First Christian Church

Next Sunday evening we will gather in the coolness of the Family Life Center or outside in the Prayer Garden if the weather is pleasant. 

We will gather at 6:30pm to celebrate our country through patriotic music by the choir and a patriotic meditation by Edd.

After the service the Fellowship Mission will provide Ice Cream and all the trimmings.

Tomorrow evening when it is nice and cool, consider coming to church at 6:30 pm to help spread mulch in the flower gardens in front of the church and the Prayer Garden.

Nickey Rudd is providing the mulch. Mack Carpenter is providing cool refreshments of fruit and drink.

 Come and help make our church grounds beautiful.

Junior Camp            June 7-11, 2010

CYF Camp     June 7-11, 2010, Giltner Hall

For those completing the 9th, 10th, & 12th Grades

Chi Rho Camp     June 7-11, 2010, Giltner Hall

For those completing 6th, 7th, & 8th Grades

Fine Arts Camp     June 20-25, 2010

Fine Arts Camp held at Noah’s Ark Christian Retreat Center in Panama City, Florida

Applications will be available on the website

FCC will pay ½ the camp fee for any of our youths that wish to attend.  

The Sacred Harp singers love to come to First Christian Church for their National Convention! The accommodations, your warm reception for those attending (both singers and listeners) are helpful in making this a memorable event in our lives.  This is the third year at our church, and the thirty-first year of the National Convention.

This is not a pilgrimage, but singers will come from many states: Maine to California, Florida to Oregon, and also from England and Canada.  It is an opportunity to join fellow singers in a cappella songs of praise and inspiration.  Most will be from throughout Alabama because of the church being located among the many devotees living here.

There is no charge for attendance nor is there a charge for refreshments and lunch each day.  Some people living near bring food, but it is primarily arranged by a family who brings basic food along with fried chicken, ham, etc.  They have done this for years, and their food service contacts prepare the food. You are encouraged to prepare and share dishes you wish to bring.

We take up an offering each day to pay for the food and other expenses including a contribution for the hospitality of First Christian Church.  Help from our congregation is needed in making everything go smoothly: greeting people, parking cars, giving guidance to our facilities, making visitors glad they came here.

Visitors are encouraged to sing along.  Pick up a "loaner book", sit in the section where you prefer to sing and join in the songs you choose.  So you make a mistake - nobody cares - enjoy.  The sections are:  alto in the chancel area, bass in front left as you face the chancel area, treble in front right (this is the highest tone), and tenor sits in the main seating area, and always as near as possible to the front facing the designated leader. Tenor is the melody part and most people will sing this part. Listeners may sit wherever you choose.  

The volume will be loud, as most songs are sung at full voice.   The singing starts promptly at 9:30 a.m.   The officers each direct a song each day before others are called on to direct their song choice.  As a vice-chair of the singing, yours truly will be one of the first three people directing each day.  This should get you out early!   During this beginning of each day, people are arriving, finding their seats and settling in.   So to keep confusion minimal - come early!     Hubert Nall

One June 13, we will have a worship service in the prayer garden at 6:30pm with a Blessing of the Pets and a memorial for our pets that we have lost. Bring your family pet, on a leash or in a cage please, and join us for this service. The Fellowship Mission will be serving refreshments. If you have lost a loved pet within the last couple of years and would like to have your family pet remembered at this service, please let the church office know.

Mark your calendars! FCC’s Food, Fun and Fitness Camp will be here soon. The week of June 7 – 11, from 9:00 -12:00, your children and grand children will enjoy a week of discovering how our bodies are the temple of God through cooking fun, nutritious food, learning about healthy food choices, designing their own aprons and cookbooks, and having fun playing active fun filled fitness games. Registration cost is $40.00 for non-members and $20.00 for children or grandchildren of members.

Please see the document posted to this event, it is a document describing the camp in more detail, and the registration form which you can print and either mail or bring it to the church..

The Region is sponsoring its sixth region-wide Miracle Day, Saturday, June 5, at First Christian Church, Anniston.

The host congregation is celebrating its 125th birthday this same weekend with Gen. Minister/President, Sharon Watkins, as guest.

Our FCC coordinator is George Dudley. Many projects are planned for Miracle Day as the congregation is seeking to make enhancements to its facilities to help them move into a bright future, even as they celebrate a rich history.

Those wishing to help please contact George Dudley.

It is time to reserve your slot as a Camp High Hopes counselor.

Each year, for 30 years or more, First Christian Church Outreach sponsors a weekend camp for mentally challenged adults from Jefferson, Shelby, and Chilton counties.

Those who are looking for a way to contribute their time for the service of others should take advantage of this experience. It is also fun.

Counselors participate with the campers in an array of recreational experiences: horseback riding, swimming, fishing, motorcycle riding and dancing to a live band.

The camp is conducted at YMCA Hargis and will be on the weekend of June 5th - 6th . Please contact Jim Langley at 980-1827 with any questions and to reserve your slot. A sign-up sheet will be in the narthex in May.

How well do you remember your fairy tales? Can you picture the villain or the wicked character that we were so frightened of long ago? Or course we do remember how they all ended…happily ever after.

The Seasoned Performers are performing a short play for us with rejected villains and no longer needed bad guys. What fun! 

We have invited the players to join us for lunch and then we will sit back and have a good laugh. May 26th at noon… hope you can come and bring a friend, or maybe an old retired ogre or two. Sign up as soon as you can. 

Janet

We are in the process of studying the book of James.

James says, "Faith without works is dead". This is one reason Martin Luther did not want the book of James to be in the Bible.

We should have some lively discussion about that.

Please come and join us as we seek to find the answers the Holy Spirit reveals tous as we learn together. 

Judy Dudley