News
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Divorce Care Coming to First EPC
Divorce Care is a 13
week course for adults and their children who are dealing with the
hardships of divorce. It will be open to anyone in the community and
starts September 5th. For more information contact Kent Young or go
to the Divorce Care
website.
Our Vacation Bible School needs your help with supplies. Please look around your house to see if you have any of these items loan.
Captain’s Ship Wheel
Lanterns
Barrels
Cargo boxes
Inflatable Dolphins
Rope
Oars
Big Shells
Netting (fishing/volleyball)
Little Shells
Appliance boxes
Bungee cords
Fog machine
Blue sheets
Sailor hats
Straw hats
Hula hoops
Paper towel rolls
And,
we also need a well stocked galley to serve snacks to our
expeditioners each day.
You will find posters at the back of the
sanctuary and in the coffee room that have items pinned on them.
Please take an item or two home as your reminder of what you are
volunteering to bring. When you return with your snack items, please
mark them clearly as donations for VBS and place them in the boxes
marked VBS that are just outside the fellowship hall. If the items
need to be refrigerated, please place them in the downstairs kitchen
refrigerator. Thank you for your faithfulness in helping us have a
successful bible school again this year. If you have any questions
about snack donations, contact Shirley Harris.
We often have the opportunity to minister to folks in our church body by providing
occasional meals to those who need them for sickness or other reasons. We need someone to take this ministry.It involves calling those who have already signed up to provide meals and coordinating the meal with the person needing the meal.
If this is an area you feel you are led to serve, please contact Marilyn Carstens.
ONLY 5 ½ WEEKS!!
Choir Director’s Notes:
It’s never happened before, and it may never happen again. You now have the opportunity to sign up to sing in the choir for a complete term that lasts for only 5 ½ weeks – the shortest term in choir history. Summer choir term begins June 23rd and ends August 1st. Most summers it runs about twice that long.Choir enrollment varies from one term to another. In case you didn’t know, we have 3 choir terms each year: fall, spring, and summer. Enrollment totals for the past 8 terms have been 22, 21, 21, 20, 21, 18, 23, and 25. Committing to a choir term is just that – singing in the choir for one term only. It is not a lifetime commitment, nor will there be any pressure on you to sing in any future choir term. If you choose to do so, that is great. If not, that’s okay.
An attendance rate of 90‐100% is encouraged but is not a necessity. The average choir member attends about 75% of the time. Absences do occur; illness, work, or travel interferes from time to time. The only requirement for choir membership is being willing to serve God and First EPC through this music ministry. This summer would be a great time to give it a try. ‐‐David
Youth Fundraisers
As you will read below summer is just around
the corner and our youth have great plans! We're committed to
ensuring that cost is not a hindrance to participating in youth
activities so we have several fundraisers scheduled in the coming
months to help defray some of the costs.
PGA Tournament - June - date/time TBA
Sweet Corn Picking/Selling - July 5-15 specific date/time TBA
Youth planning on attending summer activities should plan on working
at these fundraisers. Anyone else wishing to help, or donate funds
toward the youth activities contact Jonathan.
Do you know of someone in need of encouragement?
Please contact our Card Ministry deacon Cheryl Parlow
Jr. High Youth - "The EDGE" - June 26 - 30
Once again this year FEPC's Jr. High youth will be attending the EDGE conference again this summer. Letters are being sent to parents soon with details. In the meantime, you can download a printable brochure here.
The deadline to sign-up is Friday, April 23rd!
"Urban Appalachian Project" - July 17 - 23
This year FEPC's High
School youth will be attending traveling to Southern West Virginia
to participate in Urban
Appalachian Project a ministry of the Wade Center, in Bluefield,
WV.
Letters are being sent to parents soon with details. In the
meantime, you can download a printable brochure
here.
DEADLINE FOR SIGNUP IS SUNDAY, MAY 16TH!