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Email scams are everywhere and despite the best attempts to spam filter these messages, many still make it to our inboxes.

We wanted to make you aware of a recent scam email that everyone at the church office received and we fear many members may have received as well.

The bad actors were able to farm Pastor Katie’s image, email address and logo from our website so in the body of the email it appeared to be a legitimate message when in fact it wasn’t.

To verify whether an email is legitimate always check the sender’s From address in the header of the email. It may say Pastor Katie Estes but the email address after her name should always read kestes@firstpresgreenbay.org. This most recent scam we received had an originating email address of leadpastor19@icloud.com. That’s how you know it’s a scam.

Always check the originating email address before responding to or taking action on the message that you receive.

We may not be able to prevent the scams from happening but by being aware and diligent we’ll prevent bad actors from performing more bad acts where we’re concerned.

Mark your calendars and plan accordingly—the entire church parking lot will be roped off and inaccessible for the days of Thursday June 13th and Friday June 14th while we clean, re-surface and re-stripe it.

This will not affect any Sunday parking, but we want to be sure everyone is aware of the dates so you don’t plan to stop by the church during that time. If you must come to the church on either of those days, please plan to park on the street nearby and walk over the yard to access the building.

This does include the areas of our lot on the alley as well. And in case you were wondering, the new parking spaces will be slightly wider than the previous spacing—hooray!