First Christian Church of Chico
FCC Chico is a church that believes every person is someone of dignity and worth -- just as you are.
First Christian Church Chico
295 E. Washington Ave. Chico CA 95926
We are canceling in person worship services until further notice, effective immediately.
We will be broadcasting the worship services online via Zoom directions here. A YouTube video will be available Mondays. We will also have FB live sermons and the occasional Fireside chat.
We are complying with the Shelter in Place Order. The church office is closed until further notice
(but staff are working remotely--send an email or call and leave a message and we'll get back to you ASAP).
All on campus meetings are canceled.
We will be broadcasting the worship services online via Zoom directions here. A YouTube video will be available Mondays. We will also have FB live sermons and the occasional Fireside chat.
We are complying with the Shelter in Place Order. The church office is closed until further notice
(but staff are working remotely--send an email or call and leave a message and we'll get back to you ASAP).
All on campus meetings are canceled.
All Means All
Welcome to First Christian Church of Chico!
We invite you to look around our site to find out more about us. We value being inclusive, and we believe here that everyone belongs. We say "All Means All" around here and we believe it. Everyone is beloved--all races, gender identities, sexual orientations, socio-economic statuses, and more. Check us out--we think you'll find that we mean what we say.
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We invite you to look around our site to find out more about us. We value being inclusive, and we believe here that everyone belongs. We say "All Means All" around here and we believe it. Everyone is beloved--all races, gender identities, sexual orientations, socio-economic statuses, and more. Check us out--we think you'll find that we mean what we say.
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Our Mission
Chico First Christian Church is an inclusive, loving community of believers in Jesus Christ who wish to explore and follow his teachings. |
Sunday, June 7th, Pastor Jesse showed a video from our General Minister and President, Rev. Terri Hord Owens, and Rev. April Johnson, Minister of Reconciliation. In this letter, there is a place to sign proclaiming and reinforcing our commitment to be a anti-racism, pro-reconciliation church. Here is that link: https://disciples.org/congregations/we-need-to-be-the-church-we-say-we-are/
Below is a snippet of the letter.
Below is a snippet of the letter.
...Disciples, we call ourselves a Pro-Reconciling, Anti-Racist church. We have named it as a mission priority, and we have worked hard – though often imperfectly – to live that out in every expression of our ministry. In this moment, when protests rage and our hearts are broken again and again, we need to be the church we say we are.
-- Yours in Christ,
Rev. Terri Hord Owens, General Minister and President
Rev. April Johnson, Minister of Reconciliation
Click Here to see the entirety of the letter, sign the statement, and learn about different ways to act.
Check out our latest sermon and service
Speaker: Rev. Jesse Kearns
“Reclaiming the High Ground Part 1” (PDF)
July 12th, 2020
Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
“Reclaiming the High Ground Part 1” (PDF)
July 12th, 2020
Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
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Bulletin graphic picture by Cathal Mac an Bheatha on Unsplash
Read, Think, Pray
A Psalm of Lament-Psalm 13
“How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
How long must I bear pain in my soul, and
have sorrow in my heart all day long?
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
Consider ad answer me, O LORD my God!
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep
of death, and my enemy will say,
‘I have prevailed’ my foes will rejoice
because I am shaken.
“But I trusted in your steadfast love;
My heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
I will sing to the LORD,
Because God has dealt bountifully with me.”
Psalms of lament are about grief and loss. They are a form of prayer that pours out to God anger and deep hurt. A Psalm of a lament is an act of worship in which the people express to God their sorrow for the struggles of a nation.
We need to lament as a nation today. In this pandemic time, when to wear a mask or not has become for some one more weapon in the so-called “culture war.”
We need to lament that in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, George Floyd, who was on the ground and handcuffed, had the life squeezed out of him as a police officer kept his knee on his neck for minutes as he pled for his life, saying repeatedly, “I can’t breathe.”
Mr. Floyd joins Breonna Taylor, who a few months ago was shot in her home in Louisville after plain clothes police entered her home with a “no knock warrant”, and Ahmaud Arbery who we recently learned was chased, shot and killed by a father and son as he jogged through a neighborhood.
We lament the reality that a false accusation, such as the one Amy Cooper made against Christian Cooper (they are not related) in Central Park when he asked her to leash her dog in an area of the park that required it could have gotten him killed. “I am going to call the police and tell them that I am being assaulted by a black man.”
We lament, but we are not without hope. As Christians and other people of faith, we rightly call out injustice when we see it. And we rightly call on God for strength, for guidance, and for discernment about how to respond to these acts of injustice and violence. Here are a few things we can do.
Sign up for the Poor People’s Campaign at www.poorpeoplescampaign.org
Read Ibram X. Kendi’s books Stamped from the Beginning and How to be An Anti-Racist.
Learn how the church has been complicit in the white supremacy that plagues this country. If you have access to Netflix, I highly recommend the documentary, Holy Hierarchy: The Religious Roots of Racism in America.
Read, think, pray, act as you are led to act. Believe that the One in whose name we gather calls us to hope, justice, and peace and gives us what we need to work toward making what we hope for a visible and valuable reality.
We grieve and lament, but not as those who have no hope (I Thessalonians 4.13). God is with us.
--Rev. Dr. LaTaunya Bynum
Regional Minister
from email, Regional Voices, May 28th, 2020
A Psalm of Lament-Psalm 13
“How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
How long must I bear pain in my soul, and
have sorrow in my heart all day long?
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
Consider ad answer me, O LORD my God!
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep
of death, and my enemy will say,
‘I have prevailed’ my foes will rejoice
because I am shaken.
“But I trusted in your steadfast love;
My heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
I will sing to the LORD,
Because God has dealt bountifully with me.”
Psalms of lament are about grief and loss. They are a form of prayer that pours out to God anger and deep hurt. A Psalm of a lament is an act of worship in which the people express to God their sorrow for the struggles of a nation.
We need to lament as a nation today. In this pandemic time, when to wear a mask or not has become for some one more weapon in the so-called “culture war.”
We need to lament that in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, George Floyd, who was on the ground and handcuffed, had the life squeezed out of him as a police officer kept his knee on his neck for minutes as he pled for his life, saying repeatedly, “I can’t breathe.”
Mr. Floyd joins Breonna Taylor, who a few months ago was shot in her home in Louisville after plain clothes police entered her home with a “no knock warrant”, and Ahmaud Arbery who we recently learned was chased, shot and killed by a father and son as he jogged through a neighborhood.
We lament the reality that a false accusation, such as the one Amy Cooper made against Christian Cooper (they are not related) in Central Park when he asked her to leash her dog in an area of the park that required it could have gotten him killed. “I am going to call the police and tell them that I am being assaulted by a black man.”
We lament, but we are not without hope. As Christians and other people of faith, we rightly call out injustice when we see it. And we rightly call on God for strength, for guidance, and for discernment about how to respond to these acts of injustice and violence. Here are a few things we can do.
Sign up for the Poor People’s Campaign at www.poorpeoplescampaign.org
Read Ibram X. Kendi’s books Stamped from the Beginning and How to be An Anti-Racist.
Learn how the church has been complicit in the white supremacy that plagues this country. If you have access to Netflix, I highly recommend the documentary, Holy Hierarchy: The Religious Roots of Racism in America.
Read, think, pray, act as you are led to act. Believe that the One in whose name we gather calls us to hope, justice, and peace and gives us what we need to work toward making what we hope for a visible and valuable reality.
We grieve and lament, but not as those who have no hope (I Thessalonians 4.13). God is with us.
--Rev. Dr. LaTaunya Bynum
Regional Minister
from email, Regional Voices, May 28th, 2020
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