FIPC Newsletter

Issue 11 Volume 10  - Week of March 11, 2012

From Pastor Jim

Dear Friends,   

 

Here we GROW again!  Please join me in welcoming new members to the FIPChurch Family
  • Phillip Bowling -  Phillip is a retired Federal Contractor and is married to Debbie.
  • Jon and Daisy Anderson - Jon is a Water Mitigation Specialist and Daisy is an Environmental Specialist.  They have one son, Logan.
  • Emily Putnam -  Emily is an Employee Volunteer.
They bring our membership to 365 and will be presented in worship on March 25.
 
Congratulations to David and Doreen Congdon and Erin Ayers on completing 3rd Base Class!
 
Last weekend, we had 22 folks at our True Love Waits retreat!  True Love Waits at FIPC is for 8th - 12th grade youth, which teaches the importance of abstinence and living a pure lifestyle.  A huge thank you to our adult leaders Lisa Sites, Paul and Colleen Brennan, Duke and Kristina Duncan, Richard Calloway, and Kaitlyn Rivera for organizing and chaperoning the retreat. Thank you also to Zach Duncan, Ben Ledbetter, and Hannah Stansberry for being junior leaders.

We have 4 women going through the women's Great Banquet this weekend.  Let's keep them in our prayers.
 

Remember, God is GOOD!  ALL the time!  

 

Your pastor and friend...

Jim Weldon

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News & Upcoming Events

CHURCH WIDE EVENTS     

 
MULCH FOR MISSIONS! 

Mulch

The Rock Youth Group and the Net Youth Group will be selling bags of mulch to raise money for the 2012 Summer Mission Camps.  Our fundraising goal is $6,000.  Take advantage of the convenience, and order your much through us! 

  Details:

  • Standard size mulch at $3.00 a bag
  • $20.00 for delivery
  • $1.00/bag to spread
  • You can choose to just order with us and pick it up yourself, or elect for the full service.
  • Ordering dates: March 11, 18, 25 and April 1 and 15.
  • Delivery/Spreading Dates: March 24 and April 21
  • See Mike or Tina for more details
  • Order Online or drop off your orders at the youth and children's table at church! 

TIME TO ORDER YOUR EASTER LILIES

EASTER LILY 

Place your Easter Lily order today to decorate for the Easter services.

You may pick them up after the 10 am Service on Easter to enjoy at home or leave them and they will be planted in the FIPC gardens.

Click here to place your order today...  

      
     

EASTER EGG HUNT

EGGHUNTApril 1 - Palm Sunday

Egg Hunt (3 - 4:30 pm)

 

Needs:

  • Stuffed Plastic Eggs with candy or small toys (NO CHOCOLATE)
  • Volunteers to coordinate the egg donations and hiding the eggs
  • Volunteers to help supervise crafts and games
  • Donation of cookies (homemade or purchased)
  • Parking attendants
  • Help with setting up @ 1:00 pm and cleaning up after the hunt

 


HOLY THURSDAY WORSHIP SERVICE
April 5CROSS 
7:00 pm 

  

This is a worship service you will not want to miss

Join us for a potluck dinner at 6PM before the service.  




WOMEN'S RETREAT

 

 

Women's Retreat One Ocean Resort and Spa

April 20-21
(2 Days, 1 Night)
 

Theme:   Wait and See

This is taken from Genesis 16 the relationship of Sarah and Hagar.

Speaker: Liz Deal, a recent graduate of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, and the pianist in the worship trio at Mandarin Presbyterian Church.

Professional Musicians: "Eternal" will be joining us for the weekend leading us in worship.
Cost:
Single- $239.00

Double- $155.00
Triple- $129.00
Quad- $115.00

Meals included in the price: Dinner at Ragtime, Breakfast at Lillies, and Lunch at Sliders!

 
 
   

THE ROCK   

The Rock (5th & 6th Graders)
Wednesday at 5:30 - 7 pm in the Rock Room.
 
    

YOUTH MINISTRIES
The Net (Jr. High & Sr. High Youth) Wednesday at 6:30 - 8:30 pm in the Youth House!



Missions 2012 2012 ChristLife Mission Trip
Birmingham, AL
July 8 - 14

The Sr. High youth will be traveling to Birmingham to assist with the tornado disaster relief efforts through Group Work Camps.  The cost of the trip is $450.00.  To register and secure your spot ($150 deposit), as well as view more information about the trip, please visit our webpage!  



Confirmation  

Confirmation Class of 2012

  • Next Class: March 25   
  • 3-4:30 pm    
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CHURCH STAFF

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FACEBOOK

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Thanks and Prayer Requests

Paryer RequestsPrayers of Praise and Thanksgiving:  

 

 

Knowing God by Praying the Names of God ... to Know His name is to know His character and who He is.  

  

Reflection: "The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against the Anointed One."  Psalm 2:2

  

Pray: The Lord His Anointed One (Daniel 9:24, 26, 27)
  

Prayer Requests:

  • For Spiritual Revival.
  • The grace to live out our faith.
  • For FIPC Pastor and family, Staff and families and Elders and families. 
  • For our Adult Overseas Mission Trip Planning Task Force.
  • For families and individuals who are hurting.
  • For FIPC's Christian Counseling Center.
  • For those who are gracefully dealing with aging parents and loved ones. 
  • For those who are ill.  
  • For marriages that are hurting.
  • David Drew, recovery after mild stroke.
  • Ruth Thomas, healing.
  • Jim Weldon, healing.
  • Amy Wilson, healing.
  • Paul Nixon, healing.
  • Katlin Brennan, healing.
  • Addison Fraser, healing.
  • Pres Schrader, healing.
  • Tim Tyler's parents, Mildred and Donald Tyler.
  • Ask the Lord to open my eyes as to what is needed for me.  I have no belief.
  • Cousin Dave, stroke .
  • My friends to find a way their way.  Help heal their pain.
  • Diana, Donnna to heal.  Josh and Brittany.
  • Continued prayer for Benjamin as he struggles in choosing a college.  Brittany as she prepares for graduation from college and commissing in the Army.
  • Andy, brother-in-law, recovery from surgery cancer).  Daelyn, niece, as she continues to get well fro her illness.
  • Pray for my son and his constant battle with eating.  He is getting older and I worry so much about his health.
  • Pam and mom; Celine & Maxine; Sally, leg pain.
  • Please continue to pray for Jacob's situation. Thank you.
  • Continue to pray for our youth to stay focus on Christ in their life.
  • Very tough week, Lord please give me strength and peace.
  • Pray for the men that went to the Great Banquet to get into a reunion group.
  • Unspoken.
  • Prayer for daughter, Hannah, as she visits the doctor this week.
  • Reese as he continues to look for employment and makes a decision about career change.
  • For our granddaughter's healing; nephew's continued healing, Sara's knees, Jennifer's shoulder.

 

Praise / Thanks 

  • Beautiful praise and worship music!
  • Thank you Tina for making the Ski Trip Slide Show.
  • Great sermon, great music!
  • 3/4, celebrated 25th anniversary.
  • Great message.
  • Thank you for the turkey.
  • Thank you to all the leaders who helped in  "True Love Waits" weekend.
  • Phil White for being the head person at the GB.
  • Allowing God to put the right people in place for us to meet Jack and bring him to church. 
  • Made it through another week of work.

 

This Week's Devotional
This Week's Devotional

"Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly." (Colossians 3:16a NIV)

Just like you need physical food for physical strength, you need spiritual food for spiritual strength. The Bible describes itself as spiritual food - the water, milk, bread, and meat of our spiritual lives. It's everything you need for sustenance.

 

If you were a construction contractor, you wouldn't consider sending out a guy who hadn't eaten anything in two weeks. If you were a commander in the Army, you wouldn't send a person into battle who hadn't eaten in a month. Right? We need to feed ourselves to have the strength to accomplish the tasks ahead of us.

 

You're not going to have much success in winning the spiritual battles you face if you're starving yourself to death. That's why we need to feed ourselves on the Word of God.

 

Unlike eating physical food, whenever I feed on the Word, I get even hungrier. The more I taste and see how good God is, the more I want.

 

The Bible says in Colossians 3:16, "Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly" (NIV). Paul is telling us to let the Bible take up residence in our lives in a rich, profound, and life-giving way.

So how do we feed ourselves on the Word of God and allow that to happen?

  • Receive the Word with your ears. Commit yourself to go to church and listen to God's Word being preached. 
  • Read the Word with your eyes. As I said, having a Bible in your house is not going to bless your life. You have to have the Bible in your heart. 
  • Research the Word with your hands and mouth. When studying the Word of God, keep a pencil in your hand. Write down what God teaches. Talk about what you're discovering with other believers in a small-group environment.
  • Reflect on the Word with your mind. Think about and chew on God's Word.
  • Remember the Word with your heart. You'll rarely have a Bible with you when you need it. Commit God's Word to memory.

Talk About It

  • Are you feeding yourself by following all of the points above, or do you normally just stop after the first? What changes do you need to make in your life so that you are spiritually nourished?
  • Do you write down what God teaches you? What you are memorizing from Scripture?
  • What spiritual battle are you fighting today? Have you turned to God's Word for sustenance?

This Weeks Funnies
Early one morning, a mother went in to wake up her son.

"Wake up, son. It's time to go to school!"
"But why, Mom? I don't want to go."
"Give me two reasons why you don't want to go."
"Well, the kids hate me for one, and the teachers hate me, too!"
"Oh, that's no reason not to go to school. Come on now and get ready."
"Give me two reasons why I *should* go to school."
     "Well, for one, you're 52 years old. And for another, you're the PRINCIPAL!"   


Parental Advice for the day:  If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: Take two and keep away from the children.   


CAMPING HINTS

~ When using a public campground, a tuba placed on your picnic table will keep the campsites on either side vacant.

~ To get even with a bear who raided your food bag, kick his favorite stump apart and eat all the ants.

~ You can duplicate the warmth of a down-filled bedroll by climbing into a plastic garbage bag with several geese.

~ Take this simple test to see if you qualify for solo camping: Shine a flashlight into one ear. If the beam shines out the other ear, do not go into the woods alone.

~ A two-man pup tent does not include two men or a pup.

~ A potato baked in the coals for one hour makes an excellent side dish. A potato baked in the coals for three hours makes an excellent hockey puck.

~ Bear bells provide an element of safety for hikers in grizzly country. The tricky part is getting them on the bears.

~ The sight of a bald eagle has thrilled campers for generations. The sight of a bald man, however, does absolutely nothing for the eagle.


 

Playing Through: A man was about to tee off on the golf course when he felt a tap on his shoulder and a man handed him a card that read, "I am a deaf mute.  May I play through, please?"

The first man angrily gave the card back, and made it clear that, no, he may NOT play through, and that his handicap did not give him such a right. 

The first man whacked the ball onto the green & left to finish the hole.

Just as he was about to put his ball into the hole he was hit in the head with a golf ball, laying him out cold. 

When he came to, a few minutes later, he looked around and saw the deaf mute sternly looking at him, one hand on his hip, the other holding up 4 fingers.




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In This Issue
From Pastor Jim
News & Upcoming Events
Prayer Requests
This Week's Devotional
FIPC Calendar
Calendar

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A Record of our Faithfulness

 

FIPC is a member supported church. We do not receive any outside funding.  Everything we do is made possible through your faithful giving. 

 


Church Membership - 365

 

Attendance 

03/11/12 = 255
             

Ministry Fund

03/11/12 = $6,610.00

(budgeted need = $8,800) 

 

Building Fund 

03/11/12 = $820.00

(budgeted need = $2,800)

  

Offering envelopes are now available in the church bulletin for cash offerings.  The envelopes are not necessary for checks.  If you ever have any questions about FIPC finances, please call our Chief Financial Officer and Church Administrator, Dawn Vanderpool, at the church office.

Sunday Worship Service
sunday service

Worship Service is held every  

Sunday morning  

10:00AM - 11:15AM.

 

Attire is casual. It is an uplifting, come as you are worship service.

 

Missed Sunday's Sermon?
Sunday Sermons

Link 

 

 
Small Groups

God never intended for us to go it alone!

 

We want to help you find the Small Group where you can you grow in your faith and have some fun doing it!

Link 

ROCK / CHILDREN

THE ROCK LOGO
Link


Childrens Ministries
Link






ChristLife
ChristLife - Senior High Youth
Link

09 ornament exchange
 

FULE
FUEL - Junior High Youth Group
Link
Christian Counseling Center
Christian Counseling Center

A ministry of Fleming Island Presbyterian Church

The Christian Counseling Center of FIPC is an outreach of the church to our community.    

Link
Thank You Notes
Thank You

 

  

Thanks to the Hospitality Team for Sunday morning refreshments.  

 

Thank you to the counting team for your continued service to your church!

 

Thank you to our Awesome Worship Band!

 

Thank you to those who helped usher/greet last Sunday!

 

Thanks to our Children's Ministry Volunteers.

 

Thank you to our Youth Ministry Team.

 

Announcements

Announcements for the E-newsletter, and Power Point Slide Show before worship, during the offering, and after worship should be emailed to Sara by 9 am on Mondays.  

 

Announcements for the bulletin should be emailed to Sara Dryden by 10 am on Tuesdays

 

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1743 County Road 220

Fleming Island, FL 32003

904-269-2412

 

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