Midweek Newsletter: Wednesday, February 14, 2024.

 

NARTHEX NEWS ~ February 14, 2024

 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 128 E. Main St. Lebanon, IN 46052 https://www.lebanonfpc.org



In this newsletter this week:

Reminders

Celebrations

Ash Wednesday Events

Prepare for worship

Lenten Devotionals (PDF) & Audio Lenten Devotional

Time for Tea & Gourmet Seekers

Prayer Reminders

PPM Update

 

Reminders:

Live & Learn: Live & Learn will meet Saturday, 11:30am in the church library, lunch included.

Liturgist: for February is Margi McConnaha

Elder: for February is Debbie Crouse

This Coming Sunday (the 18th): is the first Sunday of Lent.

Caring Sunday will be Feb. 25th.


Celebrations: Happy celebrations to a really great crew. We love each one of you. We hope your year is exciting and new, and that you remember God loves you!

Happy Birthday to Meredith Erwin, 2/16; Michelle Dies, 2/19; and Sigmon Myers, 2/20!

 

Ash Wednesday Events

Feb. 14 (Valentine’s Day) is also Ash Wednesday!


Shrove Pancake Dinner @ CCC, 5:30pm

Ash Wednesday Service @CCC, 7pm

 

Prepare for Worship

During the season of Lent, the church will be singing the chorus for “Surely the Presence of the Lord is Here” as Call to Worship. There is a link included here, so you can listen to it, learn it, and be prepared for worship.

 Link to “Surely the Presence of the Lord”:

https://youtu.be/ttEgZLg-2-Y?si=SLUfpWOogn_BwoHx

Lenten Devotional (PDF)

Pastor Je has chosen a devotional for the church to go through together during the season of Lent. This devotional, “Local Pilgrim” by PCUSA, will be sent out to the church in PDF format via email each week. For those who need or prefer printed communication, there is a sign-up sheet is on the hallway bulletin board. For those of who regularly receive messages from us through postal mail, we already have you on our list to send your devotional via postal mail. Lent begins today! You should already have received the material for covering the 14th through the 17th. Material covering the 18th through the 24th will be sent to you today.  

Audio Lenten Devotional

During the season of Lent, you will receive a daily blessing of hearing a devotional shared directly from your pastor to each of you! Each day you will receive via email a link to listen to Pastor Je reading the daily message from the devotional entitled “These Days”. The subject line for those emails will be “Daily audio devotional”. When you open that email message, click on the audio link for that day and you will hear that day’s devotional message. Each email will also include a link to the full list of devotional messages. Happy listening!

Time for Tea: Time for Tea for the ladies in the church meets again this coming Tuesday, the 20th, at 11:30 in the Church Library. Bring your own sack lunch and look forward to fun fellowship. We hope to see you there!

Gourmet Seekers: Gourmet Seekers will head out for another delicious meal together on Friday, Feb. 23rd. This month they will go to Olive Garden on Michigan Rd. in Carmel. Meet at the church at 11:30am or at the restaurant at noon.

Prayer Reminders: Thank you for keeping your church family in prayer, as well as the local community and the nation. If you wish to know a more detailed update on the prayer needs of the church, or wish to join the prayer chain, please contact our Prayer Coordinator, Phyllis Duff, at: (765)482-1485/ raduff2@att.net.

PPM Update:

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! We are full of love here at PPM! During the month of February, we will be talking a lot about kindness and friendship. There is a great book titled " Fill Your Bucket". It's about doing kind things for others and when you do those things, you're filling not only their bucket but yours as well. PPM staff is finding ways to fill their buckets this year, how can your family "Fill A Bucket"? Take time to read this great children's book and talk about ways you can be kind and show friendship to others. Sometimes, it only takes a simple "Hello" . 

 

Next Friday the 23rd, we are hosting our 3rd family night of the year, with a bedtime literacy fun night. Classrooms will be set up with fun activities based off of bedtime books, Miss Tammi from the library will be here to read bedtime stories to the kids in the sanctuary. We are so excited for this amazing opportunity. March 1st kicks off  our bedtime story reading program. All children will go home with a new blanket, book and teddy bear, and reading log to read 40 books. Both of these programs are made possible with a  literacy grant from United Way of Central Indiana. 

 

We have started enrolling for the 2024-25 school year, God continues to bless our program. We have a few classes already close to being full for next year.  

 

Please continue to pray for our teachers, children and families.
Blessings, Miss Lori 

 

 

 

 

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