It’s the last hurrah before the penitential season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, February 17. In honor of the day, and eager for a day to celebrate, join us on zoom for a pancake party from 5:30 - 6:30. Join in anytime during that hour. 

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Join us via YouTube or Facebook for this month's Taizé Worship Service. View the bulletin here.

Join us via Zoom to worship together during our Ecumenical Ash Wednesday Service with our brothers and sisters of other area churches.  The service will also be streaming live on our Facebook and YouTube channels.  This is for group viewing and you will not need to have another browser window open.

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First Pres is offering an Inauguration Prayer Service via Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81710949139), on Tuesday, January 19 at 7:00 p.m., and on Wednesday, January 20, at 9:00 a.m. Join our staff for about a half-hour as we pray for our nation, for our incoming President and Vice-President, and for the safety of our leaders in Washington, DC and throughout the nation. 

Resident Minister Rev. Amy Ruhf has been called to active duty as a U.S. Navy Chaplain and will end her time as one of our pastors in Ann Arbor on January 31. Amy is a 2019 graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, and has used her time at First Pres to refine her call to mainline Protestant military chaplaincy. From Ann Arbor, Amy will travel to Newport, Rhode Island, for more training and then will move to the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida. There she will serve as a Navy Chaplain to those women and men stationed there.

Thursday, January 14, Noon – 1:00 p.m. via Zoom - The founding meeting of the Michigan Antislavery Society was held in the First Presbyterian Church, located on the southwest corner E. Huron and Division Streets, in 1836. This convention led to the establishment of the state’s second antislavery newspaper, Ann Arbor’s Signal of Liberty, in 1841 at the Huron Block on Broadway. Publisher Guy Beckley lived nearby on Pontiac Trail.

Monday, January 11, 7:00 p.m. via Zoom - Dr. Kelcey Stratton leads this month’s Stephen Ministry Continuing Education program “Compassionate Conversations in Times of Stress and Change: Supporting Emotional Well-Being.” It is open to all of you! When times are difficult, how do you recognize and respond to distress in yourself and others? Drawing on research-based theories and practices, this session will provide information, support strategies, and reflection tools to help provide compassionate support to those experiencing sadness, worry, loss, or uncertainty.