First Church Holiday Recipes
Thank you for sharing your family's traditional and culinary secrets with us! The recipes are now available below for you to print and try out. Happy cooking!
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Alternative Christmas 2020
Visit our Alternative Christmas Gift Fair Online Dec. 1-31, 2020 Our fair gives you a better alternative to Christmas shopping. We invite you to "purchase" symbolic gifts which will fund local and global mission work. We will...
Christmas Eve Candle Light Services (Live-stream)
Participate in virtual candle lighting during worship! Pick up your candles on Sunday, Dec. 13 from 2-4 PM during our drive-through food drive event. Take a selfie or group photo holding your lit candle and email it to by Dec. 18. 5 PM...
Holiday Cooking Demos
Holiday Cooking Demos, Week of Dec. 13 With Irene Castruita, Irene’s Kitchen Passionate about nurturing communities through healthy meals, chef Irene will share her own regional, vegetarian Chican@ Holiday Treats with us the week of Dec...
Virtual Angel Tree 2020
Thank you for supporting this year's Virtual Angel Tree! First Church is continuing to support the Prison Fellowship and the Angel Tree Christmas program which provides gifts to children of incarcerated parents. This year amidst COVID-19...
Digital Cookbook & Family Food Photos
Digital Holiday Cookbook & Family Photos We welcome you to share your best Holiday Recipes along with a picture of the dish. We will collect all recipes and photos to create the 2020 First Church Holiday (digital) Cookbook. We will have...
Music Dir. Dr. Stanley M. Wicks Retires
I write to you today with a “cup filled to overflowing” and with deep gratitude and thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Food Drive 2020
First Church is again partnering with Wesley UMC to distribute ingredients for a full Thanksgiving dinner to hungry San Diego families.
In-person Services Follow-up
Oct. 7, 2020 In-Person Communion Services What a joy it was to see you! One hundred and eighty-five people returned to the Mission Valley campus and 32 people to the Ocean Beach campus over six different brief world communion services on...
World-Communion Weekend
World Communion celebrates the love of Christ at the Lord’s Table when people all over the world come in unity, peace and hope. It is a considerable honor to mindfully break bread and drink from the Lord’s cup with our brothers...