Events Serve Announcements Give Meet Susan Landphier, FPC’s Newest Admin Team Member We are excited to introduce Susan Landphier, who joined our administrative team on Monday! As the new face at the front desk, Susan is already making a great impression—greeting guests with a smile, answering phones, and jumping into the rhythms of FPC. Kristina Maher, FPC’s Business Administrator, … [Read more...]

Events Serve Announcements Give Good News and Great News! Many of us are wondering, and some are asking…“When in the world are we ever going to finish our parking lot?” Many of us remember pledging to a three-year campaign to fund the creation of our parking lot, and now I’m here to tell you that congregational contributions towards the existing parking lot and the associated loan expire … [Read more...]

Events Serve Announcements Give The Hope of Easter “There will always be a reason to quit.” That line was shared by one of my colleagues in a PhD seminar at Baylor last semester.  We were required to interview someone who had earned a PhD in our field, to ask them questions about their research, about their academic experience as a doctoral student, and practical questions, such as … [Read more...]

Events Serve Announcements Give God Has Another Light Several years ago, I took a seminar on preaching during the Civil Rights Movement. My research focused on Martin Luther King’s Easter sermons. I’d like to share an excerpt from one of those sermons, which Dr. King preached on Easter Sunday, March 29, 1959, at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. May it bless you as it … [Read more...]

Events Serve Announcements Give A Sonnet for Palm Sunday Malcolm Guite is an English poet and Anglican priest. This week I share with you his sonnet for Palm Sunday: Now to the gate of my Jerusalem,The seething holy city of my heart,The saviour comes. But will I welcome him?Oh crowds of easy feelings make a start;They raise their hands, get caught up in the singing,And think the battle … [Read more...]