First United Church of Christ

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Please click on this link for a readable/printable version of the sermon: ConfidentHumilitySermon

Hearing in church can be a challenge for people with hearing loss.

Let’s talk about it. First UCC will be hosting a panel discussion on hearing in religious services on Saturday June 15th at 10:00 am.

There will be discussion about the problems that hearing loss can cause for hearing in religious services and some solutions. A temporary loop will be installed in the sanctuary. If you have hearing aids and plan to attend, see your audiologist or hearing instrument dispenser to make sure your hearing aids will work with the loop.

Panelists include:

Pastor Todd Smith Lippert, First UCC
Pastor Will Healy, Emmaus Church
Dr. Shannon Garlitz, Audiologist, AMC-Northfield
Debby Larsen, President, College City Sertoma

For questions or more information, please contact Shannon Garlitz.

We need more volunteers June 18, 25; July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; Aug. 6, 13, 20, 27 from 10:45-12:30 at Jefferson Square Apartments. We’ll be serving meals to kids in need as one of many Northfield churches helping in this way each day at two locations. Add your name to the sign-up sheet on the SSR bulletin board and take an information sheet. Contact Matt Rohn if you have any questions. Nourish others & your soul.

On Sunday, stay after worship and participate in two fundraisers for our youth.

Come to the Big Room right after worship (and before going to make your sandwich) to buy new and lightly used puzzles, games, and interesting items (90-year-old children’s newspapers, art supplies, decorative/kitschy teapot). An inexpensive way to get activities for your family summer while supporting the 4th and 5th graders’ service project of assembling hygiene kits for disaster areas through Church World Service.

After you get your games, come to the Assembly Room for a Build-Your-Own Sandwich and Salad Lunch. All proceeds will go to help support the youth going on the Habitat Trip to Eagle Butte, South Dakota this summer. The cost is $5.00 per person or $15.00 for a family. If you can’t stay, consider making a donation to this worthy cause. For more information contact Susannah Ottaway.

Hearing in church can be a challenge for people with hearing loss.  Let’s talk about it.  First UCC will be hosting a panel discussion on hearing in religious services on Saturday June 15th at 10:00 am.  There will be discussion about the problems that hearing loss can cause for hearing in religious services and some solutions.  A temporary loop will be installed in the sanctuary.  If you have hearing aids and plan to attend, see your audiologist or hearing instrument dispenser to make sure your hearing aids will work with the loop.

Panelists include:
Pastor Todd Smith Lippert
Pastor Will Healy, Emmaus Church
Dr. Shannon Garlitz, Audiologist, AMC-Northfield
Debby Larsen, President, College City Sertoma

For questions or more information, please contact Shannon Garlitz.

All are invited to celebrate the ministry of Pastor Bob during worship and a reception immediately following on Sunday, June 2. Please join us in saying farewell and thanking Bob for his leadership and dedicated service to First UCC.

Please click here to view the May 23rd issue of The Chronicle newsletter.

Various Northfield faith communities are volunteering to help serve lunch and do clean-up for those in need in the summer. 1st UCC is stepping up to do this each Tuesday 10:45 to 12:45 June 10 – Aug. 30 at Jefferson Square; youth welcome. We will provide 5 volunteers each time, so please sign-up for times to nourish others and nourish our souls.  Sign-up sheets are available after worship, you can contact the church office, or you can sign up online by clicking here.

With the summer season approaching, the Church Council discussed the merits of moving worship time to 9:30AM starting June 9th.  Our hope that this will allow us to beat the heat and be more comfortable during the warmest days of the year.  The motion passed and we will begin meeting at 9:30AM on June 9th.  Worship will return to 10:30AM starting on September 15th.

Each June, First UCC provides volunteers at the CAC foodshelf weekdays for 1-2 hour time slots. Please sign-up for an individual time slot or several or once a week. Youth can do this simple but important volunteer work too, and often pairs of people do the same time slot.

Come ponder liberal, activist theology with expert and Back Bay Mission activist Chris Marlin-Warfield. Wed., May 22, 5:30 p.m. SSR will provide pizza; bring a salad to share. Back Bay Mission is an UCC Community organization serving the Mississippi Gulf Coast since 1922. Marlin-Warfield has a Masters of Divinity from Chicago Theology Seminary and has been for years helping Back Back realize its mission.

Please click on this link for a readable/printable version of the sermon: “Acts 2: 1-21.”.

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