Relay for Life

Hello All,

Just a quick update on Relay for Life - Emily and I will be at TR North at noon, Saturday May 22nd. If any parents or youth plan on attending be sure to connect with us! First Church will not have chaperones overnight, though, so parents please make sure your youth are adequately cared for if they are staying overnight.

Also, you can still donate to this worthy cause, if you'd like. Go to http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY10EA?pg=entry&fr_id=20924 and click "donate." Look for our team by typing in our team captain: Trevor or FUMCTR. Thanks for supporting the American Cancer Society and First UMC.

Around the Church:
May 23rd - confirmation Sunday and Pentecost. Wear red!
May 30th - Youth Council at 4pm 101 Walchest Drive
June 11th - Karaoke Coffehouse Fundraiser at 7pm in FLC
June 12th - Youth help at the Pancake Breakfast, 8-1030am in FLC

Our Summer schedule will be decided at our next youth council meeting so look for another message soon about future youth meetings. God bless!

Love Feast

Join us for our Love Feast this Sunday! We'll be eating a meal catered by Ray, so you know it will be good. Our confirmands are bringing drinks and deserts, but if you could bring some soda or snacks to help out that would be great. The parents of our confirmands are joining us, too, so it should be an interesting night.

You may be wondering what a Love Feast is. If you are, don't worry, you are not alone. A Love Feast is an old school way of having communion together, and involves food, prayer, testimonies and some scripture reading. Most people haven't been to a Love Feast for a hundred years, so its probably new to most of you. Come join us and see what a great time it is. God moves and you can't beat the food! See you Sunday at 6pm. Food is served at 630 and we should finish before 8pm. Stay and help clean if you can. God bless!

A Death in the Family

This past week one of our confirmands experienced something terrible. Angelo's dad died in a motorcycle accident (the picture to the left is of his father). Its so sad, and a horrible thing for someone to have to go through at such a young age, so please keep Angelo, his mom Dawn and his step-father Jeremy in your prayers. These three have been a part of our church over the past six months and can use the support of the church in this tragic situation. If you have thoughts or ideas on how we might be able to support this family please let me know. Think about what you might want someone to do if you experienced a real tragedy in your own life. If you come up with anything give me a call or text me.

Angelo is going to read Revelation 21 at the funeral today. It says "‘See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away." Know that in tragedy God brings healing.

Angelo's father was a police officer for Harvey Cedars.