FRC Calendar

BREAKING NEWS

🥳🎉⛪Hold onto your church pews because registration for our 175th Anniversary Celebration event launches on Tue., April 1st! And no, this is NOT an April Fools’ joke—we’re serious about celebrating 175 years of God’s goodness! Check out the fun in today’s bulletin insert and keep an eye on your email inbox for the registration link! Or, early birds, just click HERE to secure your spot for our June 1st celebration event and giveaway! 💻 Not an email person? No worries! You can register at frcoostburg.org, swing by the Welcome Center, or stop into the church office where we’ll register you with a smile! 🚨 IMPORTANT DEADLINE ALERT! 🚨Registration closes on April 15th—a.k.a. Tax Day (because nothing says “deadline” like Uncle Sam knocking on your door). PS: This one’s not a community event—it’s a special celebration for those connected with FRC! So if that’s you, sign up, and let’s celebrate! 🎊

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

T-3 Days…Yikes, time flies. FAMILIES- we’re hosting the Resurrection Easter Egg Hunt on April 9th. After a quick bite to eat at the Wed. Nite Family meal, help your kids hunt for eggs that contain a key piece to the Easter story and then turn their eggs in for fun prizes that will, we suspect, provide indefinite amounts of energy! This event takes preparation so April 2nd is the registration deadline. If you have young kids then just sign up HERE for the family meal and we’ll assume participation in the egg hunt!

T-3 Days…Thank you to all who’ve signed up to provide goodies for the Resurrection Easter Egg Hunt. FRC’ers, at the time of print, there’s just a few more things to donate. Would you help? (click HERE, go to frcoostburg.org or talk to the Welcome Center)! Please drop off items to the FRC Office no later than Wed., April 2nd!

T-4 Days…Shoppers: we are also in need of more empty egg cartons for the Egg Hunt. Could you put “breakfast for supper” on your menu this week and drop the empty carton off in FRC’s kitchen by Thur., April 3rd?!!

T-7 days..to drop off those special food items for our April food pick-up. As we went to print, there were just a few items left to fill those boxes. Please sign up HERE, to help out! Please drop items off by Sun., April 7.

T-9 Days…Come join the last Wed. Nite Family Meal of the season on April 9th. We’re celebrating with pulled pork (and hot dogs), baked beans, coleslaw, chips and special homemade tortes and pies! FRC BAKERS - could we ask you to please help us out and donate a torte or pie by signing up HERE (or sign-up at the Welcome Center). 🙏🙏

IN OTHER NEWS

Choir Alumni - let’s get back to the loft for these two fabulous opportunities!  First - let’s pull out all the voices for the Easter morning anthem: Practice Schedule: April 9 & April 16, 7:30–8:00 PM in the sanctuary. The second opportunity is to create a mass choir for our 175th anniversary celebration on June 1st! Practice Schedule: Short post-worship practices on May 11 & May 18. What an opportunity for a reunion. And if you haven’t been in choir but have vocal skills (praise team, music festival qualifiers … we know who you are!). Let’s do it singers!

🔔 Attention, Bell Ringers! 🔔 Your tentative practice schedule for the 175th Service is as follows: 📅 April 23, 30, May 21, 28 at 🕕 6:00 PM sharp (or slightly offbeat—hey, it happens). If you’ve committed to ringing on June 1, please answer the call (or, you know, just text/email) Amy Wilterdink to confirm whether you ARE or ARE NOT available for these practice dates. Let’s make some joyful noise (preferably in sync which is why we are practicing)! 🎶😂

175th Anniversary Fun Facts: The answer to last week’s trivia: the gentleman playing the organ (dedicated in 1954) was FRC’s very own, Rev. Albert TenClay. We did not realize playing organ was a pastoral requirement, so we’ll get Pastor Bob signed up for lessons asap. This will be entertaining. The organ pictured is indeed the one we currently have in the sanctuary and although there was a bit of damage from the fire of 1987, it was refurbished.

Our High Five group is leaving this Saturday at 4:30 pm for their annual retreat. Please pray for both the students and their leaders as they seek to provide an experience of growing in personal faith.

👶🍼We’re having another explosion of babies at FRC. Second year in a row it is recommended the Eernisse and Mission Circles refrain from drinking the water🥤🤷…Congratulations to Nick & Courtney Hilbelink on the birth of Brynn Elizabeth!

AND…✔️CHECK IT OUT

✔️We could sure use some help replenishing our cookie supply for after-church cookies & coffee fellowship…we are running on fumes🚙💨, as they say. Sign up HERE, on frcoostburg.org or at the Welcome Center.

✔️Just a reminder that there is no Sunday School today for 3yr - 12th grade (spring break). However the Prayer Study Class (10:15 AM) and Apologetics (4 PM) each meet today.

✔️Stats from Last Week: attendance last Sunday was 294 and the offering totalled $15,799. The Special Offering month-to-date total is $3,389.

✔️Special Offering Recipients for March & April timeframe are Kyle & Jayne Wenig with Athletes In Action and Bob Abel with Remember Nhu. If you have a preference as to where your dollars go, please write it on your envelope. Undesignated donations will be split between the two partners.