FIPC Newsletter

Issue 47 Volume 10  - Week of November 25, 2012

From Pastor Jim

Dear Friends,   

 

I hope you all had a GREAT Thanksgiving! I sure did. Our family went to my great grandparents farm in Inverness, FL.  We rode 4 wheelers, shot skeet, sat around the campfire and had a memorable time with the family!

 

Thanks to Pastor Greg for leading worship last Sunday and Michael Tanner for leading music! They always do a GREAT job!!

 

Can you believe that Christmas is just around the corner? The FIPC Staff and Session have worked hard to make this Advent/Christmas Season our best one yet!

  • Sunday 12/02, 9, 16, and 23 - Adult Class: Exploring the Manger, 8:30 am with Pastor Greg. Classroom #2.  
  • Sunday, 12/02, 9, 16 and 23 - Christmas Pageant Rehearsal from 11:30 - 12:30 in the Sanctuary.  
  • Monday, 12/03 - Haiti Mission Trip Meeting, 6:30 pm in the Rock Room.
  • Wednesday, 12/05 - Adult Christmas Dinner, 6:30 pm at the Golf Club @ Fleming Island Plantation.   
  • Saturday, 12/08 - Eagle Harbor Christmas Parade everyone invited be at the main pool/tennis courts at 9 am.
  • Monday 12/10 - Women's Christmas Ornament Exchange, 6:30 pm in the Gathering Area.
  • Sunday 12/16 - Advent Pot Luck Dinner and Hayride Christmas Caroling at 5:30 pm in the Gathering Area.
  • Sunday 12/24 - Children's Christmas Pageant, 4 pm and Christmas Candlelight Worship, 6 pm. Both in the Sanctuary

 

Put Christ back into Christmas and remember that Jesus IS the reason for the season by getting involved and participating in the activities with your church family.

 

Remember - God is GOOD!  ALL the time! 
Your pastor and friend...
Jim Weldon 

 

News & Upcoming Events

CHURCH WIDE EVENTS     

    

Attention Tuesday Night
Women Bible Study

 

We will be meeting tonight at Chili's, 6:30 PM to wrap up our time together. Please call or text Jennifer at 254-9488 to let her know if you are able to attend.

 


Exploring the Manger exploring the manger

  • Sunday, Dec. 2-23
  • 8:30 am - 9:30 am
  • Join us for a discussion of the manger scene!
  • We will look to Scripture to understand the meaning of the modern day manger and offer some suggestions on how in the last week before Christmas to still make it part of your tradition in celebrating the birth of Christ.

"Follow The Star"  

Children's and Youth Christmas Pageant

 
  • FIPC second annual Christmas Pageant "Follow the Star"
  • Calling all children and youth K-8 to participate (singing and acting) in this amazing portrayal of Jesus' birth.  
  • TONIGHT - Tuesday 27 @ 7pm MANDATORY information meeting for parent and participant in the Worship Building.

  

  



Mark Your Calendars

  

 

Dec. 5   - Adult Christmas Dinner

Dec. 10 - Women's Annual Ornament Exchange

Dec. 16 - Advent Pot Luck @ 5:30 pm

Dec. 19 - ROCK and Youth Christmas Parties

Dec. 24 - Christmas Eve Services

  4:00 pm Children's Pageant & Family         Service

              6:00 pm Candle Light Service  


Adult Christmas Party 

   

You are cordially invited to FIPC's Annual Adult Christmas Party  

  • Wednesday, December 5
  • 6:30 Social Time -7:00 Buffet Dinner   
  • $20 per person   
  • RSVP by Dec. 2nd
  • The Golf Club @ Fleming Island Plantation  

Main dish: Stuffed Pork Loin with bread crumbs and Romano cheese & Chicken Marsala

Bring a nice gift (one per person) something you would like to receive. $10 limit
Dress: Party Casual


Women's Ornament Exchange  

  • Invite a friend and enjoy an evening of fun and    fellowship. 
  • Monday Dec. 12 from 6:30-8:30 pm 
  • In the Gathering Area of our worship building.
  • Bring a sweet or salty snack to share and an ornament to exchange.
 


Advent Potluck

Sunday, Dec. 16

5:30 - 7:30 pm

Gathering Area

  

Potluck, Games,   

Hayride and Caroling

 

Join us for amazing fun, fellowship, and comfort food

 

  

  


Salvation Army Angel Tree

  

  • All 75 angels have been taken.  Thank you!
  • Angel gifts are due Dec. 9.

  

Thank you for making a child's Christmas Merry                            

The Empty Nesters Small Group

Contact Shirley Norton at 269-8367 or Sara Dryden @ 705-2785.

 

Eagle Harbor Parade

 

  • Join your FIPC Family on Saturday, Dec. 8 @ 9 am for the Eagle Harbor Parade (meet at the main pool/tennis courts). This is a great event for the entire family. Please sign up on the yellow card if you want to participate.   
  • Float decorating will take place Friday Dec. 7 at 5:30 pm

   

"Christmas is the Season for Giving..."

Ways you can make a difference this Christmas Season.

 

 

  • Christmas Offering - Give your Church a Christmas gift towards our Building Fund.
  • Love Offering - Show the whole church staff you appreciate them by giving them a love offering.   
  • Adult Mission Trip - Help sponsor one of our Missionaries go to Haiti.
  • Walk of Faith - Buy your friends and family a brick with their name on it for Christmas. Bricks can also be purchased in honor or in memory of a loved one.  A GREAT Christmas gift!

ADULT MISSION TRIP

FIPC is planning its first ever adult mission trip!    

We will be helping The Cabaret Children's Home in Cabaret, Haiti. The trip is scheduled from February 4th through February 11th 2013.

  • Haiti Missionary meeting on Monday December 3rd at 6:30pm in the ROCK Room.   This is the last chance to make a deposit to join our missionary team.  We hope to have the Director of the Cabaret Children's Home as our speaker!!
  • Estimated cost - $1,330 (with fundraising, cost could be as low as $1,100)

For more information contact Pete Sites @ 612-0186 or Jennifer Weldon @ 264-2595.     


 

CHILDREN'S & YOUTH MINISTRIES 

 

The Net Youth Group!

The Net logo

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! 
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 >>>


 

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:
 

  

"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Philippians 4:4" 

 

Praise / Thanks:

  • To God for all the new families He is bringing to us.
  • To God for blessing 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. 
  • Thankful for the family at FIPC.  I praise God for the love, peace and joy He has given me.
  • Thanks to Greg; great message.
  • My daughter got a job in her career field, answer to prayer.
  • There are many more missionaries that I realized and they are doing so much good in the world.
  • Heroes who helped those stressed by Hurricane Sandy.
  • Having Brittany and Benjamin home this Thanksgiving.
  • When I wished everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, I believe my prayer was answered.
  • Thankful for my family.
  • Thanks and praise to Greg Cruice for filling in for Jim and letting the Holy Spirit speak through him.
  • Congrats to Ryan for making rank.
  • For a wonderful Thanksgiving.
  • Thank you Jesus for a wonderful Thanksgiving. New traditions and memories created.

Prayer Requests:

  • For our community
  • 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 & Martha Williams, health issues.
  • My sister this upcoming week.
  • School; unspoken.
  • Pray for church family and staff to have a wonderful holiday season.
  • Uncle John, undiagnosed health issues, hoping for doctor's answers.
  • Please pray for Tyra after the loss of her mother.
  • Travel safety for Ann Roos as she flies home from Chicago on Tuesday 11/27.
  • Kathy B. and her knee.
  • My brother-in-law, John, is doing much better, please keep him in your prayers.
  • To bring Brittany back in the arms of Christ. Ally family.
  • Safe travel for all this week.
  • My great Uncle Henry's cancer has spread to his brain and he has only days left.  I pray that God pulls him to heaven smoothly and my Aunt Lisa doesn't have too much of a struggle.  I pray that my grandmother (his sister) enjoyed her last times with him over the Thanksgiving holiday.
  • Healing from neck surgery; help finding work; help in improving relationships.
  • My wife's Uncle Henry who is battling cancer.
  • Benji M. still in ICU at Wolfson.
  • Please pray for Annie K. and her family. Annie is battling Leukemia and Lupas and has 3 small children who need her in their lives.
  • Bryson G.; Lisa M.; Carol W.; Daisy M., Jason W.
  • My own journey and other missionaries that go out spread God's word.  The people in Uganda.
  • For our daughter, Elizabeth, she is going to have surgery on her neck.
  • Continued prayer for healing, strength and faith recovering from serious health problems. Lucy and Pam.
  • For all our soldiers including my husband in the middle East who are fighting for our freedom.

 

 

 

 

 

This Week's Devotional
This Week's Devotional

A rallying cry often heard today in our economically challenged world is "Less and less." Governments are called to balance their budgets. People are urged to use less energy and decrease consumption of limited resources. It is good advice that we should all heed. In the realm of faith, however, there are no shortages of love and grace and strength. Therefore, as followers of Christ, we are urged to demonstrate His love in our lives in ever-increasing measure.

 

In the apostle Paul's first letter to the believers in Thessalonica, he urged them to "abound more and more" in a lifestyle that pleases God (4:1). He also commended them for their demonstration of love for each other, and called them to "increase more and more" in brotherly love (v.10).

 

That kind of ever-increasing love is possible only because it comes from God's limitless resources, not from our own dwindling supply. Poet Annie Johnson Flint wrote:


His love has no limit, His grace has no measure,
His power has no boundary known unto men;
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus,

He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again.

 

The apostle Paul expressed his desire for the believers: "May the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you" (1 Thess. 3:12).

 

How much should we love God and others? More and more!

 

Our limited ability to love does not change God's limitless power to love through us.

This Week's Funnies

 

Dirty Hands - A teacher sees a young lad entering the classroom - his hands were dirty.       

She stopped him and said, "John, please wash your hands. My goodness, what would you say if I came into the room with hands like that?"  
 
Smiling the boy replied, "I think I'd be too polite to mention it."

 


Doctor's Office - I went to my doctor yesterday. After a long wait in the outer office, my name was finally called.

When I got into the examining room, the nurse pointed to the scale and said, "I need to get your weight today."

I immediately replied, "One hour and 5 minutes."


While leading a tour of kindergarten students through our hospital, I overheard a conversation between one little girl and an x-ray technician.
 
"Have you ever broken a bone?" he asked.
 
"Yes," the girl replied.
 
"Did it hurt?"
 
"No."
 
"Really? Which bone did you break?"
 
"My sister's arm."


While visiting my son on his Army base, I chatted with a colleague of his.
 
"What rank are you?" I asked.
 
"I'm relieved to say that I've just been promoted from captain to major."
 
"Relieved? Why?"
 
"Because," he replied, "my last name is Hook."


Someone showed me how static electricity worked today. I was shocked.


It was a terrible night, blowing cold and rain in a most frightful manner. The streets were deserted and the local baker was just about to close up shop when a little man slipped through the door. He carried an umbrella, blown inside out, and was bundled in two sweaters and a thick coat. But even so he still looked wet and bedraggled.

As he unwound his scarf he said to the baker, "May I have two bagels to go, please?"

The baker said in astonishment, "Two bagels? Nothing more?"

"That's right," answered the little man. "One for me and one for Bernice."

"Bernice is your wife?" Asked the baker.

"Do you think, my mother would send me out on a night like this?" snapped the little man.


"You know you're old when everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt, doesn't work." - George Burns


"I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use."- Galileo

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In This Issue
From Pastor Jim
News & Upcoming Events
Prayer Requests
This Week's Devotional
This Weeks' Funny
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. 

  

Attendance 

11/25/12 =177

 

Ministry & Building Funds
11/25/12 = $5,097.00

(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.
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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