April 14 is Youth Sunday

Dear Friends,

It is with great joy that you are invited to explore Psalm 30 and Acts 3:1-10 with our Youth this Sunday!

The Youth have been preparing prayers, art, and sermons for the Youth Sunday worship since the beginning of January. It is a wonderful gift to experience God’s word to us embodied in the lives of our young people.

Join us Sunday when I anticipate that you, too, will see the image of God in each Youth. 

Grace and peace,



René Prager

Art by Claire Farmer

Usher sign up link:  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0948acab2dabf49-fpcusher

Lay Reader sign up link:  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0948acab2dabf49-scripture

link for online worship:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfpzVUz-ZgaCJuogIMor8Iw/live

link to Ellen's sermon podcasts:  https://bit.ly/Sermons_FPCConcord

I know, we are excited too! Please use this link: https://firstpresconcord.org/ to register TODAY!

VBS Week (June 10-13) is FREE, but advance registration is required.

This year’s theme is: The Olympics – Celebrating ALL of God’s Children. We will embrace the Olympic spirit – building a peaceful and better world (Olympics.com) – through movement and games, art and community service, and song and celebration! Please also mark your calendars for Sunday, June 16^th – ALL VBS participants are invited and encouraged to attend worship, where we will help to lead the congregation in one of our VBS songs!

We are still looking for VBS Volunteers – for both advance preparation items, as well as week of VBS assistance. If you are able to help, please use this link to sign-up: VBS 2024: VBS Volunteers (signupgenius.com) or contact Bill Cochran. 

Habitat for Humanity

Always wanted to participate in building a Habitat for Humanity home, but reluctant to sign up because you’re not sure which end of a hammer you’re supposed to hold? Well, here is your chance. All you need to know is how to dig a hole, drop in a plant, and spread mulch. First Presbyterian has been asked by Habitat Cabarrus to provide a team to help landscape an almost-completed home. What could be more fun than spending a spring morning just before Earth Week with some of your First Pres family and beautifying a new home for one of our neighbors?

We need a maximum of 10 people at 8:30 AM, next Monday morning, April 15 (rain date will be the 16^th), to plant flowers and shrubbery at the home site in Concord. Details are in the signup link below.

This will have to be limited to the first 10 people who sign up, so please use the Signup Genius link to let us know you are coming.

PW Spring Event!

Join us a week from Saturday, April 20th, in Davis Hall for the

Presbyterian Women's Spring Nurture Brunch beginning at 10:00 AM.

Lucy Painter will discuss the Enneagram Personality System.

Sign up here or call 704-788-2100, #7 by Sunday, April 14.

Earth Month at First Presbyterian ...

April 22nd is Earth Day, but the entire month is recognized world wide as a time to study and reflect on our earth. 

Two opportunities to do so here on campus are:

• Our Common Home prayer stations in the Commons starting Saturday, April 20th. Visit for a brief time of reflection on specific concerns for the earth at temporary stations. They will remain up through the end of April.

• Our Common Home Q & A with Casey  On EARTH DAY, Monday, April 22nd from 4-4:45 PM. Join us to hear about topics our denomination will be considering at General Assembly this year. Casey, our Presbytery’s representative on the Environmental and Justice Committee, will be considering overtures that may be presented at GA in July, including big topics like Divestment from Fossil Fuels, Plastic Pollution, Lithium Mining and Environmental Justice & the Cost of Green Transitions. He will also bring us up to speed on the denomination's past environmental work. A brief gathering in the Commons and a sampling of the earth’s bounty of fruits and vegetables with a focus on ones unfamiliar to us. Consider bringing one idea or change you have made in an effort to spare our earth. Sharing, sampling, learning and being encouraged….join us!

April Lunch Bunch

High School Graduation

On Sunday, we recognized and celebrated our graduating high school seniors. Thank you to Presbyterian Women for coordinating and hosting a wonderful brunch and to the Christian Education committee for the gifts for our seniors.

Sam Davis, Claire Farmer, Aubrey Griffin, Emerson Lisk, Keaton Newton, Charlotte Ostema, Bryson Stancil and Gregory Watson.

If you missed worship on Sunday, you are invited to pick up your gift in the Fellowship House.