This study on Job will continue through March 27. Watch for the weekly Thursday emails. A separate email will give notice near the end of each month for the Zoom discussion forums.

There will be a Zoom Congregational Meeting this Sunday, February 21, at 11:00 a.m. for the purpose of presenting the 2021 budget and 2020 statistical report. Watch your inbox for the Zoom link information to come out about 10:30 a.m. on Sunday morning. We hope you will join us for our first full congregational Zoom meeting!

*Please register by February 18th and your spiritual spring bag will be delivered to your home before our event.

Please mark your calendars for Saturday, February 27th, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. The Youth of the church will be hosting a drive-up collection for the Blessing Box during their in-town Mission Weekend.

Items collected will be used to restock the Blessing box over the weekend and throughout the month of March. The most needed items are ready-to-eat foods and basic toiletries.

Please click here for a link that gives specific suggestions.

Thank you for helping to support our Youth and our community in need!

Last call: All 6th -12th graders are invited to participate in our Youth Mission weekend, February 27 & 28, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. each day.

Please use this link to RSVP by the end of the day, February 24th.

We will be taking part in a Thank You card movement for our local health care workers, hosting a Blessing Box donation drive, filling our college care packages, assembling sandwich and lunch bags for those in need at Opportunity House, and creating Easter cards for our VIPs.

We hope that YOU can join us for this fun event! Questions?

Please contact René Prager at: r.prager@firstpresconcord.org.

We are blessed at First Presbyterian Church to have Dr. Jacqueline Yost, who is renowned as one of the finest classical musicians in the area, as our organist. On March 1 we will have an opportunity to hear Jacquie play an all-Bach organ concert at Davidson College Presbyterian Church as part of the annual Bach Birthday Bash at Davidson College. The concert will be available to the public via live streaming.

Click here for more information and to view the announcement.

The S & D Sunday School class invites the congregation to join us in providing Easter hams to families in-need, served by Operation Breadbasket. Brian Moore is purchasing 110 hams and, along with S & D class members, will shop and deliver those hams to Operation Breadbasket in time for their Easter distribution. If you would like to donate, please make your check out to Brian Moore and either drop it off at the church office, or mail to him: 2401 Bethlehem Church Rd, Gold Hill, NC 28071. Thank you!

I’m looking out on a sunny day at our drive-through pantry for the first time in about a week! Praise the Lord! We also are praising the Lord for a marvelous response to the annual Scouting for Food drive earlier this month. I know many of your congregations sponsor Boy Scout troops. So far they have collected and brought in a record-smashing 14,000 lbs. and it’s still coming in! Much of that already has been shared with our satellite pantries scattered around the county.

Our current big needs continue to be:

        Cereal

        Peanut Butter

        Soup

        Canned carrots, peas, potatoes and mixed veggies

        Canned fruit

        Any dried beans

        Pasta Sauce

        Toilet paper

As always, we especially seek low sodium items, no-added-sugar items, and whole grain items.

Right now, we have plenty of the following:

       Canned chicken and tuna

       Canned green beans and corn

       Canned Pinto Beans

       Spaghetti noodles

       Macaroni & Cheese

Thank you for the continued support from our church partners. Our Crisis Center at 246 Country Club Drive NE in Concord serves as the warehouse for most of the food. We will gladly accept all donations at that site from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. Bethel Baptist Helping Hands Food Pantry, located at 1209 1/4 Opal Street in Kannapolis, will gladly accept donations from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday and Thursday. The food pantry located at Westford UMC on Highway 49 and the Kannapolis Food Pantry at West Point Baptist Church can accept donations on Saturday morning from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The Feeding Our Souls Food Pantry at Bethel UMC in Midland, and North Kannapolis Baptist Church Food Pantry will accept donations by calling the church in advance. The pantry at New Life Baptist Church is temporarily closed.

The Girl Scouts of First Presbyterian Church would like to thank the congregation for supporting their cookie sale on February 14th!

The girls will host a second drive-up cookie booth in front of the sanctuary on Girl Scout Sunday, March 14th, from noon to 2 p.m., so if you missed the opportunity the first time you can still get those cookies!

Our next Racial Equity Reads book will be "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson. We will begin our discussions on Sunday, February 21st at 4 p.m. via Zoom with Part 1 (Ch. 1-3). As part of our ongoing commitment to this work, we encourage you to purchase your books through black-owned booksellers if possible. For more information or to sign up to join the discussion, please contact Lynne Keel at lynne.keel@firstpresconcord.org. 

Our pastoral staff continues to preach and teach through various means of technology. Please join us for all of our worship opportunities on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/firstpresconcordnc/),

YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfpzVUz-ZgaCJuogIMor8Iw) or our Sermon Archives (https://firstpresconcord.org/worship/sermon-archives/).

Worship is posted at 8:30 a.m.