Welcome to FCC’s Online Worship Services
Please join us each Sunday for worship at 10:00 am. You can join us in three ways: 1) through our livestreamed service accessed HERE; 2) in person in our beautiful sanctuary. Please wear a mask and read our latest COVID update HERE; 3) through our website or YouTube channel HERE at any time following the live-streamed service.
Download the bulletin for Sunday, June 20th.
Join us each Friday at 6:30 pm for a reflective Jazz Vespers Moment, offered to give you a bit of soul-soothing respite. This brief service of music, scripture, and poetry is posted right here on our homepage. Download the bulletin for our most recent Jazz Vespers Moment.
Past Sunday worship services can be found HERE. Past Jazz Vespers Moments can be found HERE.
First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Sundays at 10:00 am at www.fccbloomington.org
Join us on Sundays at 10:00 am for worship that is livestreamed from our beautiful sanctuary in downtown Bloomington. As we continue to protect one another by worshipping online, we will gather "virtually" online each week at 10:00 am. Simply click on the "livestream" button right here on our homepage to access the worship service. We will archive each service for viewing at a later time for anyone who misses the livestream or who would like to watch the service at another time.
Every Friday at 6:30pm
Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
Join us every Sunday at 10am from the safety and comfort of your home.
Summer Forum Series begins June 6
4-Week Course with Rev. April Johnson – Sundays in June at 11:15 am via Zoom
Join us for FCC’s Summer Forum series on becoming a pro-reconciling and anti-racist church community. This series will kick-off with a 4-week course led by Rev. April Johnson, Minister of Reconciliation for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). We will meet weekly on Sundays from 11:15 am-12:15 pm via Zoom for the month of June. Join us!
To participate in Rev. Johnson’s 4-week course in June register HERE.
Session One: Defining Messages and Moments
There are many terms used in the conversation about race and racism. We will explore the genesis and language that surrounds the ministry and message of anti-racism and pro-reconciliation. Participants will discuss “why” anti-racism and “what” does it mean to us in this reflexive moment for racial equity and justice. We will define anti-racism terms and together, build a shared language for each.
Session Two: Power of Our Story
In this session, we will take a look at the ways ‘story’ perpetuates the reality and myths about race and racism. If race is a social construct, how is it a sustained reality in our current context? I will address the three difference expression of the misuse of power in racism. We will look at how story and history inform our interpretation of race and racism. Luke 13:18-21
Session Three: Parable Party
In the bible Jesus used parables to help people think about how power worked in their context and how power would work within God’s kingdom. Thinking about our own context, how would you rewrite the parable for “The kingdom of God is like today?”
Session Four: The Miracle Story
In this session, we will re-visit the topic of “knowing your why.” What would your miracle story look like if you prayed for an end to racism? How would you know in your work, your home, your church that it had happened? We will begin to draw a picture and a plan to be a part of God’s unfolding miracle story to disrupt racism where we are and where we have influence. We will take our miracle stories and turn them into a next steps action plan.
An Invitation to Community
As God has welcomed us, we welcome you.
With all our differences–
in age, ability and physical condition,
in race, cultural background and economic status,
in sexual orientation, gender identity & family structure–
God has received each one
with loving kindness, patience, and joy.
All that we are together
and all that we hope to be
is made more perfect
as the richness of varied lives
meets the mystery of God’s unifying Spirit
and we become the Body of Christ.
An Invitation to Community
As God has welcomed us, we welcome you.
With all our differences–
in age, ability and physical condition,
in race, cultural background and economic status,
in sexual orientation, gender identity & family structure–
God has received each one
with loving kindness, patience, and joy.
All that we are together
and all that we hope to be
is made more perfect
as the richness of varied lives
meets the mystery of God’s unifying Spirit
and we become the Body of Christ.
