by fpcw2023 | Feb 8, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. As a congregation, we are deeply blessed. We are what many would call an “intergenerational” church. We have young children (we will have the privilege of baptizing our youngest, Neveah Nassert, on February 18), we have...
by fpcw2023 | Feb 1, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. Acts 15 presents a very interesting picture of the earliest Christians. The early church had started in Jerusalem. Because of the death of Stephen (Acts 8), the beheading of James and the imprisonment of Peter (Acts 12) the...
by fpcw2023 | Jan 25, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. I am writing to give you good news of my update. I am writing this note from my office at church! I am not in everyday but in the process of slowing working myself back into a full-time presence! I will be here on Sunday and plan...
by fpcw2023 | Jan 18, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. By now you have probably heard that I am out of the church loop for a couple of weeks. I had surgery on January 15 to correct a hernia at the lower end of my esophagus. This is my 2nd hiatal hernia surgery at that location and so...
by fpcw2023 | Jan 11, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone… The Old Testament lesson for this coming Sunday is a wonderful lesson found in 1 Samuel 3. It is the story of young Samuel being awakened as he slept in the Temple. It seems God was working to get young Samuel’s attention....
by fpcw2023 | Jan 4, 2024 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone… …and Happy New Year. I don’t often simply copy someone else’s statement to send to you. However, this past week I read this post that I thought was a great statement on Church. I have known people in each of these opening...
by fpcw2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Happy New Year! We hope this message finds you filled with the joy and warmth of the holiday season. As we step into 2023, we are thrilled to share the incredible start our Youth Group had in December. The inaugural meetings in December were nothing...
by fpcw2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings everyone. ANNOUNCEMENTS!! I have a love…hate relationship with announcements, especially when they come on Sunday morning. We come to church to worship the Lord, to refocus our easily distracted lives on Him. Yet, we must let people know...
by fpcw2023 | Dec 14, 2023 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. Every Sunday during Advent we begin our time of worship by lighting a candle on the Advent Wreath. The five candles remind us of the five themes of the Advent Season: Hope, Peace, Joy, Love and Jesus. This coming week, the 3rd...
by fpcw2023 | Dec 7, 2023 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. His name was Homer Smith. Homer was a public school teacher at the fourth grade level. Before teaching 4th grade, he had served as a high school music teacher and was the first music teacher to organize a guitar choir. The...
by fpcw2023 | Nov 30, 2023 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. This Sunday begins the New Year in the life of the church, it is the first Sunday of Advent. Let’s talk about two things in this article. First let’s talk about the church year and second the Season of Advent. The Church Year is...
by fpcw2023 | Nov 15, 2023 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. November always seems to be filled with lots of events to remember and in which to participate. It is one busy month. November 11 of course was Armistice Day…Veteran’s Day. We celebrate the end of World War I and the many men and...
