Deep gratitude to all of you who came out for our Turtle Flats Restoration Project event on Saturday, November 12. We had a great turnout, cleared a significant area of English ivy and blackberry, planted Douglas Aster and completed a wandering tour of Turtle Flats. We are
Read more →We are also excited about our group of nine high school Faith Explorers. Our Faith Exploration classes met weekly this fall, culminating in an overnight retreat and a celebration of our participants during worship on Sunday, October 16. FCC’s Faith Exploration Program is a concentrated time of
Read more →It is so nice to be back together, in person! Our Sierra Service Project Sunday worship offering was a major highlight and a joy for all of us. Our young adults were so articulate in their sharing, exhibiting their maturity and teaching us all about what it
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The experience of shared loss and heartache amid a pandemic can serve as our inspiration to see our shared humanity more clearly and affirm human dignity more fiercely. The song “Seasons of Love,” from the Rent soundtrack, includes the refrain “Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes,
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‘Ohana is an idea in Hawaiian culture. The word ʻOhana means family in the Hawaiian language, but in a much wider sense, to include not only one’s closer relatives, but also one’s cousins, in-laws, friends and neighbors. The idea is also that family and friends are bound together and everyone must work together, never forgetting
Read more →We are a group of youth who share a common desire and commitment to explore with one another some of the great and imponderable questions in our lives. Our goal is not the certitude that may come with finding answers to such questions, but the insight and
Read more →First Congregational church is an affirming and welcoming community that celebrates the lives and love of all people. We welcome LGBTQ+ individuals and people of color who have too often been excluded from leadership and full participation within traditional communities of faith. We are rooted in the
Read more →In February of 2020, the FCC Board requested that the Central Pacific Conference (CPC) take Youth Minister Mark Lindberg under care as a “Member in Discernment”. The past year since then has been a busy time of writing, reflection, meetings, evaluations, interviews, psychological testing,further study, networking, and
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