The Spiritual Life & Learning Center

Monthly Ministries 4 Movement Marches
2026-04-05 15:00, 2026-05-03 15:00, 2026-06-07 15:00, 2026-07-05 15:00, 2026-08-02 15:00, 2026-09-06 15:00, 2026-10-04 15:00, 2026-11-01 15:00 (America/New_York) and 10 more dates | Family Missionary Baptist Church, 996 Oakwood Ave, Columbus, OH, United States
Several members of the Racial Equity and Gun Violence Prevention (GVPMT) Ministry Teams participate monthly in a march and worship/information session with members of the Family Missionary Baptist Church and Ministries 4 Movement partners in the South End of Columbus the first Sunday of each month. First Community is recognized as an official partner of Ministries 4 Movement. We continue to work with this community and other partners for sustainment and new opportunities to contribute to justice causes. These marches occur the first Sunday of each month (rain or shine) at 3pm.
If interest in attending these events, please contact: John Girardor for more information, click HERE.

Sunday Intersections
2026-04-12 12:30 - 13:30, 2026-04-19 12:30 - 13:30, 2026-04-26 12:30 - 13:30, 2026-05-03 12:30 - 13:30, 2026-05-10 12:30 - 13:30, 2026-05-24 12:30 - 13:30, 2026-05-31 12:30 - 13:30 | First Community North, 3777 Dublin Rd, Columbus, OH, 43221, United States
Sunday Intersections
Sundays
12:30-1:30 pm
First Community North
Room 101
and via Zoom
Adult Sunday school returns to First Community during Sunday Intersections-Where Spirituality, Life, & Learning converge.
Our gatherings will explore a variety of issues through presentations, reflection, and discussion. Topics will range from historical and theological Biblical studies to relevant topics that we encounter every day.
Registration is not required, but appreciated. Let us know you’ll join us by clicking HERE.
The Zoom link will be on your confirmation email.
Any questions, please email Jen Bratka, Program Administrator.

World Labyrinth Day-Labyrinth Walk
2026-05-02 12:30 - 14:00 | First Community Labyrinth, 3777 Dublin Rd., COLUMBUS, OH, 43221, United States
Saturday, May 2
12:30-2 pm
Labyrinth
First Community North
Everyone is invited to come together on a shared journey of reflection, illumination, and connection.
Join us in a collective labyrinth walk at 1 pm, as part of the global “Walk as 1” initiative. Participants walk as one at 1 pm local time to create a worldwide, rolling wave of peaceful energy and unity passing from one time zone to the next.
Before the collective walk at 1 pm, take time to explore the labyrinth at your own pace. Whether you’ve walked before or this is your first experience, the labyrinth offers a path of self-discovery, quiet contemplation, and personal insight.
No registration is needed, however, this is a weather dependent event and will be cancelled for bad weather. Registrants will be notified via email prior to the gathering in the event of cancellation.
Register HERE

Spiritual Searcher: Rev. Terri Hord Owens
2026-05-17 15:00 - 17:00 | First Community North, 3777 Dublin Rd, Columbus, OH, 43221, United States
Sunday, May 17
Preaching all 3 Services
(click link for times and locations)
Presentation and Book Signing
3 pm
FC North
Wing Grace Hall

Join us for an afternoon with Rev. Dr. Terri Hord Owens, General Minister and President of the Christian Church-Disciples of Christ.
We welcome Rev. Terri Hord Owens, General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada. She is the first person of color and second woman to lead the denomination, and the first woman of African descent to lead a mainline denomination.
Elected in 2017, Rev. Hord Owens was re-elected to a second term as General Minister and President in 2023. Her ministry actively reflects the Disciples’ priority of being an anti-racist church, being a movement for wholeness, welcoming all to the Lord’s table as God has welcomed us. Her exhortation to the church is “Let’s be the church we say we are. It is in being who we say we are that we actively bear witness to God’s limitless love for all.”
Register HERE.

Spiritual Searcher Weekend with Rev. Dr. David P. Gushee
2026-07-24 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-07-25 09:30 - 12:30, 2026-07-26 09:00 - 13:00 | First Community North, 3777 Dublin Rd, Columbus, OH, 43221, United States
Registration now open!!
Friday, July 24
“The Arc of the Covenant: My Journey as Pastor, Scholar, and Christian Ethicist”
Ticketed Event with with hors d’oeuvres and drinks
6 – 8 pm
First Community North
Saturday, July 25
“Job as Spiritual Refugee: Rereading an Ancient Story for Our Own Time”
Keynote Address and Book Signing
9:30 am-12:30 pm
First Community North
Sunday, July 26
Preaching all 3 Services
(click link for times and locations)

Sermon Title: “When the Old Answers No Longer Work: A New Reading of the Book of Job”
Join us for a weekend with Rev. Dr. Prof. David P. Gushee
Rev. Dr. Prof. David P. Gushee brings sustained reflection on scripture, ethics, the church, and public life, writing as a Christian ethicist from a post-evangelical perspective. Gushee earned his Ph.D. in Christian ethics from Union Theological Seminary (NY). Now in his fourth decade of teaching, he has served as Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University since 2007. Gushee is the elected past-president of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics. As of 2025 he is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 30 books. He is widely regarded as one of his generation’s most significant Christian moral thinkers.

Register HERE

Any questions, please email JBratka@FCchurch.com
