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A second year program is kicking off in Lexington on April 5, 2025 at 10:00 am as local organizations join forces to launch a Community Youth Garden Project. Anything For Our Youth Group in partnership with First Reformed United Church of Christ. This collaborative effort aims to educate and engage young people in sustainable gardening while fostering a sense of community, responsibility, and environmental stewardship.
The forum is open to the community and is no charge for admission. It will be held on Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 4 pm until 5:30 pm in the church’s Fellowship Hall.
As temperature dip to dangerous levels, several Davidson County agencies and churches united to provide emergency food and housing during the holiday season.
The Ministries to Youth and Children at First Reformed United Church of Christ are vibrant, engaging, fun, inclusive, and affirming.
There are two sacraments that are recognized by the United Church of Christ: Baptism and Communion.
First Reformed UCC’s Art Series began as a way to invite the community into our sanctuary to hear more than just sermons on a Sunday. It was a way help spread the musicianship of our city’s members.
Over the centuries, shawls have come to symbolize shelter, peace, and spiritual sustenance. Today, knitters and crocheters of all faiths are creating handmade shawls for people in need, as gifts of comfort, hope, and peace. “Shawls...made for centuries universal and embracing, symbolic of an inclusive, unconditionally loving, God. They wrap, enfold, comfort, cover, give solace, mother, hug, shelter and beautify. Those who have received these shawls have been uplifted and affirmed, as if given wings to fly above their troubles...” Written in 1998 by Janet Severt Bristow.
Meals on Wheels began in 1968 as a Sunday school project at First Baptist Church in Lexington. At that time, it was named “Layman’s Christian Council, Inc.” The name changed to Meals on Wheels in May of 1999. Our Director, Bob Husted, has managed this program for many years with great success. He attends to every need that arises full of vim and vigor. Along with help and guidance from Craig Bullins, our accountant.
If you are interested in learning more about piano lessons, please email Christopher at chris@frucc.org. FRUCC is such a welcoming church family, and Christopher feels as if he has truly found a place where he belongs.
Our local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness announces the NAMI NW Piedmont, NC’s Annual Meeting June 21, 2022 at 7PM featuring guest speaker Dr. Chris Aiken.
With an initial grant from the Davidson County Health Department and ongoing support from the Church consistory and the Lexington Garden Club, volunteers and paid garden workers from the Open Hands Ministry of Davidson County have added an automated irrigation system, raised metal garden beds and a pollinator garden to attract bees and butterflies to the vegetable garden.
The lunch program started February 20, 2021 and continues to serve the community each Saturday beginning at 12:30 until 1:30 pm
The Teen Pride Parade will be on Saturday, June 4. Here’s how it will go: At 1 p.m., participants will gather at the historic St. Stephen United Methodist Church’s lawn to make signs that express their beliefs during the walk. At 2 p.m., they’ll walk on the sidewalks in uptown Lexington. Then, they’ll return to the First Reformed United Church of Christ (FRUCC) Fellowship Hall at 3 p.m. to hear from speakers—including Rev. Elizabeth Horton, Rev. Dr. Arnetta Beverly, a representative from PFLAG, and Miller herself—as well as engage in community building activities. Snacks will be provided.
Birthed out of a desire to impact the city on a larger scale, four churches formed a partnership that has been life changing. In 2017, Dave Fulton led the effort for First Reformed to find ways to reach out more to the community. He reached out to St. Stephen United Methodist Church, Shady Side Presbyterian Church and Second Reformed United Church of Christ. We were looking for ministries that we as a group could do that were maybe bigger than any one church could do alone.
Whereas, racism is also present in more subtle and passive forms in social and institutional settings where systems of discrimination prevent the hiring and/or upward mobility of gifted and qualified individuals.
Now, therefore, be it resolved, 2CFAR will pray with our legs…
Those of us who are the people of faith who call First Reformed United Church of Christ our spiritual home are fervent believers that children should be able to experience the love of God through the ministry of the church and individuals who represent it. Therefore, a ministry to children and youth in our community is always in our motivations, because they are the Church’s future.
Even with warmer weather headed our way, the most often requested items at the First Reformed UCC Clothing Ministry are jeans and hoodies. That’s the case year-round -- even in warmer months, people who work and sometime live outside need jeans, t-shirts and hoodies.
Written by Joe and Cathy Browder
