Our community partner, Charitable Union, seeks to provide clothing, bedding, menstrual products and small household items at no charge and connect people to resources in the community. They operate just a block from our building on Calhoun Street.

They currently have several open positions, both paid and volunteer.

In September, Battle Creek Public Schools notified it’s families that due to logistical slowdowns caused by supply chain issues, the food they had planned to be served for the month may not be available as planned. They asked families to donate snack foods to fill some of the gaps in their breakfast and afternoon snack menus. First Congregational Church also provided additional support with donations of snacks to both Post Franklin Elementary and Fremont International Academy.

The Fremont Garden, a community based neighborhood gardening initiative, was awarded a $4,000 grant from the Michigan UCC Conference Innovation Awards. These grant monies will be used to install city water hookup at the Fremont Garden to make watering much easier! Currently, a volunteer uses water from a neighbor’s home and hauls drums of water from

Join us for a special Stewardship Sunday on October 31st! We will be hosting Olive Chin Baptist Church, which meets in our Chapel each Sunday and enjoying lunch together after. Lunch will be provided by Chef Cherry Vassar and everyone is encouraged to bring their own tableware. If you forget the tableware, we will have paper products available. A menu will be provided the week prior with vegetarian and gluten free options available. If you have a specific dietary need we can accommodate, please reach out to the Church Office.

In early 2021, Rev. Nate submitted an application to the Next Generation Leadership Initiative, "...a leadership development initiative that equips, energizes, and empowers younger United Church of Christ local church pastors to build vibrant congregations that change

This year’s 2021 Choir Camp theme will follow Moses and the Israelites through enslavement, plagues, freedom, wilderness wanderings and sea crossings as they learn to trust in community, resistance and faith to lead them to the Promised Land.

Isaac is playing baseball this summer. The season started last month (June) just as we collectively resumed so many communal life activities that had been on hold for more than a year. Before the game (Isaac’s first ever) there was quite a bit of angst and hand wringing at my house. Between Isaac’s nerves (and honestly, my own,) and rushing out the door, I was not sure how the evening would play out. Fast forward to two hours later and

First Congregational Church will be participating in CityLinc and Communities In Schools’ Annual Staff-a-Bus Campaign. You can drop off donations of the following items in the dropbox at FCC or purchase items online (which will be sent directly to CityLinc):

Church Council will be meeting on July 6th and will revisit the possibility of holding an annual meeting in the coming months. At this time, Council plans to move forward with the above nominations. However, if you hold concern about any of the above mentioned nominees and would like your concerns

Fremont Garden is in need of newspapers to line garden beds as a weed barrier. If you have newspapers that you would typically recycle that you would like to donate, you can drop them off at the FCC Welcome Center on Sunday morning or any time during the week.