Join us for a special PRIDE Worship Service this Sunday as we celebrate our LGBTQ+ family, friends and neighbors and affirm our commitment as an Open & Affirming congregation together!

Show your support of Oberlin PRIDE!

Stop by & visit First Church’s booth on SATURDAY, 6/27 between 12 and 4pm

First Church is hosting a table/booth at Oberlin PRIDE on Saturday, June 27 from 12 - 4pm at Oberlin College Science Center (119 Woodland St) rain or shine! (moves indoors if necessary)

Come celebrate PRIDE with LGBTQ+ family, friends & neighbors!

Jeanne McKibben Memorial Service and Reception

Sunday, July 12, 2:00 p.m., The First Church in Oberlin, UCC. Details to follow

OR if you want to help out by delivering 2 dozen homemade cookies or pastries packed for the freezer in the kitchen, we will happily accept those donations!

Thank you in advance!

First Church is Going Out to the Ball Game! 

On Saturday, July 18th, 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 $9/person, the Crushers are offering a Q&A session before the game, a panel with the players beforehand, and a fireworks show after the game in addition to the baseball game! If you'd like to go to the pre game festivities, those start at 5:45 PM at the stadium, but if you'd like to go with the church (and not see the pre game festivities), arrive at the church at 6 PM on July 18th!

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, July 5th.

First Church is once again participating in the Oberlin Community Services Annual Jaqui Willis Back to School Supply Drive!

Look for the Gray Tote Box the next time you come to the church and drop off some of the following materials, if possible!

Thanks for your consideration!

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!