Nursery
A nursery is provided for ages 3 & under in the Ministry Center room 1.23 under normal circumstances but not at this current time.
A nursery is provided for ages 3 & under in the Ministry Center room 1.23 under normal circumstances but not at this current time.
Sunday School
Preschool age children
Watch our Children's Worship & Wonder Video on our Worship page or on Facebook
Preschool age children
Watch our Children's Worship & Wonder Video on our Worship page or on Facebook
Kindergarten – 5th Grade children
Invited to worship with us at 10:00 am
or watch our online service
and the Children's Worship Video on the Worship page or on Facebook.
We hope to gather again in person as soon as we can do so safely!
Invited to worship with us at 10:00 am
or watch our online service
and the Children's Worship Video on the Worship page or on Facebook.
We hope to gather again in person as soon as we can do so safely!
Middle & High School
Invited to worship with us at 10:00 am
or watch our online service
Sunday School on Zoom at 8:30 am
link and passcode in Sunday email
Invited to worship with us at 10:00 am
or watch our online service
Sunday School on Zoom at 8:30 am
link and passcode in Sunday email
Children’s Worship & Wonder
After the Children’s Moment at 11:00 am worship, children ages 3 through 2nd grade may attend Worship & Wonder in the Ministry Center room 1.25. This is an age-appropriate time of worship where children can grow in their understanding of God and praise God through prayers and songs.
*Currently found ONLINE on our Worship Page and on Facebook, we are not having a Children's moment at our 10:00 am worship service.
After the Children’s Moment at 11:00 am worship, children ages 3 through 2nd grade may attend Worship & Wonder in the Ministry Center room 1.25. This is an age-appropriate time of worship where children can grow in their understanding of God and praise God through prayers and songs.
*Currently found ONLINE on our Worship Page and on Facebook, we are not having a Children's moment at our 10:00 am worship service.
Caste: What Would Jesus Do?
Leaders: Lloyd Griffith
Begins: January 17 - May 2
Location: Via Zoom from 8:30 - 9:30 am
Text Referenced: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Caste: What Would Jesus Do? This class is a review of the history of a powerful caste system which unconsciously influences our lives and behavior beyond race, class or other factors. It explores our response in shedding this inherited thread and awakening to the kingdom of God that Jesus saw among us. The class is offered on Sunday mornings at 8:30 am via zoom. The meeting ID and Passcode are available in your Sunday email if you would like to be included in on the email list for this book study fill out the form below. The study text is Caste by Isabel Wilkerson and is available through Amazon. I hope you will join us and friends are also welcome! Please fill out the form below to get on the email for this book study.
Begins: January 17 - May 2
Location: Via Zoom from 8:30 - 9:30 am
Text Referenced: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Caste: What Would Jesus Do? This class is a review of the history of a powerful caste system which unconsciously influences our lives and behavior beyond race, class or other factors. It explores our response in shedding this inherited thread and awakening to the kingdom of God that Jesus saw among us. The class is offered on Sunday mornings at 8:30 am via zoom. The meeting ID and Passcode are available in your Sunday email if you would like to be included in on the email list for this book study fill out the form below. The study text is Caste by Isabel Wilkerson and is available through Amazon. I hope you will join us and friends are also welcome! Please fill out the form below to get on the email for this book study.
Click the buttons below for reading material related to the class.
The Present Word
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"Wisdom Literature"
Location: on Zoom Sunday at 10:00 am - 11:00 am TIME CHANGING TO 11:15 AM ON 2/21/2021 The Present Word is a cooperative curriculum written and supported by five denominations, including PCUSA. It is designed to cover the entire Bible in five-year cycles, but each quarter stands on its own. George Evans will lead the winter quarter of "The Present Word class is studying "Call in the New Testament" Gene Peele and Darryl Warren will assist. Please contact George Evans (gkevans4@gmail.com) to receive a meeting room ID and password. |
Centering Prayer Group & Contemplative Worship
(live & on Zoom)
As we head again into the Advent Season preparing for the birth of Christ among us, I want to clarify the difference between contemplation and centering prayer. In the early Christian tradition contemplation was the normal evolution of a genuine spiritual life and open to everyone. It was understood as intimate knowledge based on personal experience of God’s Spirit.
Each Wednesday evening at 5:00 pm we gather for Contemplative Worship that centers on this experiential knowing. We begin with listening to the scripture reading selected for preaching the coming Sunday. We listen again to the same reading to pay closer attention to what the passage is saying to us. Then we offer our own prayer to God sharing what we have heard and how we feel about it. We finally let go of our thoughts and rest in the silence for God’s Spirit to respond.
Over time this early tradition developed into different types of prayer and furthered the notion among many that intimate knowing based on an experience of God’s Spirit was reserved for only a few. In this evolution the openness of the spiritual journey to all got pushed to the side.
Centering prayer is a way of returning to the earlier tradition of a genuine spiritual life for all by intentionally nurturing our intuitive faculties that have been repressed in the modern age. Each Wednesday at noon our Centering Prayer Group meets to study different spiritual masters who guide us in letting go of our thoughts and consenting to the presence and action of God’s Spirit within each of us. We help each other be more intentional about the spiritual journey we feel led to make.
Both Contemplative Worship and Centering Prayer are open to anyone at any time. This is an invitation to sense a nudge from the Holy Spirit and try one of these gathering out. It is a timely preparation of our heart for welcoming the birth of the Christ child among us.
Lloyd
Trail Guide
Each Wednesday evening at 5:00 pm we gather for Contemplative Worship that centers on this experiential knowing. We begin with listening to the scripture reading selected for preaching the coming Sunday. We listen again to the same reading to pay closer attention to what the passage is saying to us. Then we offer our own prayer to God sharing what we have heard and how we feel about it. We finally let go of our thoughts and rest in the silence for God’s Spirit to respond.
Over time this early tradition developed into different types of prayer and furthered the notion among many that intimate knowing based on an experience of God’s Spirit was reserved for only a few. In this evolution the openness of the spiritual journey to all got pushed to the side.
Centering prayer is a way of returning to the earlier tradition of a genuine spiritual life for all by intentionally nurturing our intuitive faculties that have been repressed in the modern age. Each Wednesday at noon our Centering Prayer Group meets to study different spiritual masters who guide us in letting go of our thoughts and consenting to the presence and action of God’s Spirit within each of us. We help each other be more intentional about the spiritual journey we feel led to make.
Both Contemplative Worship and Centering Prayer are open to anyone at any time. This is an invitation to sense a nudge from the Holy Spirit and try one of these gathering out. It is a timely preparation of our heart for welcoming the birth of the Christ child among us.
Lloyd
Trail Guide
Journey through the Bible...
The Adult Education Commission is excited to offer those who are interested to “journey through the bible” in a year with Rev. Eddie Bellis. We will meet once a week to discuss the general themes of the scripture as laid out in the Kerygma: Discover the Bible curriculum. Kerygma Bible Study: Continues …
We have been using this study since September and are really enjoying the study. So we are inviting new members as we continue our journey. Our course times are each Wednesday– starting at 7 pm starting and lasting about 90 minutes.
Discovering the Bible is a comprehensive introduction to the Bible as a whole and we just finished the Old Testament. The course continues in the New Testament and would be a good opportunity to receive new members and fellow pilgrims in the journey. This course seeks to underscore the interest in seeing the interconnectedness of the many part of the Bible; more than learning just the content about each book of the Bible. We will use Zoom as our format and Zoom links will be sent each week. There is nothing to bring except for your Bible, your workbook, your sense of humor, a computer, and yourself. The workbook is $35. Scholarships are available upon request.
Please call the office at 252-637-3270 or email eddie@firstpresnb.org if you would like to join the group and to get your workbook.
We have been using this study since September and are really enjoying the study. So we are inviting new members as we continue our journey. Our course times are each Wednesday– starting at 7 pm starting and lasting about 90 minutes.
Discovering the Bible is a comprehensive introduction to the Bible as a whole and we just finished the Old Testament. The course continues in the New Testament and would be a good opportunity to receive new members and fellow pilgrims in the journey. This course seeks to underscore the interest in seeing the interconnectedness of the many part of the Bible; more than learning just the content about each book of the Bible. We will use Zoom as our format and Zoom links will be sent each week. There is nothing to bring except for your Bible, your workbook, your sense of humor, a computer, and yourself. The workbook is $35. Scholarships are available upon request.
Please call the office at 252-637-3270 or email eddie@firstpresnb.org if you would like to join the group and to get your workbook.
Monday Evening Women's Bible StudyCurrently Reading: Luke
New Text: Sermon on the Mount: A Beginner's Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven by Dr. Amy-Jill Levine The Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7, contains some of Jesus' most profound and most memorable teachings. What might these teachings have meant to his disciples, and to the others who first heard them? How do they enhance our reading of the rest of the Gospel of Matthew, and how do they speak across the centuries to listeners today? How, if we pay careful attention to his words, does Jesus provide us a road map to living as God would have us live? We will begin using this new text on March 29th you can order this text on Amazon and it is available in paperback or Kindle versions. Leaders: Wendy Moeller & Marice DeBruhl Meets: Monday 7 pm - 8:30 pm Location: on Zoom General questions: contact Wendy Moeller or Marice Debruhl. Please contact: Cathy Wingfield (cathy@firstpresnb.org) to be added to the email list and to get Meeting ID and password or for Zoom specific questions. 
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Thursday Morning Women's Bible StudyLeader: Maren Sonstegard-Spray
Meets:10 am - 11 am Every Thursday Location: on Zoom Text: Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others" by Barbara Brown Taylor. Please contact: Rev. Dr. Maren Sonstegard-Spray (Maren@firstpresnb.org) to join and get on the mailing list for reading assignments and Zoom meeting ID and password. The Thursday Women's Bible Study is going to read "Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others" by Barbara Brown Taylor. We will start the book on Thursday, April 15 and read it over 6 weeks, ending on May 20.
A word about the book: Barbara Brown Taylor is a very engaging writer and this is written as a spiritual memoir, as her sharing an experience of how teaching world religions as a Christian helped her gain understanding of her own faith. You may not agree with everything she writes, but I don't think she is asking us to. There is value for us in listening to a story outside our own experience and in the end she discovers a new way to look at what we as Christians consider the greatest teaching of our faith: love of God and our neighbor. You can purchase the paperback book or kindle version on Amazon - link below (If you need help getting a copy of the book, please respond to this email or contact Maren): https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Envy-Finding-Faith-Others/dp/0062406574/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=holy+envy&qid=1614282362&sr=8-1 |
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Montreat Women's Summer Conference
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Pilgrimage to Iona, Scotland –
Tentatively planning to travel in 2021 … contact Lloyd if you have any questions.
Tentatively planning to travel in 2021 … contact Lloyd if you have any questions.