wholeness

A new time and place...

  • to be touched by God's healing presence.
  • to pray for specific needs for ourselves
  • to pray for someone we love for God's promise of health, healing, wholeness, recovery or renewal.

Each Service for Wholeness is held the second Wednesday of each month in the Chapel at 6:00 p.m

 

 

 

What is Congregational Care?

Pastors on call

Congregational care staff

Visitation

 

Supportive care

A Service for Wholeness

First Friends

FPC JOBS

MOMS

Parking assistance

 

Bereavement

Plan a service

Counseling/support

Circle of Friends

Grief aftercare

 

Holistic health

Mental Health ministry

Presbyterian Counseling Center

 

 

 

Services for Wholeness

What is a Service for Wholeness?  In a variety of ways the church has a commission to minister wholeness: communion with God made whole; community with one’s neighbor made whole; and a relationship to the created world itself made whole. 

 

Here at First Presbyterian Church some come to our Service for Wholeness in search of spiritual wholeness for themselves, for others or for our world.  Some attend to support those who need their prayers.  At First Presbyterian Church our Service for Wholeness is contemplative in nature. 

 

The music is gentle; our community prayer echoes the light of the candles flickering as a symbol of prayer.  There are extended times of silence to meditate on a brief scripture reading. 

 

Following a time of prayers of general intersession those who seek personal prayer through the laying on of hands are invited to come to a prayer station.  Listeners at the prayer stations hear the prayer concerns and then pray as requested. 

 

In the historic manner of reaffirming that in baptism we were sealed by the Holy Spirit and marked as Christ’s own forever those who desire to be anointed with oil are anointed by one of the pastors. All concerns shared in times of personal prayer are held in confidence and returned to the heart of God.