First Notes - Updated Weekly
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
406 Grant Street, Wausau, Wisconsin 54403-4788
Office Hours: 8 am - 4 pm Monday – Thursday; Friday 8:00 - Noon
Phone: (715) 842-2116
Prayer Chain:
prayerchain54403@yahoo.com
Winnebago Presbytery – Synod of Lakes & Prairies -- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Children are always welcome in
worship! Nursery Care is available on the second floor any time
during worship for children ages birth – 6 years. Be sure to
notify the nursery worker that your child is present and identify
yourself to the volunteer. It is also necessary to sign your child
in using the log just inside the nursery door. For children in
worship, there are activity bags and children’s bulletins
available from the ushers.
Free parking is available at the YMCA across 4th Street on Sunday
mornings.
Large print bulletins, hymnals, Bibles and
personal listening devices are on the tables near the doors.
Newsletters and sermons are in the literature racks near the
entrance, and also on the church’s website.
Deacon Prayer Cards are bright yellow and are available in
the pew racks in front of you. Use these to write a brief note of
encouragement to someone you have been remembering in prayer. Please
drop these yellow cards in the offering plate and we will mail these
to those individuals this week.
The Deadline for announcements for First Notes is 9:00 a.m. on
Tuesday each week.
March 7, 2010
PARTICIPANTS IN TODAY’S SERVICE
Sermon Rev. Stephen H. Wright
Liturgist
Rev. Joy Nelson-Jeffers, Jann Slayton
Bell Ringer Emily Exline
Calling All Kids Rev. Wright
Organist
Susan Schaefer
Choir Chancel Choir
Nursery Lee and Peggy Olbrantz
Minute for Mission Deacons
Greeters Hospitality
Doorkeeper David Neitzel
The flowers today are from the Ruth Gunckel Memorial Fund.
Christian Education: No Church School classes today. Children
are invited to participate in the communion service. Middle School
and confirmation classes will meet next Sunday, March 14. Rev.
Wright’s class on Corinthians continues today after worship, in the
Chapel.
Today join us at 2:00 PM for a Lenten communion service. We
will gather in the chapel as we celebrate the Lord's Supper in
service which will be followed by coffee and tea around tables in
the parlor. The Deacons welcome your participation. Contact Rev. Joy
Nelson-Jeffers if you need a ride or would like to help.
Community Supper: Last Sunday St. John’s Lutheran Church
Youth Group served 131 hot meals. This week the Universal Unitarian
Church will serve a spaghetti dinner at 4:00 pm. There is no charge
for this meal and all are welcome.
Thank you for the 19 food items donated by members for the
Food Pantry this week and for the 167 items donated by the First
United Methodist Church. Thanks also for the many donations of
clothing! The Food Pantry needs plastic bags. This week we
served 76 families which will feed 217 people.
Prayer Families: Each week five families or individuals are
selected at random to be lifted up in prayer. These folks may or may
not have specific needs. You are invited to join the
staff in praying for these members of our church family this week:
Becky Austin (Jilisa, Katelyn, Levi), Myra Boatman, Denis Burgess,
Glenn and Ruth Dettinger, Kipp and Linda Exline, (Doran and Emily).
A bus trip to Milwaukee to view the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit
is scheduled for Saturday, April 17. We must have reservations as
soon as possible in order to secure tickets for the exhibit. The
sign-up sheet is on the Action Desk in the Parlor. Contact Marilyn
Paulson at church for more information.
CPR and First Aid classes are scheduled for Saturday, March
20. Please sign up at the Action Desk in the Parlor as soon as
possible. Contact our Parish Nurse, Rosemary Forbes or Marilyn
Paulson at church for more information.
Lenten Organ Recitals, Fridays 12:15 to 12:45 p.m – Each
Friday in Lent, the Wisconsin River Chapter of the American Guild of
Organists will present a recital of music for Lenten meditation.
Held at Zion Lutheran Church, Sixth and Grant Streets, on the
newly-installed Kegg organ, each week will feature a different
member of our local AGO. This Friday, March 12, we will hear Bill
Messerschmidt of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Wausau. Come and
enjoy a peaceful time of good music.
As many of you know, a new pictorial church directory is in
the making! March 14th will be the first day you can sign up to have
your picture taken. We will have two sign-up areas; one in the
Parlor and one in the Coatroom. Please sign up early when the most
time slots are available.
Plan to participate in our Maundy Thursday worship service on
Thursday, April 1st. We will start with a meal of soup and
bread in the Fellowship Hall at 6:00 p.m., and then hold
worship and communion around the tables. If you are planning to come
to this dinner and service, please let us know in advance so that we
can plan for an approximate number. This is NOT a reservation –
simply an approximate count for planning purposes.
Holy Week Services
Palm Sunday, March 28: Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. in the
Sanctuary
Maundy Thursday, April 1: 6:00 p.m. meal in the Fellowship
Hall, followed by Communion
Good Friday, April 2: Worship Service at 12:30 p.m. in the
Sanctuary
Easter Sunday, April 4: Sunrise Service at 6:30 a.m. at Blue
Gill Park
Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary
Children’s Easter Egg Hunt following Worship
Events and Activities for March 7-14, 2010
Sunday 07-Mar
9:15-11 AM Nursery Care Provided
10:00 AM Worship
11:00 AM Study-Peacemaking in Corinthians
11:00 AM Fellowship Time; Worship Troupe
2:00 PM Afternoon Communion Service
4:00 PM Footstep Fellowship
4-5:10 PM Community Supper
Monday 08-Mar
5:30 PM Christian Education Meeting
7:00 PM Hallelu! Rehearsal-Band
Tuesday 09-Mar
9:00 AM Aspirus Exercise Class
10:00 AM Staff Meeting
5:30 PM Worship Committee Mtg.
Wednesday 10-Mar
6:30 AM Abby Fellowship
9:30 AM Coe and Macalaster Circles
4:00 PM New Creation Singers
5:30-7 PM Youth Group
6:00 PM Handbell Choir
7:00 PM Chancel Choir
Thursday 11-Mar
8:30 AM Men's Discussion Group
9:00 AM Aspirus Exercise Class
4:00 PM TIP
Friday 12-Mar
12:15 PM Lenten Organ Recital/Zion Lutheran
1:00 PM Pro Musica Rehearsal
Sunday 14-Mar Daylight Savings Time
Begins
8:45 AM Confirmation Class
9:00 AM Middle School Class
9:15-11 AM Nursery Care Provided
10:00 AM Worship
10:15 AM Church School (ages 3-gr. 5)
11:00 AM Fellowship Time; Worship Troupe
11:15 AM Study-Peacemaking in Corinthians
4:00 PM Footstep Fellowship
4-5:10 PM Community Supper
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Presbyterian Church Wausau