Reflections on Hybrid Worship
It was good to hear everyone’s input on our initial foray into hybrid ministry! I think your ideas will be really helpful. I have asked Devan to pool the responses
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Disagreements and Forgiveness Lived Out Through Church
Beloved, It was a hard meeting on Sunday. Your church leaders knew it was going to be. We have not had a difficult budget for many years, and for circumstances
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Annual Meeting, Sunday, Jan. 29 after Worship
The Elders are calling our Annual Congregational Meeting for Sunday, January 29 after worship. As is our tradition, the Annual Meeting will include elections and approval of the 2023 budget.
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Alternative Gift Update 2022
This year we have 2 giving opportunities that support a local connection and an international organization. One of our gifts is going to help the New Amsterdam Boys and Girls
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Calendar and Schedules
Hello! In order to help keep track of all the virtual meetings happening these days, the church office has put a simple calendar together. Throughout each week, we have companionship
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OLD FIRST’S HOSPITALITY TEAMS ARE COMING BACK!
Remember when we used to have Hospitality Teams that handled both Greeting at the doors on Sundays, setting up and cleaning up the Fellowship Hour after Worship, and making sure
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Advent 3 Devotional: Silence Speaks
Pastor’s note: this Advent, in both the Midweek Services and these Devotionals, I am asking you to consider some of Jesus’ distant relatives, and what they might tell us about
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Alternative Gift (for Christmas!) — all you need to know for someone who doesn’t need more perfume or another tie…
2022 Alternative Gift Options Alternative giving is a form of gift giving in which the giver makes a donation to a charitable organization on the gift recipient’s behalf, rather than
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Time for Covenant Ministry Again? …Let’s Begin with the 5 pm Service on Christmas Eve
Who remembers Covenant Ministry? It was what we did when I first arrived at Old First. It was way back in 2009, so many of you were not here yet,
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Pastor’s note: this Advent, I want to ask you to consider some of Jesus’ distant relatives, and what they might tell us about him, teach us about our own faith
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