FIPC Newsletter

Issue 14 Volume 10  - Week of April 1, 2012

From Pastor Jim

Dear Friends,   

 

This is Holy Week... a time when we prepare our hearts to celebrate our highest and holiest day of the year - the Resurrection of our Lord - Easter! 
  • On Thursday, April 5th, we will be having our Holy Thursday worship service at 7 PM.  This service is in remembrance of the events from Last Supper to Jesus' crucifixion.  It is an incredibly moving worship service that reminds us of His sacrifice and grace.  Prior to the service, we will be having an all church pot luck at 6PM.  As always, please take this opportunity to invite someone new to the church.
  • Our Easter Sunday Services begin at 7AM with our Sunrise Service at Eagle Harbor Golf Club.  We will also have an 8:30AM and 10AM regular worship services in our building.  EASTER IS THE PERFECT TIME TO INVITE A FRIEND TO CHURCH.
Last Sunday we had our annual Easter Egg Hunt and it was wonderful!  One of the best parts of our time was all the people who showed up to help set up!  We can't thank you enough for that!!

Remember, God is GOOD!  ALL the time!  

 

Your pastor and friend...

Jim Weldon

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News & Upcoming Events

CHURCH WIDE EVENTS     

EASTER SERVICES
Easter services 2012
7:00 am Sunrise Service 
"Under The Tent" 
at Eagle Harbor Golf Club 
8:30 am and 10 am  
Fleming Island PC Worship Building 



HOLY THURSDAY WORSHIP SERVICE

April 5Holy Thursday 2012, 7:00 pm
This is a worship service you will not want to miss

  

Come for a
potluck dinner at 6PM before the service.

  

 

2012 DAYTONA TRIP 6TH- 8TH GRADERS
May 4-6  
Deadline to register April 15th 

Don't miss out on this exciting, crazy, and awesome time at Daytona Beach. Youth will enjoy playing games, listening to awesome Christian music from Canopy Red (make this a link to their webpage), and growing closer to God. Visit our webpage (make this a link) for more information and to register. Cost of the trip is $145.00.

 
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 25 and April 1 and 15.
  • Delivery/Spreading Date: 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! 

 

 


 

THE ROCK The Rock (5th & 6th Graders)  

Meets this Wednesday from 5:30 pm - 7 pm in the ROCK Room. 
 
   
YOUTH MINISTRIES
The Net (Jr. High & Sr. High Youth)
Meets this Wednesday from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm in the Youth Room.


Missions 2012 2012
Summer of
Local Missions!
June 18-22



 
More information TBA!  Please mark your calendars.  This will be a day camp that meets every day and is for Junior and Senior High Youth Groups. 

Confirmation  

Confirmation Class of 2012

  • Next Class: April 15     
  • 3-4:30PM

CHURCH STAFF

If you would like to contact a church staff member please go to our  

website >>>

   

FACEBOOK

Check out our facebook  page! It's a great way to add photos of events and stay in contact with your church.




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: "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling place." Psalm 68:5 

 

Pray: Defender (Job 22:25, Psalm 59:17)

  

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.
  • Cody Edlenbos, healing from surgery.
  • Unspoken
  • That the process to buy my house goes well.  Mom and Phil have an easy transition to their new hom.
  • The healing of mom's arm.  Marriages.
  • For those who have lost faith in each other find their way back.
  • Safe travel for our trip. Peace for our family.
  • Friend, Jill with pancreatitus in ICU, and her daughter Megan for strength.  Friend, Hope whose brother was killed in a helicopter accident.
  • Travel safety for my mom. For Nick and Daniel.
  • Maxine and Celine A.
  • Family.
  • Gloria to have heart surgery in April at Emory in Atlanta. 
  • For Guy's back.
  • My family.
  • Murray M., healing.
  • For my friend Ken to get well.
  • People will commit their time, treasures and talent.  Cont'd finances for us to pay bills.  God knows.  Job changes for DR.
  • Continued prayers for us as we go through this tough economic time.  Hannah as she decides what to do about college.
  • Brittany as she studies for finals at college and as she prepares for Commissioning in US Army and graduation.
  • A friend's brother-in-law recently diagnosed with cancer.  He will only be with us for a short time longer. He has two small children.
  • Lord, please release the anger in me and those around me.
  • Ruby, her sister passed yesterday.
  • I know I am sounding like a broken record, but please continue to pray about the situation with little Jacob.  Thank you so much.  God is working in this situation.
  • Continued prayer for my sister, Deb, knee rehab and healing.
  • Pray for success in new job.

Praise / Thanks 

  • Thank you for the blessing of a new phone system and computer network for our campus.  Bless those worked so hard to make it all possible.
  • Beautiful praise and worship music!
  • Thank you for a great support of friends and family.
  • For my new job.
  • Pam and family, mother's tumor is smaller, she is feeling better.
  • Enjoyed the Lord's Prayer.
  • The chubby guys at the podium rock!
  • Wonderful music.
  • Going to Chicago by God's grace.  Thanks for his provision.  God's math! We can't outgive God.
  • Benjamin has chosen Colorado Christian University as his choice for college. 
  • Thank you Lord, for my good health and many blessings.
  • Great sermon, great music.
This Week's Devotional
This Week's Devotional
"Then the Son of Man came, enjoying life ..." (Luke 7:34b Phillips)

Most of us face a major roadblock as we try to experience joy on a regular basis. We believe the Bible is a heartless, joyless collection of dry rules and regulations. But it isn't. The Bible is really a book about joy!

 

You'll find more than 500 references to joy, gladness, merriment, rejoicing, delighting, and laughing in the NIV translation of the Bible. You would think there would be 10 times as many negative references - to sadness, mourning, tears, etc. - but there are only 158 such references. That tells us that God's Word is a book of joy!

 

We also have very powerful misconceptions about who God is and who Jesus is.

 

Most people perceive God as an angry, judgmental being who roams around looking for ways to squash all of our fun. Look how he is portrayed in artwork throughout the ages - as a white-haired old codger with a beard. Look at the artwork portraying Jesus. Most of it shows him in his time of terrible suffering, hanging bloodied and broken on the cross.

 

The Bible calls Jesus the "Man of Sorrows" in Isaiah 53, someone who was familiar with grief and suffering. It's true: The role Father God gave to Jesus was to be the Savior, the Redeemer of mankind, and that required horrific suffering and the shedding of his blood in a graphic, violent way. Yet he wasn't only a man of sorrows, with little to no capacity for joy, gladness, and pleasure. In his essence, Jesus was God. And God is a God of joy.

 

Luke 7:34 says, "Then the Son of Man came, enjoying life ..." (Phillips). That messes with my stereotype of Jesus as a kill-joy or a man who couldn't survive without his box of tissue paper. Jesus was someone who experienced joy as well as sorrow. He sounds like someone I'd like to get to know! If he could experience joy, then I can, too.

 

And so can you.

 

Talk About It

  • How does the truth that Jesus came enjoying life change your view of him?
  • Why do you think God is a God of joy?

This Weeks Funnies

"We don't join the church and become a Christian. We join Christ and become [a part of] the Church." - Roy Putnam 


Oh, The Things Children Say...
  My husband has always had a beard. One day, he decided to shave it off. He came into the room where my 5-year-old daughter Samantha was and asked her, "Notice anything different?" To which she replied, "No" with a puzzled look on her face. My husband then said to her, "My beard's gone." Now the puzzled look disappeared and the innocent eyes appeared when she said "I didn't take it!"  

My 3-year-old was sitting in the middle seat of our van as we ran errands one morning. "Mom, can we plant this when we get home, and grow some hamburgers?" I turned to see what had prompted such an unusual question, and saw in his tiny little outstretched hand, one single sesame seed!


When Sara was 6, her new puppy became seriously ill, and the vet didn't know if he could save it. I felt very bad for Sara, because this was her first pet and it had been a Christmas gift, so I said to her, "Don't worry, precious; just remember, if Fluffy dies, we'll see her in heaven." Sara looked at me as if I were simple-minded and said, "Well, yes, Daddy, but heaven's a long way off for me -- I'm only six!"


It was Palm Sunday but because of a sore throat, 5-year-old Johnny stayed home from church with a sitter.

  

When the family returned home, they were carrying several palm fronds. Johnny asked them what they were for.

  

"People held them over Jesus' head as he walked by," his father told him.

  

"Wouldn't you know it," Johnny fumed, "the one Sunday I don't go and He shows up."


 

Old accountants never die, they just lose their balance.

Old actors never die, they just drop apart.

Old archers never die, they just bow and quiver.

Old architects never die, they just lose their structures.

Old bankers never die, they just lose interest.

Old basketball players never die, they just go on dribbling.

Old beekeepers never die, they just buzz off.

Old bookkeepers never die, they just lose their figures.

Old bosses never die, much as you want them to.

Old cashiers never die, they just check out.

Old chauffeurs never die, they just lose their drive.

Old chemists never die, they just fail to react.

Old cleaning people never die, they just kick the bucket.

Old cooks never die, they just get deranged.

Old daredevils never die, they just get discouraged.

Old deans never die, they just lose their faculties.

Old doctors never die, they just lose their patience.

Old electricians never die, they just lose contact.

Old farmers never die, they just go to seed.

Old garagemen never die, they just retire. 
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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 

04/01/12 = 291
             

Ministry Fund

04/01/12 = $20,328.10

(budgeted need = $8,800) 

 

Building Fund 

04/01/12 = $2,750.00

(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

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