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First Evangelical Presbyterian Church

Wednesday Evenings

In addition to the Bible study “First Con-

versations With God” at 6:30, Kathy

Roberts will be conducting a study entitled

“Survival Kit” on Wednesday evenings

here at the church at 5:30 p.m. Come join

us for a wonderful mid– week Bible study!

A Reminder!!!

Thank you for your support with contri-

butions of peanut butter in February for

Texas Boys Ranch . We will be collect-

ing pork-n-beans for March. You may

bring your contributions and leave them

in the business office. These contribu-

tions help them so much and are greatly

appreciated!

Remember that

Daylight Savings

Time will go back

into effect on

March 11th. Re-

member to

Spring Forward

one hour.

Our church choir

members will be

joining the First

United Methodist

Choir in the pres-

entation of the

Easter Cantata,

This We Believe on Palm Sunday,

March 25th.

This will be pre-

sented here in

our sanctuary at

10:45. A pot

luck luncheon

will follow in the

gym. Meat, veg-

gies & salads

Needed. Choir

will provide des-

serts.

We are giving you the

opportunity to give

Easter lilies in memory

of those you wish

honor for Easter. There

will be forms in the bul-

letin for the next three

Sundays to fill out with

the information on

it .The lilies will be $12

Holy Week Schedule Sunday, March 25th Palm Sunday 10:45 a.m. Presentation of This We Be-lieve Potluck luncheon following Thursday, March 29th Maundy Thursday 6:00 p.m. Dinner, devotion, communion & viewing of “The Passion of the Christ” at 7:00 p.m. Friday, March 30th Good Friday Service 6:30 p.m. Service of Darkness Easter Sunday April 1st 7:36 a.m.Sunrise Service, Brashear Park & Breakfast at the church Morning Service 10:40 a.m. Bring Family and friends to worship & fellowship with us!

March Session Meeting

The March Session meeting will be held on

Wednesday, March 21th at 6:30 p.m.

Session members please mark your

calendars.

We will be holding a church meeting on Satur-

day morning, March 10th at 9:00 a.m. to fur-

ther address security measures we need to put

in place to insure the safety for our members

and visitors at events going on here at the

church. Please make plans to be present and

to offer your input on how the most effective

way to make this happen. See you here!

Please visit our new website at

fpc-levelland.org

Lynn Hale—5th

Alan Altman—9th

Mac Davis—14th

Mark Holcomb—14th

Blaine Altman—14th

Abigail Martinez—21st

Mikaley Roberts—23rd

Robert Pearce—23rd

JoAnn DeNitto—24th

Joel Adams—27th

Sharla Methvin—30th

Stan & Jill Roberts—14th

Bruce & Sherri Turnipseed—14th

From The Session . . . The monthly session meeting was held Wednesday, February 21st at 6:30. The regular business was conducted and new business was discussed. The purchase of a professional carpet cleaner was ap-proved. Our Maundy Thursday event will be celebrated by a dinner, devotion, and the viewing of the movie, “Passion of Christ.” A letter of transfer has been re-ceived for Ron & Susan Nicholas and a home meeting will be scheduled.

Dear Church: Thank you for your contin-

ued support of us. We couldn’t do what

we do without you. Your support keeps

our center and meals on wheels going!

Sincerely, Ashley Scifres

Dear Church:

Thank you for your continued donations to

our ranch pantry each month with different

items. Your contributions make a differ-

ence in each child’s life.

May God bless you all!

Jay Hanley, Church Relations Officer,

Texas Boys Ranch

Are you troubled, burdened, tired, ready for Jesus to come and take you away from this life? Most of us would say yes! We would eagerly jump at any kind of relief from the strains of life and would consider it to be pure perfection if Jesus took all of our stress away. Many people today are looking forward to the second coming because they be-lieve the promises that their struggles will end when he comes. This is a great and true promise from the word of God and it will come to pass and we will live with Him in paradise. But isn’t the rest we seek from Christ already there for us? We know The truth is that Jesus has already come to us to ease our burdens. He invites you to come to him in faith so that you can be relieved of stresses of life.

Jesus came from heaven over 2000 years ago to save you. In your lifetime He has called you many times to come to him. He has done miracle after mira-cle in your life in order to bring you to faith in Him. The Holy Spirit is working in you to bring you to faith make you into the person he means for you to be. He gently calls you into a continuous relationship with him through which he promises to ease your burdens.

You know that you should be thank-ful to receive his grace, yet you still have a hard time fully living by faith in Him. You know you should come to him and rely on him always, but you have a hard time doing it enough? Why do you think that is? It’s because your brain is not wired to rest in Jesus. You inherited a re-lationship with God that is broken by sin. Your heart of flesh does not want to trust anyone but itself or something it can control. You have lived your whole life not depending on him. One miracle, or a series of miracles, will not change the fact that you are physically handicapped in your ability to trust him. You cer-tainly know that miracles have been done for you, and you know God calls you to let him carry your bur-dens but when you are under stress; but when you are stressed, your new knowledge will be easily overcome by old experience. You will not act in faith, but in accordance with the dominant programming of your brain. The answer is that He calls you into a continuous abiding rela-tionship with Him so that He can re-new your mind by grace so that you will thrive in life with Him. This calling is for you and for people around you to know the grace of God in their lives. Holy Week gives us the opportunity to reflect on the humiliation and agony that Christ suffered for us, so that our burden of ll thrive in life with Him.

sin would be lifted and we can know the

love and salvation of God.

Maundy (Holy) Thursday March 29th events will be a little different this year. We will hold a meal and meditation time with the theme of the last supper at 6:00 pm and then view the movie The Passion of the Christ in the sanctu-

ary starting at 7pm. Please invite

your friends and family to join us for

this special event! Jon