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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).

Shannon Kershner preaching

The worship bulletin is available to download and print in advance

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

This Sunday we also have an additional worship opportunity, an Advent Jazz service online at 4:00 p.m.

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.

This Saturday, December 19 we continue the annual tradition of celebrating Christmas with Tower Brass, this year with their online concert.

Join us at 5:00 p.m. tomorrow for the festive sounds of the season! And if that time does not fit your schedule, the concert will be available to view afterwards as well.

5:00 p.m. online

at www.bit.ly/fpcprograms

as well as via Facebook Live and our YouTube channel (www.bit.ly/fpcvideos)

The concert program is available to download and print in advance.

Our Jazz at Four Quartet will lead us in a special online worship opportunity this Sunday afternoon: our Advent Jazz Service. We hope you will join us!

4:00 p.m. online

at www.bit.ly/FPCworship

as well as via Facebook Live and our YouTube channel (www.bit.ly/fpcvideos)

The worship bulletin is available to download and print in advance.

We invite you to join us in sharing Christmas joy with those in need this winter!

Our “Light Up a Life” offering helps shine God’s light of love on those who need it most this season, including those in need of the warmth, clothing, and nourishment provided by our Fourth Church Meals Ministry and Chicago Lights Social Service Center programs.

Gifts can be made to this offering online at www.fourthchurch.org/give-online (type “Light Up a Life” in the comments).

Gifts can also be made by writing “Light Up a Life” on the memo line of a check made payable to Fourth Presbyterian Church (and mailed to the church at 126 E. Chestnut St., Chicago, IL 60611.2014).

As we look toward our celebrations of Christmas with eager anticipation, we hope you will plan to join us online as we celebrate the birth of Emmanuel, God with Us.

Our online Christmas services will be available as our Sunday morning services are, via

For those who do not have Internet access, we also make our services, including the Christmas 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. It is also possible to sign up to have that phone platform call you each time a service is available to listen to.

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

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

7:30 p.m. online

at www.bit.ly/FPCworship

as well as via Facebook Live and our YouTube channel (www.bit.ly/fpcvideos)

Please join us in welcoming the new members received into membership by the Session on November 22 and welcomed during worship on Sunday, December 13:

David Edwards   

Stacia Edwards

Larry Kerley

Mitchell Meneau

Those interested in becoming members of Fourth Church are invited to take part in our next online Inquirers’ Class, which will be held Sunday, January 17 at 9:00 a.m. via Zoom.

You can register for this one-session class at www.bit.ly/inquirer0121

For additional information about Fourth Church membership, please contact Joe Morrow.

Each Sunday we have opportunity to connect online with one another and share in a time of fellowship following worship, when we hope you will join us after the postlude for virtual Coffee Hour.

Following the postlude

Also accessible at www.bit.ly/fpcfellowship

(the link is posted on our website as well: www.fourthchurch.org)

Meeting ID: 963 5583 1751

Passcode: 631276

Phone: Call 1 312.626.6799

and enter Meeting ID 963 5583 1751#