Current Events
Easter Sunday Memorial Flowers
Orders are now being taken for memorial flowers that will be used to decorate the sanctuary on Easter Sunday. We will be decorating the front of the sanctuary with lilies that will be available for $9.50 each, and tulips, available at $8.00 each. Following the worship service the purchased flowers may be taken home or donated to a
shut-in or those from our congregation who are unable to be a part of worship. To place your order please stop by the church office, call Pat Haight in the office at 978-
922-3295, or e-mail her at fbchaight@nii.net. Orders MUST be received by Friday, March 26th.
Corned Beef and Cabbage Luncheon
Join us next Sunday, March 14th, for a traditional meal of corned beef and cabbage at our after church luncheon. Gather with us in Wilbur Hall after worship to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day a little early and help support the 2010 Mission Trip to Oak Hill, West Virginia. If this St. Patty’s Day staple doesn’t tickle your taste buds we will also be preparing pasta and vegetables, and no matter which dish you choose, you’ll want to show up for dessert - homemade gingerbread and a hand-crafted whipped cream! Cost for the meal is $8.00 for adults and $5.00 for children. So mark your calendars and gather with us for this hearty Irish meal on Sunday, March 14th to support FBC’s 2010 Mission Trip! Your stomach, and the trip go-ers, will thank you!
Pennies (and then Nickels, Dimes, Quarters, and Dollars!) for Haiti
The Lent 2010 Service Project of our Children and Youth
It has become something of a tradition these past several years for the children and youth of our Education Hour classes to spend the Lenten season focusing on a service project that helps them to think about the living out of our faith and the call to follow Jesus. We began this endeavor by raising money for Heifer International (which is how we came to adopt Sebastian!); the next year we raised money for River House and created blankets for Project Linus; and last year we worked to collect items for Cradles to Crayons. Lent is here again, and this year’s service project is unveiled. It is called (drumroll, please!) Change for Change: Pennies for Haiti.
Through the weeks of Lent, our children and youth will be collecting coins of all kind for Haiti. Each week, we will collect and tally a different denomination, until we get to Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, on which we will accept bills of all kinds. The children and youth have set a goal to collect $1000 by the end of Easter – and they would be thrilled to go over this amount!
Here’s how you can help – if you are a parent or family of one of our youth, please help them collect change during the weeks – they can ask friends, teachers, family friends… or just collect the loose change that gathers in their pockets at the end of a day. Find a spot in your home to collect these coins for Haiti so that they will be ready to bring them on Sunday mornings. If you are a member of the congregation, please help our children and youth meet their goal by saving up your loose change–bring it along with you to drop in the container at the back of the sanctuary each Sunday. A tally will be kept of both collections (the children/youth collection and the wider congregational collection) as the children and youth are hereby challenging the congregation to bring in the most change!
The Change for Change collections will be as follows:
Sunday, February 28th – Pennies
Sunday, March 7th – Nickels
Sunday, March 14th – Dimes
Sunday, March 21st – Quarters
Sunday, March 28th (Palm Sunday) – Dollar bills
Sunday, April 4th (Easter Sunday) – Bills of all kinds and coins of all kinds!
Thank you in advance for helping to support our children and youth in their support of the people (and especially the children) of Haiti.