Hello there, Reminder: We are starting our summer scheduled this week, with ONE SERVICE at 10:00! It is probably a busy weekend for most of you.  It is a holiday, of course, as well as graduation for many of the local high schools.  So there are parties and celebration and we wish the new grads […]

Hello there, This will be our last Sunday with two services for a while.  On May 26th, (Memorial Day Weekend) we begin our summer schedule with one service at 10:00.  The reason we are shifting to 10:00 is that it is unlikely you will have an interim pastor in place on August 1st, when I […]

Hello there, We have begun to look for a half time Director of Christian Education that, as the job description says, “…will have primary responsibility for designing and leading weekly K-12 Bible Study/Sunday School, Wednesday night K-8 programming, providing support for the middle school and high school Youth Coordinator, and planning for Adult Christian Education […]

Hello there, We will be back to two services this Sunday, at 9:00 and then at 11:00, and we will have two services for May 5th, 12th and 19th.  Then on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, May 26th, we will start our summer schedule of one service at 10:00.  Session has voted to have […]

Hello there, It is Gifts of Women Sunday this week at FPC Marion.  We will have only one service at 10:00.  The Rev. Connie Peake will be preaching.  Her text is John 15:1-8 and her sermon title is: Lessons from the Orchard.  Other women will be leading in the various parts of worship, and a […]

EASTER SUNDAY – APRIL 21 – ONE SERVICE AT 10:00 Hello there, It is Holy Week, the most important time of the church year.  We will be having a Communion-Tenebrae service this evening at 6:00.  “Tenebrae” means darkness and it is an observance of the Lord’s Supper, reading passages of scripture and extinguishing candles.  The […]

Hello there, It is that time of year when the weather can be warm and spring-like one day and grey, cold and miserable the next. But so far the weather forecast for this Saturday looks a bit chilly, but dry and sunny.  So starting at 8:30 we will be having our spring clean-up day, for […]

Hello there, There is a lot going on over the next few weeks, so please scroll down and read this whole message. First of all, this coming Saturday, April 6, there will be the “Joyful Noises” concert to benefit Family Promise.  It will be at St. Paul’s Methodist church in Cedar Rapids.  A silent auction […]

Hello there, In like a lion and out like a lamb… That saying has certainly held true for this March here in Marion.  Things are looking greener.  Plants are poking up in gardens and the mountain of plowed snow at the end of the parking lot has been reduced to a thick layer of sand.  […]

Hello there, Spring is officially here.  Now, I got some grief last week when I said in the weekly contact that all the ice and snow had melted and the church parking lot was bare.  Then on Sunday morning we had a thick covering of snow.  I only can repeat what my predecessor, the Rev. […]