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WEBSITE NEWS: Click a topic to find out more |
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Journey of Discovery: Living into God’s Call / PaTH (Practicing and Teaching Hope) In 2005 our church board affirmed our congregation’s participation in a three-year transformation process called Journey of Discovery: Living into God’s call. No “quick fix,” it's a prayerful, scripture-based journey for our congregation to discern together God's call to us in our community. PaTH (Practicing and Teaching Hope) is the working name chosen for our congregation's transformation process. In 2005 we celebrated 100 years. Now we're beginning a new journey; through prayer and study we'll listen as the guiding Spirit of God calls us to faithful discipleship now and in the future. Join us on the PaTH! CLICK TO LEARN MORE MORE ABOUT PaTH |
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PaTH Conversations: We've compiled a draft version of a ministry plan from the action plans our design teams came up with. Now in the review and feedback stage - To read the draft version of this dream coming to life, click here. |
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Volunteer for Fair
Parking now! Parker? Cashier? Flagger? What's your favorite position? This year four shifts can accommodate your needs and wishes. Sign up in the foyer now! The Fair runs from September 10-26. |
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Worship service continues summer schedule!
Join us for
Worship at 10 am throughout summer. |
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Sunday studies are taking a summer break! Join us for Sunday School in Fall when we resume our Sunday morning studies |
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Summer Sermon Series A sermon series Everything You Always Wanted to Hear About in a Sermon (but were afraid to ask) will run through summer. |
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Friends in Fellowship - Singles (male & female 21 & up) are welcome! The newest small group at FCC Puyallup has arrived! Friends in Fellowship, a group of any singles 21 and over are out of the gate and running. Visit the FCC Calendar to see scheduled dates, or contact Laura Vogel or the church office for more information. |
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Lunch with a Friend - Feeding the hungry in our community Every third Saturday of the month from 10 am - noon at Peace Lutheran Church (214 E Pioneer) since the 1990s, members and friends of FCC Puyallup join together for Lunch with a Friend to feed the hungry in our community. Help is always needed and welcomed. If you'd like to help by donating time or supplies, shopping, food prep, clean up, or visiting with guests, please contact the church office. |
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Every first Tuesday of the month at 7 pm, members of our newly formed book club will gather to choose a new book and discuss the current selection. If you would like to join the discussion or find out more, please contact Kerry Yanasak. The latest reading will always be featured on our Amazon page. The Book Club will meet at a variety of locations; light refreshments will be served. Click for the schedule. |
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Back to school ministry a huge success! Asked if there was any interest in supporting an adopt-a-child program through Helping Hand House, the FCC Puyallup congregation responded! Through your generosity, HHH ran out of kids! In very short order we were able to provide school supplies for:
Your generosity is astounding and humbling! |
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Thanks for supplies for hygiene kits for Haiti earthquake
survivors
Thanks to those who donated supplies,
time and financial support toward our earthquake kits for
Haiti survivors; we were able to compile about 61 kits. They will be on their way shortly to
Church World Service and Haiti! |
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Pastor Nancy in the news! Read the Puyallup Herald's June 2009 article on women clergy in Puyallup featuring Pastor Nancy! |
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Do you have ideas
for making our church more energy efficient or
earth-friendly? Mixed Paper Recycling Blue recycle bins have been placed around the church rooms for recycling mixed papers. Please use the bins for all clean paper products that cannot be reused.
Aluminum, Tin, Plastic & Glass recycling During A Week in Mission: Creation Care, a recycle bin enclosure was painted and assembled (made from recycled picket fence sections and three old garbage cans found around the church and not in use). Church-generated recyclable waste may be placed in the bins outside the kitchen door and will be taken home to the recycle bins of volunteers for recycling. Green hospitality program Whenever possible, we use washable, reusable glasses and mugs or paper cups for coffee and tea (instead of earth unfriendly styrofoam or plastic), and wash "real" plates and cutlery to lessen the load on the landfills and Mother Earth. Turn in used ink & toner cartridges and discarded cell phones Bring empty printer ink and toner cartridges to the church office for recycling and fundraising. We also recycle cell phones. Recycle your burned out light bulbs! FCC member Lisa Peterson will transform your old light bulbs of various shapes and sizes into hand painted ornaments! Drop off your used light bulbs outside the church office. More 'Greening' ideas welcomed! Recently several very old dial thermostats were replaced with digital programmable ones. The kitchen dishwasher is utilized more and more frequently (and used exclusively by Freezing Nights). Styrofoam, plastic and paper, cups, plates and utensils have been replaced with 'real' plates, mugs, glasses and cutlery. Efforts are being made to recycle our old fluorescent tubes, and incandescent lights are being replaced with CFL (fluorescent) bulbs. Coffee grounds are being saved and worked into a church member's compost bin. |
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Worship Service CDs now available upon request Contact a member of the sound in worship ministry team or the church office to request a CD of our worship or special services. These can be used for visitations or special remembrances. The cost to cover materials is $1 for each CD. |
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Faith Trek Sunday School kids look at the world through new eyes Watch the Faith Trek Wonder slideshow - photographs of God's wondrous creation taken by Ben, Emma and Breanna. |
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Follow us on Twitter! Drop us a tweet or check ours here:
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Just one
more way of communicating, we have started a Facebook page!
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Opportunities for living as a Servant: ▪ Communion Bread Bakers needed - see Pastor Nancy to help
▪ Feed
the Hungry - take a turn in our
hunger ministry
- spend two hours a month at
Lunch with a Friend ▪ Fellowship Time - serve refreshments to worshipers - contact Joy Clark for info. ▪ Participate in Worship - read, serve, play music or sing in Worship - contact Robin Crabb for info. ▪ Help in Sunday School - Adult or Youth - contact Katie Peterson or Terry Forslund |
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FCC Puyallup Amazon.com store... books and more!
Help us raise funds
through your purchases at Amazon.com.
Simply start your shopping
on
our Amazon.com storefront
page and either click
on a featured
item on the page or type your desired item in
the search box. Book of the Month Club selections are always featured on our Amazon page as well! |
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Church news via e-mail Feeling out of the loop (or just want to be reminded)? Sign up in the foyer to get church news, updates, info, and reminders by e-mail, or click here to: E-mail the webmaster |
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Who Do You Search For? Type 'Yakama' at www.GoodSearch.com and the Yakama Christian Mission at White Swan will get a penny each time you search. |
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Enjoy a cup of justice with Equal Exchange (fair trade) coffee
Equal Exchange's mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers, and to demonstrate, through their success, the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world. |
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Find it! Online Bible search: Enter a keyword or phrase and search the Bible. Click here to try it. |
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Opportunities to share our abundance & gifts (ministering to others) ▪ Every third Saturday of the month from 10 am - noon at Peace Lutheran Church (214 E Pioneer), FCC Puyallup youth and adults join together for Lunch with a Friend to feed the hungry in our community. Everyone is welcome to share the joy of serving others. If you'd like to help by donating time or supplies, contact the church office. ▪ Freezing Nights Click to learn more. There are many ways to serve this outreach ministry. Need overnight volunteers (don't have to stay up all night!). ▪ Help local nursing homes whose budgets don't include game prizes by supplying small gifts such as:
▪ www.VolunteerMatch.org currently has 144 volunteer opportunities listed within 10 miles of the 98371 zip code! Click here to find a match for your interests:
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Part of our commitment to the youth of our congregation includes our Child Abuse Prevention Policy (CAPP). This policy states all church employees and volunteers who work with children and/or youth must complete the training. The training provides information about the unfortunate realities concerning child sexual abuse, and outlines our policies aimed at reducing the risk of such abuse. Read our Child Abuse Protection Policy |
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100 Years of Ministry & Fellowship From October 2004 to October 2005 we commemorated our first century with fellowship, remembrances, tributes, guests, mission projects, and fun! We've taken a look into our future by starting new ministries and revitalizing existing ones. 200 years ago, the seeds of The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) took root, and for 100 years First Christian Church of Puyallup has faithfully sown its service and ministries within our congregation, community, and the global parish. We have much to celebrate! |
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