COME AND JOIN US FOR VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 5344 MAIN STREET SPRING HILL, TN 37174
JULY 12-16, 2010 9:00 – 11:30 A.M.
Pre-school (children who are entering the 2010-2011 school year) through 5th grade
VBS IS FULL !!
Kindergarden still has a few openings left.
Hurry we are filling up fast!
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GOOD NEWS!!
Reverend David Sawyer was recently invited by the President of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary to participate in the 157th Commencement Exercise on May 23, 2010. Returning to his Alma Mater, David offered the Prayer of Illumination to the new graduates of LPTS after receiving the Devoted Service Award. Dr. Dean K. Thompson, retiring President of LPTS presented the Certificate, recognizing David’s years of service to the church and his position as Moderator of the Synod of the Living Waters. The Synod of the Living Waters is the governing body of the Presbyterian Church USA in which our Presbytery resides. The Synod serves 12 Presbyteries in a four-state area. http://www.synodoflivingwaters.org/ for more education about our denomination.
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4CENTS A MEAL
Please remember our monthly hunger offering; 4Cents is used to support local hunger programs through our Presbytery and our church. Envelopes are in the bulletin of the first Sunday of the month for your offering based on the number of meals you eat each month.
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PRAYER SHAWLS
The ladies in our knitting group, Busy Fingers, have been hard at work and would appreciate the names of anyone that the church family thinks might be upheld by a shawl and the prayers of folks keeping them in mind. Please let Angela Johnston know of someone who could use the warmth of a shawl and prayer.
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RED CROSS CHANGE
Beginning in July the Red Cross will be here every other month; if you are able, please adjust your donation schedule so that the number of our blood donors can stay consistent.
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VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
VBS time is here again and our co-directors, Peggy Brandau and Diana Kosiba, have put together a good staff of teachers and helpers and have nearly a full enrollment of children. We still need you to take part though; donations of snacks are needed so look on the bulletin board in the copier room for a sign-up sheet. And don’t forget the Ice Cream Social on July 11th that kicks off VBS week – bring your favorite flavor of ice cream to share.
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One Saturday morning during June, several people got together to work at the church. People brought hedgetrimmers, a pressure washer, a wheel barrel, and garden tools. When Alan and I drove up, the clean-up was in full swing already. Everyone took a job. Someone had decided on what flowers to plant and had gone after them; someone else when after mulch. Someone was trimming the front hedge. Alan went back home to get the tiller so he could prepare the soil before the flowers went in. Several of us got to work pulling weeds. Someone knew how to trim a rose bush. Someone came in to clean the nursery. Amazingly, there was such order and humility among us all. At the end of the work, I heard so many people thanking each other.
Today, David’s sermon was on corporate worship and how we all are a family of faith. Since I’ve been a member of this church, I enjoyed and believed this church as a “family.” There is a gift in being with each other while working toward a cause or goal that that can only be described as kinship. When we worked with each other last year during the flea market, we shared the load with each other to donate old items, bake food goods, price and sell them, and set up concessions. (I say that we helped each other, but most of the credit of organization goes to Alice Pierce. Most of the credit for grumbling goes to me.) There was a gift for each of us that went above the money that we made. It was in the fellowship of each other. When we worked together at a Franklin flood-victim’s house, we moaned and groaned and laughed at ourselves moaning and groaning. When we worked this month in the church yard, the spirit of friendship and enjoying each other was right there whirling around us leaving a clean yard, a clean nursery, and clean-hearted care for each other. It’s like that during the church luncheon as well when we start to clean up afterwards. Working together was what I referred to this morning as I listened to David’s sermon about “corporate worship.” There is always a call for something at our church from volunteering to attend to the nursery or children’s church, greeting people to worship at the door on Sunday mornings, cleaning the nursery, cleaning up after the luncheon, yard work, VBS volunteer needs, flea market jobs, and various other things that come up. Don’t miss the spiritual gift because of fear of volunteering. It’s lovely.
THANK YOU!
Karen Phillips