WE HAVE HEAT!

Our new boilers are up and running and heat has been restored to the Meeting House. Other areas of the church facility are in process. Many thanks to Gene Matthews for his diligent oversight of this project and his efforts to ensure the building remained habitable as the weather cooled.

Thank you to everyone who loaned the church space heaters. You may pick up your heaters at your convenience. All the heaters are in the alcove directly across from the office entrance.

Wednesday Night Supper

The November Wednesday Night Supper will start at 5:45 on Wednesday, November 20. It's TACO NIGHT! Our wonderful cooks will be Maria Lorenzo Juan and Lidia Regalado Martinez, both from Guatemala. We don't want to run out of food, so be sure to sign up. Sign-up sheets are in the hallway or here. Four individuals might want to sign up to bring cake for dessert. Otherwise, you don't need to bring anything. Donations on the night of the supper are gladly accepted.

Reserve your loaf today! You can sign up at church on the sheet in the gallery, or by clicking the link below.  Loaves are $12, and payment is due at pickup.



The funds raised will all go to buy gifts for children in the Holiday Helping Hands program at OCS. Please buy some pumpkin bread and help our youth help others!

Oberlin Ecumenical Carol-sing

Greetings First Church Faith Community,  

The Outreach Committee and Oberlin Ecumenical Carol-sing Task Force invite you to participate in the Oberlin Ecumenical Carol-Sing, this December 22. Many of those who participated last year share that they felt connected and inspired following this special celebration. We are positively anticipating that we again will be upheld, encouraged, and inspired as we gather, worship, and celebrate Christ’s coming.

Included below is the letter of description and invitation that we have sent to Oberlin Churches, Fellowships, and Communities.

We invite you to join us!  

If you are interested in offering a musical selection via a solo, duet, trio, small choir, a piece of art, a reading, interpretive dance, reading one of the scriptural passages, or preparing Christmas cookies, treats, etc., please contact the church at office@firstchurchoberlin.org or Becky Thompson at beckythompson139@gmail.com.

We hope you will join us! 

First Church Outreach Committee

The Oberlin Ecumenical Carol-Sing Task Force

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!