First Presbyterian Church

08/31/2026

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08/30/2026

Did you know we have a Blessing Box right outside the church? It has food and books for anyone to freely take as they need. We are here to feed the hungry in our community and this is one more way we do that.

08/04/2026

We are hosting Food Bank of Iowa Mobile Food Pantry on Thursday, August 6th from 4pm-6pm

The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) provides food and meals at no cost through participating food pantries and meal sites.

07/18/2026

Serving breakfast in the morning before service at 8:45am. Egg bake and cinnamon rolls. All are welcome!

06/30/2026

Join us this Sunday after service to celebrate Jack Grosvenor's 90th birthday with snacks and dessert, as we mark this significant milestone in his life.

06/30/2026

We are grateful to be part of such an amazing community.
And one year we hope to have the outdoor service actually outdoors. 😊

Wow, we are blown away on how amazing our 17th Annual Gemboree weekend was! We would like to thank all of these people for making our event a success!

Our Gemboree sponsors-
Iowa State Bank, Cheryl and Marlin Sjaarda, Hohbach Construction, Security State Bank, South O'Brien Insurance, Eldridge Family Funeral Home, ISB Insurance, Millwerk Salvage & Sales, OCAHS, and Soil View!

All the sponsors, golfers and Paullina Golf Club on Mill Creek for Friday‘s tournament.
Paullina Fire Department for the b**r garden and kids water fights.
Zach and Skyler Nicole Hohbach for taking on the bags tournament.
DUGAN Party Rentals, LLC for bringing a fun foam party Friday night.
JW’s for the delicious options on both Friday and Saturday.
Little Critters Splash Pad on another successful 5k race.
Smolder’s Brew, JW’s and Big Açaí Bowl.
All of our parade entries and Bryce with KCHE 92.1 FM who live-streamed our parade.
Party Fun Rentals for our inflatables and dunk tank.
Special K’z Bubbles
Pam Ebel and Danielle Hawkins for face painting.
Awakening Grace for taking on the pie and ice cream and those who donated pies and supplies.
Dunk Tank volunteers- Kelly Top and James Lewis.
Granville Improvement Club for the Pedal Pull and Mill Creek Concessions for the free ice cream cone for participants.
Primghar Pizza Ranch and Vero’s for the great food options.
Mockingbird Hill Kettle Corn
Paullina Hardware and Mill Creek Park for the Paddler Olympics
Lyman & Leprechaun for providing a fantastic fireworks show.
Paullina Ambulance Service for a phenomenal community breakfast.
AMPI for the donated items for the breakfast.
Mikaela Mackey for the fun painting event.
Wonderland Theater for graciously opening their doors to offer a movie during our event.
First Presbyterian Church for planning an outdoor service and Kate Zeutenhorst for the yoga in the park planning although we were not able to have it.
Danelle Strubbe and Christine Feltman for helping clean up and tear down.
Shawn Strubbe for helping organize our parade route.
Our Grand Marshal, Laura Palmer for being an amazing asset to Paullina.
City of Paullina for letting us have our event, making sure everything was ready to go and helping clean up our town!

Join us next year for 2027’s Gemboree, June 25-27, 2027!

06/28/2026

Community Service will be inside at the church this morning.

This rain is not helping our outdoor events this morning! Our Community Church will be moved to First Presbyterian Church!

06/20/2026

Join us tomorrow, before 9:30am service, for an uplifting morning with delicious pancakes and sausage starting at 8:45am. We look forward to seeing you there!