Visitor Info
- People visit FPC for many reasons. Many will visit to worship with us, and we are so happy to have you join us to share this sacred time. Others come for the medical loan closet, for Soup or Socks (our food pantry), Boy Scouts, concerts, our annual rummage sale, or a variety of community activities. And of course, please know that we welcome you whatever your reason for visiting!
- Our Sunday Worship Service begins at 9:30. You will be welcomed by one of our Deacons at the door, and greeters will hand out bulletins at the main door to the sanctuary. Services are simulcast on YouTube and Facebook, are also available to stream at a later time.
- You will see plenty of casually dressed worshipers, including a few in Packers gear, as well as some who enjoy putting on their “Sunday Best.”
- We have a blended music style, lots of old favorite hymns as well as contemporary worship music. We sing from the bulletin or hymnal and do not have screens in the sanctuary.
- You will get a bulletin prepared just for each Sunday that will guide you through the service: the songs, prayers, and extras.
- Our worship service generally runs for a little longer than an hour. Special Services (with Baptisms, Confirmation, special events) generally last about a little longer.
- We welcome people of all ages in the congregation. The younger school age children have a “Discovery Time” during worship and then leave for Sunday School and choir each Sunday.
- Young children and babies are welcome in worship at any time. For young kids, we have special activity bags to give their busy fingers some related activities to enjoy during the grown-up service, including an Etch A Sketch. These bags are in the Narthex (entry hall), to the left of the of the main sanctuary doors. For those who are a bit wiggly, there is staffed Nursery care available for children under five years. Please ask a Deacon or greeter if you’d like to be guided to the nursery.
- We practice “Open Communion.” We believe this is the Lord’s Table, not ours. And our Lord invites all who are hungry for the bread of life, to participate fully in the sacrament of Holy Communion.
- A voluntary offering is collected every Sunday after the sermon, to express our gratitude and to help God’s work here in the Marshfield community and around the world. We also have a “Blessing Box” for offerings to help with direct need ministries in Marshfield.
- If you are a newcomer and would like to stand and introduce yourself during the Joys and Concerns part of our service, you are welcome to do that. That is not our expectation however. We would like for you to have welcome bag though, which is available on the table just outside the sanctuary.