Missions

MISSIONS Through our Charitable Trust, FCC supports a wide variety of local and world mission endeavors.  Also, our members and friends volunteer at CROSSLINES, WATERED GARDENS, MSSU LION’S FOOD CO-OP, as well as other organizations.  We also partner with Church World Service. Call Now

Choir

CHOIR The Sanctuary Choir at First Community Church is an integral part of worship.   We embrace the tradition of great church music, and lead the congregation in the singing of hymns. Our anthems and  worship music include a variety of styles while adhering to an overall classic approach to worship.

Bible Study & Book Discussions

BIBLE STUDY & BOOK DISCUSSIONS First Community Church offers interest-related studies and discussion groups which have a determined beginning and an ending.  These may be offered on a Sunday morning in a traditional Sunday school format, a church-wide study on a Wednesday evening, or study in homes or locations away from the church premises.  Two, three, or […]

Alliance

ALLIANCE The Alliance has been in continual existence since 1926. The purpose of the Alliance is to lead women to accept their full Christian responsibility in all of life.  This is done by a program of education and by providing opportunities for Christian service. All women of the church are members of the Alliance.

Church Architecture

CHURCH ARCHITECTURE First Community Church was listed as one of “Missouri’s Architectural Treasures,” in Missouri Life in 2016. Below is an excerpt found in the article: R. L. Fischer & Associates designed this modern church in 1960. In a design statement at the American Institute of Architects St. Louis Chapter Awards Program that same year, […]

Staff

STAFF MEET OUR PASTOR REV. RUSSELL WILLOUGHBY Pastor Russell Willoughby is a native Missourian, having grown up in the small community of Monett.  He is a graduate of Howard Payne University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Practical Theology.  Pastor Russell’s seminary training was at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary with a specialty […]

History

HISTORY THE FOUNDING In the early 1920s members of several churches in Joplin, along with their ministers, recognized the need to develop an interdenominational community church in Joplin. After a great deal of soul searching, meetings, and discussions with many people in the community, the Reverend John Wagner, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; […]

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