Wednesday Night Supper Task Force

Have you enjoyed our Third Wednesday Night Suppers at First Church?

Would you like to see them continue?

Do you have some ideas for themes and menus for the suppers?

If so, maybe you'd like to be on a task force to help plan and serve the Third Wednesday Night Suppers this fall semester: September 17, October 15, and November 19.

Just email our office manager, Miranda Schaum, First Church in Oberlin at office@firstchurchoberlin.org or call the church office at 440-775-1711 to let us know your interest. We'll get back to you to firm up an initial meeting date and time during the last week of August.

Sowing Seeds of Love

More beautiful beans have been shared with us! Thank you to Vladimir for sending some fantastic results of the Sowing Seeds of Love project from the Spring Festival. These lovely Ohio Heirloom Blue Lake Bush green beans are strong and healthy with the tender loving care that was given to them! Thank you, Vladimir!

Make sure to keep sending in those plants, we'll keep posting them!

First Church is going out to the Ball Game!

On August 22nd, First Church will be going as a group to the local Minor League team, the Lake Erie Crushers, for a night of Fellowship and Fun! For only $12/person, enjoy a 1st base private entrance, a Q&A session before the game, a panel with the players, and a fireworks show in addition to a baseball game! 

Please sign up using the sheet by Fellowship Hall or by calling (440)775-1711 and leaving a voicemail with your name, phone number, and how many people are in your party.

For payment, make checks payable to The First Church in Oberlin with "Baseball Game" in the memo line. All payment is due by Sunday, August 10th.

First Church Represents at Lorain County Pride!

We've been featured in the Newspaper once again, this time in the Chronicle Telegram! First Church represented at Lorain County Pride and two of our members had their pictures taken. Check out the article about Lorain County Pride and you'll also see their picture!

Ruth Ann Clark: ruthann.clark@mac.com 440-935-2393

Anne Sprague: moderator@firstchurchoberlin.org 440-396-5010

Miranda Schaum: office@firstchurchoberlin.org 440-775-1711

Got questions?

Here's who can help you. 

Our standing committees are made up of the volunteers who address the various aspects of our church life. The people on those committees can help answer your questions. 

Does the switch not work in the Reading Room? 

Call someone on Facilities. 

Do you want to help with our children? 

Ask a member of Faith Formation.

Click here for a brief description of our committees and their membership. If in doubt, you can always ask the Moderator or a member of the Executive Council.  

Faith Formation search

The Personnel Committee is in the process of assembling a search committee to hire a new Faith Formation staff person. The search committee will include representatives from the Faith Formation Committee, our youth, and parents of children or youth, and should not exceed 6 members. This group will be tasked with updating the job description so it can begin the search at the beginning of the program year.

Please let Moderator Anne Sprague know if you are interested in participating in this important group and process.

Sowing Seeds of Love

Here are some of the lovely results from our Sowing Seeds of Love Project! Ohio Heirloom Seeds have been healthy and good! From left to right are Blue Lake Bush Beans (on the top), Straight Eight Cucumbers, and Tomatoes. Thank you to Linda Gwinn for sharing her lovely greens with us!

First Church building rental opportunities

The First Church buildings offer numerous opportunities for meetings, rehearsals, concerts, weddings, and family events. After long study, a reasonable rental fee schedule has been worked out to offer fair use of the facility to our members and our neighbors. Large rooms (the Meeting House, Fellowship Hall, or JFO Room) and small rooms (upstairs classrooms, Room 4, Reading Room) can be reserved by the hour or by the half day. Discounted rates for church members and community partners may be available. The city of Oberlin has limited spaces available for events, and we are happy to offer our facility to help fill that need for our neighbors.

There Are Requirements for Making Submissions to our First Things First eNews!

In an effort to make our eNews more readable and shorten the length, we have created new guidelines for submitting posts! The guidelines are as follows.

1. As usual, the deadline for submissions for the upcoming First Things First is Wednesday prior to 10 AM.
2. We will not be putting in any non-First Church job postings.
3. We will not be putting in any full flyers as the submission (however, we will put in a button that links to a PDF of the flyer).
4. There is a word limit of 100 words for the text of a submission.
5. You may insert links into the text post for more information, either by button or hyperlink in the text.
6. You may insert PDFs (accessible by buttons) for more information, a flyer, or anything else that would be helpful for the post, but the document must be in PDF format. Any other document format will not be included in your submission.
7. You may send one picture that you have the rights to use (i.e. a picture that is not subject to copyright, we suggest using the site pexels.com).
8. The submission will run for a maximum of 2 weeks in the eNews. These 2 weeks do not have to be consecutive.

When sending in your submission, you must have

• The title of the post
• The text of the post (maximum of 100 words)
• Which 2 weeks you'd like for your submission to run

When sending in your submission, you could have

• If you'd like, one picture
• If you'd like, PDFs (and what you'd want the title of the button that links to it to be)
• If you'd like, the links for spots in the text post (and which word(s) you'd like to be the hyperlink or what you'd want the title of the button to be)

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we try to make our eNews experience more manageable for our readers!