Our first Sharing Christ volunteer opportunity in 2012 is coming up this Saturday, March 31. We need volunteers to make bag lunches, prep food, serve dinner, and clean up. We will make chicken casserole, marinated coleslaw, green beans, and dessert for 135 to 150 people. We will begin at 4:30 p.m. and work until we've finished cleaning up, around 7:00 p.m. The Sharing Christ Mission is located at Sixth and State Streets in Bristol.

This year, FPC takes on the responsibility of providing enough sandwich bread and snack cakes for at least 70 bag lunches on each of our service dates. We will also provide the bread or rolls for that Saturday's evening meal. If you would like to donate bread products or volunteer your time, please email Tammy Connolly at lconn4691@btes.tv or call her at 423-968-3831 (home) or 276-628-7213 (work).

Our children will be making Resurrection eggs during the Sunday School hour on Palm Sunday, April 1. They will fill plastic eggs with items to represent the Resurrection story. Next week on Easter Day, also during the Sunday School hour, the children will have their Easter Celebration at Creation Station.

This Monday, April 2, is the final date for ordering Easter lilies to place in the Sanctuary or Fellowship Hall in honor or memory of loved ones. Order forms are in your Sunday bulletin as well as the church office. Lilies are $15 each. Please return the order form to the church office with your payment. Thank you for adding to the beauty of the season!

All men of the church are invited to share breakfast and fellowship next Saturday, April 7, at 8:00 a.m., in the Fellowship Hall.

Mark your calendars for Boy Scout Troop 3's annual community yard sale, to be held Saturday, April 14, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., in the back parking lot by the Fellowship Hall.

The Scouts are raising money to pay for their transportation to the 50th anniversary of the West Point Camporee, April 26 to 29, and to cover the costs of the event itself.

The 50th anniversary Camporee is an invitation-only event that FPC's Scouts were blessed to be accepted to because we have two Troop 3 Eagle Scouts (also members of FPC) at West Point, Cadet Pvt. Drew Bailey and Cadet Pvt. Conor Haaser.

We welcome donations for this fundraising event from our church family. Please bring donated items to the Scout Hall, starting April 1. The room is open during church business hours. If you wish to deliver items at another time, please call the Scout Master, Karen Haaser, at 423-383-1287, or the event coordinator, Ralph Roark, at 423-276-8848. Troop 3 is very grateful to First Presbyterian Church for its support!

Thanks to the kind folks with an eye to the church courtyard, we will have filled in some of the missing color around the cross and in the borders by Easter. But we believe the more the merrier! Please consider adding to the festive appearance of our courtyard by donating flowering annuals, and perhaps even giving Tom Daniel a hand with the planting. We could use more red, white, and purple around the cross and any color in the borders. For more information, please contact Tom at 423-764-7677. Thank you! 

The grass is greener now!

The following mowing schedule will keep our church lawn trim through the middle of April:

       March 28-31:     Randy Cook

              April 4-7:      Joe Hagerty & John Vann

          April 11-15:     JB Madison & Jim White

We're still looking for people to help us break in the new Tiger Cat. For more information, contact Randy Cook at npolecook@aol.com or 423-956-1541.