FIPC Newsletter

Issue 38 Volume 11  - Week of September 29, 2013

From Rev. Jim Weldon

Dear FIPChurch Family,

 

Excerpts from Dr. Weldon's Message on Sunday: 

We DO NOT automatically know what pleases God, we have to discover what pleases God.  We can't discover how to please God on our own, we need these things:

1.    Reading His Word
2.    Meeting with other believers in a small group or Bible study
3.    Prayer
4.    Being faithful in worship attendance
5.    Serving God in and through His church

A child of the light lives their life to please the Lord - not to please our self and not to please someone else.  Does this mean we are perfect?  No, none of us are, but we can be growing.  As we discover what pleases God and live that out, that brings joy to the heart of God - that is living a children of the light.  

How can a marriage relationship survive and thrive today with all the pressures and temptations that come our way? First, by understanding God's intention for husbands and wives.  Wives, give your husband the gift of unselfish loving respect.  Husbands, give your wife the gift of unselfish loving sacrifice. Wives: Unselfish Loving Respect is simply being genuine gratefulness for the good qualities in your husband.  The good qualities in your husband are a gift from the hands of God.  Unselfish respect given consistently over time shouts - I love you.  The worst thing wives can do to their husband is to be disrespectful.  Husbands: Unselfish Loving Sacrifice is when you give up a part of yourself in order to meet your wife's needs.  Unselfish loving sacrifice given consistently over time shouts - I love you!  The worst thing husbands can do to their wife is to be selfishly unloving.  Good news - you can do this!  Bad news - If we don't do this it is going to be hard.  The call to be mutually submissive to one another is an outgrowth of being filled by the Spirit of God.

God is good!  All the time!


Your pastor and friend,

Jim


News & Upcoming Events

ADULT MINISTRIES
 
  
Christian Growth Classes
Sunday, October 13, 1 pm in the Worship Building. 
 
We would love for you to join the church and continue your discipleship journey by partaking in one of these classes.  Please contact Sara Dryden or register online to sign up for a class.  

YOUTH GROUP
 
The Net Wednesday Nights  
  The Net logo   
 

Wednesdays 6:30-8:30pm!  

Jr. High and Sr. High Youth  



Games, music, small groups, and worship!   
Invite your friends!

 


CHILDREN'S MINISTRY

 

Family Movie Night (ages K-4th Grade)

Family Movie Night K-4  

 

Fun for everyone and great time to spend with your kids.  We'll have popcorn, movie theater size candy, and PRIZES (donated by Dubo Roofing Company)!  Be sure to bring blankets to sit on--picnic style! Please contact Carissa Hogan for more information. 

 


The ROCK Wednesday Night 

THE ROCK LOGO
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:00pm
5th & 6th Graders  
Come Join us for games, fellowship, snacks, small group time and mission work.





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

Have you meet Jesus?
Do you follow Jesus?
Do you serve for Jesus?
Do you share Jesus?
  
Join us in each Sunday as Jim teaches us how to to meet, follow, serve and share Jesus through the study of Ephesians.
 
 
Prayers of Praise and Thanksgiving:  
 

  

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.
  • For our church and small group.
  • Great sermon today.
  • Praise for daughter Christina's loving support.
  • Children Ministry volunteers.
  • Thanks to our staff for a great job.
  • Completing a safe vacation.  God's protection on the roads.
  • More beautiful singing and more powerful preaching... keep it coming!
  • The church is very welcoming. Thank you!
  • Praise God for the cooler weather; encourages me to be active; for my job.

 

 

Prayer Requests:

  • For our community.
  • For our church's growth in spirit, connections, and number.  
  • For those who do not know Christ.
  • For our Church's Pastor and Staff.
  • The grace to live out our faith.
  • For our FIPC Pastor, Staff,Elders, Deacons and their families.
  • For families and individuals who are hurting.
  • For the PCUSA and FIPC's response to the changes. For our Denominational Relations Committee.
  • Ruth Thomas, health.
  • Anne Poidevant, health, and her family.
  • Jim Sr. and Barbara, health.
  • Martha and James Williams, health.
  • Helen Goddard, health.
  • Faircloth family.
  • Kevin Griffis, serving in Afghanistan.
  • Shelby M., 15 year old girl brain surgery scheduled for Monday, Sept. 30; pray for her parents, peace and comfort in knowing God is in control.
  • Please pray for Drew injured in Afghanistan and his military family.
  • Safe day at theme park for my family;  healthy birth of grandson in early December.
  • Daniel, recovery from surgery;  prayers for Lee (57) diagnosed with lung cancer.
  • Our church, growth, finances and staff.
  • Pray for me and let the Holy Spirit speak through me at the Karios Banquet for the inmates at Putnam Prison; pray for my friend, Lee, battling with cancer and needs our prayers.
  • Larry A.
  • Praying for all who are in need of peace and love in their lives.
  • Prayers for care givers; healing for sister, Janey; healing and strength for recovery for Ruth.
  • Chris/Evan (Orlando); Beth C. (Carolyn's mom) sick, prayers to get well; church & gov't leaders.
  • For Arlene's surgery to go well on Tuesday; sister in VA with lung cancer; daughter to get diabetes under control; Weldon family.
  • Charlotte Moore, continued healing.
  • Stepdad, continue to regain strength and accept that he cannot do what he use to; mom to get the rest she needs.

 

 

 

This Week's Devotional
This Week's Devotional
"The Most Important Part of a Growing Marriage"
by  Rick Warren
PurposeDriven.com

 
 "Keep your roots deep in him, build your lives on him, and become stronger in your faith." (Colossians 2:7a TEV)

You can do many different things to keep your marriage growing, like be affectionate, unselfish, and forgiving with one another. But by far the most important decision you and your spouse make in your marriage is to remain committed to following Jesus together.

The Bible says, "Keep your roots deep in him, build your lives on him, and become stronger in your faith" (Colossians 2:7a TEV). Both you and your spouse may have committed your lives to Jesus at some point, but you need to ask yourself, "Are we continuing to live out our faith as a couple?"

How do you do that?

1. Get baptized together. If you haven't done so already, publicly identify yourself as a Christian. If Jesus is going to be the center of your marriage, it only makes sense that you both "come out of the closet" and be willing to tell the world that you're following him. I love to see husbands and wives get baptized together. It's a wonderful way to tell the world that you're committing your lives and your marriage to Jesus.
    
2. Get in a small group together. Challenge your marriage spiritually by connecting with other Christian couples. As you learn together to apply God's Word to your marriages and lives, you'll sharpen one another spiritually. You'll also be challenging each other to serve in ministry and share your faith regularly. Growing as a follower of Christ and as a spouse requires that kind of consistent accountability.
    
3. Renew your wedding vows. If you've committed your life to Jesus or renewed that commitment in a meaningful way since you first repeated your wedding vows, consider renewing those vows. It's likely they'll mean something different to you today.
    
4. Pray for and with one another. "Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed" (James 5:16 MSG). Who doesn't want a marriage where you live together whole and healed? The Bible tells us that will happen when we confess to one another when we're wrong and pray with each other.
    
5. Follow God's Word. A few years ago I read about a national study that said one out of three marriages end in divorce. When a couple is married in a church service, that number drops to one out of 50. When married couples are involved in Christian service together, attend worship services, and maintain some form of family worship, it's one out of 1,105 marriages. That's the kind of difference it makes when couples strive to read God's Word together and apply it to their lives.

Your marriage may have been going through a difficult season, but there's still hope. Your marriage can find life again. It has to start with you putting Jesus at the center of it. Do what God tells you to do in his Word, and your marriage can start growing again.  Jesus is the glue for any marriage. He holds you together when everything is tearing you apart and you feel like giving up.

This Week's Funnies

I have five siblings, three sisters and two brothers.

One night I was chatting with my Mom about how she had changed as a mother from the first child to the last.

She told me she had mellowed a lot over the years:

"When your oldest sister coughed or sneezed, I called the ambulance.

When your youngest brother swallowed a dime, I just told him it was coming out of his allowance."



My 14-year-old daughter, Maggie, and her best friend, Joannie are fans of 60's music. They recently got front-row tickets to attend a Peter, Paul, and Mary concert in our town.

When they returned home from the concert that night, I wanted to hear all the details of the concert. My daughter says, "Mom, during the show, we looked back an saw hundreds of little lights swaying to the music. At first we thought people were holding up cigarette lighters. Then we realized that the lights were the reflections off all the eyeglasses in the audience!"



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In This Issue
From Rev. Jim Weldon
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:

09/29/13 = 168
Ministry & Building Fund Offerings:
09/29/13 = $5,030.64
(Revised Weekly Need = $10,132)
 
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 CFO & Church Administrator, Dawn Vanderpool, at the church office at (904) 269-2412 ext. 701.
Sunday Worship Service
sunday service

Worship Service is held every  

Sunday morning  

10:00AM  

 

Attire is casual. It is an uplifting, come as you are worship service.

 

Church Celebrations!
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FIPC Session Recognizes Outstanding Service 

 

At the monthly Session meeting on Sept. 30, the FIPC Session recognized the following folks for their tremendous acts of service for our church and community:

  • Jacque Hobson, ROCK Ministry
  • Kyle Ludlam, Eagle Scout Project for The Shack
  • Carissa Hogan, Children's Ministry
  • Dawn Vanderpool, Church Administration
  • 5th Quarter Volunteers
  • Church Workday Volunteers
  • Reese Stansberry, Building and Grounds

Please join with the Session in thanking these individuals for actively serving the Body of Christ. 

 

 
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!

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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.    

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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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