Classes begin promptly at 9:00 Sunday mornings unless otherwise indicated. There is also a full schedule of Sunday School classes for children of all ages at 9:00. Nursery care is provided for infants and children.
Every Sunday
9:00 a.m. |
Ongoing Class - Sunday Scripture Study
Mr. Jim Milne
Get a leg up in your preparation for worship by studying the lectionary texts that will be read and proclaimed in 10:00 a.m. worship. This weekly class is an opportunity to study and reflect on the day’s lessons with lively discussions and new insights. |
Sundays
April 6, 20 and 27
9:00 a.m. |
Three Plays of the English Renaissance
Dr. Charles Gordon, C.S.C.
This series of talks will view through a Christian lens three products of the extraordinary flowering of English drama in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. You might want to read (or reread) each of the plays before the corresponding talk, but it isn’t necessary to do so.
- April 6: Doctor Faustus (c. 1592) by Christopher Marlowe
- April 20: Macbeth (1606) by William Shakespeare
- April 27: The White Devil (1612) by John Webster
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Sundays
April 13 and May 11
9:00 a.m. |
The Inside World of Searching for a Presbyterian Pastor
Dr. John Sharick
Presbyterian pastor and consultant John Sharick will lead discussion on our denomination’s process for journeying through the critical time between two installed pastors. Discussion and input will be received from members as the Session goes about writing our congregation’s mini-study in preparation for preparing the Congregation Information Form (CIF) that will be circulated later this year as the search for a new installed pastor commences by the Pastor Nominating Committee. Discussion and lunch will also follow at 11:30 after worship. |
Sundays
April 20 - May 4
11:30 a.m. |
Healthy Congregations
Dr. Tom Green and Rev. Anne Stewart Miller
Tom Green and Anne Stewart Miller will present three workshops on “Healthy Congregations,” based on the work of Lutheran pastor and church family systems consultant, Dr. Peter Steinke. Based on the concept of the congregation as an emotional system, Dr. Steinke’s work empowers congregations to be proactive in maintaining a healthy attitude and atmosphere with the relational body they share. Gaining a sense of how interaction effects and affects the body of Christ, checks and balances can be established in the congregational setting, enabling movement forward in mission and ministry. Come to learn more about these valuable insights into the functioning of congregations. |
Sundays
May 4, 18 and 25
9:00 a.m. |
Forgiveness: Setting the Prisoner Free
Rev. Robin Reed Garvin
Professor of Christian Ethics, Dr. Lewis Smedes, once made this observation about forgiveness: “When we forgive, we set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner we set free is us.” As Christians, we know that we are supposed to forgive, but we also know that forgiveness is hard work! During this four-session class we will discuss what forgiveness is and what it is not, what the Bible has to say about forgiveness, and forgiveness as a process that rarely happens instantaneously. Robin and her family recently relocated from Spokane where she served two congregations and taught part-time in the Religion Department at Whitworth College. |
Sundays
June 1-29
9:00 a.m. |
From Ancient Judaism to Early Christianity
Dr. Will Deming
FPC Elder and scholar at the University of Portland, Will Deming will explore the worship of God in the Old Testament and then will trace the development of Christianity as it emerges from Judaism in the time between the Old and New Testaments. The class will focus on the principal differences between the “old law” and the “new law,” or, in other words, the revelation of God through Abraham and Moses and the revelation of God in Christ. |
Sundays
July 13-27
9:00 a.m. |
Everything Presbyterian (Almost)
Paton Wall, Candidate for Minister of Word and Sacrament; and Rev. Anne Stewart Miller
Come with your questions for lively discussion a wide range of topics in our Presbyterian and Reformed tradition. Topics to be explored will be in the areas of theology, worship, history, polity and the like. Come to ask basic (even dumb) questions in all these areas of denominational life and practice. In just three weeks you’ll be talking like a seminarian! |
Sundays
August 3-24
9:00 a.m. |
The Bible Stories of our Faith and Life
Instructor Pending
Facilitated by FPC members, come to listen and learn from each other as we volunteer our favorite Bible stories and how they relate to our faith. Come for lively discussion and new insights and to learn from your sisters and brothers in faith. |