Your Sanctuary in the City… Living Faith
Coronavirus and Worship Updates
May 24 Virtual Service, available at 10:00 a.m.
During this Sunday’s worship service, you are invited to participate in a sharing of the Lord’s Supper. Please gather whatever elements you may have available – something to eat and something to drink – so that we may share in God’s abundant feast together.
May 10 Virtual Service available at 10 a.m.
Please see the Sermons tab under Worship, or our YouTube channel for other past sermons.
Holy Week Daily Videos: Available each day at noon!
Palm Sunday: https://youtu.be/S0KS2mDzpXg
Monday: https://youtu.be/hNnsPZV7zRw
Tuesday: https://youtu.be/fxUv7nb4XcY
Wednesday: https://youtu.be/FV6eFKC5Azg
Thursday: https://youtu.be/wuhMPwc7uOs
Friday: https://youtu.be/23-Jv2U6Ex4
Beginning Tuesday, March 17 our First Presbyterian Church building will be closed to all business. This closure includes cancellation of all classes and other activities held in our facility. We have also cancelled regular Sunday Worship at 10:00 and have virtual services on our YouTube Channel. Currently, our plan is to celebrate Easter the first Sunday we can worship together in person. We are developing other means of relating through virtual connectivity. Please, watch our website and Facebook page for more information about staying connected through these uncertain and unprecedented times. Staff will remain available and responsive through email.
May God’s grace and peace be with us all.
Please see our Pastoral Response to the COVID-19 situation by reading the letter here: pastoral-response-to-COVID-19.pdf
Other resources:
Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry: http://kzoolf.org/
Free coloring page from Illustrated Ministry: The coloring page features the prompt “God calls me…” and allows for a variety of possibilities for reflection:
- What is God calling me to do, or not do, right now?
- Who is God calling me to be?
- What name is it that God calls me?
- Download here
- Please see the Education page for more links and updates.
Virtual AA meetings:
Welcome to First Presbyterian Church! We believe God loves all people, without exception or exclusion. Wherever we are on life’s journey, God gathers us with our myriad experiences and perspectives to follow Jesus through love, learning, and service.
God calls us to be compassionate and committed, vital and visionary, alongside people of all faiths, engaging our beautiful and broken world.
We seek to live faith as a sanctuary in the city.
Sunday Worship
Our traditional Sunday Worship Service begins at 10:00 a.m. and includes organ and choir music. We invite children to attend worship and participate in the “Moment for Young Worshipers” after which they are escorted to Sunday School.
Living Faith
Our Mission: Grounded in living faith, receiving diversity as a gift, we seek to reflect Christ’s light in God’s world. Please take a moment to check out our Committees of Session and meet our staff.
Great finds on the internet!
Daily Lectionary Readings
News & Announcements – PCUSA
Presbytery of Lake Michigan
Religious News Service
Opportunities to learn and engage…
Our Reading Aloud group meets each Sunday at 9:15 a.m. in Room 300.
Observe and discuss the Scripture to be used in the day’s worship service.
A Renewed Vision for Ministry and Mission
Vision
First Presbyterian Church of Kalamazoo, Michigan, will be a sanctuary in the city with love, hope, peace, and service, living our faith as a contemplative and active presence in the world.
Mission
Grounded in living faith, receiving diversity as a gift, we seek to reflect Christ’s light in God’s world. Continually discerning God’s vision of grace and peace, we share inspirational worship, spiritual nurture, compassionate service to others, and the pursuit of justice—all to the glory of God.
