Circles NWA shared their video of FUPC’s campus — their “New Space”! Circles will be using the FUPC space beginning July 31st, 2024. Their current cohort of Circles Leaders… Read more »
Posts Categorized: FUPC
Pastoral Transition at FUPC
Jan and Phil Butin have been our beloved pastors for 14 years, but now they are retiring and moving north to spend more time with their children and grandchildren. As… Read more »
PCUSA General Assembly 226
PCUSA General Assembly 226 The 226th General Assembly of the PCUSA will meet later this month. There will be three days (June 25 -27) of online committee meetings which will… Read more »
Circles of Support: FUPC and Circles NWA Partner
Circles NWA is an innovative response to poverty in our community. First United Presbyterian Church has a beautiful campus with a well-appointed kitchen and lots of great meeting spaces. We’re… Read more »
The Meaning of Pentecost
We can think of Christmas as the birthday of Christ, but the birthday of the church is Pentecost. Pentecost, observed 50 days after Easter Sunday, commemorates the descent of the… Read more »
Earth Care Sunday
Earth Care Sunday comes on April 21st, with a special 11:00 worship service focused on our stewardship of God’s creation. There will be activities for children, refreshments, and a hike… Read more »
It’s Friday
A moving poem by S.M. Lockridge, shared by the Gateway Church.
The Olan Mills Cross
Back in the days when we had physical church directories, they were sometimes produced by Olan Mills, a chain of commercial photographers. This company produced church directories from 1932 to… Read more »
Directory Crosses
Crosses turn up in many places at FUPC. We currently use a digital directory, but for many years we had a physical directory people could keep with their phone books… Read more »
Knox Building Crosses
These button-trimmed crosses are on the wall in Knox building, in the children’s Sunday School area. Two of the crosses are the familiar Latin cross shape, and two have the… Read more »