News of First Presbyterian ChurchNews of First Presbyterian Church Quincy, FLQuincy, FL AprilApril 20172017

Hol y Week Passion Palm Sunday Sunday April 9th 11:00 am Sanctuary

Maundy Thursday Service Thursday April 13th 7:00 pm Sanctuary

Tenebrae Service Friday April 14th 12:00 noon Sanctuary

Easter Sunrise Service April 16th 7:00 am Courtyard of Church

Traditional Easter Morning

Worship Service 11:00am Sanctuary

EASTER LILIES

Easter lilies will be displayed in the Sanctuary for Easter Sunday. If you would like to remember a loved one, either in honor or memory, please call the church office or sign up in the Narthex. 627-6576 $10.00 ea.

FLOWERING OF THE CROSS

Please bring fresh flowers from

your yard on Easter Sunday!

ARE YOU READY FOR VBS?

COMMUNION Communion will be celebtated at the Easter Sunrise

Service and at the Traditional Easter Morning Worship Service.

Presbyterian Women’s Birthday Offering Sunday April 2, 2017 April 2 we will celebrate the founding of the Presbyterian Women Auxiliary with a special offering that will go to specific mission projects to help improve the lives of women and children around the world. This year’s projects include: funding, stocking, and staffing 6 medical clinics, a new domestic violence shelter, and the provision of running water systems.

Imagine a world where curious kids become hands-on inventors who discover they're lovingly crafted by God.

See page 5 for details!

We have the opportunity to start Holy Week with fellowship watching the movie “Risen.” The film retells the story of Jesus’ resurrection and ascension through the fictional Roman tribune Clavius, who supervises both Jesus’ crucifixion and the investigation into what happened to his missing body. Clavius’ encounter with the crucified Jesus, his interviews with enthusiastic disciples and other witnesses, and finally his encounters with the risen Jesus lead him to embrace faith. BYOP/S (Bring Your Own Popcorn/Snacks)

P.W.E.C.T. Meeting

Monday, April 3rd @ 4:00 p.m.

Responsibilities for April

Circle #1 - Flowers/Plates

Circle #2 - CFM

Circle #4 - S.S./Communion Setup

CIRCLE MEETINGS

Monday, April 10th

Circles:

#1@ 10:00 am - Helen Brittin’s

#2@ 12:30 pm - Fellowship Hall

#3@ 12:30 pm - Parlor

#4@ 5:30 pm - Parlor

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Women’s Ministry

ANNOUNCEMENTS Our deepest sympathy is extended to the family of Becky and Steve Reep on the passing of his sister Mary Jane Moretz on March 21, 2017. Please keep the family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.

Our love and sympathy is exted to Marques Garrett on the passing of his grandfather. Please keep the family in your thoughts and prayers.

Christian love and heartfelt sympathy is extended to the family of Neff McMillan upon his passing on March 26th, 2017. Please keep the family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.

One Great Hour of Sharing - Give to One Great Hour of Sharing on Easter Sunday and join in God’s call to share our bread with the hungry, to aid and shelter people overcoming catastrophe and conflict, and to resource communities working to cast off the bonds of poverty and oppression. For more information visit www.presbyterianmission.org/give-oghs.

Ushers for April

Walter McPherson* Fran Rude**

Butch Lasseter Dan Hooker

Charles Strickland Hayes Woodward

David May (Jr.) Connor Maxwell (Jr.)

Fellowship Team

Gloria & Walter McPherson*

George & Fran Rude**

Butch & Sharon Lasseter

Anna Dooner

Mary Howard Edwards

Ian & Renee Henning

Jackie Myers

Dan Hooker

John Jackson

Clay McPherson

Mike Mock

Sandra Smith

Charles & Lori Strickland

Ashlee Weber

Martha Jean Woodward

Rhonda & Hayes Woodward

Elder & Deacon - April

Walter McPherson *

Fran Rude**

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY

April 19th

12:00 Noon

Presbyterian Men

Will Meet Again In May

For Breakfast

Nursery April 2 Rhonda Woodward

April 9 Mary Howard Edwards

April 16 Lori Strickland

April 23 Ashlee Weber

Officer Monthly Meetings

Deacons Tuesday April 4 6:00 p.m.

Elders Wednesday April 5th 5:45 p.m.

The Year of the Rooster (or Gamecock

according to the Rev)

Just what does a rooster have to do with Good Friday?

"Truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times." And so it came to pass that Peter did deny Christ 3 times, “I don’t know you.” “I don’t know you.” “I don’t know you.” The rooster became a Christian symbol as its’ crow reminds us of these three things: the sun still comes up, there is grace and forgiveness, and God still loves us!

As we begin the month of April we continue our Lenten Season of preparation for the blessings of Holy Week. This is the week that makes all other weeks possible for us and all Christians around the world. From Palm Sunday through Easter morning we gather to learn, break bread, worship, weep, wait, and celebrate. Holy Week is packed with emotion and opportunities to turn our hearts and minds toward the Lord, Holy Week is our chance to seek God and embrace the gift of grace we have in Christ. On Sunday April 9 we begin with Palm/Passion Sunday and we celebrate with all those who cheered Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem. Wednesday April 12, we will meet for our final Lenten Lunch and devotion in the Fellowship Hall at noon. Thursday at 7pm we welcome the Centenary United Methodist congregation to worship with us in the sanctuary. Rev. Aaron Ankeny will preach, our choirs will sing together, and we will share communion together. At noon on Good Friday in the sanctuary will be our Tenebrae service, a time of Scripture and meditation on that day that our Lord was crucified. On Saturday we pray and wait, and then Easter Sunday we rejoice in the raising of the Christ with a sunrise communion service at 7am in the courtyard and then again at 11am for our traditional communion service, with special music, in the sanctuary. I hope that you can be at many if not all of the services planned for this most special of weeks! Let us gather together and proclaim that we are a family of faith, waiting, praying, and suffering together, so that we can then lift our hearts and voices together shouting Hallelujah! We are an Easter People! Peace and Grace to all, Chris

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Alex Favazza and Marques Garrett enjoyed a very chilly conference at the American Choral Directors’ Association national conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 8-11, 2017. This photo is from the "One in Song Hymn Sing" hymn festival. Pictured are hundreds of choral directors singing "It is Well with my Soul" in Westminster Presbyterian Church of Minneapolis (PC-USA) in downtown Minneapolis.

Luncheon For New Members and Their Shepherds

A luncheon honoring our new members was hosted on Sunday, February 26, 2017 by members of the Church Growth and Evangelism, and the Christian Service- Faith in Action Committees:

Wayne Conrad, Rick Keyser, Vickie Stegall, John Clayton Hinson, Alice Malone, and Rodney

Joyner. This time of fellowship and fun provided an opportunity for our new members to get to

know other church members and to learn of the many opportunities to participate in church life.

New Members

Reilly Allman

Hugo Baroody

Jackson Boone

Marjorie Boone

Nick Bot

Nathan Bot

Morgan Bot

Jaiden Briggs

Riley Layerd

Emory Layerd

Makenzie Maxwell

Thomas Maxwell

Alex McGivern

Nassar Mohammed

Ryan McFarland

Katie McFarland

Fred Harris

Lucy Harris

Christy Ulrich

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30 HOUR FAMINE - 30 Hours Without Food, learning about each other and our larger world - Sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly 25% of its’ people are undernourished.

Summer Trip Schedule

Great Escape June 11-16

Thornwell Mission Trip June 25-30

Montreat Youth Conference July 22-29

Easter is almost here! Hope you have had a chance to participate in the Lenten activities that have been taking place. Thanks to all who have participated, those who teach us at the Wednesday Lenten lunches, and those who take part in the dramatic presentations each Sunday morning. We have just a few weeks left in Lent so try to come if you can!

Route 456 had a fantastic bike ride this last month (minus one little mishap!) Thanks to Dan for helping us transport bikes and for following along in case anyone needed help. This coming month we are planning to go bowling, so check your emails for details as the time draws nearer.

Our annual Easter Egg Hunt will be Tuesday, April 11 from 3-5 p.m. Join us for some Easter fun involving crafts and an egg hunt. If you would like to bring candy to stuff the plastic eggs please do so by the morning of the 11th. Non-chocolate works best and doesn’t melt. Also, candy needs to be individually packaged. Parents don’t forget to bring Easter baskets!!

Vacation Bible School is right around the corner, June 5-9. Please go online and sign up before April 15th and you will receive your t-shirt FREE! Brooke Thomas has graciously agreed to direct VBS again this year. We need lots of helpers so let Brooke know ASAP if you can work and where/what you would like to do to make this an exciting year for our children!!

High School Seniors

Please provide the church office with a Senior Portrait and a sentence or two about your plans after graduation for the May Newsletter. Will need by April 20th.

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We are asking all who would like to contribute wrapped candy to do so no later than Tuesday morning of the Egg Hunt (by 10:00 a.m.). Thanks for your support for our children’s ministry.

TERRIFIC TUESDAY EASTER EGG HUNT

APRIL 11th 3:00-5:00 p.m.

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VBS 3yrs old-5th grade

MISSION POSIBLE

Rising 6th graders - 8th graders

Sign Up online at vbspro.events/p/353b58

Sign up before April 15th & your t-shirt is free!

VBS

https://vbspro.events/p/353b58

Dogwood Acres uses an online registration system. If you have

any issues using the system, call the Dogwood Acres office, (850) 535-2695. To reserve a camper's

spot, a $50 deposit is required.

Register by April 10, 2017 and your camper will receive a $15 credit to the Trading Post. Dogwood offers a sibling discount - any siblings registered will

receive $10 off each registration.

1/2 price scholarships (of Standard Camp Fees) are available through First Presbyterian Church, Quincy for First Presbyterian Church Members. Other scholarship opportunities are available through Dogwood Acres. For more information, visit the

website at: dogwoodacres.org.

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SUMMER CAMP 2017!!

At beautiful Dogwood Acres, children and youth

meet peers from across the Florida Panhandle (and

beyond!). As they make new friends, nature and

nurture come together to help them learn about

growing in faith, guided by role models who walk

and talk it every day. Campers flourish in this

wholesome, technology-free atmosphere that

encourages them to actively explore life through a

wide variety of guided opportunities. Dogwood

Acres is an exciting, nurturing gift from God that

offers a safe, beautiful, faith-filled setting in which

campers can swim, fish, laugh, worship, learn

archery and crafts, help each other on the challenge

course, and have a blast while doing it all!!

CAMP SCHEDULE

Intro Entering grade 2 through completion of grade 2 July 5-8, July 9-12, July 16-19 Discovery (Short Week) Must have completed grades 3, 4 or 5 July 5-8 Night Owl (Short Week) Must have completed grades 6, 7, or 8 July 5-8 Discovery Must have completed grades 3, 4 or 5 July 9-14, July 16-21 Night Owl Must have completed grades 6, 7, or 8 June 11-16, July 9-14, 30-August 4 High School Hangout Must have completed grades 9 through 12 June 11-16, July 30-August 4 Einstein (Short Week) Entering grade 2 through 5 June 18-21 Einstein (Long Week) For grades 6 through 12 or older June 18-23

APRIL 2017

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Happy

Birthday Lisa!

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5th Sunday

Lent

9:30 Lent

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Birthday

Offering

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4:00 PWECT

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6:00 Deacons

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12:00 Lenten

Lunch

5:45 Session

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Birthday Chris!

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Palm Sunday

9:30 Lent

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Circles

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3:00 T.T. Egg

Hunt

5:30 Step. Min.

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12:00 Lenten

Lunch

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Rt. 456

7:00 p.m.

Maundy

Thursday with

Communion

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Good Friday

12:00 Noon

Tenebrae

Office Closed

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16 EASTER

7:00 Sunrise

11:00 Trad.

Service with

Communion

One Great Hr.

Sharing

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12:00 W.W.

1:00 Knitting

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Permit # 88

April Birthdays

1 Lisa Wilder, Greg Thompson, Tony Brittin

2 Martha Fletcher, Sierra Boyd

3 Sharon Lasseter, Marc Ventry, Martha Howe

4 Butch Lasseter, Chris Rivera, , Joe May

5 Rachel Bowden, Dawn Edwards

6 Chris Erde

7 Zoe Bergman

8 Finley Cook, Beth R. May

9 Grace Rhodes

10 Carolyn Higdon, Mark Thompson

11 Brooke Thomas

12 John W. Suber, Joseph Hackney, Jamie Maloy

14 Jennifer Bryan, Hilary Erde

16 Marcelle Rhodes

17 Elizabeth Wilkerson

18 Mary Jane Woodward

20 Elizabeth Sheward, Katherine Solz, Hunter Ventry

21 Edward Woodward, Will Stegall, Hugh & Chase Thomas

22 Zack Ray, Susan Branson

23 Hayes Woodward

24 Tom Bauldree, Kelly Ann Boyd, Rick Keyser

25 John Dooner, Vicki Bell, Slater Stephens, Sonja Suber

26 Mary Katherine Robinson, Atticus Stephens, Almeta Leverette, Kolton Lawson

27 Jared & Eliza Bell, Sharon Summerford

29 Jesse May

30 Anna Fletcher Provencher

Phone: 850-627-6576**Fax: 850-627-3328

E-mail: fpcofquincy@yahoo.com

We’re on the web: www.firstpresquincy.org

F IRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 306 N. M ADISON STREET QUINCY , FLORIDA 32351

Return Service Requested

Stephen Ministers

If you need help with a project at home, yard work, a ride to the

grocery store or a doctor’s

appointment, etc., please call the

FPCQ church office.

Helping Hands 627-6576

We are ready to help!

Assisted Living/Nursing Home

Sandy Darnell (Magnolia House)

Jenna Palmer (Miller Nursing Home)

Audrey Milner (Riverchase)

Nora Larsen (Riverchase)

Polly Phillips (Riverchase)

Judi Moltedo (Seven Hills)

At Home Barbara Bietenholz

Ione Williamson