Ministries
Bulletin – April 20, 2025
Flowers for the Cross This year we continue our tradition of placing flowers on the cross on Easter Sunday morning. Please help celebrate new life in Christ by bringing flowers, from your yards or local grocery, and placing them on or at the base of the cross outside and in the sanctuary. One Great Hour of Sharing The One Great Hour of Sharing offering will be received on Easter Sunday morning. A gift to One Great Hour of Sharing enables the…
Bulletin – March 30, 2025
Matt’s Habitat House Update There are two FPC volunteer opportunities on Wednesday, April 9 and three FPC volunteer opportunities available on Friday, April 11 to paint doors and interior rooms. Contact Gary Tucker at 423-378-5419 or tuck ersbigblue@chartertn.net. FPC volunteers are providing lunch on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
What’s So Great About the Great Commandment? March Bible Study Wednesdays March 12, 19, 26
When Christianity loses it way, we forget to keep first things first. So did the Jews of Jesus’ era. They had lost sight of the essentials. Jesus had an ongoing debate with Jewish leaders who accused him of veering off the truth. Four times they corner him in the Temple to catch him in error. In one case a scribe asks him “Which is the greatest command?” He was not seeking an answer but gathering evidence to entrap Jesus in…
Day of Service Second Harvest Food Bank April 16, 2025
First Presbyterian Church volunteers will be working at Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee on Wednesday, April 16. Please join us if you can! Call or text Bob Stoots at (423-782-6280) to sign up and register your time preference; morning (9am-11am) or afternoon (1pm-3pm)!
Bulletin – March 9, 2025
Handbell Showcase The Kingsport Music Club will present “A Handbell Showcase” on Sunday, March 9 at 3:00 p.m. in our Fellowship Center. The showcase will feature bell choirs from the Church Circle churches, including our own Westminster Ringers, under the direction of Tammie Davis. All are welcome. Free and open to the public. Doors open at 2:30 p.m.
2025 Lenten Devotional
Lent 2025 Devotion from the Presbyterian Outlook Limited hard copies will be available at church. From the introduction by the author: The wilderness of Lent, this 40-day journey with Jesus, is a journey of grief. We prepare ourselves to lose Jesus on the cross. We boldly lean into the pain of this loss to remind us of our love for Christ and of God’s love for us. But the hope of Christ’s death rests in the new life it offers. Resurrection…
