At First Church, our goal of Adult Education is to provide a dynamic program of small group classes that not only strengthens, inspires, and sustains our current church membership but also encourages and welcomes newcomers to join us! We learn with open minds and hearts to enrich our faith and lives through Christ.
We hope you’ll join us in this journey. For more information, please contact us.
Current Classes:
Nature: Our First Way of Knowing God
Date: Sundays, July 12-August 6, 2026
Time: 10:00-10:50 AM
Location: First Church, Activity Center
Long before there were synagogues, churches or even the Bible, God made God’s self known through the creation. The Scriptures are packed full of examples of people coming to understand God through trees, birds, storms, water, and more.
Today, we live largely separate and disconnected from the Earth and its ecological processes, and yet this knowing of God in and through God’s creation is still embedded deep within us. We experience it in a sunrise or a sunset, an awe-inspiring mountain range or a gentle stream. And we grieve together for the role we have played in the precarious state of the creation today.
Our study through video, in-class readings, and small group discussions is meant to awaken this visceral knowing of the Creator through the creation, reconnect us with the sacred landscapes we call home, encourage us to provide space and time for spiritual reflection in nature, and to live in greater harmony with God’s Earth.
Please join us at 10:00 a.m. on Sundays for these sessions:
July 12: Provision and Thanksgiving
July 19: The Spirituality of Water
July 26: Connection and Compassion
August 9: Death and Grief in Nature
August 6: Renewal and Response
Please direct questions to Diana Hoke hokediana@gmail.com.