:: welcome to fcc concord |
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FCC Concord is an inclusive, loving community of faith and justice, seeking, celebrating, and serving Christ through open minds, committed hearts, and willing hands.
Sunday morning worship
9:00 and 11:00am
Christian education, 10:00am
Children's church and nursery provided
First Christian Church is located at 3039 Willow Pass Road in Concord, between Port Chicago Highway and Olivera Road.
Phone: 925-685-7503
Email: info@concordfcc.net
:: fcc concord in the news
The FCC Concord Children's Christmas Pageant is featured in the Good Neighbor column of the Concord Transcript on January 7, 2009.
FCC Mexico Mission 2007 was again featured in a Contra Costa Times article on August 20, 2007. For more on the Mexico mission trip and for ways in which you can participate or support the trip next year, please see our Mexico mission page.
Senior Minister Russ Peterman appears in Contra Costa Times article on church diversity on May 29, 2007
FCC Concord is featured in the article, "Eating Away at the Environment," in the April 2007 issue of DisciplesWorld magazine.
The FCC Concord Mexico Mission trip was highlighted in a Contra Costa Times article on March 5, 2007. For more on the Mexico mission trip and for ways in which you can participate or support the trip, please see our Mexico mission page.
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Wednesday, Febuary 17
Ash Wednesday Service
7:00 pm
Lent will begin with Ash Wednesday which will be marked with a powerful service in the sanctuary. The service will include music, candlelight and the imposition of ashes.
Lenten Study Group
Wednesday, February 24-March 24
7:00 pm, Home of Russ Peterman
During the season of Lent, we will be looking at ways to seek and find the sacred in our everyday lives! Simple, small, ordinary things that we do so routinely can become a path to the divine. As we pay attention to the sights, smells and sounds around us, we can begin to discover altars, everywhere we go, in nearly everything we do.
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First Christian Church Concord is currently accepting offering donations which will go directly to emergency relief in Haiti. Make your check payable to the church, with Haiti Emergency Relief in the memo line. A special offering will be taken for this purpose on Sunday in our worship service.
Check Week of Compassion for updates on relief efforts. Week of Compassion is the relief, refugee and development mission fund of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada. It seeks to equip and empower Disciples to alleviate the suffering of others through disaster response, humanitarian aid, sustainable development and the promotion of mission opportunities.
Week of Compassion continues to respond to the horrific devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti. Here is the latest report detailing our ecumenical response to the crisis:
Church World Service (CWS) is currently planning a two-pronged response. The first includes a bilateral response with two of our partner organizations on the ground in Haiti. Second, CWS will be coordinating a response with Christian Aid as part of the response of Action By Churches Together (ACT) International. Currently, a team of communicators, including the CC(DOC)'s Don Tatlock, Church World Service liaison for Central America and the Caribbean, is on its way to assess the situation, supply Week of Compassion and other partners with information, and help develop the most appropriate response.
Our historic partner from the Dominican Republic, Servicios Sociales de Iglesias Dominicanas (SSID), will be transporting material supplies such as tarps, as well as CWS blankets, hygiene kits, and baby supply kits. This delivery will empty the shelves of the CWS warehouse. Congregations and individuals are highly encouraged to help out by putting together kits to replenish the supply. It's easy, quickly done, and can be a great project for church groups of just about any age. Instructions and a list of contents are available at this site. This is an urgent need.
Lutheran World Relief, which currently chairs the ACT Forum in Haiti, is coordinating the overall ACT response, and is working with Norwegian Church Aid, which is currently assessin the situation on the ground, to provide water sanitation and water delivery in Haiti.
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:: experience fcc concord |
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At First Christian Church Concord we don't just believe in diversity — we embody it.
Among us, on any given Sunday, you will find both young and old, straight and gay, black and white, people with faith to move mountains
and folks visiting this crazy thing called "church" for the first time — and virtually everything in between! We welcome you to come and see what it's
like when a church goes beyond acceptance to affirmation — when people go beyond talking about God to living out the love of Jesus in their lives.
In this community of faith there is a variety of opinions, but UNITY in our quest for an intimate and authentic relationship with the Divine.
Join us this Sunday and discover for yourself what being part of a dynamic community of faith feels like.
Welcome to everyone! We hope you find peace and uplift in our worship.
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:: a special message |
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We understand that some in California don't believe that God's love is big enough to welcome gays and lesbians. But we believe it is. We believe that God does love everyone, and that's why we welcome everyone, regardless of ethnic or racial heritage, gender, ability, sexual orientation, or economic or political status.
We had hoped Proposition 8 would have been defeated or overturned in the courts and that California would continue to support the marriages of committed people in loving relationships.
But even though it did pass and remains the law in California, we will continue to perform gay and lesbian weddings in our sanctuary because we believe that all marriages are sacred in the eyes of God.
Click here for further information or here for a pdf copy of the full press release.
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