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...
by fpcw2023 | Nov 9, 2023 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. As some of you know, I regularly read articles from “The Institute for Family Studies.” This is a conservative journal that presents academic research on what makes for strong families. Sometimes their findings become part of the...
by fpcw2023 | Nov 2, 2023 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone. This week we not only participated in Halloween but we also celebrated All-Saints Day. The original title of All-Saints Day was “All Hallows Day” with ‘hallow’ meaning holy or saint. The real reason October 31 is “Hallow-e’en” is...
by fpcw2023 | Oct 26, 2023 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone This Sunday we will be holding a Kirkin’ of the Tartans celebration just before the beginning of worship (9:45). In a lengthy article I wrote a few years back, I explain the history of this celebration as well as presented some challenges for us to...
by fpcw2023 | Oct 19, 2023 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone… What is the purpose of prayer? We have begun a 7-week series on prayer. As we began this series last week, we talked about two methods of praying that people have found helpful as tools to structure their time of prayer. The...
by fpcw2023 | Oct 12, 2023 | Mid-Week Messenger
Greetings Everyone Greetings Everyone… …and thank you for your prayers during the time Terri and I were adventuring. We have returned safely with many wonderful experiences and some stories to tell. That having been said, so much has happened in our world since we...
