FIPC Newsletter

Issue 16 Volume 10  - Week of April 15, 2012

From Pastor Jim

Dear Friends,   

 

We had our best women's retreat ever last weekend.  40 women participated.  A special thank you to the planning team who made this weekend great.  The ladies returned refreshed, revived, challenged, with a new sense of belonging and purpose. 

K-Kamp - Register soon for the best week of your Kids summer!  June 24 -28, 2012 for kids completing 1st - 5th grades.

 

K-Kamp is a week focused on relationships - growing kids' relationships with Christ and their fellow campers and leaders. Together we will experience Christian community while participating in activities including worship, Bible study, swimming, tubing, arts and crafts, archery, hiking, and all camp recreation.  Click here for more information.  

 

Please keep Sara Dryden in your prayers as she undergoes knee replacement surgery on 4/23. 
 
God is GOOD!  ALL the time!  

 

Your pastor and friend...

Jim Weldon

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News & Upcoming Events

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.
 

 

If you have a car to show and would like more information please contact Mark 562-9333 or go to www.claycountycruzers.com.

DENIM & DIAMONDS 
Friday May 18
Thrasher Horne Conference Center
 

To benefit: First Coast Women's Services
 
Event Tickets $35
Silent Auction 6pm
 

BLOOD DRIVE

Blood Alliance

POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE


2012 DAYTONA TRIP 6TH- 8TH GRADERS

May 4-6

Our 6th-8th graders will be attending this exciting, crazy, and awesome time at Daytona Beach. Youth will enjoy playing games, listening to awesome Christian music from  
Canopy Red, and growing closer to God. All trip participants need to complete a Event Consent and Medical Release Form and this form must be notarized.

Contact Mike Horst for more information.

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.

 


 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

 Confirmation Class of 2012

  • Next Class: April 29       
  • 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 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: "And I will ask the Father and he will give you another counselor to be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth."  John 14-16-17

 

Pray: Paraclete (John 14:26)

  

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.
  • For my cousin in VA who just found out she is in stage 4 cancer in her liver.  Hospice was just called in.  She has maybe 2 months to live.  Pray for Sara's knee surgery to go well.
  • Thanks for saying the Lord's Prayer with us today.  For this Church and it's leaders that they may know the true meaning of loving everyone and accepting them as they are, creations of God.  Let them feel His power and know that He is the only one that can judge. For my neighbors who are going through some tough times- illness and aging and unspoken for another neighbor.
  • That I can take up today's 2 month challenge.  I needed this word for my life today.
  • For my daughter Tracy and her family.
  • Our daughter Kelsi who attends FSU asks that we pray for the college kids away at college.  Over the last 2 weeks, 4 students have lost their lives- 1 in a fight- 1 in DUI wreck- 1 brain aneurism- 1 just last night at FSU.
  • Continued healing for Murray M.
  • Please pray to help my brother's leg to get better soon. His leg was broken.
  • Dear God, Thank you for the great turkey season.
  • For Eric A.'s family as Eric enters God's eternal kingdom.
  • Pray for all of my family.
  • For Suzanne S. healing and Alex S. healing.
  • Sara's Surgery, Margie's mom and for broken families.
  • For Maxine A.  - lung cancer/pneumonia.
  • Kathy B.'s grandbaby, Margie T.'s mother and Judy, my neighbor, her mother.
  • For McKenzie and her trip to study in Italy this summer.
  • For the Weldon family--may they know that their commitment to our church does not go unnoticed.
  • Sara Dryden to have a quick recovery after her knee surgery.
  • Margie T.'s mom's healing, pain relief, wisdom for doctors and her will to live.
  • Healing from neck pain and headaches.
  • Job search.

   

Praise / Thanks 

  • Awesome Women's Retreat-love our ladies!
  • Thanks to God for the adoption of our son Caleb Christopher M.
  • For beautiful adult baptism today.
  • Awesome women's retreat.  Thank you to the planning team for a wonderful organized weekend.  We missed Sara.
  • Great message today! Thank you.
  • The ability to work.
  • At the Women's Retreat, Liz's talks were meaningful across the spectrum of ages.  Trio Eternal were ministering too.  Thank you for the Women's retreat - it was honoring to the Lord.
  • Awesome women's retreat!  Thank you to the planning team for all your hard work.
  • For the women's retreat - thanks for the fellowship.
  • For all those working each week in the hospitality & music ministries.
  • Great Retreat.
This Week's Devotional
This Week's Devotional
"If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work." (2 Timothy 2:21 NLT)

God uses all kinds of vessels - big vessels and little vessels, ornate vessels and plain vessels, very expensive ones and very ordinary ones. But there is one thing God will not use: a dirty vessel. So if you're going to be used by God, you have to do some cleanup.

 

Joshua told the people, "Purify yourselves, because tomorrow the LORD will perform miracles among you" (Joshua 3:5 TEV). The fact is, God wants to do something great in your future, too. But you have to start by settling the accounts of the past. You have to clean up yesterday.

 

How do you do that? You do it through confession. Augustine said, "The confession of bad works is the beginning of good works." We start by dealing with our past. The Bible says, "If we confess our sins to God, he will keep his promise and do right: he will forgive us our sins and purify us from all our wrongdoing" (1 John 1:9 TEV).

 

I'll never forget the first time I made a "sin list." I felt like God was a million miles away, that he was distant. I couldn't feel his power or his grace. I felt like my prayers were bouncing off the ceiling. So, one night, I took out a pad of yellow paper and said, "God, show me every sin between me and you, and I will write it down specifically. I committed it specifically. I'm going to confess it specifically. We're going to deal with it right now and get it out of the way." 

 

I started writing. And writing. And writing. I thought I was going to write a book, like "The Purpose Driven Sinner"! I ended up with about nine pages of sins. It was 2 a.m. when I finished. I confessed all those sins to God and wrote 1 John 1:9 over each.

 

I've had to make a sin list many times since that night, because it's very easy to let things come between us and God.

 

You need to make a sin list on a regular basis so that you have a clean vessel to offer God for his use. If you only take the garbage out of your house once a month, it's going to start stinking. 

 

Talk About It

How long has it been since you confessed specific sins to God?

 

As you make your sin list, what surprises you about what or how much you are recalling?


This Weeks Funnies
My wife has not spoken to me in three days. I think it has something to do with what happened on Sunday night when she thought she heard a noise downstairs. She nudged me and whispered, "Wake up, wake up!" "What's the matter?" I asked.     
"There are burglars in the kitchen. I think they're eating the tuna casserole I made tonight."
    
"That'll teach them!" I replied.


A confirmation student was asked to list the Ten Commandments in any order. He wrote: 3, 6, 1, 8, 4, 5, 9, 2, 10, 7.  

A fellow kindergarten teacher was giving her class a lesson on using scissors. As she helped one child who was having difficulty, she asked him if he had any scissors at home. He replied, "No, but I do have two brudders!"  

It was graduation day and mom was trying to take a picture of their son in a cap and gown, posed with his father.

"Let's try to make this look natural," she said. "Junior, put your arm around your dad's shoulder."

The father answered, "If you want it to look natural, why not have him put his hand on my wallet?"
 

Tony and Teddy find three hand grenades and decide
to take them to the police station.

 

"What if one of them explodes before we get there?"
asks Teddy.

 

"Don't worry about it," says Tony. "We'll just
lie and tell them we only found two."


 
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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 

04/22/12 = 240

 

Ministry Fund
04/22/12 = $7,416.00

(budgeted need = $8,800) 

 

Building Fund

04/22/12 = $3,315.00
(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.

 

 
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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