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2025 Year in Review
December 25th, 2025
Dear First on Fifth family, It has become my custom to share what amounts to a "Year in Review" letter with you in late December. I suppose I come by this in...
December 2025: Church Happens With You
December 9th, 2025
Dear Beloved Community, It’s not quite time for our annual roundup of the year in review – churches like ours have a lot of life to live together in Dece...
November 2025: For All the Saints
November 2nd, 2025
For all the saints, who from their labors rest, who Thee by faith before the world confessed, Thy name, O Jesus, be forever blessed. Alleluia! In t...
October 2025: Room for Everyone at the Table
October 6th, 2025
This Sunday, October 5, our congregation will gather for one of my favorite days in the life of the church - World Communion Sunday. Born out of a desire for un...
September 2025: Why We Celebrate Anniversaries
September 4th, 2025
Dear Beloved Community, Fifteen years ago this very night, Josh and I gathered with our nearest and dearest to commit our lives to each other. We made all th...
100 on Fifth: Home in the Heart of the City
September 2nd, 2025
100 years ago, the people called First Baptist Church planted their new home at 501 West Fifth Street. After two other locations they called home, the third tim...