FCCGE Children and Youth Events

Chili Cook-Off!

Sunday, February 2, 2025
After 10 am Worship
Youth Volunteers Needed
to help serve!

Join us for our yearly Work Camp fundraiser Chili Cook-Off! It’s a fun lunchtime activity of chili, cornbread and brownies. Be a cook, a judge or simply come and eat and enjoy. Use the form below to let Tanner know if you would like to….

  • Cook a chili, cornbread, or brownies 
  • Volunteer (youth or adult)
  • Be a judge! ($25 fee to judge, comes with sample of all chili’s)
  • Just eat chili! ($20 gets you a bowl, cornbread, brownie) $60 max per family

Confirmands Receive Warm Welcome

at Glen Ellyn Mosque

A group of our confirmands and adults paid a faith visit to Baitul Jaamay Mosque in Glen Ellyn on Saturday. We had a wonderful morning of learning and welcome and are invited back during Ramadan for a community Iftar meal.

College Care Package

Deadline to Sign-Up:
January 31st 2025

Provide us with your young adult’s college information so we can send them a care package. (Sometime around February or before end-of-year finals). Questions? Contact Tanner.

 

Online Registration for Families is OPEN and LIVE 

We invite and encourage you to register our children and youth from infants through 12th graders by following this link.  This information is invaluable to us so that we may welcome the children and youth and provide a safe space to explore their faith, make friendships, and feel fully a part of our community.  Thanks for registering!

Sunday Morning Faith Formation for Children and Youth

    • See the Friday Family email for more details or contact Director of Christian Education, Catherine Curtis ( or 630-469-3096 ext. 23) or Director of Youth Ministry, Tanner Spears (or 30-469-3096 ext. 28). 
    • Nursery Care for infants and toddlers during the worship service.
    • Church School
      • Preschool – Class for three, four and Pre-K five year olds in the Preschool Room, Lower Level, Room 1 during the worship service.
      • Kindergarten – 5th grades – Elementary-age children begin in worship with their families and are invited to meet their church school leaders at the back of the church to go up to classes following the Confess Response.  On most Communion Sundays, Kindergarten – 5th grade students will return to the Sanctuary to partake of Communion with their families and the congregation.
    • Confirmation 
      • Class for 6th – 8th grades begins September 15th during the worship service.  On most Communion Sundays, there is no Confirmation class so that Confirmands may worship with family and friends.

Playgroup is Back in 2025!

Saturday, January 18, 9:30 am 
FCCGE Preschool Room

Once-a-Month Saturday playgroup is a wonderful way to help your child feel comfortable and welcome at the church and an opportunity for families with children, in kindergarten and younger, to build relationships for children and the adults in their lives. Older siblings are also welcome, as an opportunity to have fun and grow into their roles as mentors and nurturers, while building relationships with other adults in the congregation. All are welcome- no RSVP required! Our next playgroup will be Saturday, January 18 at 9:30 am and we’ll meet in the preschool classroom at church. Looking forward to having lots of fun together- hope to see you there! Jessi Fleming (602-820-6450). 

Important Dates for Families

 
 
▪ Sunday, February 2nd – Sr Hi Chili Cookoff Workcamp Fundraiser
▪ Wednesday, March 19th – 4th Grade Bible Pizza Party, Rehearsal, Game Night
▪ Sunday, March 23rd – 4th Grade Bible Presentation & Angel Choir
 
Youth Group Upcoming Dates:
Standard youth group time is JR High: 5-630pm and SR High: 630-8pm unless noted below:
 
1/19: Early Youth Group (Board Game Night) (JR High: 3-430 and SR High: 430-6pm)
1/26: Making Homemade Jam with Martha DeForest, combined 530-730pm (RSVP Required!)
2/2: Chili Cook-Off Fundraiser for Work Camp after church (no youth group at night)
2/9: No youth group due to Super Bowl
2/16: Mario Kart Battle (LIVE version)
2/23: Making Bread Rolls with Dean Fischer & Jill Foucre, combined 530-730 (RSVP Required!)
 
 
Confirmation Upcoming Date
 
1/19: Lesson: Social and Racial Justice (w/ simulation by Ida and Mary)
1/26: Lesson: Solomon – The Ambitious Son
2/2: No Confirmation – Communion Sunday, attend or serve in worship/church school
2/9: Lesson: Elijah – The Get-R-Done Prophet
2/16: No Lesson 
2/23: Lesson: Jonah – The Passive-Aggressive Coot