Sunday: 9:00am Handbell Practice 9:15am Childcare Opens & Coffee Plus 9:30am Pastor’s Bible Study 9:30am Youth Bible Study (6-12 grades) 10:00am The Thoughtful Christian with Pastor Emeritus, Jack Wilhelm 10:00am Women’s Sunday School Class 10:30am Choir Warm Ups 11:00am Worship 11:15am Pre-K-5th Grade Sunday School leaves from Worship 5:00pm Silent Prayer in the Chapel

Monday: 6:30pm Lake Cumberland Chorus

Wednesday: 5:00pm Dinner 5:30pm Youth Group 6:00pm Children’s Choir 6:30pm Adult Choir

Saturday: 8:00pm Alcoholics Anonymous

This Week...

Assisting In Worship NEXT Sunday, May 31

The Chancel Choir Piano & Organ………..…………..….Beth Kleppinger Liturgist. . . . . . . . . . . .……...……...……..Kelly Joplin Chancel Choir………………………….Dan Carpenter Ushers………………….Claude & Peggy (*C) Tiller and

Laura & Hagan Wonn Acolytes………………...Hayden Roberts & John Joplin Nursery. . . . . . . . …..……………………Olivia Wilson Coffee Plus………………………………Suzanne Kidd

May 24, 2015

We Believe God’s Love Sets Us Free!

Deacons of the Month for May

Please contact the Deacons of the month when someone is ill, hospitalized, has passed away or is in need of prayer. Kim King 606.219.1139

kims-k@hotmail.com Marty Whitson 606.679.3315

whitsonmartha2@gmail.com

Elder of the Month for May

Paul Guffey 606.305.4915 p_guffey@yahoo.com

The Newsletter of First Presbyterian Church, Somerset, KY

Prayer List

Anita Fackler-Waller and family; Shirley Brasfield; Bill & Liz Isaacs; Sue Burkett;Doug Choate; J.B. Pitman’s mother; Wanda & Al Hamilton; Sherry Brown’s brother, Lee Alexander;

Marty Whitson’s sister, Gail Malott.

Please remember our homebound members with cards and prayers:

Pat DeBerry, Virginia McMillen, Joanne Jasper; Al and Wanda Hamilton,

Alice Wayman, Dudley and Shirley Hosch, Shirley Brasfield. Pat DeBerry’s new mailing address is:

The Neighborhood of Somerset

100 Neighborly Way

Somerset, KY 42503

The Elder of the Month and a

Deacon of the Month will be

available at the front of the

Sanctuary after the Worship Service

for questions and/or concerns.

Pentecost Picnic TODAY!

Our church family will be celebrating Pentecost with a picnic immediately

following church. We will be celebrating here at FPC! Join us for a delicious meal!

JOIN US FOR AN

ADVENTURE!

**Registration Forms are available on the atrium table!

Vacation Bible School will be June 7th thru June 10th in

partnership with First Christian Church.

We are looking for attendees and Volunteers! We already have our

4 crew leaders! One volunteer has committed to helping as a kitchen assistant.

We still need 3 more kitchen volunteers! Contact Jonna Stayton or Christina Ross if you are

available to volunteer.

Wednesday, May 27 is our last Wednesday Night Dinner &

Fellowship until the fall!

To end with a bang, Chef Linda Spanier is making

an extra special dinner. To help celebrate, the Children’s Choir will be providing LIVE entertainment!

Clean-Up Crew: Youth Group

The Line-Up: 5:00pm Dinner

5:30pm Live Entertainment begins 6:30pm Adult Choir

**We are looking for at least 3 extra chef teams to add to the rotation in the fall. Please prayerfully consider if

this is the opportunity for you!

Next Week IISY Classes

are on Summer Break!

A special thank you to all our

teachers who have volunteered

their time to educating our youth!

Classes will resume in August!

We are still looking for 3 extra

teachers for the fall rotation.

please contact Monica in the

Office for more information.

The office will be closed Monday, in observance of

Memorial Day.

Rev. Allen Brimer, Pastor

Monica DeCarlo Office Manager & Director of Christian Education

Carol Henderson Financial Secretary & Handbell Director

Dan Carpenter Choir Director

Beth Kleppinger Organist/Pianist

Josh Jones Director of Youth Ministries

Linda Slaughter Nursery Attendant

Jeannie Casada Custodian

Rev. Jack Wilhelm Pastor Emeritus

First Presbyterian Church • 200 N. Vine Street • Somerset, Kentucky 42501 606-678-5731 email: fpcsomersetoffice@gmail.com Find us on Facebook

Class of 2017 Paul Guffey– Mission Connie Jamieson– Worship Marshall Judy– Mission Dan Phelps– Property Class of 2016 Ed Ledford– Property Wanda Mabry– Mission Jo Marshall– Personnel Christina Ross– Christian Ed. Class of 2015 Terry Randall– Finance Jonna Stayton– Christian Ed. Jeff Stockham– Personnel Peggy Tiller– Clerk

Deacons Jon Burlew Kim King Nina Joplin– Chair Nina Wilhelm Nancy Holland Suzanne Kidd Kathy Phelps Marty Whitson

Happy Birthday

5/27 Bruce Wilson 5/27 Jenna Phillips 5/28 Tommy Fitzgerald

Pledge Report through 5.17.15 Pledges budgeted $74,680 Pledged offering received $74,631 Under Budget $49 Non-pledged offering received $7,562 Capital Budget Mortgage Loan Balance $640,829

Please give flowers for our Sunday worship services. Complete, tear off and put in the offering plate. Thank you, Worship Committee

Dedicate to: _________________________ Given by: _________________________

Please check the date:

__ May 31 __ June 7 __ June 14 __ June 21 __ June 28

The Staff The Session Tithes & Gifts Flowers

The deadline for information to be included in The Vine is Wednesday of that week. Thank you for your cooperation and patience.

Hold-U-Over Boxes:

Monthly Donation for May:

4 boxes of Mac & Cheese

Thank you for helping to feed our neighbors!

Anniversaries

5/25 Mark & Tina Hamm 5/27 Kenny & Shannon Wilson 5/31 Norrie & Nancy Wake

Burnamwood Conference for Summer 2015

High School June 22-27

Cost: $315; you pay $157.50 Due by May 30

Middle School June 15-19

Cost: $245; you pay $122.50 Due by May 30

3rd-5th Grades Conference July 6-10

Cost: $245; you pay $122.50 Due by June 30

8th-12th Grades Night Owl Camp July 13-17

Cost: $245; you pay $122.50 Due by June 30

1st-2nd Grades Mini Camp July 20-22

Cost: $100; you pay $50 Due by June 30

6th-11th Grades Faith Hunter Mini-Conference

July 20-22 Cost: $100; you pay $50

Due by June 30

3rd-6th Grades MADD Camp July 27-31

Cost: $245; you pay $122.50 Due by June 30

Contact Monica for more information! **Please note that the church, through the

Carol Tibbals Troxell Youth Fund, will pay for HALF the conference costs! Families just need

to match the church’s contribution!

Contra Dance

Time

Saturday, May 30, at 7:00pm

Come join our own local contra

dance band, Mixed Nuts,

for a great night of old fashioned

fun and friendship.

Bring the kids (or grandkids) and

dance the night away!

Giving Gratitude I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my

prayers. ~Ephesians 1:16

A special note of thanks to all of our

Wednesday Night chefs and sous chefs

for feeding our body and soul:

Kathy Mantooth, Ray Tucker, Chris Tucker, Nina

Joplin, Kathy Phelps, Jane Evans, George Joplin,

Sherry Brown, Susie Lackey, Mary Norfleet,

Leslie Leidelmeijer, Linda Spanier, Bette Cole, and

Beth Kleppinger!

We can’t forget to extend our gratitude to our fabulous

barista, Josie Watkins! Because of her selfless giving,

we never knew thirst!

Thank you to all of our kitchen clean-up crews:

Brenda Wesley, Tom & Carol Prater, Norrie & Nancy

Wake, Michael Smith, Paul Guffey,

and the Youth Group!

Our gratitude and appreciation is extended to all our

Sunday School teachers for helping to impart their

wisdom and love for the Lord to all:

Mary Norfleet, Paula Burlew, Linda Spanier, Kerry

Brock, Joanna Myers, Hannah Vaught, Forrest Brock,

Josh Jones, Rev. Jack Wilhelm,

and Rev. Allen Brimer!

Congregational

Meeting Sunday, May 31

Immediately

following

Worship Service

in the Sanctuary