Newsletter JULYAUG V10

7/27/2019 Newsletter JULYAUG V10

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THE FIRST WORD UPDATE FROM RANDY

I love the United States of America! I am humbledby the stories of those who have sacrificed for theAmerican ideals. I am thankful for what I enjoy asa result of the efforts of those who have gone be-

fore me. The Fourth of July is more than a day off from work and getting to see fireworks; it is a cel-ebration of the rights we so often take for granted.I am grateful for the meaning behind the holiday. Itmakes me proud to be an American.

That takes me to this: While I love this nation and allthat I have as an American, I am careful not to con-fuse my patriotism and my faith. My allegiance tomy country and my allegiance to my God are sepa-rate distinct entities. I have carefully chosen not tobring country into the pulpit; that is reserved forGod.

And yet, we’ve come to a time when our nation haspulled away from the moral moorings on which thisnation was founded and made this nation great.What happens when a nation has given up its moralanchors? It begins to drift. I think it is poor languageto ever suggest that the United States is/was a Chris-tian nation. Nations don’t have faith, people do. But,it is fair to say that this nation was founded uponprinciples and precepts that came directly from a

Christian worldview, whether or not those that put

those principles in place were believers. As long asthe nation held to those foundational principles,she prospered.

I will be sharing a series of messages on the theme,“A Nation Adrift.” The question is not, “Can we identi-fy the problem?”; I will identify it in the first message,expanding on what I’ve shared above. The questionis “What is a Christian’s response? How does a Chris-tian live in a nation that is morally drifting?” Pleasepray as I prepare; this is going to be a tough seriesto produce.

Here’s one of those FYI pieces: This fall I will beteaching a class in Santiago, Dominican Republic,for the seminary there. The class is “Biblical Elder-ship.” I will share the class with two other pastors,teaching both in person and then by Skype. I amexcited about the opportunity! Then in the winterI will be teaching a class on “Christian Leadership.” Iam confident prepping for those classes will makeus better here.

INSIDE

RANDY KIRK FIRST CAPITAL SENIOR MINISTER

2 | TH E UP DATE FR OM RAN DY

3 | CONNECTIONS MINISTRY

4 | CHILDREN’S MINISTRY

5 | STUDENT MINISTRY

6 | WORSHIP MINISTRY

6-7 | MISSIONS & OUTREACH

DECISIONS

TECH TEAM

For information on getting involved with the team,

contact Clay Whittaker at (812) 968-4091

BAPTISM JOINED

Cory Smith 5/25

Georgie Wimp 6/8

Greg Nixe 6/15

Rick Gunter 5/4

Krissy Gunter 5/4

Cory Smith 5/25

Donald Mikel 6/1

Shannon Mikel 6/1



MINISTRIESCONNECTIONS MINISTRY

REFLECTIONS ON A MONTH OF A LIFETIME

May, 2014: as long as I live, I don’t think I will ever

experience another landmark month like this one.From Derby Day to Memorial Day (and beyond) –

May was 31 days of once-in-a-lifetime events for me

and my family; in one wave after another!

We started the month off by celebrating with our

oldest son, Evan, as he graduated from college.

Three weeks later, we celebrated an addition to our

family – a daughter–in–law – as Evan and his new

wife, Mollie, were married on May 24! While they

honeymooned, my wife, Amy, and I celebrated 25

years of being together as husband and wife! And,at the end of the month (OK, it actually bled over

into the first weekend of June) was time to celebrate

with our daughter, Marissa, as she walked across the

stage to receive her high school diploma.

It was a month of smiles, hugs, congratulations, and

saying the phrase “I’m so proud of you!” time and

time again. But, truth be told, it was also a month

of reminiscing through old photo albums, choking

back tears, and coming to grips with the fact that

weddings, anniversaries, and graduation ceremo-nies are painful reminders that a season of our lives

has faded like a summer sunset.

I can’t count the number of times I looked longingly

at my kids’ school photos, shook my head, and just

wondered where all the time had gone.

I’m so thankful to be on a church staff, and to have

a church family, that was so eager to celebrate

these great times along with Amy, our kids, and

me. Thanks so much for your well-wishes – and, on

many occasions, your understanding, when events

kept me from being at church, or responding to

messages right away. Thank you for encouraging

me to enjoy every moment of these special occa-

sions to be a father to my children and a husband

to my wife.

Ephesians, Chapter 5 tells us to live your lives, not

as unwise, but as wise; making the most of every

opportunity…Yes, being at graduations, weddings

and anniversaries is very important. But, so is ap-

pearing as a dad at Little League games, dance

recitals, and, especially, at church each weekend.

Wisdom tells me that celebrations at the end of a

season of life are much more fulfilling when that

season is rich in many memories of being together!

UPCOMING EVENTS

VINCE GARMONCONNECTIONS MINISTER

JULY4 – Offices Closed

9 – Fun in the Son

15 – Mission Committee Meeting


20 – Blessing Basket Meeting

20 – Encounter


25 – Outdoor Expo

28 – Blood Drive

28, 30 – Fiddle Class

AUGUST

1, 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, 15 – Fiddle Class

17 – Blessing Basket Meeting

17 – Pasta with the Pastors

17 – Encounter

19 – Mission Committee Meeting

UPCOMING



CHILDREN’S MINISTRY

It is too much. There are so many things going onhere at FCCC, I can hardly keep my head wrappedaround them. Where to begin, where to begin. Firstoff, let’s talk about camp. Camp is coming up fast. Itis July 13-17. If you have not signed up, you really

need to get on it. This year we are going to Camp Il-liana and it is going to be AMAZING. The theme forthis year’s camp is “Going Lunar.” It should be awe-some. I am looking forward to seeing all of our 3rd-6th grade students there.

Also in the month of July, we will be having Fun inthe Son. This year’s theme is EXTREME THIRST. Thereare times in our lives when water just will not do,but if we go to the well that never runs dry, we willnever thirst again. We will be at the Corydon Poolfor three exciting days for fun, food and family wor-

ship. July 9th, 16th and 23rd are the dates. This isfrom 7-9 pm, we will be sharing God’s Word, sing-ing together, having wet fun and making crafts. Itmakes for a full day in only two hours.

Man, that was something. I got tired just writing thatout. Not really, it sounds like a blast. On top of theseactivities, we will be having another amazing piratemonth with our Sprouts. Our preschoolers will learnthey can talk to God any time, that God wants themto share their stuff, and that Jesus wants to be theirfriend forever. The final week of our adventure is re-

view week, where they can fill out their own piratemap with all the symbols they’ve discovered alongthe way. In August, we will be talking to Sproutsabout how God made them. He made each eyelashand each freckle. Then they’ll hear how much Godloves them and that He has a plan for each and ev-ery one of them, just as He had a plan for Abraham.In fact, God loves them so much He will always seekthem out just as the shepherd looks to find the lostsheep. Finally, they’ll hear the story of Zacchaeusand how Jesus loved him no matter what.

In Upstreet for the next couple of months, ourtheme verse for July is Proverbs 17:17, NIrV. “Afriend loves at all times. He is there to help whentrouble comes.” This verse is a great reminder thatfriends aren’t just there for each other when every-thing is going well. They also are there to help whenlife is hard. As the church started, no longer werethere just a handful of disciples. These were grow-

ing congregations filled with people from all walksof life. And I think you see where I’m going withthis: they were pretty much like that middle schoolband. They didn’t always get along. Sure, every sooften, they got it right and there were glimpses of

greatness. But they disagreed and argued. They hada hard time forgiving and accepting each other. Attimes, they even found it difficult to keep worship-ing together.

During August, we’re talking about respect—show-ing others they are important by what you say anddo. Honestly, it’s easy to respect a flawed paintingwhen you value the person who made it. But whenit comes to respecting people, it gets a bit messier.Our memory verse comes from 1 Peter 2:17. It justsays, “Show proper respect to everyone.” (NIrV)

Pretty simple. No, not really, sometimes this is reallyhard to do, but if we listen to God’s Word and do Hiscommands, it gets easier.

Finally, where are our needs? We need help with Funin the Son. Please contact me if you are willing tohelp out with this great event. We are also lookingfor people to join our Upstreet staff when we beginagain in September. We need tons of help. It is greatto be able to see the light go off when a studentknows that they need Jesus for the first time.

In preschool, we need small group helpers for sec-ond service. Please be in prayer about this. God iscalling us to take care of the children He has placedin our paths. Listen to that calling and explore whatHe has to offer.

Thanks for everything,Jesse

JESSE BARNETTCHILDREN’S MINISTER



STUDENT MINISTRY

6TH-8TH Grade Summit

Sundays at 10:45am

In the Student Center

SCHOOL IS OUT AND SUMMER HAS BEGUN!

Vacation season is upon us, but here in theQuest student ministry it is no vacation. We will

have adventure, fun, fellowship, and memories.And that’s only half of the summer. During themonth of June we took a great group to a Lou-isville Bats game (and they won), we also wenton a white water rafting trip to Tennessee nearGatlinburg. Then at the halfway point of thesummer, we finished June with our greatestevent of all we took nearly 50 people to Hol-land, Michigan for CIY MOVE. MOVE is a 5-dayhigh-school-only event held all over the coun-try, designed to amplify the call of Christ on stu-dents’ lives to become Kingdom workers.

Now we head into July with more fun and ex-citement planned. We will be heading to Holi-day World and hosting a mud bowl (pit) and awater war. We also have our conQUEST lockoutahead of us. This is to replace the old standard“lock-in” where we meet all night at the churchfor fun and games. We still have fun and gamesand it’s still all night (7p-7a) but no longer justinside the church. We now take advantage ofthe local Corydon businesses. We rent out theYMCA, Colonial Lanes, Corydon Cinemas, and

Golf Shores with the promise of lots of fun.

This summer we are also experiencing sometransitions. We have a great group of 5th grad-ers moving up to 6th grade and joining theQuest group. I look forward to the years aheadwith each and every one of them. Starting inAugust, we will re-introduce a Sr. High service

MICHAEL CRIDERSTUDENT MINISTER

MINISTRY INFO

6th-12TH Grade Quest

Wednesdays at 6:30pm

In the Student Center

Check us out on Facebook

facebook.com/questfcsm

to complement our Jr. High service on Sundaymornings. We also have some exciting newadult leaders coming in to serve our students.

Be sure to stop in the Student Center and/or Of-fice to see what is going on with our students.

Michael CriderStudent Minister



WORSHIP MINISTRY

FALL DOWN ON THE SQUARE SET

FOR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

It started years ago as a Halloween alternative party.But, First Capital’s Fall Down on the Square has be-come an autumn festival event that, virtually, our en-tire community has come to look forward to and enjoy!

For the first time this year, Fall Down on the Square willbe a September, not an October event. We have theCapitol Square reserved for SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20.

There are two major reasons why having the festival earlier

makes sense:

1. WEATHER: Although rain can come at any time – we have

less chance of wet (or cold) weather at the latter part of

September than in the middle to end of October.

2. FALL BREAK : With the two-week fall break coming in Octo-

ber, we learned last year that families vacation ends. Mov-

ing Fall Down on the Square to September will not onlyfacilitate more of our own people being available to vol-

unteer – it will also bring more community families down

to the square to enjoy what we have to offer.

With the festival coming weeks earlier than in yearspast, PLEASE NOTE that we will start candy collec-tion and volunteer sign-ups in mid-August! Watch for

more information at church!

All is well on the worship home front. I am finally backto full health and ready to kick this summer off! We arediligently working on the upcoming worship albumand cannot wait for you all to hear it. We are also in

need of some guitar players and bassists for the up-coming months. If you would like to join the team,please feel free to set up an audition time. This goesfor all instruments as well.

Each week during the 9 am service, my worship teammeets for a devotional time. I’d like to share one ofthese with you that has recently been on my heart.

TAMING THE TONGUE

Many potentially dangerous animals roam the wilder-

ness: rattlesnakes, grizzly bears, tigers, hippos, andLydia Wehrli’s favorite, the mink. However, did youknow that the hardest animal to tame is your owntongue? In James, we find that “people can tame allkinds of animals and birds and reptiles and fish, but noone can tame the tongue. It is an uncontrollable evil,full of deadly poison.” The tongue’s deadly poison canshatter self-esteem, crush a joyful spirit, trigger an-ger, and divide friends. The tongue is a contradictionas well. The same person who sang “Praise God From

Whom All Blessings Flow ” in worship can lash out on aloved one 30 minutes later during the car ride home.

So what can we do? It is simple. The tongue reacts todeeper emotions that the mind is experiencing. There-fore, we need to not only tame the tongue but also thethoughts that motivate it. Which leads to this: “Seekfirst the kingdom of God...” When you seek the king-dom of God before all things, then His righteousnesswill be given to you. When we seek God before all else,we will not only become more like Him, but we will beless likely to sin. Imagine, if instead of coming to a wor-

ship service at church, we thought of it as coming tochurch to continue the worship service that we havealready been having throughout the week.

This is the kind of attention that God wants and de-serves. We cannot tame our tongue alone, but whenwe seek the Kingdom of God first, the poisonouswords that our tongue speaks and all other sins will betaken care of by Him.

Just a thought =)

MISSIONS & OUTREACHCOMMUNITY & ABROAD

TYLER SANSOMWORSHIP MINISTER

SING A SONG FOR CHRIST



CHRISTMAS IN JULY – SHOEBOXES

FOR OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD

Last year’s “Christmas in July” campaign, to collect

shoebox items for Operation Christmas Child was a

great success! We have, once again, designated July as

OCC collections month. Jessi Nance will be coordinat-

ing this effort. Look for a Christmas tree in our churchlobby each weekend in July. You may take an ornament

off the tree and purchase school supply items, personal

hygiene items, candy, or toys to bring back to church by

the end of the month.

Operation Christmas Child is an evangelism ministry

of Samaritan’s Purse International. Samaritan’s Purse

collects stuffed shoeboxes from churches, schools,

families, and individuals from all over the country to

deliver as gifts to children in other countries. The min-

istry is able to share the Gospel message with children

through the message of Christmas and provide eachchild with a shoebox as a Christmas gift.

PACKING PARTY – Following collection of our shoebox

items, we will be having a “Packing Party” to stuff shoe-

boxes on SUNDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3 in our Student

Center. This will be a fun evening of Christmas music,

Christmas cookies, and preparing gifts to go all over

the world!

PLANS ARE IN THE WORKS FOR THE

MISSIONARIES WE SUPPORT...

...in North Africa to visit us in the near future, hopefully

as soon as July or August. Details are still being worked

out. Please watch the bulletin for details when they be-

come available.

Dates have been selected for two 2015 Dominican Re-

public trips. The first will be February 23 to March 3,

2015, led by Scott Noland. The second will be October

6-13, 2015, led by Brianna Pinnick. Mark your calen

dars and watch for further details regarding planning

meetings.

If you have not seen the changes in the “Missions Caféplease be sure to stop by and take a look. There are

more changes to come in the future, including a sign

board for members who have been on a mission trip to

sign. We are very excited about this addition, so watch

for it. Another item in the café is a bulletin board tha

contains communications from the missionaries we

support If you have not seen the shoe depository in

the Missions Café, I would like to draw your attention

to it. You may drop your used shoes in this box and they

will be repaired and sent to third world countries.

We are also working on developing a missions pageto be added to the FCCC website, which will include

things like links to organizations we work with, picture

from previous mission trips, and notices of upcoming

missions events and trips.

****

Members of the Mission Committee are: Scott Noland

Sara West, Allen Pursell, Maryse Burns, Brenda Billner

and Connie Arnold. If you would like more information

about missions, feel free to talk to any of the committee

members, attend a meeting OR you may contact the

missions chair Scott Noland at 812-267-2663. Our nexmeeting is July 15 at 6:30 p.m.

MISSIONS COMMITTEE FORMING

ANNOUNCEMENT

Tony and Connie Arnold have agreed to chair a “Local

Missions committee. The task for this committee will be

to identify needs in our local community and identify

ways that First Capital can offer assistance in order to

meet those needs. You may contact Tony at 267-8760

or Connie at 267-7488 with any comments or concerns

PLEASE COME JOIN OUR NEW

VISITOR TEAM!

We deliver welcome bags to new visitors! This team

makes a treat, inserts church flyer into a bag with a note

thanking them for visiting with us. It is a great way to

meet and bless new visitors. Please contact Tracy Black

burn at 812-987-3790 for more information.

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