts are available via iTunes and Spotify, and you can sign up to receive the text of the weekly sermon by email.

We invite you to join us this coming Monday, March 1 to hear Shannon Kershner talk with Dr. Kevin Ban, Chief Medical Officer for the Walgreens Corporation and former faculty member at the Harvard Medical School, as they discuss COVID-19 vaccine distribution and implications.

In this informative, twenty-minute interview, Dr. Ban will address common questions surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines, including

•   How were the COVID-19 vaccines developed so quickly and are they safe?

•   Have the new variants of the virus had an impact on vaccine efforts?

•   What is being doing to ensure all communities have access to the vaccines?

•   Where and when will the COVID-19 vaccines be available for me?

•   Should I worry about side effects of the vaccine?

We hope you will join us online for this important conversation!

7:00 p.m.

Online at www.bit.ly/fpcprograms

as well as on Facebook Live

and YouTube

and, to listen by phone, by dialing 888.916.9166 at the time of the event

7:00 p.m. online

For details, register for free at chicagolights.org/gala

Next Friday is the virtual Chicago Lights Gala of Hope at Home, so if you have not yet registered to join, why not do so now!

This year’s online event, for which registration is free, will be hosted by Ron Magers, include music by the Ken Arlen Evolution Orchestra, and raise funds for the life-changing youth development and social service programs of Chicago Lights—the community outreach arm of Fourth Church—and the community support efforts of our Replogle Center for Counseling and Well-Being.

During the Gala we will be auctioning off stays at vacation homes—a perfect, safe getaway from the city! If you or a family member or friend would be willing to donate time at your vacation home to support Chicago Lights and the Replogle Center while providing the gift of a time and place away for others, please contact Laura Woods (872.250.9266) or complete the online donation form.

Or if you would like to become a Gala sponsor, please let Laura know that as well.

We are kicking off March with book conversations on the first two Tuesdays:

7:00 p.m. via Zoom

For Zoom details, register at www.bit.ly/firsttuesdaybooks

This book group hosted by the Adult Education Committee examines the ethical and social issues facing Christians today.

March book: Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago by Heath Carter

At our March gathering this coming Tuesday, March 2, Joe Morrow will lead a discussion with author Heath Carter about this book that advances a bold new interpretation of the origins of American Social Christianity.

In Gilded Age America, rampant inequality gave rise to a new form of Christianity, one that sought to ease the sufferings of the poor not simply by saving their souls but by transforming society. Rather than crediting the movement to middle-class ministers, seminary professors, and social reformers, Carter places working people—blacksmiths, teamsters, printers, and others—at the very center of the story and argues that their collective contribution to American Social Christianity was no less significant than that of Walter Rauschenbusch or Jane Addams.

6:00 p.m. via Zoom

For Zoom details, email Anne Ellis

All women are invited to join in monthly Books by Women discussions whenever their schedules allow and the books are of interest.

March book: Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers

In this first of the Lord Wimsey Chronicles, written in 1923, an amateur sleuth and cast of characters deal with a corpse in the bath.

Two of our mission and outreach programs are looking for volunteers to assist them with their work. Might you be able to help?

Our Meals Ministry Sunday Night Supper is in need of cooks, servers, and meal runners to assist with these weekly “grab and go” meals.

Those interested in helping are asked to email Robert Crouch, Director of Volunteer Ministry. Safety and health standards are strictly followed.

Fourth Church’s Employment Network, which works in partnership with the St. Sabina Employment Resource Center on the South Side, is looking for volunteers interested in supporting job-preparedness workshops on interviewing, entrepreneurship, or credit repair.

The skills of those volunteering for SCORE or CARE Chicago are especially needed as are individuals with organizations that can provide internship and job opportunities in the fields of health care, security, manufacturing, IT, retail, administrative, and commercial driving.

If you can help or would like to learn more, please email employmentnetwork@fourthchurch.org

Chicago Lights Tutoring and Elam Davies Social Service Center.

The work of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, Hunger, and Self-Development of People Programs.

All of these programs are supported by your gifts to the One Great Hour of Sharing offering that we are receiving throughout Lent.

Gifts to this offering can be made by

•   giving online

•   writing “Lenten Offering” on the memo line of a check made payable to Fourth Presbyterian Church and mailed to Resource Development, Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 E. Chestnut, Chicago, IL 60611.2014.

Again this year we have opportunity to remember loved ones and recognize those who are special in our life with contributions toward the purchase of flowers to decorate the Sanctuary for our online Easter service.

A list of those remembered will be printed in the Easter Sunday bulletin. (Contributions must be received by Sunday, March 28 in order for names to be included in the bulletin.)

The Fourth Church Legacy Society Advisory Council would like to learn more about what is important to our members and friends in considering estate planning.

If you have a few moments to complete a brief survey (eight questions that should take at most 5 minutes to complete) by Friday, March 5 the council would be grateful. Your response will help guide them in providing useful information and planning ongoing programming about estate planning and legacy giving.

Child of Matthew and Maria Allerton

Died February 19, 2021

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