WEEKEND UPDATE

FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015

HOLY WEEK TRANSPORTATION

If you would like to have transportation to Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, or Easter services, please contact the church office (442-4411) by Monday noon and we will arrange for a member to bring you, or locate a driver for the church bus or van if there is a group at a common site. We hope this will help you to be able to participate in worship during this holy season.

EASTER EGG DONATIONS

EASTER EGG fillings and fillers: For both our church Easter Egg Hunt on Easter morning and the Sunday Suppers hunt in the afternoon, we would appreciate donations of non-melting candies and other treats. It is preferable that they are individually packaged and that they fit into a regular sized plastic egg.For the Sunday Suppers hunt Easter afternoon, we are hoping to send each child in attendance home with a PLUSH spring animal. There are some at Deals in Fiesta Square and many other stores have them at a very good price. Bring any of these items to Kristi Button’s office, please. If you would like to help put treats in eggs, let Kristi Button know. You can take some home with you the week before Easter.

EASTER AFTERNOON AT SUNDAY SUPPER

Join us for a special Sunday Supper at Trinity United Methodist Church at Garland and Sycamore. Set-up will be at 3 p.m. and dinner will be served at 3:30 p.m. We need volunteers to bring ham, deviled eggs, breads, or desserts – and a few to bring plastic Easter eggs filled with candy. Bring items to Trinity, or to the church on Sunday morning clearly identified for Sunday Supper. (The Resurrection Breakfast is Sunday morning, and the kitchen will be busy.) Or just come to celebrate as a part of the witnessing community and don’t worry about bringing food. Contact Carol Barnett for more info: , 479-871-0582 (cell), or 479-587-1193 (home).

SPRING CLEAN-UP DAY

The Properties Committee is inviting all of you to participate in the annual spring clean-up from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, April 4 — the morning before Easter. First United Presbyterian Church is blessed by a large and beautiful campus. This is our chance to clean up the last of the leaves of winter, clean up the flower beds, trim broken limbs, clean glass doors and windows, trim the liriope, and clean sidewalks, steps, and other areas. We will have coffee and donuts from 7:30 to 8 a.m., and bottled water will be provided through the morning.

Scripture for Sunday, March 29, 2015

Luke 9:51-62

51 When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers ahead of him. On their way they entered a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him; 53 but they did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem. 54 When his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”55 But he turned and rebuked them. 56 Then they went on to another village. 57 As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” 58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” 59 To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” 60 But Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” 61 Another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” 62 Jesus said to him, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Philippians 3:7-15

7 Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. 8 More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. 10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, 11 if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let those of us then who are mature be of the same mind; and if you think differently about anything, this too God will reveal to you.

MOM’S GROUP

Our Mom’s Group is reading Barbara Brown Taylor’s An Altar in the World. Books are available for $10 through the church office. This a gathering of moms from the church and some who have children at First School. It’s lots of fun and a good way to make lasting friendships. We hope you’ll come this Thursday, 8:30-9:45 a.m. We meet in Calvin 201. Childcare is provided.

YOUTH SUMMER EVENTS

VBS will be June 15-19: Please let Kristi Button, Lucy McClung or Lea Millett know if you are able to volunteer. Registration for children will be open online in mid-April.

It is time to get signed up for youth summer trips. Reach Mission deadline is March 29. Presbytery Summer Trips deadline is April 15.

Ferncliff and Dwight Mission camps are open for registration. Let Kristi know when you register so we can coordinate transportation and encourage children of similar ages to attend together.

Spring Cleaning Time: If you have organizing gifts, we need help bringing our resource room in Knox building up to full capacity. Let Kristi Button know.

PRESBYTERIAN PILGRIMAGE

APRIL 23-26 AT FERNCLIFF

A Pilgrimage is three days long, but it lasts a lifetime. It is a faith renewal program, designed to have a spiritual impact on the individual and on the environments in which they live and work. It is a short-course in living the Christian faith. In worship, study, discussion, and singing, participants gain a personal awareness of their faith and relationship with Jesus Christ. It is not designed as a conversion experience, but is focused on continued spiritual growth and personal application to life. The staff is made up of laity and Presbyterian clergy who have previously attended a three-day weekend. Registration is by application. Cost is $200 per participant. Brochures are available in the area inside the sanctuary doors.

Our Presbytery Connections

The Presbyterian Church (USA) is a connectional church. Each week we pray for other congregations within the Presbytery of Arkansas. This week, we pray for First, Harrison and First, North Little Rock.

Please call the church office, 442-4411,

during the week with prayer concerns, joys

or hospital information (* denotes member)

Grieving

Families of: Clayton Barnhart, Suzette Haden Elgin, Doug Frans, Sara Harris, Bonnie Heiple, Kelley Kirkpatrick, Rick Allen Long, Dick Morrison, Margaret Perry, Myra Rice, Glendora Sharp and Tom Williams.

Illnesses and Other Needs

*Randy Andersen, *Jim Bales, Patty Bello, Walker Bowman, Catherine Brantley, Patric Brosh, Charles Burtner, Helen Caruthers, Kelley (Baker) Cole, *Cory Cox, Edward Currier, Mary Curry, Sharon Davis,*Andy and *Ann Davison, Sarah Derrick, Robert Dublin, Gary Ervin, Caitlin Farrell, Sarah Fries, * Ashley Hemphill,*Jana Hemphill, Athan Irwin, Melissa Irwin, Marissa Henley, *Camille Marino, Tara McDaniel Kerr, *Debbie Power, Tess Shipley, *Sue Ellen Ward, Paula Goode Adkins, Young Chul Adkins, Knox Ogden, Ashley Ober, Cheryl Garrison Emerick, Heather Dugan-Feldt, Carl Hackelton, Borgny Hanley, Shirley Harms, Michele Holland, Susan Hendrickson, Phyllis Johnson, Fran Keasler, *Ann Rogers, *Roger Kennedy, Judy Kinder, Angela Lehren, Steve LaMastus, *Amy Locke, *Judy Marino, Jimmie Mathews, *Gwen Mattice, *Betty Monroe, Karen Morrison, Jessica Johnston Myer, *Ashley Ober, *Debbie Oliver, *William Oliver, *Ronny Pope, *Rev. Lee Power, *Marilyn Rice,*Barbara Rutledge, Ruth Sampier, Jonathan Schierschmidt, Naoto Sekiguchi, Joe Selzer, Kim Seymour, Coltrane Smith,*Tony Stankus, *Jane Steinkraus, *Zoe Sparks*Tina Stuart, *Rosetta Taylor, *Maxine Ward, Betty Wilton, *Dorothy Clinehens, *Dave Fulton, *Helen Jablonski, *Pete Schaller, Billy Thompson, *Janet Watkins, *Jo Ann Whitlatch and *Laurel Bohlander.