Sop It Up on Spring Cleaning Day 

To encourage everyone from children to adults to help out, the Fellowship Committee will provide an old-fashioned Southern breakfast to participants. From 8:30 until 9:00, the committee will serve biscuits and gravy and sausage, as well as coffee and orange juice, in the Fellowship Hall. It has been raining, but that's not the only thing that will need sopping on that morning!

Look for sign-up forms during worship soon. If you are interested in some help on Spring Cleaning Day, please return a form to the office or call the church at (423) 764-7176.

Anyone who wants to join in a morning of service and fellowship can volunteer. Call the church office or email Gordon Turnbull at gturnbull@fpcbristol.org. Put "Spring Cleaning" in the subject heading, and we will put you on a team. And don't forget breakfast!

EPIC: Ten Ways to Be Perfect 

Wednesday Evening: Further Thoughts on God and the Mind

On Wednesday, April 15, John Graham will present the second part of our Adult Learning program on "God and the Mind."  Please join us for a stimulating discussion!

Come at 5:30 for dinner in the Fellowship Hall and stay for the adult program at 6:20. Student Small Groups and Wednesday Night Kids will meet as usual at 6:00.

Parents: Please keep your children with you or within sight until they are called to their groups at 6:00. We want to keep our children safe and adults unworried!

Make Your Mark on Our Brazil Mission Trip 

Week 1: Washable Broad-Line Crayola Markers, 8- or 10-Pack

This Sunday, we will begin collecting items to take on our Brazil mission trip, coming up May 29. We invite your support of this mission to strengthen our 14-year partnership with the Felipe Camarão Presbyterian Church and preschool. Over the next few weeks, we will ask you to donate one particular item per week.

Our first need is for broad-line Washable Crayola Markers in either the eight- or the ten-pack. The markers must be Crayola to stand up to the Brazilian climate, and they must be washable and the kind that make broad lines rather than fine.

You will find a special box to receive these items near the Little Red House in the Fellowship Hallway this Sunday. It will move back and forth between the hallway and the narthex between services each Sunday in the collection process. Donations will be accepted until May 24.

Please join us in filling the hands of our youth and their chaperones and advisors, who will give these items to the schoolchildren with whom they will be working. And stay tuned! On April 19 we will begin collecting regular-size tubes of toothpaste.

Tax Day Deadline for Facilities Manager Applications 

April 15 is the deadline for applying for the new position of Church Facilities Manager. This new part-time position will oversee building and equipment maintenance. Applicants should have five years of experience with building systems and facilities management and be computer literate. We are looking for a high school graduate and prefer technical school training. Please note that this is a position of approximately 20 hours per week. Applicants should send a cover letter with resume to First Presbyterian Church, 701 Florida Avenue, Bristol, TN 37620.

Men's Breakfast Saturday 

FPC Youth Help with Bristol Half & Half 

FPC youth helping with the Bristol Half & Half this Saturday, April 11, should meet in the church parking lot at 8:00 a.m. For more information, contact Katie Arnold at karnold@fpcbristol.org.

You will find a few changes from previous bloodmobile visits when Blood Assurance comes to FPC April 22. Their bloodmobile will be in our front parking lot from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m., an hour longer than the Marsh bloodmobile and a convenience for those who attend the Wednesday evening programs. It is helpful to eat a good meal and drink plenty of fluids within four hours of your appointment, so come to the fellowship dinner, stay for the evening program, then stroll out to the parking lot and save a few lives!

Blood Assurance requires a photo ID and allows youth as young as 16 to give blood, if they have a consent form signed by a parent. All donors must weigh at least 110 pounds. Please add your name to one of the sign-up sheets at the church!

We are pleased to announce that we have volunteers enough to field a mowing team for the 2015 season. These gentlemen have stepped up to the plate:

              Keith Blair

              Larry Connolly

              Randy Cook

              Pat Flannagan

              Dan Gross

              JB Madison

              Jim Mayden

              David Moore

              Roger Sikorski

              Jim White

Randy Cook is first up and will hand off to Jim White at the end of the month.

The congregation and staff of FPC deeply appreciate those who perform this necessary service for the church. We welcome volunteers at all seasons! Just callRandyat 423-956-1541 or email him at npolecook@aol.com. He will give private lessons on the Scag Tiger Cat to any volunteer who wants them.

Snacks for Fairmount Students 

We are collecting cookies for our young friends at Fairmount Elementary School. The Neighborhood Initiatives Steering Committee is asking us to fill the Little Red House in the Fellowship Hallway with boxes of vanilla wafers. The committee will take them to Fairmount, where teachers will divide them into portions for the youngsters whose parents cannot afford to send snacks to school with them. Let's make sure all students get a midafternoon energy boost!

Sunday's music participants: Sanctuary Choir; Daniel Osborne, organ postlude.

Thomas Attwood

Sunday's music: The Sanctuary Choir anthem, "Teach Me, O Lord," is a musical setting by Thomas Attwood (1756-1838) of the KJV interpretation of Psalm 119:33. Attwood was employed by several British royals, was a favorite student of Mozart, and served for more than 40 years, until his death, as organist and choirmaster of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, where he was buried beneath the organ. Psalm 119 is an extended paean to the law, and these words are appropriate as we consider the goodness of the Ten Commandments. Attwood's music, clearly influenced by his teacher Mozart, sets out with restrained elegance the simple plea that we learn the ways of God's statutes and with that knowledge follow them to the end of our days.

The postlude will feature organ student Daniel Osborne playing the Little Prelude in G Minor. This work is generally attributed to a youthful J.S. Bach, although scholars now think it may be the work of Bach's student Johann Ludwig Krebs. Whoever composed it, it makes joyous use of the musical possibilities of the organ.

Thanks: We want to thank all of the musicians who participated in leading music for our Holy Week services. We can't thank you enough for your service to this church!

Children's choirs: Parents, although the program year is winding down, attendance at the last few Wednesday rehearsals is crucial. Choir awards dinner night is May 6, and the Children's Bells and Savior's Singers Children's Choir will participate in worship Sunday, May 10.

In addition to working on music for that service, we are continuing to rehearse the musical. Parts will be assigned and scripts sent home by May 6. If you haven't yet received a copy of the rehearsal CD, please let us know.

Cherub Choir parents: There are four rehearsals left in this program year: April 12, 19, and 26, and May 3. We still need parent helpers for April 12 and 19 and May 3. 

In Our Prayers

Becky Busler

Jane Crewey

Dorothy Dollar

Fred Frazier

DeeDee Galliher

Dorothy Giesler

Juanita Goforth

Ron Grubbs

Will Hankins

Mary Nell Harris

Sharon Hatcher

Hawley Heglar

Carolyn King

Nancy King

Sue Olsen

Nancy Preston

Mary Rice

Brenda Rogers

Virginia Rutherford

Katy Sikorski

Faye VanNostrand

An extensive list of prayer concerns, "Pray for One Another," is available for pickup at the church each week.

Condolences

Our love and sympathy are with Donna Sikorski in the death of her mother, Phyllis Green, April 1 in Wise, Virginia; and with Al and Loretta Thomas in the death of their nephew, Douglas Keyser, of Little Rock, Arkansas, over the Easter weekend.

Birthday Prayer Fellowship

April 12         Miles Hite

April 13         Vivian Hill, George McClellan, Spencer Pruner

April 14         Wes Buckles, Wade Witcher

April 15         Rett Miller

April 16         Adam Abel, Dorothy Dollar, Joel Kreiss, Maddie Singleton

Sunday, April 12

8:30 a.m.     Worship, Fellowship Hall

9:00 a.m.     Cherub Choir

9:45 a.m.     Sunday School, Education Wing

11:00 a.m.   Worship, Sanctuary

5:15 p.m.     Jubilate Youth Choir, Music Wing

6:00 p.m.     Student Fellowship, Youth Wing & Fellowship Hall

Monday, April 13

5:30 p.m.     Sanctuary Handbells, Handbell Room

7:00 p.m.     Building & Grounds Committee, Room 117

7:00 p.m.     Worship Committee, Room 123

Tuesday, April 14

9:00 a.m.     Staff Meeting, Room 123

10:00 a.m.   Morning Prayer Group, Conference Room

1:00 p.m.     Jackie Burt's Bible Study, Burt Home

6:00 p.m.     Venture Crew 3, Cub Scout Room

7:00 p.m.     Boy Scout Troop 3, Scout Wing

Wednesday, April 15

9:30 a.m.     Lorri Looney's DVD Bible Study, Parlor

10:00 a.m.   Elizabeth Patrick's Women's Bible Study, New Mothers' Room

4:15 p.m.     Children's Handbells, Room 212

4:45 p.m.     Youth Handbells, Room 212

4:45 p.m.     Savior's Singers Children's Choir, Room 209

4:45 p.m.     Heart to Heart Steering Committee, Room 117

5:15 p.m.     Baby & Toddler Care, Rooms 34-37

5:30 p.m.     Fellowship Dinner, Fellowship Hall

6:00 p.m.     Wednesday Night Kids, Rooms 11 &31

6:00 p.m.     Student Small Groups, Youth Wing

6:20 p.m.     Adult Learning, Fellowship Hall

7:15 p.m.     Sanctuary Choir, Room 202

7:30 p.m.     Praise Team, Fellowship Hall

Thursday, April 16

7:00 a.m.      Men's Bible Study, Parlor