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Dear Friends,
What a wonderful Congregation Town Hall meeting we had! Thanks to everyone who participated and made this important event so wonderful! We accomplished some essential items:
- We elected the following people to the Ordained office of Elder: (Paul Bedsole, Richard Calloway, Ron Dryden, Margie Thompson, and Joie McGee.)
- We voted to set aside our by laws and extend the Elder class of 2012 to 2013.
- We added the Ordained Office of Deacon.
- We heard a report from our Congregational Relations Committee about the changes that have occurred in the PCUSA.
This Friday is our 1st - 5th Quarter. 5th quarter is where we open our church campus after the Fleming Island High School Home football games, to all 8th- 12th graders - to come a hang out in a safe environment. Please keep this ministry in your prayers.
As Hurricane Isaac passed us, please keep the folks on the Gulf Coast in your prayers. If you received any damage from the storm we want to hear about it so we an pray for you.
As always remember - God is GOOD! ALL the time! Your pastor and friend...
Jim Weldon |
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CHURCH WIDE EVENTS
 5th Quarter kicks off this Friday night 9:30-11:30pm 8th-12th Graders
 YOU are the Ministry: This Week's Ministry Ideas
1. Take 5+ minutes a day, pray and read from the New Testament.
2. Offer solutions instead of criticism.
3. Hug your children and grandchildren.
4. Ask God to let you help in what He is doing in our community.
5. Let God use you to reach out to those who do not know Him.
6. Join a Small Group - life group, men's group, women's group or Bible study.
7. Volunteer to help out.
8. Look for opportunities to invite someone to church.
9. Forward this e-mail to someone.
The next classes are scheduled for September 9 @ 1 PM (in the worship building)
CHILDREN'S & YOUTH MINISTRIES
The Net Youth Group Returns!
Wednesday Nights!
6:30-8:30PM
Jr. High and Sr. High Youth
Games, music, small groups, and worship!
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: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 14:27
Praise / Thanks:
- To God for all the new families who He is bringing to us.
- To God for blessings us abundantly.
- To God for His Word revealed to us in the Bible.
- To God for all those who work so hard behind the scenes.
- To God for our Hospitality ministry
- To God for our Sunday School Team.
- To God for our Youth Group leaders.
- To God for our Great Worship Band and AV team.
- To God for all those folks who pray each day for FIPC.
- I thank God for prayer.
- We thank our FIPC family for loving us....warts and all.
- Sister-in-law did well in surgery but did lose her right kidney to cancer.
- For patience and prayer coming to fruition. God is good.
- Ruth's surgery successful; now need successful programming to make it work to relieve her pain.
- God's many blessings; healthy family.
- This church for all it does; my father for his safe hospital stay and return home.
- We got an offer on the TN home.
- Don got extra work!
- Neal's football accomplishments.
- My daughter got a job! My friend, Pam, has finally been moved out of ICU and is starting to recover from life threatening event.
- Great sermon.
- Amazing prayer and speech by Greg Cruice.
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Prayer Requests:
- For our community
- For 5th quarter
- For our church's growth in both spirit and number.
- For our Church's Pastor and Staff.
- 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 the PCUSA and FIPC's response to the changes. For our Denominational Relations Committee.
- Eric Berger deployed to Kuwait and his family here at home.
- James Williams and Martha as she cares for him.
- Maddy Rynne, recovering from surgery.
- Unspoken; school.
- Cain
- Success for Ginger toward her degree.
- Sabrina, still struggling; healing hands on her and her baby Chandler.
- Please pray for my son's father, Harry. I would love for him to commit his life to Christ.
- Continued healing for friend, Pam, who is recovering from medical consequences.
- Pray for my mother suffering from severe Parkinson's and my daughter's pregnancy.
- Pray for our daughter at U of Tampa; our daughter and her soon to be son; our son for a great football season; our daughter for a successful color guard season and all of them to have a great school year.
- To bring Brittany back into the arms of Christ. The Stokes family
- Con't help in God's provison to cover obligations. Con't guidance with denominational issues.
- Kids in college.
- Friend of Reese and Tonya, Tim, was diagnosed with colon cancer.
- Rhodi and Martin S.
- Please pray for Aerial.
- My sister Linda for healing.
- Friend's safe return/flight home; daughter successfully finishing her school; job opportunities.
- Prayers for my mother, Sally L.
- Loved one attend church service.
- We will be moving to Albany Georgia. We pray for our hearts to be open to God's will for us regarding this move.
- Grandson, gall bladder surgery this Tuesday, OP medical Center @ 10:30; James and Martha Williams; friend, Ethel, in hospital fighting leukemia.
- Step dad, continued prayer for complete recovery, he is doing so much better but still has a way to go; also for my mom as she cares for him, strength and patience for her.
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This Weeks Funnies
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When we are devoted to the development of kindness it becomes a movement of the heart so deep and subtle it is like a movement of the sea close to the ocean floor, all but hidden, yet affecting absolutely everything that happens above. That's the force of kindness. - Sharon Salzberg
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." - J. Churton Collins
- If you find something you like, buy a lifetime supply, because they will stop making it. - If you eat a live frog in the morning, nothing worse will happen to either of you for the rest of the day.
- Sign outside a Dairy Queen: "Scream until daddy stops the car!"
- If you can read the writing on the wall, it means the kids have found the crayons.
- How many of you believe in psycho-kinesis? OK, then raise my hand.
- I don't have a solution, but I admire the problem.
- Confidence is the feeling you have before you really understand the problem.
- There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age. - Cleaning your house while your kids are at home is like trying to shovel the driveway during a snowstorm.
A doctor has come to see one of his patients in a hospital. The patient has had major surgery to both of his hands. "Doctor," says the man excitedly and dramatically holds up his heavily bandaged hands. "The nurse told me that I will be able to play the piano when these bandages come off?" "I don't see why not," replies the doctor. "Hmmm, then I better start learning how to read music."
After booking my 80-year-old grandmother on a flight from Florida to Nevada, I called the airline to go over her special needs. The representative listened patiently as I requested a wheelchair and an attendant for my mother because of her arthritis and impaired vision to the point of near blindness. My apprehension lightened a bit when the woman assured me that everything would be taken care of. I thanked her profusely. "Oh, you're welcome," she replied. I was about to hang up when she cheerfully asked, "And will your grandmother need a rental car?"
When she died in 1997 at the age of 122, Jeanne Calment was the oldest living human whose birth date could be authenticated. At the age of 120, she was asked to describe her vision for the future. She replied, "Very brief."
At a yard sale one day I saw a box marked "Electronic cat and dog caller -- guaranteed to work." After I looked inside, I was amused to see an electric can opener.
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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
08/26/12 = 227
Ministry & Building Funds 08/26/12 = $6,194.00
(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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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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