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An Evening in the Highlands 2025

Cheri Simonet
An Evening in the Highlands

Mark your calendar for February 28th at 6pm and make your reservations for our 4th annual “Evening in the Highlands” gathering! It’s returning to the Green Bay Distillery located at 835 Mike McCarthy Way. Join us for a very special evening celebrating the music, poetry, and dance of Scotland and Ireland in a one-of-a-kind event.

Entertainment will include the Irish Heritage Dancers, a Piper, trivia, games, haggis, raffles, and much more! Dinner will be served at 6:30pm and includes family-style broasted chicken and baked cod with stuffing/dressing, potatoes (baby red, garlic, and mashed), California style vegetable, coleslaw, rolls, coffee and tea.

Dress is business casual with a Scottish theme.

Tickets for the dinner and program are $50 per person. Register Now!

Before the dinner beginning at 5pm, Bruce Deadman and friends will be holding forth with “Mixology 101, or What Is An Old Fashioned Presbyterian And Why Do They Call It That?” This will include a discussion of mixology basics as well as teaching participants how to make (and consume) a perfect Old Fashioned Pres and 2 other super cocktails. Tickets for this are $25 per adult. Purchase Tickets Now!

You can also find the reservation links on First United Presbyterian Church of De Pere’s website under Give Now.

You’ll enjoy an incredible evening and help raise funds to support the Ecumenical Partnership for Housing. Reservations are due by February 20th, so get your tickets today.

Don’t miss this very special evening!

February 2025 Fourth Sunday Forum

Cheri Simonet
Fourth Sunday Forum

Please join us for our February Fourth Sunday Forum which takes place at 9am before worship on Sunday, February 23rd.

Our speaker for the month will be Jamie DeLorey who’ll present Essential Oils of the Bible.

Essential oils, as we know them today, were described in the Bible many times. From Myrrh and frankincense as gifts for Jesus when he was a baby, to the oil that was rubbed on his feet as an adult. The Bible mentions various fragrant substances and oils that were used for anointing, healing, and other religious rituals.

Come explore other essential oils in the bible with us and dive deeper into what essential oils were used and some that are still available today!

Scout Sunday 2025

Cheri Simonet
Scouts of America Logo

February 16th

Calling all scouts: young, old, and in-between!

A Sunday in February is usually set aside to lift up and celebrate scouting in our midst. We have invited the scout troop who meet in our facility to join us for worship and we will recognize them and offer a blessing. We also hope to include others in our congregation who are currently involved or have been involved in the past in the Scouts program.

If you were or are a Scout, please wear your shirt or other garb and help us in this celebration.

We hope to see you then!

Worship Service January 19, 2025

Cheri Simonet

On this second Sunday after Epiphany, we are looking at the story of Jesus’ first miracle as he changes water into wine at the wedding at Cana. Our text is John 2: 1-11 https://bit.ly/3PzJIgD and Pastor Katie will reflect on “How Much Is Enough?”

Worship Service January 12, 2025

Cheri Simonet

This Sunday, January 9th, we commemorate the Baptism of the Lord with a reaffirmation of our own baptism as we share the story from the gospel in Luke 3: 15-17,21-22 https://bit.ly/408OK8z. Participants will be invited to the baptismal font to remember and celebrate. Pastor Katie will reflect on “Claimed and Called” and the choir will sing “Come to the Water”.

Worship Service January 5, 2025

Cheri Simonet

On this Second Sunday of Christmas we celebrate the Epiphany of the Lord. Our readings are Isaiah 60: 1-6 https://bit.ly/422CWax and Matthew 2: 1-12 https://bit.ly/41Y9IJW and Pastor Katie will preach on “Afraid of a Star?”

Worship Service December 29, 2024

Cheri Simonet

On this First Sunday of Christmas we feature Pajama Worship with Carols. Our Lessons include Isaiah 11: 1-6 https://bit.ly/4j2p9a1, Matthew 1: 18-25 https://bit.ly/40mQ6y0, Matthew 2: 1-12 https://bit.ly/41Y9IJW, and John 1: 1-17 https://bit.ly/3DLBdfO.

Worship Service December 24, 2024

Cheri Simonet

Please join us for our Christmas Eve Worship Service when we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Worship Service December 22, 2024

Cheri Simonet

On this Fourth Sunday of Advent, we conclude our theme of From the Manger with “A Deeper Love” based on Luke 1: 46-55 https://bit.ly/402924I. The choir will sing as well.

Epiphany Sunday 2025

Cheri Simonet
Epiphany

Sunday, January 5th

There are twelve days of Christmas (and not just in the song with all the gifts from your true love!) and then the church calendar turns to Epiphany. This is the traditional day celebrating the arrival of the Magi to visit baby Jesus, but Biblical scholars tell us it was probably not just twelve days after his birth but maybe even a few years! We celebrate it as a whole season of the church year, all the way up until Lent begins with Ash Wednesday on March 5th this year.

The word “Epiphany” means revelation, showing forth. When we say we have an epiphany it means we suddenly recognize or understand something important. So during the season of Epiphany at church we celebrate the recognition and revelation of Jesus Christ and the light he brings to the world. 

For the last several years we have celebrated the season of Epiphany with a “star word”. A star word is a random word that becomes your prayer guide, your focus, your way to watch for God in the world. God can use anything to speak to us. There is nothing magic about a star word. But a star word begins as a mystery—you do not get to choose it. And so, it invites investigation, attentiveness, waiting. A star word orients you to watch for God in a particular way, to be receptive to the Spirit who is moving right now in the world around you.

On Sunday, January 5th our 10am worship celebration of Epiphany will include the distribution of “star words” for everyone present. Come and see what word might guide you in 2025!