We know that many of you are wondering about the plans to resume in-person services this Fall. Your Executive Team (Standing and Deacons) have been meeting regularly throughout the summer to craft a road map to bringing us all together in our sanctuary again. It is our goal and intention to celebrate our reopening in… Read More »
Behind the Scenes at Standing Committee
Since we haven’t had a chance to see each other face-to-face, it may seem like there is not much going on around FCU these days. Nothing could be further from the truth. Our Standing Committee (SC) has been as busy as ever. Here are some of the things that the SC has been working on:… Read More »
Wow…Here We Are Now!
Wow… what a week this has been. A roller-coaster of emotions. My lowest day was mid-week as we endured the glacial pace of vote tallying, faced a return to red COVID-19 status and were confronted with the realization that the holiday season would look quite different this year. I kind of wanted to just hide… Read More »
Creative Members Re-Imagine FCU
Several months ago, the Standing Committee reached out to our committees and asked them to “re-imagine” their committees’ work in these crazy and unpredictable times of a world-wide pandemic. No doubt about it, we are living our lives very differently and “doing” church differently as well. With that said I’d like to share some of… Read More »
RE-Imagining FCU
While we dearly miss being together to worship and be in community in person, we are truly grateful that our online connection has been strong and vital. Every week of an online service has helped to “flatten” the technology learning curve and after months of online services we are getting pretty savvy I must say! When… Read More »
Stepping up for FCU
Hello to all from the Standing Committee. We want you to know that we are busy working on making a number of very important decisions involving reopening the church, the budget and hiring, to name a few. There is a lot to consider and we realize that we probably can’t do it all alone. We… Read More »
Re-Imagining Church in an Era of Covid-19
Here we are in the middle of a pandemic and it is certainly not what any of us have envisioned for this church year. Who would ever have guessed that we would be doing virtual services? Kudos to Rev Lara for putting so much creative effort into our online services even when the technology does… Read More »
We hope everyone has a wonderful summer.
We hope everyone has a wonderful summer. Thank you for helping us have a positive and productive first transition year. When the new church year starts we will use this blog to communicate the work we are doing and hear about what is important to you Peace! Deb Girard For the Standing Committee
