We hope you will be part of this fun event for children and families! Parents/caregivers are free to do whatever they want/need for a few hours,and youth are needed to help! Children Age Zero through 5th Grade Friday, May 31, 2024 from 5-9pmFirst Baptist Church – 125 SE Cowls Street McMinnville, OR 97128 FREE!Registration Required…
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Church Updates
Financial giving in March was very strong. We also made our first transfer of funds from memorial savings to the general fund. We ended the first quarter with a positive net income for the first time for 2024. We are so appreciative. You may check on your financial contributions to First Baptist Church through our…
Saturday, April 20 3pm – Planet vs. Plastics program featuring speaker CJ Hanks of Eloheh Farmin the FBC Sanctuary Interactive displays and plant-based snacks available in Walker Hall before and after the program. Sponsors: Zero Waste McMinnville, First Baptist Church, St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, McMinnville Cooperative Ministries & Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship Sunday, April 2110am – Creation Care-themed Worship Gatheringin the…
Join us for VBS 2024! Our theme this summer is Seekers in Sneakers, where children learn that everyone can make a difference in the world! We will learn about people who experienced and brought about change in the world around them. These people provide a model for asking hard questions, working together to solve problems, reaching…
Maundy Thursday March 28, 6:30pm – Soup, Silence, Stations & SongsWe’ll gather for a meal as friends, in memory of Jesus’ last meal with his friends, and consider what it means to belong to one another and to journey together. Come to the Social Hall for a simple supper (bring soup or bread to share,…
This summer we are excited to be partnering AGAIN with S.L.A.M. (Students Learning About Missions) Trips for a cross-cultural service and learning trip within an indigenous paradigm! We will spend several days in the Yakama Reservation, which lies along the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountain Range and the Yakima River in south-central Washington; our…
As a part of our continued relationship and work with the indigenous people of the Yakama Reservation in Washington state, following our Service Learning Trip there in the summer of 2023, we are excited to be hosting Dancing Our Prayers on Saturday, March 2 at 6:30 pm at First Presbyterian Church! Dancing Our Prayers are teams of Native teens…
We appreciate your ongoing contributions during 2023. Your gifts and offerings made possible ministry that supported our FBC Mission Statement. If you have not reviewed our 2023 Annual Report, you may download it via this link. Finance Committee: Jane Apel, Barbara Burr, Roger Dell, Judee Kunze, Don Watson.
There may be good reasons you need to get out and brave the elements tomorrow, but we’re not going to let church be one of them. We’re following the lead of several of our sister congregations and cancelling the in-person service at FBC tomorrow, which means we won’t be live-streaming on Facebook, either. Instead, here’s…
In 2024, gather with a small group of FBC friends to make the ordinary sacred. Journey through the seasons of the year and the seasons of the church with invitations to explore, reflect, create, learn, discuss, pray, and feast. We’ll be using Seasons of Wonder by Bonnie Smith Whitehouse, described by its publishers as “a 52-week…