FRC Calendar

📸NEWS FLASH

🚨Last Call🚨 to get your RSVP in (today please) for this Wednesday’s Family Meal. Give your carbs a boost with a baked potato bar and ice cream for dessert. Stop at the Welcome Center, go to frcoostburg.org or click HERE.

🎉 New Year, New Adventures! 🚗💨Starting TODAY, we’re bringing to you Bible Backroads - a fun-filled, fast-paced 6-week adult education video series featuring Dave Stotts! 🎬✨Some may know Dave as the engaging host of the Drive Thru History series, and he’ll be guiding us through the Gospel of John (yup, a compliment to the sermon series, also based on John)! We’ll be diving into history, geography, archaeology, and powerful messages. We pray the Sermon Discussion class will exercise forgiveness🙏 for us embarking on this 6-week detour! This study, which will meet after the morning service on the northside of the Fellowship Hall, will be lively, entertaining and an educational journey for all adults! Grab a cup of coffee and join us for the adventure!

The Adventure Continues! Adults - get ready to dive into the world of BIG ideas and tough questions because the Sunday late-afternoon Bible Study is revving up on Feb. 2nd at 4 PM with the launch of Apologetics – a mind-opening video series led by Chad Ragsdale from Ozark Christian College! Wait... Apologetics? 🤔 Never heard of it? Well, apologetics isn’t about saying “sorry” – it’s about defending and explaining what we believe, especially when those tough questions or criticisms pop up! This study will help you wrestle with hard questions and learn to effectively communicate and engage with our culture! Join us for this exciting journey in faith, logic, and exploration. Let’s answer the tough questions together and grow stronger in what we believe! 💡

Venmo Users - for those of you who pay FRC via Venmo, note that FRC’s handle has changed to @Frc-Oost. No action required. We’re just letting you know that you haven’t lost your mind (at least not on our watch).

📰📢 HEADLINERS 

Today is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. Please take an opportunity to pray that people will view every human life as valuable, and a gift from God that should be respected and protected. And pray that individuals in challenging situations will seek out solutions that promote positive alternatives, such as engaging with Anchor of Hope in Sheboygan. We are thankful for your donations over the past month to support their efforts. The table is overflowing! We plan to leave it up throughout this week so please drop off your donations by Friday, January 24th!

Let’s Make a Deal! We’re creating the March - June Sunday Morning Coffee & Cookie Serving Crew schedule. This is a fun service opportunity…think of it. If you’re the one putting cookies on platters, naturally you have access to select and reserve your favorite cookie before the line forms! 🍪🥳 What a deal. Simply email Joan Dykstra at opadykstra@wi.rr.com or text/call Joan at 920-226-0312.  PS: instructions are provided and/or you can shadow someone on a different week if you’re signing up for the first time. Let’s be proactive - contact Joan today! 

Reformed Rebuilder Sequel … We have very astute readers out there who have let us know the weeks advertised to possibly help rebuild in Rock Valley, IA crossover the Easter holiday! We’re working with World Renew to find new dates. However, please do sign up HERE if you are interested in hearing more about this opportunity to help flood victims in Rock Valley rebuild their lives. There is a wide-variety of work available so don’t let your lack of experience with drywall, roof shingles or siding hold you back (although, we’d LOVE for a few individuals with skills in the construction trade to sign up to hear about the opportunity)! 

Fifth graders - make sure to have your mom or dad check their email regarding our January outing to Frozen Fairways for ice skating and other winter fun on Jan 26 from 12:30-3:30. ⛸️🧊 

🥶❄️Frigid Temps! Someone is going to be awfully cold tomorrow if you don’t retrieve your stuff out of the Lost and Found. There’s some other nice things there - please go take a glance at the Lost and Found table which is in the hallway on the way to the Fellowship Hall. It’s about T-2 weeks before we donate these unclaimed items! 

🤠 WEEKLY ROUND UP

☑️At last week’s food pick-up 18 volunteers had a part in preparing and serving 33 families (totalling 103 people). Each family received $150 worth of groceries which means a total of $4,950 in food was given (FRC paid $412.50)!  

☑️Our Christian sympathy to Vonnie & Cal Wynveen in the passing of Marjorie Daane, Vonnie’s sister. Also, to both Ruth Ann & Don Draayers and Linda Vande Weele in the passing of Dale Brasser (Ruth Ann’s brother and Linda’s brother-in law).

❄️High School Silver Birch Retreat!  Will be Feb 21st - 23rd with speaker Luke Schouten talking about Who Do You Want Me To Be? The online link to the Encompass Winter Retreat sign-up has been emailed out to high school families (or, Online Readers, click HERE) and contains the link to the retreat brochure as well. Cost is $75.

🛑Ladies in the Eernisse and Missions Circles, you may pick up your Bible Study Book ("The Twelve Disciples") at the Welcome Center. Not a lot of them were picked up last week. Are you not reading the bulletin????! 😢

🔢The January 12th attendance hit 369 and the offering came in at $38,918 (not a typo)!  The month-to-date special offering is at $584.67. 

Connect With Us!  Join us for cookies & coffee after the service. Just exit left out of the Sanctuary and follow people to the Fellowship Room!  for All Ages at 10:15 AM! 

Stop at the Welcome Center for more information! 

The Special Offering options for January & February are Pastor Elijah (Living Hope Uganda) and Love INC’s Refugee Resettlement program. If you have a preference for your donation, simply mark your envelope. Undesignated monies will be split between the two. 

Save the Date!  Sun., June 1st 

A 175th Anniversary Celebration You Won’t Want to Miss! ‍

Great food, inflatables, the infamous ga ga pit, family photo booth, lunch, musical acts, and more!