Issue 14 Volume 13 - Month of November 2015

From Dr. Jim Weldon, Jr.

Dear FIPC Church Family,

Here we grow again!

Please welcome our newest member:

Pam Logdson, a Quality Fraud Analyst for Bank of America.

Pam has two sons, Jacob (9) and Ethan (14).

God is good! All the time!

Grace and Peace,

Jim Weldon

Church Celebrations

Hersperger Baptism

Laura, Mason, and Jason

Hersperger

Church Announcements

THANK YOU!!!

Another season of 5th Quarter comes to a close! We had a great year with great volunteers and wonderful support from the FIPC congregation and Fleming Island community. We will be putting together a thank you notice for all the companies and organizations that donated to make this year a huge success. Please be on the look out for that in your church bulletin, as well as in next month's issue of our eNewsletter!

Operation Christmas Child

November 11 @ 6:30 pm

FIPC Gathering Area

We are holding a Special Dedication Service and Box Packing Night. We will pack the boxes, pray over and dedicated them, and then worship together. This is an all church wide event.

The following items are needed:

Toothbrushes and toothpaste
Wash cloths and soap
Feminine hygiene products

If you prefer, you may pack your own shoe box at home and bring it to church by November 11. Monetary donations to help with shipping ($7 per box) are also needed for all of our boxes. Please no USED ITEMS, war related items, food, liquids, lotions, medications, vitamins, or breakable items. Contact Mike Horst or Sara Dryden for more information.

Lunch Bunch Small Group

RESUMES IN JANUARY

ROCK Room

Meets the second Wednesday of each month. NOTE THE HOLIDAY HIATUS--RESUMES IN JANUARY! Bring a dish to share and come enjoy the fellowship. Invite someone to join you! Contact Jim Weldon 553-8493 for information.

Christmas and Advent at FIPC!

Pick up your Angel on Sunday!

Select an angel or angels from the tree in the gathering area. Record your name and angel number on the form provided and return the gifts to FIPC by December 6!

This outreach is being organized by the Empty Nesters Small Group. Please contact Shirley Norton or the church office for any questions.

December 7 | 6:30 pm

Join us for our annual Women's Ornament Exchange at FIPC in the gathering area of the main building! Please bring an appetizer to share, and a wrapped Christmas Ornament ($5-$10 value). Contact Ann Roos for more details or questions.

2015 Christmas Offering

During this holiday season, a season of generosity, we would like to offer you the opportunity to give to a special Christmas Offering. This Christmas Offering is intended for gifts above and beyond your regular giving. The Christmas Offering will be dedicated to the FIPC Building Fund with the goal of raising the equivalent of one month's mortgage payment ($9,287.26)!

Each Sunday, you will be provided with a special Christmas Offering envelope to use for your gifts to this offering. The Christmas Offering began Sunday, November 15, and the last day to give will be December 27. As you are making your gift giving list and checking it twice, be sure to remember a gift to your church. If you have any questions, please contact Joe Perry, Treasurer, or Dawn Vanderpool, CFO & Church Administrator.

Grades K - 6

FIPC Children's Ministries will be teaching our kids 2 Christmas carols to perform at our Christmas Eve 4pm Family Worship Service! The rehearsals will take place during normal Sunday School each Sunday, beginning Nov. 22. We will be sending home some information about a dress rehearsal the week of Christmas eve.

This a great time for the kids to invite their friends to church and participate in this choir. Please see Kathleen Drew or Mike Horst if you have any questions, or you can contact the church office.

2 Christmas Eve Services

Join us at 4:00 pm for a fun, family friendly service. We will hear special music from our children's choir (all children will be invited to participate that evening), as well as a reading from the Bible about the night Jesus changed everything!

Join us for our annual 6:00 pm candlelight worship service. We will worship together, hear a message from Dr. Jim Weldon, Jr. and sing Silent Night with a candlelight service.

Christmas is a great time to invite friends and family who don't normally attend church. Take this opportunity to spread the love of Jesus Christ to them, and invite them to one of these awesome worship services.

Adult Ministries

Christian Growth Classes

December 6 @ 1:00 pm

Worship Building

We would love for you to join the church and continue your discipleship journey by partaking in one of these classes. If you are interested in joining the church or attending one of the classes, please contact Sara Dryden, Director of Membership. 1st Base participants, please sign up ahead of time in order to receive information to be discussed at the meeting.

Youth Ministries

The Net Youth Group

Wednesday Nights @ 6:30 pm

The Shack

Jr. and Sr. High-Grades 7-12
Fun atmosphere
Bible Study, Games, and Small Groups
Be sure to invite a friend and join us for a great new year!

In This Issue

From The Pastor

Church Celebrations

Church Announcements

Adult Ministries

Youth Ministries

Thanks and Prayer Requests

This Week's Funny

This Week's Devotional

FIPC Calendar

QA 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.

New Members This Year: 14

Attendance:

10/04/15 = 92

10/11/15 = 89

10/18/15 = 88

10/25/15 = 94

Ministry & Building Fund Offerings:

10/04/15 = $3,929.36

10/11/15 = $6,460.89

10/18/15 = $5,515.79

10/25/15 = $8,374.00

(Weekly Need = $8,154)

YTD Need = $350,622

YTD Offerings = $307,314

YTD Variance = -$43,308

Offering envelopes are 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 contact our CFO & Church Administrator, Dawn Vanderpool, at the church office at (904) 269-2412 ext. 701.

Sunday Worship

Worship Service is held every Sunday morning
10:00 AM

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

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!

ChristLife - Senior High Youth

Fuel - Jr. High Youth Group

ROCK / Children

Thank You Notes

Thanks to:

The Hospitality Team for Sunday morning refreshments!

The counting team for your continued service to your church!

Our Awesome Worship Band!

Those who helped usher/greet last Sunday!

Our Children's Ministry Volunteers!

Our Youth Ministry Team!

Announcements

Announcements for the e-newsletter, power point slide show during worship, and web site should be emailed to Dawn Vanderpool by 9 am on Mondays.

Announcements for the bulletin should be emailed to Sara Dryden by 10 am on Tuesdays.

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.

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.

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Thanks and Prayer Requests

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.

Praise from the Welcome Cards:

Women's Evening Bible Study Group, God can change anyone.
Thank you for attending the "bases". Pray about doing your next class and completing the bases.
Awesome and thanks for a 4 day fall retreat.
Thanks for our church family; thanks 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.
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.
Sydney Ward.
Betty Gedrottis.

Prayers from the Welcome Cards:

My mom, Mary Elmore.
Pray for Tyler M., 19 years old, having a difficult time. He is my nephew, very worried as he is in prison.
Healing for AR's hip. AR's mom healing of shingles.
Spiritual growth for our church, GROW IN CHRIST.
For FIPC family and friends.
Shannon, Lorraine, John, Robert, Chastity, Lou.
Please pray for Kevin and all who struggle with substance abuse or other addition issues.
Pray for the finances of our church. Pray for our staff (Sara, Mike, Dawn and Danny) whose hours have been cut to 20 or less and who have lost their health insurance benefits. Pray for them and their families as they deal with the financial ramifications of these cuts.
Carolyn, safe travel while out of the country; church and gov't leaders.
Scott's safe trip.
For my family in times of stress; for Hannah in Hong Kong, to find peace in the Lord; for Sydney with her MS; for the Lord's hand of blessing.
Johnny's cousin gave birth too early and their little boy is very sick having a lot of problems, he is not eating so he lost a lot of weight since he was born.
Tyler M.
Our church; Pastor Jim and family; church staff

This Month's Funny

This Month's Devotional

Daily Hope

by Rick Warren

"Be humble when you correct people who oppose you .... They have been trapped by the devil, and he makes them obey him, but God may help them escape." (2 Timothy 2:25-26 CEV)

When you face opposition because of your faith, you need to recognize the source of the opposition.

It's not other people. It's not your coworkers. It's not a political party. It's not some other nation or religion. It's not a competitor. The pressure you feel to cave in or be quiet or sit down when you should stand up, that pressure is not coming from other people. It's really coming from Satan.

In Revelation 12:10 Satan is called "the accuser of the Christians." His number one job is to put you down.

There is an unseen spiritual battle going on all around you. This pressure to keep you from doing the right thing is not really coming from other people. They're just weapons. Most of the time they don't even know they're being used. The real issue is spiritual warfare.

Ephesians 6:12 says, "We are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world" (TEV).

Satan knows it's stupid to attack Jesus Christ directly, so instead he attacks those who follow him. He uses the media and music and popular culture and anything he can to ridicule those who follow Jesus. He's behind the voices saying, "Those Christians are out of date. They're on the wrong side of history. They don't know what they're talking about. They're bigots."

Here's what the Bible says you should do: "Stay away from stupid and senseless arguments. These only lead to trouble. God's servants must not be troublemakers. They must be kind to everyone, and they must be good teachers and very patient. Be humble when you correct people who oppose you .... They have been trapped by the devil, and he makes them obey him, but God may help them escape" (2 Timothy 2:23-26 CEV).

If you don't have the Holy Spirit in your life, then you have no defense against Satan. He can master your moods. He can lead you into depression. He can make you angry.

You may think you're strong, but you're not strong enough to fight Satan's attacks on your own. What you need to do is recognize the source - the devil, not the person - and treat the opposition the way Jesus did.

How did Jesus treat those who opposed him? Even on the cross he said, "Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're doing."

The people who attack you don't know what they're doing. The people who put down Jesus and church and Christianity? They don't know what they're doing.

You need to pray, too, "Father, forgive them" so that you can show love even under attack and so you'll have more energy to fight the real enemy.

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