Congregational Update
February 4, 2021
This Sunday is the deadline for donations for the Souper Bowl of Caring campaign.

There are two ways to donate: at the church or online. 
 
If you shop online, you can choose grocery items listed on the site or a monetary amount. Everything online is going to the Real Life Children's Ranch and the items donated at the church are being split between them and Cross Ministries. 

The link to our church's page for the Souper Bowl of Caring is listed below. The link will show the Real Life Children's Ranch as the organization we are sponsoring, and everything you donate will go directly to them.

Click for the link to donate to the Souper Bowl here. 

If you would like to donate at the church, items can be dropped this week or on Sunday.
 
The campaign ends on Super Bowl Sunday, February 7th, and the Youth Group will be sorting the food after church.
 
Thank you for your support!
 

This Sunday's Worship
Everyone will receive an email containing our virtual worship service on Sunday.


Scripture

Numbers 6:22-27 
Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon Series: The Lord Bless and Keep You
Sermon: God's Favorites


Please print the bulletin for use at the service
A little bit about our music this week:
In 1772, Olivers was attending The Great Synagogue in London and heard Cantor Myer Lyon sing "Yigdal" in Hebrew during a service. He then paraphrased "Yigdal" in English and gave the hymn more of a Christian focus. The tune became "Leoni" after the Cantor’s name, Lyon. The Hebrew melody the cantor was using sings, “Magnify the living God.” (It’s our prelude this Sunday)
  Each hymn we sing is set to a named tune, and so we have hymns with the same tune but different lyrics just because new poetry fits the music. The solo, for Sunday is set to the tune Bunessan. Mary Macdonald (1789–1872), who lived near Bunessan and spoke only Gaelic, wrote her hymn "Leanabh an àigh" to a traditional Scottish melody. When the words were translated into English in the 1880s, the melody was named after the village of Bunessan. See if you recognize the melody of this popular folk song, (but it won’t be by the words.) Winners can hum along and enjoy this Sunday.
Missions Update:

Family Promise: This year we served 10 families with full program services.  These families had 22 children amongst their families. In addition, we served 8 families with services (no shelter). These families had 19 children amongst them. Even with all of congregations closing, we never stopped serving families in either of our CORE or LIFE programs. In addition, we did not have a single family in LIFE program fall back into homelessness. With so many of our families experiencing hardships and jobless due to COVID, this was a task on its own.
Please see the attached list of items that the families need for their new homes by clicking here. Please contact the Day Center at 561-318-8864 for drop off information.

African Havens: Please click here to read the latest news from David and Caroline Webb.

Feeding South Florida: Hear from Fred Cone who is currently serving our community. Read his message here if you would like to get involved with this outreach program.
If you have any prayer requests, please email Kelly at kelly@tequestapres.org

Are you in need of a pastoral visit? Pastor Dan would love to connect with you. To schedule a visit, please email Pastor Dan at dan@tequestapres.org or call the church office at 561-746-5161.

For all the links to our ZOOM gatherings, click here.
Thank you to everyone who has given online or by mail! Our combined generosity will enable us to be the church Christ calls us to be. You can give by clicking the “give online” button, by scanning the QR Code below with the camera app on your smart phone, or by mailing a check to our church office at:
FPC Tequesta
482 Tequesta Drive
Tequesta, FL 33469
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