On this Fourth Sunday of Easter, we are thrilled to baptize Henry David Holl and to recognize Becky Christianson with the Augusta Jeffery award for this year. We also welcome the Rev. Dr. Deb DeMeester to our pulpit, who will focus on John 10: 11-18 https://bit.ly/3Qb6Oe3 with her sermon “Imagining Our Faith”. Deb is the Director of Leadership Development for the Synod of Lakes and Prairies.
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Worship Service April 14, 2024
On this Third Sunday of Easter, we look forward to special music provided by the Griffon String Quartet and our own Kris Melton on piano. Our Easter journey continues in Luke 24: 36-48 https://bit.ly/3vMNgpm, with Pastor Katie’s message “Feeling All the Feels”.
April 9, 2024 – Did you know?
Our Name that Member! feature gave us the opportunity to learn just how well we really know each other. But how well do we know our church?
Here’s this week’s Did you know? Tuesday Trivia!
At a ladies luncheon in 1957 the ladies were asked to wear their finest jewelry.
A) TRUE
B) FALSE
Answer:
B) FALSE: From the April 28, 1957 bulletin: A luncheon will be served to the ladies of the Association by the members of the Amico Circle. At the meeting to follow, Mrs. A.A. Pfingsten will have charge of the program, the topic to be “In Every Church”. It will also be Old Hat Day. All the ladies are asked to wear the oldest and most fantastic hat they can find. Prizes will be given.
Thanks for playing!
We want you to do more than just play Did you know?, we’d also like you to contribute! If you have some church fun facts to share, please send those to Cheri at communications@firstpresgreenbay.org and we’ll have your contribution added to an upcoming Did you know? Tuesday Trivia!
Worship Service April 7, 2024
Please join us for the Second Sunday of Easter 10am worship service when we celebrate communion. Our readings are Acts 10: 34-43 https://bit.ly/3vJI2L2 and John 20: 19-31 https://bit.ly/415gDOg and Pastor Katie will preach on “Locked In or Locked Out”.
Easter Sunday Worship Service March 31, 2024
Join us to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ! Our worship service will feature a brass quartet, our adult choir, and a “flowering of the cross”. Pastor Katie will focus on the story of Easter from Mark 16: 1-8 https://bit.ly/3xgklKP with a first-person narrative called “Fearful Glorious”.
Augusta Jeffrey 2024 Awarded
Awarded April 21, 2024
The Augusta Jeffrey Award was established in 2004 by the family of long-time member Augusta Jeffrey to recognize a member of First Presbyterian for outstanding volunteer efforts and service in our church. Areas of service may include: Mission, Worship, Member Care, Christian Education, Administration, and Evangelism. Nominations are gathered in the month of February every year and the recipient is chosen in March. The recipient receives a gift of $600 from the fund established by the Jeffrey family that is allocated to an area in the church chosen by the awardee.
On Sunday, April 21st during worship, the 2024 Augusta Jeffrey Award will be presented to Becky Christianson. She was nominated by several Session members who noted her exemplary service as Clerk of Session for the last two years. She takes the minutes of each meeting and keeps the meetings on track with her knowledge of the Book of Order and Robert’s Rules of Order. She has also taken on the clean-up and rewriting of many church policies and procedure manuals, in light of recent mandates from the denomination. Becky does it all with attention to detail and dedication, but also a light heart. While much of her volunteer work is behind the scenes and not visible to the whole congregation, we all benefit from her commitment and diligence.
Thank you, Becky!
Griffin String Quartet Plays In Worship
Sunday – April 14, 2024
The Griffon String Quartet, who offer monthly free concerts in our sanctuary for the community and regularly use our space for rehearsal, are scheduled to play for our 10am worship service on Sunday, April 14th.
The Griffon is a full-time professional quartet who work and perform in Door County and Green Bay. They offer programs and lessons in schools throughout our area, and also play regularly for aging and disabilities institutions. Their stated goals are to educate, enrich and excite their audiences with the gift of old and new music. They will be playing multiple pieces throughout the service as well as accompanying some of our congregational hymns. This is their thank-you to us for providing the space for concerts and practices, and they are delighted to be with us for this special worship service.
Don’t miss it!
Who is that face in the pulpit?
Two Sundays this month will bring us a different face and voice in the pulpit!
On Sunday, April 21st we welcome the Synod of Lakes and Prairies’ Director of Leadership Development the Rev. Dr. Deb DeMeester to preach for us after she leads the Session retreat on Saturday, April 20th.
Deb is a dear friend of Pastor Katie, a seasoned pastor in Presbyterian churches, and the director of Synod School.
The following week, April 28th, our own Ellen Smith will provide the sermon in worship after speaking for the Fourth Sunday Forum at 9:00am in the Fellowship Room.
We will be blessed by these wise and wonderful different voices. Don’t miss them!
Tuesday Trivia Will Retire In May
Our Name that Member which debuted in 2022 gave us the opportunity to learn more about our fellow members and once that feature retired, the Communications Committee pondered what new feature could we offer members that would draw us closer to one another and closer to our church?
Thanks to documents found in Communication’s files which archived facts from our church history, Did You Know? Tuesday Trivia! debuted in March of 2023. We started with 28 factoids that have been published twice a month via email and we’re sad to say that we’re unfortunately down to our last couple trivia. The final publications of Did you know? Tuesday Trivia! will be published during the month of May. Our email stats for Tuesday Trivia show that on average 6-7 out of every 10 people took the time to read our email and click over to view the answer. We’re so pleased that our feature showed such a positive response from our member and non-member email list subscribers. Hopefully everyone learned a little something about the Church history that they didn’t know before.
And, if you missed any of our publications, all are archived on our website in our Happening Now section. Simply select Did you know? Tuesday Trivia! from the navigation bar on that page and you’ll be able to view all 28 of our church history trivia.
Thanks to everyone for playing Did you know? Tuesday Trivia!
April 2024 Fourth Sunday Forum
Sunday, April 28th
Our final Fourth Sunday Forum for this program year will be held on Sunday, April 28th before worship in the Fellowship Room at 9:00am.
We are pleased to have Ellen Smith, a member of our congregation and long-time mission co-worker for the PC(USA) to Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and Poland.
Ellen’s presentation “Seeking Hope From the Margins” will provide an update on her recent travels and what they prompt her to pray and think about.
She writes: “Globally, people are on the move. Why are they leaving their homes, their communities, and their culture? What are the barriers they face? Hope is a hard thing. Let’s consider what our theology of welcome is all about.”
Coffee and treats will be served.
