Empowering Women and Girls at Hope Haven…

This March, our Mission & Outreach Committee invites our church family to turn our hearts toward our sisters in Christ at the Hope Haven Program in Ndola, Zambia, one of the life-changing ministries supported through Phoebe Foundation Africa (PFA).

Your donations will help provide much needed: Sewing machines, fabric, thread, and basic sewing materials. These are simple tools—but in the hands of a woman seeking a new beginning, they become instruments of hope…

We Need You

We will be serving our unhoused neighbors at A Place to Be on March 11 at 11:30 a.m. and Sharing Christ Ministry on March 14 for their evening meal at 5:00 p.m.  We are looking for volunteers to bring casseroles, applesauce, dinner rolls, and Little Debbie cakes. We are also looking for volunteers to help set up, serve and clean up for both locations. If you can help, click HERE to sign up or contact Cyndi Madison…

Join Us! Signups Due March 8!

For 25 years, FPC Bristol has been blessed by our partnership with the Presbyterian Church and school in Felipe Camarão, Brazil. This year a team from First Pres will travel May 28 or 29 and return June 5 or 6 (dates still being determined). Each day will be filled with opportunities to learn from the pastors, members, teachers, and students through interactions in a variety of activities in the classrooms, church, neighborhood, and region…

You’re Invited…

The Pastor Nominating Committee invites everyone to complete the congregational survey, which is available February 8–March 2.  Your responses will help shape the Minister’s Discernment Profile and guide our search for FPC’s next pastor. 

For How to Participate, information about optional Listening Sessions with the PNC, and more…

Recognized biblically as a gift, hospitality invites treating others with kindness, and mirroring the grace that we have received in Christ. For some, hospitality may be experienced in a simple phone call, or a note of encouragement, perhaps even a conversation over a cup of coffee. For others, hospitality is experienced through the gift of food, with a meal received at the right moment.

At FPC we have a very active Care Committee (Congregational Care) who share the gift of hospitality in each of these ways as well as other ways. Would you consider exploring your gift for hospitality with the church?

Join Pastor Gary each week for prayer. Every Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m. in the Chapel, Gary and staff will be gathering with any and all who would like to pray.

No need to sign up, just show up!

Women’s Bible Study meets Thursdays from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. in room 123 at the church.

All women of the church and guests are welcome to join this group at any time. New participants are always welcome!

We will be taking a break for the holidays but will resume on January 15. Our spring study will focus on Discipleship: What It Really Means to Follow Jesus.

Come to the church parlor on Thursday’s at 7:00 a.m. for coffee, fellowship, and Bible study.