Thank you for supporting our youth and joining in the fun at our fundraiser for Sierra Service Project on May 21. With your help we raised $2,924! Your generous donations will go a long way towards covering our trip costs, enabling us to send a team of
Read more →We had another fun miniature golf outing on Mother’s Day weekend with our ’Ohana Youth. Many thanks to all of you who came out on a warm Sunday afternoon – weather was perfect, it felt like summer arrived early! We all enjoyed pizza and fellowship together afterwards
Read more →Our Saturday night ’Ohana Youth Gatherings have been a wild success this year! At our last big youth group meeting of the year on May 20, we shared community time together, reflecting on our journey this past year and looking forward to our Sierra Service Project and
Read more →We are looking forward to our Sierra Service Project trip this summer at Smith River, CA, from July 9 – 14, 2023. Many youth have already signed up, but there are still a few slots available. A $100 deposit is required to reserve a spot, however, at
Read more →‘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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