April 2021 Newsletter

Click on the link to view the latest newsletter.

April 2021 Newsletter

Happy Easter...and have a great day!!

~ Carmen 

Holy Week Schedule 2021

Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. 

Thursday, April 1st - Maundy Thursday Service with Communion at 6 PM. 

Friday, April 2nd - Good Friday Tenebrae Service at 6 PM.

Saturday, April 3rd -  Men’s Breakfast at 8 AM coffee; will be on at 6:30.

Easter Sunday is April 4th. We will have our annual Easter Egg Hunt during the Sunday school hour. We will also be flowering the cross; please bring cut flowers.

YouTube Link:
FPCJ & HPC Easter 04042021

Announcements, Scripture for Sunday (3/28/2021)

Announcements:

• We need volunteers to play bells or direct for May 23rd. Practices will be Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning Tuesday, April 6th. Let Jim or Molly know as soon as possible if you are interested. Potentially the Bell Choir will practice and preform throughout the year.
• Thursday, April 1st will be the Maundy Thursday service with Communion at 6 PM.
• Friday, April 2nd will be the Good Friday Tenebrae service at 6 PM.
• Easter Sunday is April 4th. We will have our annual Easter Egg Hunt during the Sunday school hour.
• First United Methodist Church needs help with their First Blessing ministry on March 27th. They will be giving away shoes and socks to kids in need here in Kimble County. They will need about 30 volunteers at all levels of the event. If you'd like to volunteer call Tina Haynes at (512) 755-2029.

Scripture for Palm Sunday

Mark 11:1-11 (ESV)

1 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples 2 and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. 3 If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’” 4 And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. 5 And some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” 6 And they told them what Jesus had said, and they let them go. 7 And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. 8 And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. 9 And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! 10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!” 11 And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

Mark 15:1-15 (ESV)

1 And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate. 2 And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.” 3 And the chief priests accused him of many things. 4 And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.” 5 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed.

6 Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked. 7 And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas. 8 And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them. 9 And he answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?” 10 For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up. 11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead. 12 And Pilate again said to them, “Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?” 13 And they cried out again, “Crucify him.” 14 And Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him.” 15 So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

YouTube Link:

FPCJ & HPC Worship 03282021

Scripture for Sunday (3/21/2021)

Easter Week: 

• Next Sunday is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. 
• Thursday, April 1st - Maundy Thursday Service with Communion at 6 PM. 
• Friday, April 2nd - Good Friday Tenebrae Service at 6 PM.
• Easter Sunday is April 4th. We will have our annual Easter Egg Hunt during the Sunday school hour. If you could please bring bags of candy this week for us to stuff eggs.
• Easter Sunday we will be flowering the cross, please bring cut flowers.

Scriptures for Sunday
Psalm 51:1-12

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. [2] Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! [3] For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. [4] Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. [5] Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. [6] Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. [7] Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. [8] Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. [9] Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. [10] Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. [11] Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. [12] Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

John 12:20-33

Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. [21] So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." [22] Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. [23] And Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. [24] Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. [25] Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. [26] If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

[27] "Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? But for this purpose I have come to this hour. [28] Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." [29] The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him." [30] Jesus answered, "This voice has come for your sake, not mine. [31] Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out. [32] And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." [33] He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die.

YouTube Link:

FPCJ & HPC Worship 03212021

Announcements, Scripture for Sunday (3/14/2021)

Announcements:

• We are responsible for food at Wednesday’s Lenten Luncheon. We still need 3 or 4 dozen sandwiches and 3 or 4 more salads. Please call Dawn Keller at (830) 609-8463 if you can help.
• Daylight Savings is back. Sunday we will Spring Forward. Don't forget to set your clocks one hour ahead on Saturday before you go to bed!
• Worship Sunday evening in Roosevelt at 6 PM. 
• First United Methodist Church needs help with their First Blessing Ministry on March 27th. They will be giving away shoes and socks to kids in need here in Kimble County. They will need about 30 volunteers at all levels of the event. If you'd like to volunteer call Tina Haynes at (512) 755-2029.

Scripture for Sunday

John 2:13-22 (ESV)

13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

YouTube Link:
FPCJ & HPC Worship 03142021

Scripture for Sunday (3/7/2021)

Men’s Breakfast tomorrow morning (3/6/21) at 8 AM. Coffee will be on at 6:30 if you want to come early. On the menu: pancakes, sausage, bacon and eggs. 

See you tomorrow; bring a friend!

Scripture for Sunday
Mark 8:31-38 (ESV)

And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. [32] And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. [33] But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man." 

[34] And he called to him the crowd with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. [35] For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. [36] For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? [37] For what can a man give in return for his life? [38] For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

YouTube Link:

FPCJ & HPC Worship 03072021