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!

Joseph L. Morrow preaching

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

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.

7:00 p.m. online

For the event link, register for free at chicagolights.org/gala

There is still time to register (for free!) for this Friday’s virtual Chicago Lights Gala of Hope at Home!

Join us tomorrow evening for a special online event hosted by Ron Magers and including music by the Ken Arlen Evolution Orchestra. Together we will celebrate the life-changing impact of the youth development and social service programs of Chicago Lights—the community outreach arm of Fourth Church—and our Replogle Center for Counseling and Well-Being and raise funds to support their ongoing work in our community.

9:30 a.m. via Zoom

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

The pandemic has forced us to confront our worldly limitations and consider the unknowability of God’s plans for us. As we begin building a “new normal,” the lessons we can learn must not be swept away. Rather, the upheaval has presented us with a new urgency for restoring our covenant with God through prayer and service.

Beginning this Sunday, join Jeannine Forrest in examining the ways COVID-19 challenges us to reexamine and rededicate our faith. We will use Walter Breuggeman’s recent book Virus as a Summons of Faith: Biblical Reflections in a Time of Loss, Grief, and Uncertainty as a starting point for this timely conversation.

6:00 p.m. via Zoom

For Zoom details, register at www.bit.ly/interfaith031021

This coming Wednesday, March 10 we will gather online with our neighbors from Chicago Sinai Congregation to share our stories of life and faith.

Led by Nanette Sawyer and Rabbi Todd Zinn, we will discuss our springtime celebrations of Passover and Easter and the shared themes of renewal.

In a time of great divisiveness and isolation, it’s vitally important to get to know one other and strengthen our connections. Join us for conversation, to make new friends, and deepen the bonds we already have!

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.

Three of our programs are currently looking for volunteers to assist them with their work. Might you be able to help?

Fourth Church Youth Ministry, a welcoming and inclusive Christian community where sixth- through twelfth-grade youth are accepted, known, and loved for who they are, relies heavily on the generosity of adult volunteer leaders. Applications are currently being received for leaders to serve in one of three volunteer roles during the 2021–2022 program year: Sunday Morning Leader, Zoom Small Group Leader, and Committee Member.

Interested church members are asked to sign up here for one of three informational sessions that will be held online in April. For more information email Katie Patterson, Youth Ministry Program Manager.

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

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 this 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.

If you missed our online conversation with Dr. Kevin Ban, Chief Medical Officer for the Walgreens Corporation and former faculty member at the Harvard Medical School, we encourage you to take a few moments to watch it on our YouTube channel (www.bit.ly/fpcvideos).

In this informative, twenty-minute interview with Shannon Kershner, Dr. Ban addresses 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? and What is being doing to ensure all communities have access to the vaccines?

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