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W e l c o m e 

Thank you for taking the time to "click" on the web site of Faith United Church of Christ, 1609 DeForest Ave., Iowa City, Iowa. Please check out the pages you will find here and offer your comments.  We gather each Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. for worship.  A time of conversation and fellowship follows worship each week.  You are most welcome to be part of worship, fellowship, and the ministries in which we engage as a community of faith.  Browse the pages you find here, at your leisure.  Check out the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/faithucciowacity

You will find contact information for us on the lower left hand side of each page of the web site.  Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns.  You can also use the "comments" section on each page to leave us a question or raise a concern.  Remember "No matter who you are or where you are on life's journey, YOU are welcome here!"

 Faith United Church of Christ, Iowa City is an open, affirming, just-peace, accessible to ALL congregation. Committed to the study of economic justice in Johnson County and beyond. 

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 Faith United Church of Christ

Iowa City, Iowa

Thank you for taking the time to "click" on and check out the pages you will find here.  We gather each Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. for worship.  A time of conversation and fellowship follows worship each week.  You are most welcome to be part of worship, fellowship, and the ministries in which we engage as a community of faith.  Browse the pages you find here, at your leisure.  Check out the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/faithucciowacity

You will find contact information for us on the lower left hand side of each page of the web site.  Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns.  You can also use the "comments" section on each page to leave us a question or raise a concern.  Remember "No matter who you are or where you are on life's journey, YOU are welcome here!"

 Faith United Church of Christ, Iowa City is an open, affirming, just-peace, accessible to ALL congregation. Committed to the study of economic justice in Johnson County and beyond. 

Easter Is!

Easter is more than jelly beans, chocolate, and brightly colored eggs.  Easter is not just bunnies, butterflies, and baby chicks.  Easter is more than a one day celebration to proclaim God’s promise of hope and life in Jesus Christ.  Easter is about living! 

 The shouts of joy and exuberance on the first Easter give way to living in a world that is not always joyful or exuberant.   Life as a follower of Jesus is a life with people who must deal with pain, suffering, hurt, and all the other negatives of the world today and during the past centuries.  The awful things in life do not disappear with Easter.  Easter allows us to deal with those events in life in a faithful and hope-filled way.

Easter is not a once and done event.  It is an ever living; always changing way of being alive.  Easter brings hope from despair, promise from failure, and a never ending assurance of God’s presence in our life.

Easter is and life goes on.  The life that goes on does so with promise and hope because  Easter is!  


Thanks be to God!

 Faith United Church of Christ is an open, affirming, just peace, nuclear free zone accessible to all congregation.  Please join us for Sunday worship at 9:30 a.m. Also, check out our link on the right side of the page to our Facebook page!!  Or just click here www.facebook.com/FaithUCCIowaCity

Holy week 2013 has arrived!  Faith United Church of Christ extends a warm and hospitable invitation to you and all those you would invite to share in our Holy Week events.  No matter who you are or where you are on life's journey, YOU are welcome here.

Join us for worship on Holy Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 6:30 p.m.  Our service will begin with the celebration of communion.  Faith United Church of Christ practices open communion so EVERYONE is welcome at God's Table.

The service will continue with Scripture Readings, candles, and hymns as we remember together the events of Holy Week leading up to Easter Morning.

Good Friday March 29, 2013 will find our church building open from 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. . You are invited to come for prayer and meditation.  Several items will be provided for study and reflection during your meditation time.

Easter Sunday Worship will be held at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, March 31, 2013.  Why not join us?

Faith United Church of Christ is an open, affirming, accessible to all, just peace, nuclear free zone congregation.  Please explore our web pages.  Join us for worship on Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m.  You are welcome here!

Spring 2013

The clocks have already been set ahead.  Spring showers have removed some of the winters snow.  A drive in the countryside reveals newborn calves and there is some warmth from the sun that makes one think that the winter is past and Spring is upon us.  Yes, I think Spring is in the Air!

Our journey through Lent continues for a few more weeks, but we know that Easter will soon arrive.  The promise of new life revealed in God's gift of Jesus is ours in all seasons. Let's celebrate that gift and continue to do all we can to share  all our gifts with others in our lives.

Faith United Church of Christ is an open, affirming, accessible to all, just peace, nuclear free zone congregation.  Please explore our web pages.  Join us for worship on Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m.  You are welcome here!

One Great Hour of Sharing

Each year the United Church of Christ receives four special offerings to support ongoing ministry around the world.  The first special offering each year is One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS).  This year, the theme for One Great Hour of Sharing, "Sharing Brings Joy," concludes our three year emphasis by focusing on God.

Scripture helps us understand how in our sharing - God is made glad:

•    steadfast love, justice, and righteousness (Jeremiah 9:24)
•    the well-being of God's people (psalms 35:27B)
•    a generous hand outstretched to help another (Matthew 22:37-40)
•    a cheerful giver (2 Corinthians 9:7)

God knows joy when we take actions that restore the well-being of God's children everywhere. When we reach out to others with helping hands, we share love and justice with our brothers and sisters, with whom we are one. God loves our joyful attitude when we share from our abundance!

The gifts made real by our support are transformed into gifts of love, joy and restoration, as:

•    families displaced by natural disaster or political unrest are comforted by food, shelter and a safe place to begin rebuilding their lives.
•    worried mothers caring for their children in times of food insecurity; are transformed to deep peace when sustenance arrives.
•    a woman who has had to walk for miles for potable water smiles as she draws fresh water from the new well placed in her community near her home.

Faith United Church of Christ joins in the receiving of the One Great Hour of Sharing offering on Sunday, March 10, 2013.  Our gifts will be received and dedicated during our morning worship service.  Please plan to join in our celebration.

As we make our offering to One Great Hour of Sharing this year, please remember the numerous ways our gifts bring joy - to us, to all of God's cherished children, and especially to the Holy One. Share cheerfully and abundantly, knowing that we are not only sharing our resources, we are helping to change lives.

May God be made glad by our cheerful generosity!

Faith United Church of Christ is an open, affirming, accessible to all, just peace, nuclear free zone congregation.  Please explore our web pages.  Join us for worship on Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m.  You are welcome here!

January 2013

How are you and your new year's resolutions getting along?  We have moved beyond the first weeks of the new year and, well how have the resolutions stood up?

It isn't easy to change the way we live is it?  We get into routines and habits, some good, some not so good, and we find hard to get out of those habits.  Thus, most (some 88%) of our new year's resolutions fail in the first month after making them.

The point isn't that we fail.  That is a part of life, failure.  But, more importantly, what do we do when we do fail?  Do we give up?  Chuck it all out and say--"well, I've failed again!"--or do we try to start over, begin again, and see if we can't make some success out of our good intentions?

Here's to beginning anew!  Even though our resolutions may not be going as we'd like---let's try to stay with it.  One day at a time is good advice.  Let's keep our resolutions anew for one day at a time and see how well we do.

Faith United Church of Christ is an open, affirming, accessible to all, just peace, nuclear free zone congregation.  Please explore our web pages.  Join us for worship on Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m.  You are welcome here!