| From Pastor Jim | |
Dear Friends,
Here we GROW AGAIN! Please join me in welcoming our nine new members!!
- Candace Cafcules - she is in accounting.
- Todd Calloway - he is a postal worker with USPS.
- Colleen Givens - she is a server and student.
- John Lankenau - he works for the Dept. of Human Resources in the Navy.
- Ronnie and Carolyn Overstreet - They have two children, Evan in college in Orlando and Chris leaving for college this month. Ronnie is in human resources for UPS & Carolyn is a receptionist for a law firm.
- Patricia Angelatos - she works for PNC Bank in customer service.
- Cathy Settle - she is a teller at Bank of America
- Michael Streebing - he works for M.A. Solutions, Inc.
We are having a church wide Congregational Town Hall Meeting and lunch on 8/26, right after church. There are several important issues we need to discuss:
- The Elder Nominating Committee will present their recommendations for Ruling Elders for the class of 2014.
- There is a recommendation from the Session to extend the term of the 2012 Class of Elders for 1 year. We are in a time of transition. With my sabbatical leave in the summer of 2013, we need a strong Session during that time.
- There is a recommendation from the Session to elect 2 classes of at least 5 Deacons each (up to 10 total) to help in caring for the congregation and to share the work load.
- There is a report from the Denominational Relations Committee about their work to date.
If you have any questions or comments about any of these issues please write them on your Yellow Welcome Card at worship or e-mail them to Sara Dryden by noon on 08/21 BEFORE the meeting. We will not be taking any questions from the floor at the meeting.
This is the last week that the Elder Nominating Committee will be accepting nominations to the office of Elder. If you would like to nominate someone, please go over the following criteria, fill out a nomination form, and turn it into the church office. The deadline for nominations is Wednesday 8/15 at noon.
Ruling Elder Criteria - Believing that Ruling Elders work with the Pastor(s) and staff to offer spiritual leadership and direction to the church, Ruling Elders will:
- Be an active member of our congregation.
- Have regular attendance in Worship.
- Display a willingness to serve with a servant's heart.
- Be a regular and generous financial supporter of FIPC. (Elders are expected to tithe)
- Be a committed disciple who is involved in a Small Group or regular Bible Study.
- Be a team player.
- Have successfully completed our Christian Growth Classes. (1st, 2nd, 3rd, & Home Plate)
- From: FIPC's Standard Operating Procedures "Those who are called to office in the church are to lead a life in obedience to Scripture and in conformity to the historic confessional standards of the church. Among these standards is the requirement to live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness. Persons refusing to repent of any self-acknowledged practice which the confessions call sin shall not be ordained and/or installed as deacons, elders, or ministers of the Word and Sacrament."
- Have successfully completed all Elder Training. (Offered after the election)
- Will sign and follow all Leadership Covenants. (Signed after the Elder Training)
Each applicant will be evaluated by the Nomination Committee and a suggested slate of nominees will be brought to the congregation for vote on 08/26.
God is GOOD! ALL the time!
Your pastor and friend...
Jim Weldon
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CHURCH WIDE EVENTS
Congratulations to the following:
1st Base Membership Class:
Candace Cafcules, Todd Calloway, Colleen Givens, Ronnie and Carolyn Overstreet, Patricia Angelatos, Cathy Settle, Michael Streebing, Rusty Mathews, John and Randi Lankenau, Mary Kay Wilson
2nd Base:
Tonya and Reese Stansberry
3rd Base:
Mindy & Mike Beltran, Jacque & Tim Hobson and Brandy McCreanor
Home Plate:
Helen and Vance Moore
The next classes are scheduled for September 9 @ 1 PM (in the worship building)
CHILDREN'S & YOUTH MINISTRIES
ROCK THE UNIVERSE--Sept. 8-9th!
REGISTRATION DUE THIS WEDNESDAY BY NOON!
This is an exciting event that we take part in every year! Don't miss out!!
- Cost: $105.00 (includes ticket, travel, and hotel expense)
- For 8th Grade - 12th Grade Youth (including graduates from 2012)
- Staying at the Wingate by Wyndham Hotel
- Worship at Universal Studios on Sunday, Sept. 9th, led by Canopy Red
- Saturday bands include: TobyMac, Switchfoot, Relient K, and Tenth Avenue North!
- Check out Rock the Universe webpage for event info
Click here to register by August 15th to reserve your spot! (Be sure to download and complete the Event Medical Release form!)
5th Quarter Trivia and Silent Auction
August 17 at 7PM
Help us raise funds for this awesome outreach event--5th Quarter. We plan on hosting six 5th Quarters this year, and we need your help. Click hereto go to 5th Quarter Trivia Night for more details and to reserve your spot! Table space is limited, so do not delay.
The Net Youth Group Returns! 
Wednesday Nights! 6:30-8:30PM Jr. High and Sr. High Youth Games, music, small groups, and worship! - The Net Kick Off--Wednesday, August 22nd at 6:30PM!
Invite your friends!
The ROCK Youth Group Returns!
Wednesday Nights! 5:30-7:00PM 5th & 6th Graders - Come Join us for games, fellowship, snacks, small group time and mission work
Invite a friend to get Rocked by Christ!
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
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 Prayers of Praise and Thanksgiving: "Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me." John 12:26
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.
- College students leaving for college, pray for good decisions. Pray for parents as they adjust to their absence.
- Eric Berger deployed to Kuwait and his family here at home.
- James Williams and Martha as she cares for him.
- The Sexe family in the lost of Linda's mother.
- Lavancia, health issues.
- Grandmother, colon cancer; Sabrina and unborn child; prayer for our friends who are leaving for Africa to do missionary work.
- Pray for our daughter who is leaving for the University of Tampa next week. Pray for safe travels, good health, and success.
- Guidance and happiness for my daughters.
- Everyone shows God's love in the next school year.
- Success for Trivia Night. God's guidance and help with obligations. Trust in the Lord.
- Pray for Linda.
- For Amanda and Damian as they get married tomorrow in Santorine Greece.
- That friend, Celine, will come to Christ.
- For Maddy Rynne to have a successful surgery and easy recovery.
- Continued prayer for stepdad after heart surgery. Strength for mom as she cares for him.
- For those that are ill.
- The sale of our house in TN. Unexpected expenses.
- To bring Brittany back into the arms of Christ.
- Grandson has to have gall bladder surgery. My friend has lukemina.
- Clear direction. Kids starting school.
- Job search; Cain, football and new school year.
- I pray for all students to have a great school year.
- Pray for my brother, Lynn White; been in ICU this week.
- For husband/daddy to keep him out of harm's way in Kuwait.
- Forgive my sins, get me ready for high school and let Christ walk with me through it.
- For Don Rogers, he is having health issues.
- For srength and guidance to return to be a Chris follower. Have Christ present in my family's life.
- Job for my daughter, Teresa. Healing and strength for friend, Pam who is seriously ill.
Praise / Thanks:
- Savannah, surgery went well; healed great.
- Great message!
- Colleen and Paul, thank you for your hard work and devotion to 5th Quarter. May Jesus be honored through this fun activity.
- Don's new job.
- So blessed to be here at FIPC.
- Awesome family.
- Thanks to the Building and Grounds Committee, they are doing an awesome job.
- Baby JT is home and healthy!! Thanks prayer team.
- Seriously ill friend Pam taken off ventilator and breathing on her own.
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This Weeks Funnies
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A doctor, a civil engineer, and a computer scientist were sitting around late one evening, and they got to discussing which was the oldest profession.
The doctor pointed out that according to biblical tradition, God created Eve from Adam's rib. This obviously required surgery, so therefore that was the oldest profession in the world.
The engineer countered with an earlier passage in the Bible that stated that God created order from the chaos, and that was most certainly the biggest and best civil engineering example ever, and also proved that his profession was the oldest profession.
The computer scientist leaned back in her chair, and with a sly smile responded, "Yes, but who do you think created the chaos?"
A man complains to a friend, "I can't take it anymore."
"What's wrong?" his concerned friend asks. "It's my wife. Every time we have an argument, she gets historical!" "You mean hysterical," his friend said, chuckling.
"No, I mean HISTORICAL," the man insists. "Every argument we have, she'll go "I still remember that time when you ...."
I was talking with my pastor about his habit of starting church services late. I mentioned that in my years with the Air Force, when the general scheduled us to take off at 0700 hours, he didn't mean 0705 or 0710.
The pastor looked at me and said, "My general outranks your general."
"It is not because things are good that we are to thank the Lord, but because He is good."
Don't be upset that rosebushes have thorns; rejoice that thorn bushes have roses.
THE PRODIGAL SON RETOLD IN THE KEY OF "F" - Feeling footloose, fancy-free and frisky, this feather-brained fellow finagled his fond father into forking over his fortune. Forthwith, he fled for foreign fields and frittered his farthings feasting fabulously with fair-weathered friends. Finally, facing famine, and fleeced by his fellows in folly, he found himself a feed flinger in a filthy farmlot. He fain would have filled his frame with foraged food from the fodder fragments. "Fooey! My father's flunkies fare far fancier" the frazzled fugitive fumed feverishly, frankly facing fact. Frustrated from failure and filled with forebodings, he fled for his family. Falling at his father's feet, he floundered forlornly. "Father, I have flunked and fruitlessly forfeited further family favors." But the faithful father, forestalling further flinching, frantically flagged his flunkies to set forth the finest fatling and fix a feast. The fugitive's fault-finding frater, faithfully farming his father's fields for free, frowned at this fickle forgiveness of formal falderal. His fury flashed, but fussing was futile.
His foresighted father figured, "Such filial fidelity is fine, but what forbids fervent festivities? The fugitive is found! Unfurl the flags! With fanfare flaring, let fun, frolic and frivolity flow freely, former failures forgotten and folly forsaken. Forgiveness forms a firm foundation for future fortitude."
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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.
Attendance
08/12/12 = 222
Ministry & Building Funds 08/12/12 = $10,945.40
(budgeted need = $11,600)
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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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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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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