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First Presbyterian Church Marietta 1 8 9 C h u r c h S t r e e t , M a r i e t t a , G A 3 0 0 6 0 - 1 6 2 9
FPC News (USPS 442-780) bi-monthly publication by FPC Marietta
FPCMarietta. Periodicals Postage Paid @ Marietta, GA.
POSTMASTER: Please Send Address Changes to:FPC News, First Presbyterian Church
189 Church Street, Marietta, GA 30060-1629Visit us at www.fpcmarietta.org
Office hours: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.Phone (770) 427-0293 Fax (770) 427-0295Editor: Kelly DewarEmail: [email protected]
Scan here to subscribe to any FPC email communications.
Worship ScheduleJANUARY 28TH
Christ in the ShadowsRev. Lisa Majoros8:30 a.m. Traditional, Sanctuary11:15 a.m. Traditional, Great Hall
FEBRUARY 4TH
Rev. Joe Brice8:30 a.m. Traditional, Sanctuary
Youth Sunday Service | 11:15 a.m.
FPC NewsJanuary 28-February 10, 2018
a publication of First Presbyterian Church
Lent February 14: Ash Wednesday - 6:45 pm | SanctuaryFebruary 28: Meditation - 6:00 pm | Library (ending by 6:15 pm for the Annual Congregational Meeting)March 7: Lectio Divina - 6:30 pm | LibraryMarch 14: Labyrinth - 6:30 pm | Glover RoomMarch 21: Taize Service - 6:30 pm | SanctuaryMarch 25: Palm Sunday March 26-30: Holy Week Devotionals - 11:50-12:45 p.m. | Sanctuary (A Soup and Sandwich lunch will follow the devotionals.)March 28: Painting the Psalms - 6:30 pm | Holland Hall
Easter Sunday7:00 a.m. Sunrise Service at Kennesaw Mountain 8:30 a.m. Worship in the Sanctuary11:15 a.m. Worship in the Great Hall
What Is Lent?
Communion Update
February 4th
8:30 service only
This first day of Lent reminds us that unless we are willing to die to our old selves, we cannot be raised to new life with Christ. The first step of this journey calls us to acknowledge and confront our mortality, individually and corporately… During the imposition of ashes the words: “You are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3: 19) are repeated again and again. We are to remember that we are but temporary creatures, always on the edge of death.
TOWNHALL MEETINGThe Long-Range Planning Committee is asking church members for their feedback concerning the future of our church. There will be several scheduled opportunities for members to participate:
1ST TOWN HALL MEETING: Wed. Jan 31 | 6:15 pm | Sanctuary 2ND TOWN HALL MEETING: Sun. Feb 11 | 9:45 am | Sanctuary
YOUTH MEETING: Sun. Feb. 18 | 7:15 pm
If you are unable to attend one of this meetings you can fill out a survey online or on paper. The paper copies will be available at the welcome desk outside the Great Hall. We are hopeful that the entire membership can participate.
Just as the school calendar moves from the first day to Christmas break, then the last school day before summer vacation, so our church calendar moves from Advent, where we prepare to celebrate the Savior’s birth, then to Easter, where we celebrate his resurrection. But before Easter, comes Lent.
Lent begins on February 14th at 6:45 p.m. at our Ash Wednesday service. This is a worship service of deep symbolism where the forehead of everyone in attendance will be marked with ashes. The Companion to our Book of Common Worship describes the imposition of ashes this way:
As you know, on Easter we celebrate Christ’s victory over the grave. However, Lent offers us the great opportunity to recognize the gift of Christ’s saving death in light of our frail mortality, and to turn to him fully. Therefore, I call on you to observe a Holy Lent, marked by repentance, meditation, prayer, and penitence. During this season, your church will be equipping you in your efforts with special Lenten devotionals, Wednesday evening prayer and worship services, and during Holy Week (the week leading to Easter Sunday, March 26-30), there will be a worship service (11:50 am -12:45 pm) in the Sanctuary each day, led by one of the pastors of a downtown church. As our neighboring pastors have been invited to lead, so all our neighbors are invited to join us for a brief, 20 minute worship service followed by a soup and sandwich lunch. Please come and invite your friends.
Rev. Joe Evans
Congregational CareWe are thankful for our Stephen Ministers who visit our members in hospitals and rehab facilities. Please keep in your prayers these members who are hospitalized, recently hospitalized, under hospice care, or in the process of ongoing illness and/or recovery: Margaret Adam, Virginia Ashmore, Margaret Bailey, Denise Beltzner, Frances Bogle, Dianne Brissey, Florrie Corley, Peggy Chesney, Turner Cockrell, Eddie & Mike Crolley, Joanne Davis, Elizabeth Dennis, Clem Doxey, Jeri Field, Harry Flair, Nell Hall, Helen Jones, Anna Kells, Julia Kohler, Betty Kuhnen, Shana Lyman, Betty Lyons, Don Mills, Wanda Reese, Buni Ricketts, Steve Sasala, Bob & Vivian Stephens, George & Joan Suhr, Jackie Vaughan, Bill Vaughn, Gil and Joan Ward, Alan Watkins, Joyce Whittle, Rose Wing, and Leona Wolleson.
Our condolences to:For Ron and Linda Bruce as they grieve the death of Ken Perry, Ron’s brother-in-law.
Next BuddyBreak: FeBruary 10th
Make a Reservation: (770) 427-0293, ext 240
Next FPC Build Date: March 24
Exterior FramingDonate a 2x4 for $10/board - a table is set up in
the Gathering Space! Please make checks to First Presbyterian Church and designate Habitat 2018.
January 31st Programs: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Town Hall Meeting (6:15 pm) - Sanctuary Being a Member of FPC - Room 049 Moms’ Book Study led by Ginny Brogan - Room 053
Dinner: 5:00 - 6:15 p.m. Roast pork, oven-roasted vegetables, warm sliced apples, applesauce, peach cobbler
2018 ANNUAL
6:15 PM | GREAT HALLWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
FEB. 411:15 am
GrEat Hall
At the end of the service, youth will take up an offering for SouperBowl Sunday to help feed the hungry.
COLLIDEFebruary 2-4 | $75
6th - 12th grades
Register now! 410youth.org
RSVP AT WWW.TRINITYATLANTA.ORG/
Vacation Bible SchoolJune 25th-29th
SAVE THE DATES!
Kids’ Summer Mission CampJuly 16th-19th
Wine TastingSunday, Feb. 4th | 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
1100 Polo Club Dr. | Marietta 30064Bring an appetizer & a wine to share.
Email Chick Freund: [email protected]
UPDATE: The food we packed during our Rise Against Hunger (RAH) food packing event on November 15th has been shipped to Belize! RAH partners with Kidz Konnect 4 Jesus, an organization that nourishes lives through food assistance and other services in Belize.
Congregational CareWe are thankful for our Stephen Ministers who visit our members in hospitals and rehab facilities. Please keep in your prayers these members who are hospitalized, recently hospitalized, under hospice care, or in the process of ongoing illness and/or recovery: Margaret Adam, Virginia Ashmore, Margaret Bailey, Denise Beltzner, Frances Bogle, Dianne Brissey, Florrie Corley, Peggy Chesney, Turner Cockrell, Eddie & Mike Crolley, Joanne Davis, Elizabeth Dennis, Clem Doxey, Jeri Field, Harry Flair, Nell Hall, Helen Jones, Anna Kells, Julia Kohler, Betty Kuhnen, Shana Lyman, Betty Lyons, Don Mills, Wanda Reese, Buni Ricketts, Steve Sasala, Bob & Vivian Stephens, George & Joan Suhr, Jackie Vaughan, Bill Vaughn, Gil and Joan Ward, Alan Watkins, Joyce Whittle, Rose Wing, and Leona Wolleson.
Our condolences to:For Ron and Linda Bruce as they grieve the death of Ken Perry, Ron’s brother-in-law.
Next BuddyBreak: FeBruary 10th
Make a Reservation: (770) 427-0293, ext 240
Next FPC Build Date: March 24
Exterior FramingDonate a 2x4 for $10/board - a table is set up in
the Gathering Space! Please make checks to First Presbyterian Church and designate Habitat 2018.
January 31st Programs: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Town Hall Meeting (6:15 pm) - Sanctuary Being a Member of FPC - Room 049 Moms’ Book Study led by Ginny Brogan - Room 053
Dinner: 5:00 - 6:15 p.m. Roast pork, oven-roasted vegetables, warm sliced apples, applesauce, peach cobbler
2018 ANNUAL
6:15 PM | GREAT HALLWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
FEB. 411:15 am
GrEat Hall
At the end of the service, youth will take up an offering for SouperBowl Sunday to help feed the hungry.
COLLIDEFebruary 2-4 | $75
6th - 12th grades
Register now! 410youth.org
RSVP AT WWW.TRINITYATLANTA.ORG/
Vacation Bible SchoolJune 25th-29th
SAVE THE DATES!
Kids’ Summer Mission CampJuly 16th-19th
Wine TastingSunday, Feb. 4th | 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
1100 Polo Club Dr. | Marietta 30064Bring an appetizer & a wine to share.
Email Chick Freund: [email protected]
UPDATE: The food we packed during our Rise Against Hunger (RAH) food packing event on November 15th has been shipped to Belize! RAH partners with Kidz Konnect 4 Jesus, an organization that nourishes lives through food assistance and other services in Belize.
First Presbyterian Church Marietta 1 8 9 C h u r c h S t r e e t , M a r i e t t a , G A 3 0 0 6 0 - 1 6 2 9
FPC News (USPS 442-780) bi-monthly publication by FPC Marietta
FPCMarietta. Periodicals Postage Paid @ Marietta, GA.
POSTMASTER: Please Send Address Changes to:FPC News, First Presbyterian Church
189 Church Street, Marietta, GA 30060-1629Visit us at www.fpcmarietta.org
Office hours: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.Phone (770) 427-0293 Fax (770) 427-0295Editor: Kelly DewarEmail: [email protected]
Scan here to subscribe to any FPC email communications.
Worship ScheduleJANUARY 28TH
Christ in the ShadowsRev. Lisa Majoros8:30 a.m. Traditional, Sanctuary11:15 a.m. Traditional, Great Hall
FEBRUARY 4TH
Rev. Joe Brice8:30 a.m. Traditional, Sanctuary
Youth Sunday Service | 11:15 a.m.
FPC NewsJanuary 28-February 10, 2018
a publication of First Presbyterian Church
Lent February 14: Ash Wednesday - 6:45 pm | SanctuaryFebruary 28: Meditation - 6:00 pm | Library (ending by 6:15 pm for the Annual Congregational Meeting)March 7: Lectio Divina - 6:30 pm | LibraryMarch 14: Labyrinth - 6:30 pm | Glover RoomMarch 21: Taize Service - 6:30 pm | SanctuaryMarch 25: Palm Sunday March 26-30: Holy Week Devotionals - 11:50-12:45 p.m. | Sanctuary (A Soup and Sandwich lunch will follow the devotionals.)March 28: Painting the Psalms - 6:30 pm | Holland Hall
Easter Sunday7:00 a.m. Sunrise Service at Kennesaw Mountain 8:30 a.m. Worship in the Sanctuary11:15 a.m. Worship in the Great Hall
What Is Lent?
Communion Update
February 4th
8:30 service only
This first day of Lent reminds us that unless we are willing to die to our old selves, we cannot be raised to new life with Christ. The first step of this journey calls us to acknowledge and confront our mortality, individually and corporately… During the imposition of ashes the words: “You are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3: 19) are repeated again and again. We are to remember that we are but temporary creatures, always on the edge of death.
TOWNHALL MEETINGThe Long-Range Planning Committee is asking church members for their feedback concerning the future of our church. There will be several scheduled opportunities for members to participate:
1ST TOWN HALL MEETING: Wed. Jan 31 | 6:15 pm | Sanctuary 2ND TOWN HALL MEETING: Sun. Feb 11 | 9:45 am | Sanctuary
YOUTH MEETING: Sun. Feb. 18 | 7:15 pm
If you are unable to attend one of this meetings you can fill out a survey online or on paper. The paper copies will be available at the welcome desk outside the Great Hall. We are hopeful that the entire membership can participate.
Just as the school calendar moves from the first day to Christmas break, then the last school day before summer vacation, so our church calendar moves from Advent, where we prepare to celebrate the Savior’s birth, then to Easter, where we celebrate his resurrection. But before Easter, comes Lent.
Lent begins on February 14th at 6:45 p.m. at our Ash Wednesday service. This is a worship service of deep symbolism where the forehead of everyone in attendance will be marked with ashes. The Companion to our Book of Common Worship describes the imposition of ashes this way:
As you know, on Easter we celebrate Christ’s victory over the grave. However, Lent offers us the great opportunity to recognize the gift of Christ’s saving death in light of our frail mortality, and to turn to him fully. Therefore, I call on you to observe a Holy Lent, marked by repentance, meditation, prayer, and penitence. During this season, your church will be equipping you in your efforts with special Lenten devotionals, Wednesday evening prayer and worship services, and during Holy Week (the week leading to Easter Sunday, March 26-30), there will be a worship service (11:50 am -12:45 pm) in the Sanctuary each day, led by one of the pastors of a downtown church. As our neighboring pastors have been invited to lead, so all our neighbors are invited to join us for a brief, 20 minute worship service followed by a soup and sandwich lunch. Please come and invite your friends.
Rev. Joe Evans