First Church News & Updates - March 15, 2019
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Happy St. Patrick's Day on Sunday. Don't forget to wear some green! It is also Spring Break week for many families and many of our usual groups will not meet. Be sure and check the calendar. The church office will be open 9 am - 1 pm next Monday - Friday.
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Enjoy this First Church E-News.
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Experience Love. Spread Hope.
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Sermon: "It’s the Simple Things"
Please join us in worship at 8:30 am (Sanctuary), 9:40 am (Family Life Center) and 11 am (Sanctuary) this Sunday.
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Celebrate!
Taking time to celebrate achievements and special moments is really important. This week I sat with our Disciple I class on a break and a member shared how much the recent Ash Wednesday service meant to her. I was deeply blessed by what she shared and was glad to pass that on to our worship planning team and choir. I shared with the class what a powerful experience it was for us as pastors to administer the ashes in that service. It is not just a formality, but rather a time to get up close and personal with you in the name of Christ. We finished that service with a profound sense of unworthiness to be part of such holy moments. As we celebrated in that class, you could feel the whole class being built up.
God is at work in so many ways – not just in our church, but in your families, in your workplaces, and among lots of people we often take for granted. And when we take time to celebrate that, we are built up. What if we added more celebration to each of the areas of our lives, especially when it reveals the grace of God? We would be a counter force against the overly-competitive and addictive tear-down behavior of the world around us. No wonder Paul writes in Philippians 4:8,
"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things."
Yes, think about those things and celebrate them every chance you get.
See you Sunday.
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Dr. Will Cotton
Senior Pastor
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Lenten Daily Meditations
This Lenten meditation series is provided each week by one of our members, Myra Schomburg, as her Upper Work Academy of Spiritual Formation project.
Click to read the meditations.
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Giving this week: $ 42,632.39
YTD Revenue: $406,546.46
YTD Expenses: $452,708.71
2019 Budget: $2,481,068.00
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We are in the process of upgrading our church data management system. The Realm update will offer many user friendly features that we are confident you will like. Now would be a good time to check your information at
myFirst Church and make sure everything is correct before we transition the data.
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Cowboy Coffee at Council Oak Preschool
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Our Council Oak Preschool hosted a
Cowboy Coffee this past week for over 600 children and their fathers and grandfathers. This wonderful event celebrates these special relationships and the important heritage and influence they are in the lives of our children. The preschool also hosts similar events for mothers and daughters and other extended family members. Thanks to our Council Oak Preschool staff for reminding us that it does, indeed, take a village to raise our children.
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Registration for VBS 2019 is now
open to volunteers and their children.
Click here to go online and register today. As soon as we recruit enough volunteers, we will open registration to all!
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Mission to Guatemala begins this Sunday.
During spring break, March 17-23, 18 students and adults will be traveling to
Totonicapan
, Guatemala
for a short term mission opportunity. Partnering with
Drops of Grace
and
Global CHE Enterprises
, our students will be working to bring lasting sources of clean water to the community. Our mission team will be providing clean water to the community through a well and water catchment system. In addition to drilling a well, we will have a team of students and adults working with children and teens through community evangelism. We ask your for your prayers that God may use us to be His hands and feet in Guatemala!
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Mission Focus...The 2019 Global 6K for Water - May 18
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First Church is partnering with
World Vision
in a 6K run/walk on
Saturday, May 18
at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock. The goal of the 6K is to provide clean water to developing nations. 6K (3.73 miles) is the average distance people in these countries must walk each day to get clean water. For each adult who registers, one child will receive lifelong clean water. And, you don't even have to show up on race day and participate...but it will be more fun if you do! Once you're registered, a child's funding is complete.
Click here for details and to register...
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This week at First Church...
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Saturday, March 16
- 8:00 am – Williamson County Genealogical Society, FLC
- 7:00 pm – Bridge Club, Bldg. 5-127
Sunday, March 17
- 8:30, 9:40 and 11 am - Worship services.
- 5:30 pm – Snack supper for Adult evening studies, Foyer
- 6:00 pm – Pastor’s Bible Study, South Suite
Monday, March 18
- 7:00 pm – LEADFirst meeting, Bldg. 5-124
Tuesday, March 19
- 9:00 am – UMM Tuesday Breakfast Group, meet in church parking lot to go to Bird Bird Biscuit
- 9:30 am – UMW Deborah Circle, Bldg. 5-232/234
- 12:30 pm – Brown Bag Theologians, Bldg. 5-122
- 7:00 pm – Finance Committee, Bldg. 5-124
Wednesday, March 20
- 6:15 am - UMM Breakfast, fellowship, & devotional, FLC/Bldg. 3
- 6:00 pm – HeartSong Choir rehearsal, South Suite
- 7:15 pm – Chancel Choir rehearsal, South Suite
Thursday, March 21
- 9:30 am – Heart to Heart Quilters, 115 Winsted
- 11:30 am – JOY Senior Fellowship, Bldg. 5-232/234
Friday, March 22
- 8:30 am - Round Rock Helpers, Bldg. 4-2
- 5:30 pm - Journey in Faith Spring Social, Bldg. 3/FLC
- 8:00 pm - Narcotics Anonymous-Right Stuff, Bldg. 4
Saturday, March 23
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Betty Robertson
Communication
First United Methodist Church Round Rock
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