Food Trucks and First Baptist

This article originally appeared in our July 2014 Connections newsletter. Read the entire newsletter here. Sunday, June 22 was Food Truck Sunday at First Baptist. Hundreds of us stayed after worship to enjoy lunch on our front lawn provided by several local food truck...

Walking in Darkness

Article (by Alan Sherouse) printed in the on page 3. You can access the newsletter . The prophet Isaiah – whom we might call the prophet of Advent – knew the light of God’s presence. But he also knew darkness. One of the reasons Isaiah speaks so deeply to us in the...

Fliers on our windows

To the person who canvased the First Baptist Church parking lot with political leaflets last Sunday: Perhaps you missed our “No Soliciting” sign. That I can understand. Perhaps a large parking lot full of cars was too hard to pass up at 11:00am on a Sunday morning. I...

Lessons from Elsewhere

This article originally appeared in our August 2014 Connections newsletter. Read the entire newsletter here. Throughout the summer, members and friends of First Baptist have joined together on Tuesday nights for Downtown Prayer Walks, organized by our Deacon Chair,...

Open Church – FBC year program theme

Audio from the State of the Church lunch meeting.  Alan sharing his remarks following his first year at First Baptist Church and this year’s program theme of “Open Church.”  Article (by Alan Sherouse) printed in the October Connections newsletter...