First Church News & Updates - April 12, 2019
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This video of our Youth Choir singing
"Lift Your Head Weary Sinner" will provide a great start to your weekend.
Holy Week Church Office Schedule: The church office will be closed on Good Friday, April 19, and Monday, April 22.
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Enjoy this First Church E-News.
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Experience Love. Spread Hope.
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Palm Sunday - we will be distributing palms to all at worship on Sunday
Sermon: "Lifting Up Jesus"
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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Words from Will...What Wondrous Love Is This?
Holy Week begins on Sunday.
It begins with rowdy
Palm Sunday, moves to the intimacy of
Maundy (or Holy) Thursday and then to the violence of
Good Friday.
While Holy Week is still the same from year to year, the message of it speaks powerfully and differently to each of us. For some, this week will be like the children who can’t keep the praises of God silent...as in the words of the spiritual,
“Ain’t no rocks gonna cry out for me!” For others, its the chance to draw near and allow the love of Christ to wash and heal. For still others, it is confronting the extreme love of a God that would go through this for our redemption and the redemption of the world, or perhaps confronting the cruelty of a power-hungry world that still misunderstands and kills holy and vulnerable love.
The truth is, Holy Week invites us to all of that. In fact, the full experience of the power and joy of Easter is impossible without it. Holy Week and Easter are parts of a single whole. I pray that you will take the extra time and effort to be at our worship services throughout Holy Week, and that you will invite loved ones and friends to come with you. In so doing, you and I might well discover a part of the love of God in Christ we hadn’t seen or experienced before. God’s Spirit often does that!
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:
$
27,240.05
YTD Revenue:
$
536,368.07
YTD Expenses:
$
624,611.03
2019 Budget: $2,481,068.00
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myFirstChurch on Realm?
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In order for more families to attend
Resurrection Celebration, there will not be Sunday School for children in kindergarten to 4th grade on April 14. To help with your planning and ease your wait time,
sign up for a start time at the Palm Sunday Station!
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Roar! Life is Wild. God is Good. VBS 2019
We really need more adult volunteers to help us spread the love of God at VBS this summer! We want to open our registration up to the community and those unable to volunteer, but we have to get our critical mass of volunteers first!
Register online today!
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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 for the FUMC Team....
Questions? Felicia House at feliciabhouse@gmail.com.
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News from Boy Scout Troop 157
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BSA Scout Troop 157 will hold a First Aid Merit Badge class on Saturday, April 20, from 9 am to 12 noon, in Bldg. 5-232/234. First Aid skills will be taught by Williamson County EMS. Anyone from the First Church congregation is welcome to participate (Youth, other BSA Troops or GSA). Not all of the BSA Merit Badge requirements will be covered. If interested, please
click here to signup.
If there are any questions, please contact Saie-Yau Hui with Troop 157 by email Syhui8888@gmail.com.
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Friends of First Church...Footprints Children's Grief Ministry
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This week at First Church...
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Saturday, April 13
Sunday, April 14 - Palm Sunday
- 8:30, 9:40 and 11 am - Worship services
- 9:30 - 11 am - Resurrection Celebration, Courtyard
- 4:30 pm – Youth Choir, South Suite
- 5:30 pm – Ignite Student Snack Supper, Payne Cottage
- 6:00 pm – Ignite Student Ministries, FLC & Bldg. 5
Monday, April 15
- 8:45 am – Ring of Joy bell rehearsal, North Suite
- 3:45 pm – Kids of the Kingdom Chimes, Bldg. 3/FLC
- 7:00 pm – Boy Scout Troop #157, Bldg. 3/FLC
- 7:00 pm – What Does God Expect From Me, Bldg. 5-136
- 7:00 pm – LEAD First, Bldg. 5-124
Tuesday, April 16
- 8:30 am – UMM Tuesday Breakfast Group, Juarez Bakery
- 9:30 am – UMW Deborah Circle, Bldg. 5-232/234
- 12:30 pm – Brown Bag Theologians, Bldg. 5-122
- 6:30 pm – Stephen Ministry Supervision, Bldg. 5-127,126,123
- 7:00 pm – Council Oak Bells rehearsal, North Suite
- 7:00 pm – Finance Committee, Bldg. 5-124
Wednesday, April 17
- 6:15 am - UMM Breakfast, fellowship, & devotional, FLC/Bldg. 3
- 11:00 am – Round Rock Helpers Committee, Bldg. 5-122
- 5:00 pm – Revelation Ringers, FLC & North Suite
- 6:00 pm – HeartSong Choir rehearsal, South Suite
- 6:30 pm – Jubilation Bells rehearsal, North Suite
- 7:15 pm – Chancel Choir rehearsal, South Suite
Thursday, April 18
- 9:30 am – Heart to Heart Quilters, 115 Winsted
- 7:00 pm – Maundy Thursday Service, Sanctuary
Friday, April 19 - Church Office will be closed
- 8:30 am - Round Rock Helpers, Bldg. 4-2
- 7:00 pm - Good Friday Service, Family Life Center
- 8:00 pm - Narcotics Anonymous-Right Stuff, Bldg. 4
Saturday, April 20
- 9:00 am - Boy Scouts First Aid Merit Badge Class, Bldg. 5-232/234
- 9:30 am – Choral Union Easter Rehearsal, South Suite
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Betty Robertson
Communication
First United Methodist Church Round Rock
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