First United

We try to do what Jesus did. Feed people, physically and spiritually. Welcome everybody, especially the strange ones. Freak out the establishment. Point out where we see God at work in the world. And then help do it.

We adore our downtown community. And we pour our affection right out of doors onto the sidewalks and our cherished Lovelanders.

Our congregation is blessed with many artistic gifts, and we get to share them with young people in our community through a week-long arts enrichment camp.

"(Music) transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have … And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time." 

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- Leo Tolstoy

We are two months to one hundred and two - and continually learning. We are students of God and of life. We are artists exploring our world and faith as we know it. We are explorers ever awed, accepting the challenges life and faith present us.  Read More >>

All people are precious to God. We are always at work for positive change through love in action throughout the globe.  The Presbyterian Church USA has a history of making a real difference for over 200 years.  Read More >>