Youth Group 2026 - 2027

The First Church Youth Group will have our first meeting of the year on Sunday night, August 30 at 7:00 in the JFO Room. This will be followed by a meeting with parents and youth at 8:00. Carisma will be discussing her plans for the upcoming school year and welcoming feedback.

Celebrate the Harvest: Wednesday Night Suppers are Back!

Fall is in the air. It’s time to gather around the table again. Join us as we kick off the season with our Third Wednesday Night Supper!

Date: Wednesday, September 16

Time: 5:45 PM

Main Dish: Tacos with all the fixings!

How You Can Participate

Bring a Dish: We invite you to bring a potluck dish featuring local seasonal ingredients—think fresh vegetables, vibrant salads, or hearty fall desserts!

Give a Donation: Monetary donations in lieu of a dish are always appreciated.

Lend a Hand: We’d love a few extra hands to help with setup or cleanup.

Sign Up Today!

Please let us know you’re coming and what category dish you’d like to bring and/or if you can come at 5:00 to help set up or stay afterward to clean up. You can sign up on the sheet in the hallway outside Fellowship Hall or here.

Friends and neighbors are always welcome—let’s come together and celebrate the bounty of the season!

FIRST CHURCH GOES TO THE THEATER

On Saturday, October 3rd at 7:30 p.m. First Church’s own Cecil Eastman will be performing in the play, Angel Street (Gaslight) at Clague Playhouse, 1371 Clague Rd, Westlake, OH 44145.

The Fellowship Committee is recommending that we purchase tickets for that date - and if that doesn’t work for you, there are other options including Sunday matinees!

You may purchase your tickets online or by calling the theater. They are $25.00 each, $24.00 for Seniors. Cecil recommends purchasing middle of theater tickets as soon as possible. (Avoid A1:1-5, A2:1-5) As we have learned, seats are selling very fast! 

We’ll plan to meet for dinner somewhere before the show, for those interested! More information to follow. For ticket information check the Clague Playhouse website or call the theater Box Office at 440-331-0403 Wed. through Sat. from 1-6PM with any questions or to order tickets.

Questions: Alana Kelley or Lori Taylor.

Are you interested in Creation Justice and our Environment?

Join our next First Church FIRST GREEN TEAM meeting! New date: Wednesday, September 2, at 4 PM, Reading Room. See you there! Questions? Call Kathleen at (440) 503-0123.

SAVE THE DATE!

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2 - 3:30 pm in the JFO Room - “GOOD PLANTS GONE BAD and Some Alternatives,” by Jennifer Windus of Ohio Invasive Species Council. Co-sponsored by Oberlin Native Plants Club & First Church Green Team.

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!