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Dear Friends,
What an awesome Easter! It truly was the best Easter ever at FIPC! Three worship services with over 600 in attendance! God IS good!! I want to thank YOU for invited your friends, family, neighbors and coworkers. Thank you for volunteering, for greeting people, for welcoming folks with the hospitality of Christ, for bringing food and treats! God has blessed us with you!! Thank you for growing in your faith by participating in 40 Days in The Word. Thank you for help with one of our special worship services, service projects or outreach events. You made a difference this Lent/Easter.
Now we are gearing up for a fun filled Summer! More on that later. God is GOOD! ALL the time!
Your pastor and friend...
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CHURCH WIDE EVENTS
SPRING CAR SHOW
Sponsored by Clay County Cruzers
REV IT UP! For Wounded Warrior Project and Youth Missions
May 5
10am - 2pm
Trophies, Door Prizes, Raffles and Great Food. Fun for the entire family.
2012 DAYTONA TRIP 6TH- 8TH GRADERS
May 4-6 Time is Running Out! 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!
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!
 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.
CHILDREN'S MINISTRIES 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.
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 >>>
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Check out our facebook page! It's a great way to add photos of events and stay in contact with your church.
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Thanks and Prayer Requests |
 Prayers 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: While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!" Matthew 17:5
Pray: Beloved Son (Mark 1:11)
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, surgery on Tuesday.
- For college students as they prepare for semester finals and a safe move home.
- For peace for for my dear Aunt Chris who is nearing death.
- Wisdom and guidance in business decisions.
- Friend of Tonya and Reese, Jim, having kidney removed on April 12. Friend, Melissa, husband died Tuesday suddenly. Aunt of Tonya, Peggy, died on Wednesday.
- Lord, please help all those suffering with an alcohol addiction.
- David, Kateland, Vernon.
- Continued healing for Murray M.
- Debbie Worthy's father, Jim, in hospital.
- Gail E. having surgery this week of ovarian cancer.
- Healing, Suzanne; Alex.
- All our visitors continue to come, be saved and grown in Jesus.
- Pray for us to honor God by helping our community and reach out to all in need. Amen.
- For the Bill Dennis family as they mourn his death.
- Undecided abouth school; unspoken.
- My kids, Frankie, Millie and Jarrod.
- My family.
- Our niece Stefanie. We pray for her recovery from surgery.
- Husband's safety overseas; increase in treatment, side effects.
- Marie P, breast cancer surgery on April 20; Bill C, rehab; Kathy J; Leona.
- For all to go well with new job; healing for Matt's dad; to forgive.
- New beginnings.
- Prayer for our son, David, who is hurting from a broken heart.
- For my daughter; for me to forgive.
- Please continue to have faith that God is working in Jacob's situation. His grace and favor is in this situation.
Praise / Thanks
- Thank you for a beautiful service. Happy Easter.
- My granddaughter's innocent faith in Jesus.
- Gratitude for all that I have been given, learned, been tried with and experience.
- Thank you, thank you.
- Thank you for a wonderful Easter service.
- Thank you for your message today.
- What an Easter blessing. Thank you!
- Your service was a blessing to me and my sister-in-law, who are here from out of town. My mom lived here until 2009.
- He is risen, God is good!
- Thank you Lord for all you do.
- Happy Easter! Worship band, awesome job.
- Church music getting better and better.
- Thank you for letting Your son die on the cross and rise again for me.
- Great sermon and music at all services. Jim, you were "on" at 10 am service; 3's a charm.
- My neighbor's attended, yes, personal invite.
- Thank you for all your love!
- No fatalities in downed naval jet in VA.
- Thank you for prayers answered.
- Happy and safe Easter. For a beautiful healthy granddaughter. For a loving and caring mate.
- Family and friends.
- Praise God for our family and all His blessings.
- All of the Easter services have been awesome! Thanks to all who contributed.
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This Weeks Funnies
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In a country home that seldom had guests, the young son was eager to help his mother after his father appeared with two dinner guests from the office.
When the dinner was nearly over, the boy went to the kitchen and proudly carried in the first piece of apple pie, giving it to his father, who passed it to a guest. The boy came in with a second piece of pie and again watched his father give it to a guest. This was too much for the boy, who said, "It's no use, Dad. The pieces are all the same size."
One day a little girl came home from school, and said to her mother, "Mommy, today in school the teacher punished me for something that I didn't do."
The mother exclaimed, "But that's terrible! I'm going to have a talk with your teacher about this right away! By the way, what was it that you didn't do?"
"My homework," she replied...
"I don't think I'll ever have a mother's intuition. My sister left me alone in a restaurant with my 10-month-old nephew. I said, 'What do I do if he cries?' She said 'Give him some vegetables.' It turns out that jalapeno is not his favorite."
What did the mushroom say when he was kicked out of the nightclub? "Don't kick me out, I'm a fun-guy!"
"Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us." - John Stott
A blonde walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the loan officer. She says she is going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5000. The bank officers says the bank will need some kind of security for such a loan, so the blonde hands over the keys to a new Rolls Royce, parked on the street, in front of the bank. Everything checks out, and the bank agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan. An employee drives the Rolls into the bank's underground garage and parks it there. Two weeks later, the blonde returns and repays the $5000, and the interest, which is $15.41. The loan officer says, "We are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is why would you bother to borrow $5000?" The blonde replied, "Where else in New York City can I park my car for 2 weeks for $15.00?"
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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
Holy Thursday = 110
Easter Services = 618
Ministry Fund
Holy Thursday = $474.00
Easter Services = $9,380.00
(budgeted need = $8,800)
Building Fund
Holy Thursday = $0
Easter Services = $1,677.00
(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. |
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Sunday Worship Service
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Worship Service is held every
Sunday morning
10:00AM - 11:15AM.
Attire is casual. It is an uplifting, come as you are worship service.
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Missed Sunday's Sermon?
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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!
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ChristLife - Senior High Youth
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FUEL - Junior High Youth Group
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Christian Counseling Center
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A ministry of Fleming Island Presbyterian Church
The Christian Counseling Center of FIPC is an outreach of the church to our community.
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Thank You Notes
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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.
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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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