This Sunday in adult chapel class, we welcome Claudia Hedeen from the Miami Nation to lead a session on indigenous traditions and practices around water. Claudia proudly serves her tribe through the Cultural Resources Extension Office (CREO), where she aspires to infuse the language and material culture of the Myaamia people into the places and activities shared through the CREO. 

Chapel Class is open to all adults at 9:00 am every Sunday, in person or on zoom. The password for zoom is 247302.

During Lent, the Green Team asks that we look at the land, water, and nature that surround us, and to learn not only the history, but our responsibility in honoring and caring for it.

The native plants are important because they support local birds, butterflies, and pollinators, as well as require less water and maintenance. They improve soil and water quality, and preserve Indiana’s natural heritage.

Native trees were mentioned earlier, but native shrubs include the dogwood, elderberry, spicebush, ninebark, buttonbush, juneberry, and witch hazel. Native wildflowers and prairie plants include the purple coneflower, black-eyed Susan, wild bergamot, butterfly wee, common milkweed, wild columbine, blazing star, goldenrod, asters, and prairie dock.

Native grasses include big and little bluestem, indian and switch grass, and fox sedge. Woodland and shade plants include trillium, Virginia bluebells, mayapple, wild ginger, jack-in-the-pulpit, and ferns. Wetland and river plants include cattails, soft rush, pickerelweed, blue flag iris, swamp milkweed, and cardinal flower.

WE GIVE THANKS FOR ALL THE BEAUTY GIVEN TO US THROUGH NATURE, AND PLEDGE TO PRESERVE IT FOR OTHERS. 

Featuring the Allen Digital concert organ and the Steinway Grand in the Sanctuary, this Sunday Plymouth's music director Maestro Robert Nance will perform "Catharsis at the Keys: A Keyboard Concert," a delightful program of keyboard favorites. The concert is part of the Plymouth Music Series, is free and open to the public, and starts at 2 pm in the Plymouth Sanctuary.

Join fellow Fort Wayne residents for an evening of singing resistance! We will gather for a simple supper and an evening of singing together from 6-8 pm, Tuesday, March 24 at Plymouth Church. A sign-up sheet is located in the Folsom Room. 

Singing Resistance is building a mass movement of singers to protect and care for our communities in the face of rising authoritarianism. We welcome everyone into the movement for collective liberation. We are fighting for a future in which all people - Black, Brown, Indigenous, immigrant, trans, queer, disabled, poor - and the Earth are safe and sovereign. Through song, we can refuse to obey what authoritarianism wants us to do - get small, numb out, and forget. Instead, we will mobilize our communities in public, we will feel, and we will tell the truth of the violence and of the resistance.

Wednesday Night Live programming continues this Wednesday. At 5:00 pm there will be adult choir rehearsal. At 5:15 pm there will be Lenten Book Study with Rev. Timothy, followed by dinner at 6:00 pm. Handbells will meet at 6:30 pm. All activities are open to anyone in the church, regardless of membership status. Come for activities or just come for dinner and fellowship! The suggested cost for dinner is $10 per person, though no one will be turned away due to the inability to pay. If you plan to come for dinner, please sign up in the Folsom Room in advance so our caterer knows how much food to prepare. Hope to see you there!


The passcode to join the book study on Zoom is 773232.

We continue our weekly Lenten book study with How to be an Antiracist, by Ibram X Kendi.

This study, led by Reverend Timothy, continues through April 1, meeting every Wednesday at 5:15 pm in the Chapel.

The book is available at local bookstores, for order online, or for checkout through Allen County Public Library.

There will be a celebration of life service for Rick Stoerker on Saturday, April 4 at 11 am. Visitation with the family will be held from 10-11 am, and there will be a reception following the service. Memorial gifts may be made to Plymouth Church for the Richard C. Hess Peace Studies Scholarship Fund.

If you'd like to order flowers for Easter, the form is available at the link below. 

Lilies and dwarf yellow daffodils can be ordered for $11. The flowers will be delivered to the church, and may be taken home after Easter service on Sunday, April 5. The deadline for orders will be midnight, Palm Sunday, March 29. 

Flowers may be purchased on their own, or dedicated in memory, or in celebration. Options for dedications are included in the form.