We will stream a live Ash Wednesday Service from our Sanctuary on February 17 at 7 p.m. To attend you can visit https://live.firstpresevanston.org (our regular Sunday morning online location).

A brief Zoom fellowship time and

A Fellowship Time will take place on Zoom this Sunday, right after our online service ends. Following this time, we will transition to our Mission Adult Education Class hosted by Mission Council.

Please see the attached brochure for details and join us!!

Join us at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/478195199?pwd=eFNvbzgrakZQcTkzQ1FnbDBWUnlYZz09.

The Zoom Meeting ID is 478 195 199 and the password is 207174.

This book is about helping people to learn simple and natural ways to build relationships with people who don’t yet know God, and how to have natural spiritual conversations with them in a way that is comfortable for both you and them. There are 13 chapters in this book, and the study will consist of watching one of the DVD lessons and then discussing the reflection questions at the end of each chapter. To sign-up, contact Barb Smith at barbsmith45@rcn.com. 

You can order the book or learn more about it here on Amazon.

Pray this week for our partners at Interfaith Action and the members of the homeless community that they serve. This week has been particularly cold weather and IA has worked to coordinate longer Warming Center hours, multiple daily meals through the many faith partners, and transportation in the cold to the emergency overnight shelter. Pray for continued health and safety of IA staff and volunteers. Pray also for those in our community who are fighting a daily battle for survival. Praise that we continually see our city and churches come together to serve and show the love of Christ to those most vulnerable in our community.

We are not accepting donations for the Deacons Clothes Closet at this time. Donations left at FPCE (other than new face masks), will be discarded. CLICK HERE for alternative giving locations!

Nourish, a women's fellowship, meets this winter on Thursdays at 10 am via Zoom. Please join our weekly virtual gatherings for a study discussion of 1 and 2 Kings, sharing, and prayer. Women of all ages are invited! Contact Sally Ivaska at sallyivaska1@gmail.com for the Zoom link.

The Men's Breakfast group continues to meet weekly on Saturday mornings from 8-9 am via Zoom for scripture, prayer and speakers (but BYO Breakfast). Please join us!

Feb. 13 (Rescheduled) - WOMEN ARE WELCOME TO JOIN US FOR THIS SPECIAL EVENT. Former FPCE member and current Professor of New Testament and Dean of the Faculty at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids Dr. Gary Burge will be speaking as we continue our video lecture series, "The New Testament in Antiquity". Gary skillfully teaches about the land, history, and culture of the first-century world, and issues of interpretation derived from cultural observations, thereby providing us with new insights into the New Testament. This week Gary will be speaking on "The Story of Jesus".

Contact Bob Bastian at Bob.Bastian55@gmail.com for the meeting link.

Book Club will meet on Tuesday, February 16 from 1:30-3 pm. We will be reading Lilian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney. According to Good Reads, the book is "a love letter to city life—however shiny or sleazy... Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop." Contact Julie Ruchniewicz at jruchniewicz@firstpresevanston.org for the meeting link.

Click on the links above or visit the Employment page on the FPCE website for details, or email Janice at jdobschuetz@firstpresevanston.org.

Summary notes from the January Session Meeting are available here.  

The most recent summary of the Chicago Presbytery Meeting is available here.