First Presbyterian Church of Murphysboro is a PCUSA church. We're located at 51 Crescent Drive in Murphysboro, Illinois. The Rev. Sam Foskey is serving as our Covenant Pastor. We belong to the Presbytery of Southeastern Illniois.

Multiple fatality shootings at: an LDS church in Michigan, a waterfront restaurant in North Carolina, at an ICE facility in Dallas, and of 3 police officers in Pennsylvania; Howard Crawshaw; Sutton Decker; Catastrophic earthquake in Afghanistan; Jeanne Baker; Starvation crisis in Gaza; Dan Baker; Carol Stone; Lillian Crain; Charles Maynor; Mary Guida; Matt Lisewski; Israel-Hamas War; War in Ukraine; Shirley Shields; Evelyn Rose Williamson; Bruce Camden; Local, state, and national governmental leaders; Barbara Smith; Janice Swearingen; Rev. Jim Frye; Brayden Stanley-Cobden 2nd grader with leukemia
PASTOR SAM'S OFFICE HOUR
October 7-Murphysboro (afternoon)
October 8-Murphysboro
October 9-Pinckneyville (morning)
October 13-Pinckneyville 
October 14-Pinckneyville (morning), Murphysboro (afternoon) 
October 15-Murphysboro 
October 16-Murphysboro (morning)
The pastor is available at other times by appointment. You can call his mobile phone at: 618 412 1188.
The secretary’s regular office hours: 9 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday.

Weekly offering amount required to meet the budget: $1176
October 5 regular offering, $742.80; Peace and Global Witness Offering, $70
September 28 regular offering, $370
September 21 regular offering, $655
You can also mail in contributions to the church at 51 Crescent Drive, 
Murphysboro, IL, 62966. Please contribute in this manner when absent from worship.
You can also bring your offering to the church office.

Pastor Sam has a couple of roles in a fundraising comedy play that will be performed at First Presbyterian Church in Carbondale on Friday, October 10, at 7:00 p.m. It's a melodrama comedy murder mystery written by the Reverend Kerry Bean, a former interim pastor at Murphysboro.

Nearly 3,000 people died and about 4,000 were injured in an earthquake in Afghanistan on August 31. Storms are churning in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Disasters can happen at any time. We can help by giving through Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. For more information check out PDA online. Just search for “Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.” 

 Over the last few years, the Presbytery of Southeastern Illinois has been hosting a number of “Big Conversations” in order to help us better understand some important issues that affect the Presbytery and its members. The next “Big Conversation” will be held at First Presbyterian Church of Effingham on Saturday, October 18, 2025. It will feature Reverend Dr. Matt Skolnik, whose work focuses on building healthy church community. The conversation will begin at 10 a.m. Please consider attending; you can ask Pastor Sam for further details 

How to Connect With The Churches Via Facebook And The Websites 
Pinckneyville Website: https://1upcpville.com/
Pinckneyville Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/firstunitedpresbyterianpinckneyville/ 
Murphysboro Website: http://fpcmurphysboro.org/ 
Murphysboro Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/First-Presbyterian-Church-1517609008538913/ 
The Facebook pages are where you will find the Facebook Live worship services. Pinckneyville worships at 9:00 a.m. and Murphysboro at 10:45 a.m. 

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