St. Philip Presbyterian Church

Hurst, Texas www.stphil.org

(817) 282-9181 (817) 282-6690 (fax)

Rev. Dr. Greg Garis, Pastor

Rev. Alissa King, Assoc. Pastor

Vol. 70 March 9, 2016 No. 58

“Joyfully Growing and Moving with the Spirit”

Maundy Thursday Worship

March 24th 7:00 PM

Easter Egg Hunt

Saturday, March 26th 2:00 PM

Open to the Community

Easter Vigil

Saturday, March 26th 5:30 PM

Led by our Youth!

Easter Morning Worship Sunday, March 27th

8:30 or 11:00 AM Lord’s Supper Celebrated All Church Potluck Easter Breakfast

9:45 - 10:45 AM in Fellowship Hall

One Great Hour of Sharing 2016

The annual OGHS offering will be taken on Palm Sunday, March 20th Watch your bulletins in the next couple of weeks to learn a few ways our generous

offerings will be used to do missional work. Feeding the hungry, helping people build up their own livelihoods, responding to disasters—these are all ways that our gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing will be changing lives, changing communities, and changing the world in the name of Jesus Christ.

Mission Outreach Committee

Easter Potluck Breakfast! March 27th at 9:45 a.m.

We will have our annual potluck Easter Breakfast in the Fellowship Hall! Please bring your favorite breakfast dishes to share!

Coffee, juice and water will be provided.

(Please respect those with nut allergies by omitting nuts from your dishes. Thank you)

St. Philip Presbyterian Women

March 1st Tuesday 9:30 a.m. Coordinating Team Meeting Parlor 3rd Thursday 1:30 p.m. PW Bible Leaders Parlor 7th Monday 5:30 p.m. Life Circle TBA 8th Tuesday 9:30 a.m. Grace Circle Room 11 10:00 a.m. Sheila Bradley Circle Parlor 22nd Tuesday 10:00 a.m. PW Mission/Pres. Night Shelter Parlor

April

19th Tuesday 10:00 a.m. Perot Museum Trip 26th Tuesday 10:00 a.m. Casseroles Note: Please continue to bring non-perishable food items (canned goods and dry goods) through-out the year and place them in the NEED bin on the Oak Terrace. Thank you!

Movie Night Coming April 23rd!

“Where Hope Grows” (see wherehopegrowsmovie.com)

7:00 p.m. in the Youth Hall

Popcorn, iced tea, & lemonade will be served! Everyone is invited (not just the youth) so

please join us for a very heart warming movie!

LADIES RETREAT What a perfect retreat weekend we had at Presbyterian Children's Home, in Itasca. Weather was wonderful, lots of springtime wind! The speaker, was our own Rev. Alissa King, who hit a home run with activities and spot-on content. Craft time provided hidden talents that Helene Kiser and Wendy Parmelee so expertly pulled from us. The best part was bringing SPPC's wonderful women together, once again, as only a retreat can do! One of the prayers we offered was including more women in next year's event. Sara Snell is going on record that the first weekend of March 2017 is the date ALL SPPC women should "save!" The retreat tradition must continue! Sara Snell St. Philip Presbyterian Women Chair

YOUTH CALENDAR

March

13th 4:00 p.m. Youth Chime Choir Choir Room 20th 4:00 p.m. Youth Chime Choir Choir Room 5:00 p.m. Youth Prayer Stations 26th 5:00 p.m. Youth Easter Vigil & Wax Museum Youth Hall

In the month of March the St. Philip Sunday School children and youth will be studying:

Birth-Age 2 will hear Bible stories that are designed for young learners.

Ages 2 years thru Pre K are studying “Zacchaeus” from the Hands on Bible curriculum.

Ages K-2nd grade and 3rd-5th grade are using the Growing with Grace and Gratitude curriculum, which is rooted in the foundation of Presbyterian identity where God's grace and our gratitude are the heartbeat of our faith, life, and worship. This curriculum extends an invitation to discipleship that inspires children to learn and practice hospitality, generosity, and love. It reaches beyond Sunday morning, encouraging children to live their lives as an expression of God's grace.

Jr. High & Sr. High will be using Feasting on the Word, which provides opportunities for this age group to explore their personal and communal identity in Jesus Christ through meaningful community-building experiences, engaging Bible study, and relevant learning activities. Biblical stories will come alive in new and creative ways. In response to God’s amazing, unconditional love, youth will be challenged to put their faith into action as they grow to understand themselves as Christ’s disciples.

Travel through Holy Week with a Vigil & “Wax Museum” experience brought to you by St. Philip Youth on

Saturday, March 26th at 5:30 p.m.!

You are invited to join us at

St Philip Presbyterian Church

745 W Pipeline Rd, Hurst TX

March 26, 2016 at 2PM

For crafts, story time and

Easter Egg Hunt

We are looking for candy (no chocolate) and small trinket donations to help us fill the eggs for our annual Easter Egg Hunt!

Mark Your Calendars!

VBS will be held

July 11—14th this year!

All of the, St. Philip Presbyterian Church Girl Scouts, Lara Anderson (Junior) Katherine Umpress (Junior), Marie Stark (Cadette), Emily Chu (Cadette), and Julia MacLeod (Senior) would like to send out a big THANK YOU for making their third Multi Troop Cookie Booth a great success! Each Girl would also like that thank you for supporting them during the cookie season, which

ended on Sunday Feb 28th!

April Birthdays

1st Margaret Reynolds 2nd Chuck Caniford 3rd Fran Noakes 3rd Karen Dean 3rd Jonathan Wasson 3rd Thomas Hansen 4h Donna Jowell 4th Sarah Forester 5th Lara Anderson 6th Cole Garis 7th Bill Parmelee 7th Will Aldridge 8th Seldon Mapel 9th Madeleine Hodges 9th Kadin Houston

10th Scott Skodak 11th Rob Rippe 11th Wendy Parmelee 12th Jean Koss 12th Terri Caniford 13th Kathleen Houston 13th Marilyn Matthews 13th Max McKee 14th Ben Lucas 15th Sally Starr 15th Joe Laehr 16th Pat Simmons 16th Jakob Sogan 19th Ron Horan 20th John Sneddon 20th Kathleen Fulenwider 21st Frankie Head 23rd Elizabeth Jones

25th Kay Shipp 26th Katherine Nagy 28th Kelsy Jowell 29th Marilyn Schuck 29th Shonna Whitehead 30th Ed Locker

Jazz Monsters

(A 20-piece Professional jazz orchestra)

Playing March 13th at St. Philip Presbyterian Church

From 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. in Fellowship Hall

Come and enjoy a big band experience with music of Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller and many others. Listen

to “Satin Doll,” “That Old Black Magic” and “In the Mood”!

Admission is free, but donations are suggested.

Note of the Week………………

See you in church on Sunday. Joyfully Singing in Christ, Pam Cochrane

N.E.E.D

This month the following requests have been made:

Toilet Paper Hamburger Helper Dish Detergent Laundry Detergent Personal Products

Thank you for your continued support, Your Mission Outreach Committee

Financial Report

February Year to date Income $40,543.87 $76,882.99 Expenses $52,393.68 $96,098.37 ($11,849.81) ($19,215.38)

Thanks to everyone for their contributions. If you are not current on your pledge, please attempt to catch up as soon as possible.

Join the Happy Slackers

on March 10th at 12 noon at Ernie’s

If you are retired, unemployed, preach or work part time, you are eligible to join the Happy Slackers for lunch.

Leave your aches, pains and worries at home and have a great time with new and old

friends.

Good food and fellowship!

Lenten + Study Tuesday’s

from 7:00-8:30 PM in the Parlor Would you like to spend some time considering big questions with great people in fun ways? Would you like to deepen your faith and grow in your ability to share it? Join us for Talking Faith, a 7 week Tuesday Lenten + one week, led by Rev. Garis and Rev. King. Together we will discuss topics as “How Do We Know Anything about God?”

and “What Does God Do?”

Committee Sunday & Potluck Lunch for Committee Members

March 13th at 12:05 PM

Potluck begins at 12:05 PM and the Committees will meet at 1 PM. Please mark if any nuts are used in your dish.

Men’s Coffee Group Meets

Wednesday’s at 8:30 am

Men’s Coffee Group meets every

Wednesday at 8:30 am in the Parlor. This is for all men of the church, no age limits

or requirements!

Special Giving Opportunity It has come to the attention of the Administration Committee that another sound system is needed for the Youth Hall. The committee has found a sound system and an anonymous member has given ½ of the $600 needed to buy it. We are looking for other members to help pitch in on this. If you are interested please speak with Bill Parmelee or Rev. Garis.

This 2nd sound system will help our ministry.

SESSION HIGHLIGHTS March 2016 At the stated Session meeting in February, SESSION APPROVED the following motions:

Childhood Education holding a fundraiser for VBS at Spring Creek Barbeque on

either Monday, June 6th or June 13th, 2016

Childhood Education giving a Minute for Mission on February 28th to request non chocolate Easter candy for the Easter Egg hunt, and placing a bin on the Oak Terrace for said candy.

Children’s Education budget being reduced by $385.21. Personnel Committee increasing Child Care Workers (line item #5216) by

$424.14 A Minute for Mission on March 13, 2016 to highlight One Great Hour of

Sharing Request that committees who receive donor donations include the amount in any

such donations in the committee’s minutes. The Preschool selling leftover bake sale items from the craft show during Sunday

services on April 10, 2016. A special worship service on August 6, 2016, during which Alissa King and Jay

Conner will be joined in marriage, and that they be charged the member fees.

Also, that Ronnie Holloman and Jay’s Methodist pastor be invited to officiate.

An agreement between SPPC and the Pastoral Counseling Center to provide

counseling services using our Sacristy.

Adjusting the Admin. Assistant budget (line item #5023) to $13,800 based on $14.00 per hour, and adjusting the employer-paid FICA accordingly.

Holding a Blessing of the Animals using the patio on April 16, 2016, from 10:00

am to 12:00 pm, with Fellowship Hall as backup.

Electing Cole Garis, Bitsie Welch, and a third person to be named as

Commissioners to the March 5, 2016, Presbytery meeting at Austin College in

Sherman.

SESSION RATIFIED four e-mail votes between the January and February stated meetings including;

Boy Scout Troup 324 placing a box on the Oak Terrace for their annual Scouting

for Food drive from February 7 – 15, 2016

A Celebration of Life prayer service for Burtton Corbin on January 23, 2016

Presbyterian Women giving Minutes for Mission on February 7, 14 and 21, 2016

to promote the Women’s Retreat in March

A Minute for Mission for the 2016 Habitat for Humanity build on February 21,

2016, along with a 2 x 4 to sign and a collection bucket on the Oak Terrace

Mariners March 19th 6:00 pm at

Johnny Carino’s 2175 Precinct Line Rd, Hurst, TX 76054

Join the Mariners for food, fun and fellowship. Hope to see you there!

If you have any questions, please contact Joe or Paula Flores at 817-284-2771.

Everyone is welcome!

St. Philip Presbyterian Church Adult Education

Sunday School Hour 9:45-10:45 a.m.

The Joy Class is for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We combine instruction, music and crafts to teach adults the basics of the Christian faith. This class uses shared leadership and is studying compassion. Parlor

In March the Alpha Class is using the Present Word and will study March 6, Powerful Faith Mark 9:14-29; March 13, Simple Faith Mark 10:17-31; March 20, Struggling Faith Mark 14:26-31, 66-72; March 27, Resurrection Faith Mark 16:1-8 Room A

In March the Feasting on the Word Class will be studying the following topics: March 6, Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32; will explore God’s unbounded love and mercy as described & will commit to embracing God’s wayward children; March 13, John 12:1-8, will ponder the extravagance of Mary of Bethany’s & Jesus’ gifts and dedicate their lives to service; March 20, Luke 19:28-40; 23:1-49, will consider the meaning of Jesus’ kingship & reaffirm their commitment to his kingdom; March 27, Luke 24:1-12, will retell the story of the empty tomb & creatively express the Good News. Class led by Patty O’Brien. Room 11 A Year with the Bible meets the first Sunday of each month following Morning Worship to encourage daily Bible reading and prayer. Fellowship Hall

Young Adult Group meets weekly each Thursday at 6:30 p.m. to discuss faith, life and current events. Discussion facilitated by Rev. Alissa King. Youth Hall

Men’s Coffee Group meets every Wednesday morning, 8:30-9:30 a.m., for coffee & donuts, visiting, discussing and staying connected. Led by Rev. Dr. Greg Garis. Parlor

GUESTS ARE WELCOME!

Email cindyb@stphil.org for the registration form or

call 817-282-0557

This is our major fundraiser for the year & we appreciate

all the support from the church

April 9th

9:00 - 4:00

Calling all artists, crafters, etc.

Register now for a booth at the

Spring Craft Show!!

Vendor Registration Form

St Philip Preschool is having a Spring Craft Show, Silent Auction & Bake Sale on April 9th 10:00-4:00 p.m. Our goal is to raise $10,000 to offset expenses for the Preschool!!! You can help by donating for the Silent Auction & Bake Sale! Silent Auction items can include jewelry, gift cards/certificates, services, products, etc. Donation letters & receipts are available. Donate items by April 7th. Bake sale donations can be brought to the kitchen on April 8th. THE MOST IMPORTANT WAY TO SUPPORT THIS EVENT IS TO ATTEND

THE EVENT & TO TELL FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS TO COME TO THE EVENT!!

ST. PHILIP PRESCHOOL

ST. PHILIP PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 745 W PIPELINE ROAD HURST, TEXAS 76053-4999 MARCH 9, 2016

REMEMBER IN PRAYER: Jennifer Hunter, daughter of Jim & Kay Lynn Newlon, is now home. Jennifer was hospitalized with pneumonia...The family of Marilyn Schuck. Marilyn passed away February 27th. A memorial service was held in Coppell on March 4th...The family of Frank Hazzard. Frank, brother of Joy Wallace passed away on March 2nd... CONTINUE IN PRAYER FOR: Shelly Blevins...Donna Koenig...Carol Sanders… Ron Horan...Johnny Wallace...Gloria Carrier...John Grow…Jimmy Taylor...Don Williams...Gayle Shiffer...Terri Caniford...Midge Wellman...Kathryn Hanson…John Dietz...Andrew Dietz...John Negronida…Doris Clark…Randy Welch…Madelyn Glass…Al Moreira…Merlin Carstenson… Jim Toler…Marie Borland…Cindy Simmons …Mary Ann Nicholson…Mary Jo Wood…Pat Carlson…Kelly Frazure…Lidia McFarland…Ellis Rogers…Lu and Sara Brewer…Elma Lee Mulkey…Ben Cross…Brenda Petersen…David Moore …Colby Steddum…Sally Starr... REMEMBER IN PRAYER THOSE IN THE MILITARY: Joshua Bosworth, son of Curt & Grace Bosworth…Jesse Dean Swanzy, Grandson of Wayne & Pat Swanzy…Philip Govan, nephew of Max & Ann McKee…Tanner Sprinkel, grandson of Ray & Linda Sprinkel…Zach Saunders, Tom & Lynette Mercer’s son…John Calhoun Miller, Ruth Calhoun’s grandson & Elaine Stokes’ nephew…Matt Kiser & David Kiser, sons of Helene Kiser…Josh Peck, son of Sherri Siler…Jennifer Reynolds, daughter of Margaret Reynolds…Matt & Cosmo Romo, great-nephews of Liz Hailey…Andrew Norman, grandson of Stella & Bob Urban…Sarah Willett, granddaughter-in-law of Bob & Stella Urban…Ben Temple, grandson of Tal & Jaylon Buie…Austin MacLeod, grandson of Lillian MacLeod…

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