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FELLOWSHIP HOUR: is held in the Fellowship Hall following the Sunday Worship Service. Your hostesses this week are Billie Yusczyk and volunteers. All are welcome to come and enjoy good food and good fellowship with your church friends. We especially welcome our church visitors.

was held during the Worship Service on Sunday, March 17. Deborah Carrington (Elder) and Lisa Gilson (Deacon) were ordained, and along with officers elected for a second term,

Carla Tinsley (Elder) and Billie Yusczyk (Deacon), were installed, each for a 3-year term of service.

PALM SUNDAY: * Sunrise service at Judy Doverspike’s home. 7:00 AM

Regular Worship Service, 10:30AM, in the Sanctuary

MAUNDY THURSDAY: ** Soup and Bread Supper, 5:00PM, in the Fellowship Hall

Worship Service, 6:00PM in the Sanctuary

GOOD FRIDAY ***SERVICE at the Palm City Presbyterian Church

7:00 PM, 2700 SW Martin Hwy. with combined Palm

City and Hobe Sound church choirs.

EASTER SUNDAY: Worship Service 10:30AM in the Sanctuary, with overflow seating in the Manse chapel if necessary.

*A note about Palm Sunday Sunrise Service: For several years, Judy Doverspike has hosted a Sunrise Worship Service for HSCPC at her home on Jupiter Island. All members and friends of our church are welcome to attend. Directions to her home will be made available for those who plan to attend.

**A note about the Maundy Thursday Soup and Bread Supper. On Maundy Thursday we remember the “Last Supper” when Jesus was arrested following his celebration of the Passover with his disciples. It is our tradition to hold a “soup and bread supper” prior to the Worship Service held to commemorate that night. The soup is provided by the Deacons and other volunteers. All members and friends are invited to attend.

***In addition to Holy Week services at HSCPC, our choir will be joining with the Palm City Presbyterian Church choir for presentation of It is Finished, at the Palm City church, 2700 SW Martin Hwy, at 7:00PM on GOOD FRIDAY.

As has become a tradition in our church, we will be erecting the “flower cross” for Easter Sunday. Church members, friends, and neighbors of the church are invited to bring flowers on Easter Sunday morning to help decorate the cross. These can be flowers you grow in your own yard, or flowers from an Easter bouquet.

This year we will once again have Easter Lilies in our Sanctuary on Easter Sunday. The plants are being donated, and are available for purchase, with the proceeds serving as a donation to the Church Memorial Garden. If you have purchased a lily (or lilies), they can be taken home after the Easter Sunday Worship Service. The cost is $12.00 per lily.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS AT EASTER At Easter time, in addition to our regular weekly offerings, we traditionally reach out beyond our own church to help meet needs of others, locally and beyond.

CHURCH EASTER OFFERING: Each year the Session identifies a recipient of a special Easter Offering. This year the Elders chose to support the operation of MOLLY’S HOUSE on Osceola Street in Stuart. The mission of Molly’s House is to support patients receiving medical treatment by providing temporary, affordable accommodations to them and their families. 

Molly’s House offers comfortable and affordable accommodations to patients who are receiving outpatient medical treatment. It is also open to friends and family visiting a loved one at a local hospital, assisted living facility, hospice facility, or medical treatment center. 

A special Easter Offering envelope can be found in your box of weekly offering envelopes. If you don’t use these envelopes you can make a donation using a Mission envelope found in the pew boxes, and identify it as “Easter Offering”  

ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING: During the season of Lent, the Presbyterian Church participates with other denominations worldwide in One Great Hour of Sharing. In a world of disaster, hunger, and oppression, millions of people lack access to sustainable food sources, clean water, sanitation, education, and opportunity.

Each gift to One Great Hour of Sharing supports efforts to relieve hunger through the Presbyterian Hunger Program, promote development through the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People, and assist in areas of disaster through Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.

This offering will be received on Easter Sunday, and an envelope for the One Great Hour of Sharing offering will be found in the envelope holders in front of your pew.

We will soon re-activate the HSCPC Church Men’s Club, and ask that ALL male members and friends of our church respond to this call. Each of us has a talent, experience, and energy that can contribute to the charge that Jesus Christ gave Peter to build His Church and spread the Gospel of His Word.

Our responsibility as Christians is to use our individual talents together to provide for the spreading of The Word of God in the Hobe Sound community. Our united voice using everyone’s input and participation will be powerful and so whether you feel the part you can play will be small or large, know that it is every bit as important as the next person.

Year-a-round resident or seasonal; retired or working; young (we currently have several, and in faith will have more), or old (there are a lot of us); our goal is for 100% participation. If everyone does what they can, no more, no less, then we will be very successful as an organization.

The focus of our mission will be to develop and put on projects to raise funds for identified needs to enable HSCPC to grow it’s ministry to the Hobe Sound Community. The goals of these projects will be identified and authorized by our Pastor and the Church Session.

On Sunday, April 7, 2024 during Fellowship Hour following the Worship Service we would like to have a short organization meeting to discuss and determine how we move forward. When and how we should meet, and coordination between formal meetings to insure we have set goals and are proceeding to their achievement with hopefully everyone’s participation.

We would like to prepare a roster of all participating in our HSCPC Church Men’s Club, and so if you don’t complete an enrollment form from our Church Bulletin, please call or email Art Ondich (772-546-6293), aurturondich@bellsouth.net) with your name, address, telephone #, email address, whether year around resident or seasonal, and the talents and experience that you feel you can contribute to this joint effort.

While this is not a church activity, we have offered the use of our Fellowship Hall for an Estate Planning Seminar offered by Treasure Coast Hospice. There is no cost for this seminar, and church members and friends in the community are invited to register and attend.

You can register for this seminar by calling 772-403-4547 or online at

Pastor Paul is offering two Bible Study classes this winter.

On Tuesdays at 11 AM the class is studying the New Testament Books of Galatians and James. The assignment for Tuesday, March 26 is James, chapter 4.

Standing: Debra Monet, Peter Sharp, Cynthia Cooper, Larabee Johnson,

Seated: Carole Reddish, Kathy Oldham, Deborah Carrington, Victor Rasicci, SueEllen Milroy, Pastor Paul Bayerl.

Missing from photo: Karen Metzger, who was taking the picture.

The Thursday 3:00 PM class has concluded. No dates or topics have yet been determined for the next classes. 

Instructor Sandra Price, an experienced yoga practitioner, RYT200, and Certified Chair Yoga Instructor, offers CHAIR YOGA classes in our fellowship hall on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings at 10:00 AM.

This year, due to the amount of space available for these sessions, each class will be limited to 18 participants. Each week participants will be asked to sign up for the days they plan to attend in the following week, and contact Sandra if their plans change. The cost is by donation.

Church member Debra Monet is offering art classes on our church campus. How to draw, paint in Watercolor and Acrylic will be the main focus for the lessons. The cost for each 3 hour class is $20, a portion of which will be donated to the Church Building Improvement Project.

For more class details, or to schedule a class, contact Debra at the Sunday coffee hour, or call her at 772-240-2063.

The sewing circle meets every Thursday afternoon @ 1 pm in the office parlor, with Sheila Fortura serving as hostess. It’s a wonderful time to work on your own projects, and learn new handwork skills from others. For information you can contact Sheila at psfortura@att.net, or 772-708-8983.

Exciting News! In honor of our upcoming Centennial Celebration, HSCPC will self publish a Dessert Recipe Book. Once completed, the church will offer the book for sale in order to garner funds for our Centennial festivities and/or building improvements.

We’re looking for:

l. Popular dessert recipes used for fellowship events. Could include details about why everyone loved this dessert, or a funny or notable anecdote about something that happened at the church when this selection was served – i.e birthday, anniversary, etc.

2. Family dessert recipes that demonstrate a food history. Might be a recipe that is a passed-down family treasure, with a short summary of how it has achieved legendary status in your family history. A photo of loved ones enjoying it would be a real plus.

3. Dessert recipes that coincide with the church’s legacy in Hobe Sound. Examples – Do you know someone that made an amazing dessert for the famous Church Fish Fry Dinners? Was there a dessert that was a hands down winner during the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, etc? Ask your friends and neighbors – we want to know what’s been cooking in Hobe Sound’s past for the church, the community, and your family!

Send the information to: recipeshscpc@gmail.com

Thursday, April 18, 2024 – Israel Mireles

Speeches begin at 7 p.m. at the Historic Apollo School, 9141 S.E. Apollo Street, Hobe Sound. Tickets are $15 at the door. Please reserve your seat in advance at apolloschoolfoundation@aol.com. 

Church and choir member Catherine Hilton is also a member of the Treasure Coast Community Singers. She would like to make you aware of the following two programs being presented by this group.

Saturday, April 13, 3:00 pm

Trinity United Methodist Church

2221 NE Savannah Rd, Jensen Beach

Sunday, April 14, 3:00 pm

St Bernadette Catholic Church

350 NW California, Port St. Lucie

On January 10, 1926, Hobe Sound Community Church was organized under the supervision of the Presbyterian Church, USA.

As we look toward our 100^th birthday, we are making plans for the exciting centennial celebration to take place in the year 2026. These plans include an ambitious and much needed Building Improvement Plan extending through 2025, and beyond. All donations to this fund-raising campaign to help maintain and preserve our historical church facility will be warmly received and appreciated.

THE FIRST PHASE OF THE BUILDING IMPROVEMENT PLAN consisted of installation of new storm resistant windows in the Sanctuary and Manse, and accompanying needed repairs. That phase has been completed.

THE SECOND PHASE OF THE PLAN consisted of renovations in the kitchen and fellowship hall. That phase has been completed.

THE THIRD PHASE OF THE PLAN consisted of repair and painting of the church steeple.

THE FOURTH AND FINAL PHASE OF THE PLAN will be replacement of the church roof and attached structures.

Special recognition is due to Elder Raelyn Holmes, the chairman of the Building and Grounds Committee. She has taken charge of all the detailed work involved in getting bids, selecting vendors, keeping track of work schedules, checking on work-site progress and being available to the work crew for questions. Thank you, Raelyn, for all the time and effort you have put into this and the many previous building improvement projects.

The expenses incurred in maintaining our church and its missions continue to exceed our income. Please remember to consider the financial needs of your church, and continue to support the operation of our church by making your weekly offerings even if you continue to worship from home for a while longer.

You can send your weekly offering or any other donation via regular mail to the Hobe Sound Community Presbyterian Church, 11933 SE Juno Crescent, Hobe Sound, FL 33455, or drop it off at the church office during office hours, M-Th, 9 til noon. In addition, a link for on-line donations is available on the church website or by clicking the link below.

THE CHURCH OFFICE hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM til noon.

PASTOR PAUL’S OFFICE HOURS are Monday through Thursday, 9:30AM to 12:00 noon. If you want to meet with him, check ahead since he often has morning commitments outside of the office. He is available at other times by appointment.

CHURCH WEBSITE: www.heartofhobesound.org

2 Ruth LaPrise

6 Arline Holloway

7 Sylvia Ryan

11 Lilly Rodrigues

17 Jim Wiggin

19 Stan Ball

2 John and Connie Frazee

9 Barry and Cecile Stringfield

21 Linda and Todd Croyle

(If we have missed your birthday or anniversary, please let us know so you can be included here for the rest of the month.)

This request should be made to Karen Metzger, kmmetz@bellsouth.net, or 772 220-4678, or to Diane Atkisson in the church office. phone – 772-546-5043, email – church@heartofhobesound.org or through the prayer request card found in the Church pew rack.

Gary Shriver

Alan Reddish

Ellen Hamlin

Klaus Mann

John Frazee

Jan Norrish

Joan Benedict

2/25/24 Mary Dietz

2/25/24 Mary Sexton

3/19/24 Barbara McCalla

Roy Hamlin

Arline Holloway

Joyce Anne Hamlin

Elliot Phillips

Bob Atkisson

Frank Lund

Anne Linman

Sabrina Morse

Jim Wiggin

2/25/24 Claudia Hochl

To request prayers through the Prayer Circle, for yourself or someone else, contact Jan Norrish, 772-486-5514, jannorrish@hotmail.com,

To have a prayer request included in the Church Sunday bulletin and the MESSENGER, fill out the prayer request card found in the Church pews or contact the church office, phone – 772 546-5043, email - church@heartofhobesound.org

HSCPC WEBSITE: The MESSENGER is posted on our website each week. If you want to check content from a previous week, just go to www.heartofhobesound.org and click on the Newsletter link.