First Christian Church

We're so excited to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior this Christmas Eve with Free City @ 5:30 p.m.! (1000 Kentucky Street)
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Join us at First Christian for our Christmas Eve service at 5:30 PM. This year we will be joined by Free City Church! See the invite for details.

We loved seeing so many friendly faces at our annual meeting and holiday dinner on Sunday! Thanks to all who donated their time and yummy food to the occasion!

Please join us in collecting hygiene items for Just Food's "Just Basics" drive. You can find the drop-off bin just inside our SW entrance, which is accessible Mon-Thurs 8 a.m. - 4 p.m., Fri 8 a.m. - 12 p.m., and Sunday mornings. Let's work together to bless our community during this time of need! 🫶🙏🏻

Women of FCC, come and be inspired to intercede for your families! The movie "War Room" will be shown at the church on Friday night, October 10 at 7:00 p.m. It was created by the makers of the films "Courageous" and "Fireproof." With heart and humor it will compel you to stand on God's Word as you pray. Bring a snack to share if you like. Hope to see you there!

"The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective." James 5:16

Some of our Giving Tree teachers had a fun night out last night for a Provider Appreciation Night. They enjoyed a taco bar, Bingo, and fun prizes, thanks to Lawrence Douglas County Public Health. A well-deserved treat for some amazing teachers! 👏

Thank you Lawrence Douglas County Public Health for a fantastic Provider Appreciation Night.

We are grateful for the opportunity to enjoy a night out together. We had a blast, but we missed Ms. Maddie and the rest of our substitute teaching team.

Dear FCC Family,

This can be a rough time for sports fans, especially if your favorite team has stumbled coming out of the gate (like certain football teams) or has fallen flat as they wind down to the end of the season (like my favorite baseball team). For sports teams, the goal is always winning the championship. Most years, that doesn’t happen, and you end your season on a sour note. Or if you do win, the joy is fleeting, since you have to start all over the next year.

The same is true on so many other fronts. It’s great to have goals and to pursue those goals—provided they are worthy ends. There’s not much to praise if I have succeeded in becoming a master deceiver, the best thief, the laziest person in my family. But even if I reach all my goals, if those ends are themselves inherently temporary, I’m still left unsatisfied.

One solution is to retrain my mind and heart to find satisfaction in the attempt, to enjoy the journey, without being too concerned about reaching a certain goal. There is some merit to this, I must admit, and a lot to commend it as a way of life. If nothing else, it can free me from living a performance-based life, which always leads to disappointment and self-recrimination or pride and self-delusion. Either way, I misunderstand my true value. And learning to appreciate the goodness in simply seeking personal growth and making a positive difference in the people and situations around me in my day-to-day life is a great source of peace and personal satisfaction.

But that can also be a deceptive diversion from true satisfaction. For if I’m only trying to see what I can do to make myself feel better, I’m missing the point of life, the reason for which I was created and redeemed. Jesus said that he had come to give us life, and life abundantly—but it could only be found in him. Because only the life that he gave would last beyond the few fading breaths of our time on this side of eternity. If I want to find true satisfaction in my life, I must take up the goals that can only be reached and measured when we arrive on the other side of this preliminary stage of matters and finish the journey to those goals that can only be reached by staying as close as possible to the one who has made the way for us.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who lives, but Christ lives in me. And the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself up for me. (Galatians 2:20)

To live is Christ, and to die is gain. (Philippians 1:21)

May you find great joy in seeking the kingdom of God, which will never grow old, but endure forever; and in joining together to worship our King with the rest of his beloved children.

Pastor Barry

We're making bracelets today to put in shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child! We want children around the world to be blessed with the knowledge that Jesus loves them 🙏🏻🤍

It was a windy, but beautiful day for our annual church picnic!

Join us Friday evening @ 6:30 p.m. for our Good Friday service - 1000 Kentucky Street