FIPC Newsletter

Issue 51 Volume 10  - Week of December 23, 2012

From Pastor Jim

Dear Friends,   

 

Merry Christmas and God Bless. 

 

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

 

Jim Weldon 

 

 

News & Upcoming Events

CHURCH WIDE EVENTS     


Love Offering

  Love Offering  

FIPC Family,

 

During this special season, if you would like to give thanks to our pastor and four paid staff members, the Session invites you to contribute to a special "Love Offering".

 

Since our pastor and staff did not receive raises this year and do not receive a Christmas bonus, I know these gifts will be deeply appreciated.

 

If you would like to contribute, please include your gift in an offering envelope marked "Love Offering".

 

We will continue to receive Love Offerings through the end of the year to give everyone an opportunity to participate.

 

Thank you for your support and generosity.

 

Burl White, Treasurer

  



Haiti Adult Mission Trip

 

Informational meeting

Jan 3rd at 6:30pm 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Missionaries going to Haiti are:

Pete Sites

Jennifer Weldon

Jim Weldon

Maria Mack

David Haznedl

Kristi Haznedl

Tim Worthy

Vicki Perez

Please be praying for this group as they prepare medically, physically, emotionally and spiritually to go and serve the Lord.


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:
 

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." John 3:16 (NIV)

   

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. 
  • Our beautiful band and singers.  Dr. Jim Weldon and family for all they do.
  • Thanking God for my wonderful family.  Happy to to celebrate Jesus' birthday.
  • Thank you Jesus for all you do.  For Molly's awesome job.
  • Friend who stepped on an IED survived and is back in the US for recovery. Answer to many prayers.
  • Family, friends. God's love and grace.
  • Thank you to Jim, Mike and everyone else that makes this church continue to grow.
  • Praise for Greg Cruice teaching.  Praise for the music ministry.
  • Baby James born to our nephew and wife on 12-14-12- and all doing great.
  • Thank you to Pastor, Jennifer and staff, making our Christmas celebratios meaningful. Great sermon, Pastor, thank you!
  • Birth of Teagon Goff to Misty and Josh Goff on Friday, Dec. 21.
  • For the greatest gift ever given and the greatest story ever told.
  • Robert Williams, kind, gentle, compasionate, giving and respective.

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.
  • Claude Faircloth in Life Care Center (Kingsley Ave.)
  • To bring Brittany back into the arms of Christ.
  • Norman, healing from sickness; Linda healing from injury.
  • James and Martha Williams; all our sick and elderly and their caregivers.
  • Please keep our son, Jayden, in your prayers, Jan 21 is his MRI.  
  • Kevin C. family, a coworker, passed away on Sat.; church and Gov't leaders; family.
  • Safe travels over holiday.
  • Pray for the homeless and the hungry.
  • Families in Conn.
  • Lord, please keep everyone safe through the holidays.
  • The Lord will help doctor correctly diagnose and help Brenda H.; continued help with our schedules and obligations; coworker comes to service.
  • Safe and blessed Christmas Day.
  • Please pray for my mother's recovery in rehab (physical therapy) for back surgery.
  • Prayers for a safe holiday for all.  Continued prayers for Perry and Monica as he battles pancreatic cancer.
  • The families of the children that were killed are able to have a Christmas full of love and family, not anger and hate.
  • For the family of Mitch L. He died on Nov. 1 in a motorcycle accident.  He had a wife and child. Prayers for his family and band.
  • My sister, everybody's Christmas, Christ's birthday, my sins, forgive me.  Habits getting worse.
  • Pray for those that are in need to be blessed during this holiday season. Let us have joy and be thankful to you on your birthday.
  • I would like you to pray for Lauren and Jake and that they will come back to God.  Pray for my dad, Kevin, as he has laser back surgery on Jan. 3.
  • For our friend, Lee W., who is in St. Vincents with pneumonia.  Paul K.'s dad in hospital in VA.
  • Safety for all families traveling for the holidays.
  • Safe travels over the holidays; sister's job opportunity.
  • Possible job; son's attitude.
  • Prayers for our Emma.

 

This Week's Devotional
This Week's Devotional
by: David McCasland
 

 

   

Every year, I enjoy listening to the BBC's worldwide live radio broadcast of the Christmas Eve service from King's College Chapel in Cambridge, England. This Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols combines Scripture readings, prayers, and choral music in a moving service of worship. One year, I was struck by the announcer's description of the congregation leaving the magnificent chapel, saying they were "stepping out of this moment of grace and back into the real world."

 

Wasn't it that way on the first Christmas? The shepherds heard an angel announce the birth of the Savior, Christ the Lord (Luke 2:11), followed by a "multitude of the heavenly host praising God" (vv.13-14). After they found Mary, Joseph, and the Baby in Bethlehem, the shepherds couldn't help telling others about this Child (v.17). "The shepherds went back to work, glorifying and praising God for everything that they had heard and seen, which had happened just as they had been told" (v.20 Phillips).

 

They had been changed by their "moment of grace." As they stepped back into their real world, they carried the good news about Jesus in their hearts and voices.

 

May we too take God's grace into the real world this Christmas and every day of the new year.


May the grace that we encounter
At this time of Christmas cheer
Not be true just in this season
But remain throughout the year. -Sper
Take the joy of Christmas
with you every day.

This Week's Funnies

Just as I began my Christmas Eve service, the electricity in the church failed. The ushers and I found some candles and placed them around the sanctuary. Then I reentered the pulpit, shuffled my notes, and muttered, "Now, where was I?"

A tired voice called out, "Right near the end!"


A family had twin boys whose only resemblance to each other was their looks. If one felt it was too hot, the other thought it was too cold. If one said the TV was too loud, the other claimed the volume needed to be turned up. Opposite in every way, one was an eternal optimist, the other a doom-and-gloom pessimist.

 

Just to see what would happen, on the twins' birthday their father loaded the pessimist's room with every imaginable toy and game. The optimist's room he loaded with horse manure.

 

That night the father passed by the pessimist's room and found him sitting amid his new gifts crying bitterly.

 

"Why are you crying?" the father asked.

 

"Because my friends will be jealous, I'll have to read all these instructions before I can do anything with this stuff, I'll constantly need batteries, and my toys will eventually get broken." answered the pessimist twin.

 

Passing the optimist twin's room, the father found him dancing for joy in the pile of manure. "What are you so happy about?" he asked.

 

To which his optimist twin replied, "There's got to be a pony in here somewhere!"


The only difference between a yard sale and a trash pickup is how close to the road you put the stuff.


Computer Crashed - The computer in my high school classroom recently started acting up. After watching me struggle with it, one of my students came up and took over.

 

"Your hard drive crashed," he said.

 

I called the computer services office and explained, "My computer is down. The hard drive crashed."

 

"We can't just send people down on your say-so. How do you know that's the problem?"

 

"A student told me," I answered.

 

"We'll send someone over right away."


A couple was arranging for their wedding, and asked the bakery to inscribe the wedding cake with "1 John 4:18" which reads "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear."

 

The bakery evidently lost, smudged or otherwise misread the noted reference, and beautifully inscribed on the cake "John 4:18":

 

"For you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband."


An ironworker calmly walked the narrow beam 15 floors above the city street. Even with heavy winds blowing and a driving rain falling, he showed no fear and never hesitated.

 

When he came down to ground level a man who had been watching asked, "How did you ever get a job like that?"

 

"Well," replied the ironworker, "I used to drive a school bus, but my nerves gave out."

 

 

 
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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 

12/23/12 =224

 

Ministry & Building Funds
12/23/12 = $6,275.90

(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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