Posts from 2024

Our weekly class meets on Thursdays, from 9:30-10:30 am, in the parlor. All are welcome. We’re discussing Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace by Anne Lamott. Books are available at the Oak Park Main Library, first floor on the reserve shelf for book groups. Click here for the syllabus.

Dear Fair Oaks Family, You’ve been hearing this season about what the last 100 years has brought us. In 2024, especially, we celebrated the remarkable milestone of a century of our faith community growing together. We have built a community that has greatly impacted the spiritual lives of our members and our community over many generations. We should be proud of that legacy of faith, but our community is always changing. Even as we honor the past, we must always…

Fair Oaks is growing, and we want your help to update our digital directory on Realm! Who: Everyone! Anyone who considers Fair Oaks their church home. What: Updated photos (circa 2024), to be included in our digital member directory on Realm. How: A recent family portrait? A casual group shot taken by your camera phone? A selfie? Yes, anything goes! Where: Log into Realm and make your own updates or email office@fairoakspres.org and include your current address/contact info. and picture so that…

Mark your calendars, and get ready for an amazing week of fresh air and fellowship as Fair Oaks journeys once again down to Great Smoky Mountains National Park for spring break, Mar. 24-28, 2025. Email Ben for more information and make lodging arrangements at Camp Little Arrow.

LOGOS, the weekly intergenerational experience where adults and children in grades 1 – 12 build relationships with one another and with God. Click here for more information, and email Hailey with any questions.

Learning Edge Tutoring is looking for volunteer tutors  Volunteer with Learning Edge on Monday nights at Fair Oaks! The program began in late September, and tutors are still needed. The program runs through the school year (holidays excluded). Learning Edge provides free one-to-one tutoring for students who primarily live in the Austin neighborhood. It’s a special program that aims to make a positive impact in students’ lives, and many student-tutor pairs form strong, rewarding relationships. Tutors are matched with a…

The Afghan family that Fair Oaks has sponsored for almost three years Is moving to California! Our shared three years with them has been full of complicated problems and joyful solutions. We are happy that, with this move, they will be reunited with their large extended family which preceded them to California over a year ago. But we will miss their exuberant good spirits, their loving care for each other, and the amazing adaptation we witnessed to a new country…

As of April 1, 2024, all 165 migrants who had been sheltered in Oak Park since October 2023 have been placed in fully-paid leases for 12 months! Beginning in February of 2024, Fair Oaks began partnering with United Lutheran Church to support a migrant family who is living in an apartment located inside United Lutheran Church. Our partnership with United Lutheran has been to take turns providing fresh foods every other week to supplement items the family has obtained from local food…

The second Fair Oaks-supported, solar-powered water well in The Gambia is complete and working perfectly. Over 275 women, men, and children in the village of Gui Jahanka now have access to a year-round, unlimited supply of clean water for years to come. Up until this time, the village’s sole water source was a shallow, hand dug well which was often polluted and, during the dry season, unreliable.   This life-giving and life-changing project is positively impacting the health, education and well-being of every member of the village.…

Fair Oaks needs preparers and servers for its celebration of communion. All members can help prepare the elements while only ordained members can serve communion. Please consider helping with this important part of our worship service. See the eWeekly to sign up.