by fpcw2023 | Jul 9, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone My family and I have been enjoying watching the World Cup in many respects. The story lines of players, teams, and countries, with the added benefit that all the games are at times which are easy to watch, has kept glued to every match. If we don’t...
by fpcw2023 | Jul 2, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Up to 340 A.D. Christians had experienced relative peace in the Sassanian (Iranian) Empire. There had even been Bishops representing many churches, sent to church counsels to the political rival Roman Empire. Two things changed, the two rival...
by fpcw2023 | Jun 25, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone One of the questions we ask to new members is, “Will you seek the peace and the purity of the church?” That question is loaded with meaning. Christians are to be unified around the gospel of Jesus Christ, seeking His Kingdom first, and treating one...
by fpcw2023 | Jun 18, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Sometimes God decides to change the course of human history in remarkable and immediate ways. Other times he uses a long series of smaller events that culminate in a large change. The former is the testimony of the apostle Paul with his vision of...
by fpcw2023 | Jun 11, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone In the year 300 A.D. there were two Empire’s surrounding the small but autonomous country of Armenia. The Roman Empire to the West and the Sassanian Persians to the East. King Trdat of Armenia walked a careful line of appeasing both super powers. He...
by fpcw2023 | Jun 4, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone In the seventh chapter of the book of Acts we have our first known martyr for the Christian faith. The death of Stephen, a newly emerging leader in the local church, begins a long history of disciples dying for their faith in Jesus as the Son of...
by fpcw2023 | May 28, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Hello everyone! My family and I had a great time in Philadelphia and Washington D.C. Along with my sister and her family, we were able to celebrate my parents 50th wedding anniversary by spending time together and experiencing American history in...
by fpcw2023 | May 21, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Week At A Glance Sunday, May 24th 10:00 a.m. Worship Service Tuesday, May 26th 8:00 a.m. Men’s Bible Study and Breakfast Wednesday, May 27th 3:00 p.m. Basecamp 406 – Youth Group 7:00 p.m. Choir Practice Need more flowers...
by fpcw2023 | May 14, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone The earliest surviving ancient diary written by a women is “The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity.” In this diary we learn of a group of Christian women and men living in the thriving city of Carthage, Tunisia, during the reign of Emperor...
by fpcw2023 | May 7, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone In the mid 250’s Rome faced a formidable opponent on their eastern frontier near the out post city of Dora Europa, modern day Syria. The Sassanian Persians, led by Shapur 1st, were attacking the city with their effective tactic of tunneling through...
by fpcw2023 | Apr 30, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone The story goes like this: the year was 112 and Bithynia et Pontus (modern day turkey) was in financial trouble due to leadership drama and military mishaps. They had once been a model of economic growth and stability, when Augustus was in charge,...
by fpcw2023 | Apr 23, 2026 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone How did we get here? That is a question that demands a context in which to provide a correct answer. If you were reviewing that question on a road trip you might think of the highways or directions you followed to your current place. This might...
