INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW HYMN SING Coming soon to a Presbyterian church near you (First Presbyterian Church of Bishop). You are invited to join us for a hymn sing. If you enjoy singing, if you enjoy hymns, if you enjoy fellowship, then this special event is for you. In the sanctuary 15 minutes before wor-ship. Date to be finalized and announced. SHARE YOUR BLESSINGS SUPPER April 28, at 4:00 p.m. in Hillis Hall. You are invited to participate in a variety of ways: Con-tribute food items (usually salad or dessert), serving food, room set-up, clean-up, eating din-ner with our guests. ANNUAL MEETING (part two) Save the date, May 20, for our Annual Meeting (part 2). More details coming soon. The morning will start with a continental breakfast (sponsored by the session) SUMMER CAMP Now is the time to start planning for summer camp. There are camps for 3rd – 5th grades, 6th – 8th grade (middle school camp), 9th – 12th grade (high school camp). Camp dates are July 8 – 14 and July 15 – 21. We are looking for kids to sign-up for camp, adults to go as camp counselors, adults to drive, individuals to contribute camp scholarships. ECO NEWS (A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians) ECO National Gathering, January 28 – 31, 2019 at the First Presbyterian Church Colorado Springs, CO. More details coming this summer. NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER Wednesday, May 2. Starting at noon at the city gazebo, the BMA (Bishop Ministerial Asso-ciation) invites us to participate in the National Day of Prayer. CITY PRAYER We (our church) will join with other Bishop churches to be praying for Bishop on a regular basis. More details coming soon. Kickoff Sunday is May 5 at 6:00 p.m. at Oasis of Grace Church.

BISHOP HIGH SCHOOL BACCALAUREATE – Sunday, June 3

SOBER GRADE NIGHT – Friday, June 8

COMMUNITY SUMMER WORSHIP (sponsored by the BMA)

Sunday, July 22 at 5:00 p.m. at the city park

Sunday, August 19 at 5:00 p.m. at the city park

First Presbyterian Church “A community serving and worshipping Jesus Christ our Lord”

Member: ECO – A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians

Website: http://firstpresbishop.org

Email: firstpresc@gmail.com Phone: (760) 872-2261

April 2018

SUNDAY

MORNINGS

Worship

10:00 a.m.

Sanctuary

Communion

is on the

1st Sunday

Nursery Care (0-3) Mighty Lambs

9:50

Little Lights

Kinder-2nd Gd.

9:50

Son Lights

3rd-6th Gd.

RHP Class

7th-12th Gd.

Sunday School

(1st Sunday

Movie & Popcorn

-Called at

beginning of

service

2nd—5th

Sundays

~10:20 a.m.

-Called to go

from sanctuary

Adult Sunday

School

9:00-9:45

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ADULT SMALL GROUPS First Presbyterian Church

MONDAY NIGHT BIBLE STUDY— - Monday evenings, 6:30 p.m. Johnson Room - For more information contact Jeannie Hutton 1-760-933-

2285 MONDAY NITE LITE BIBLE STUDY— - Monday evenings, 6:00 p.m. Patterson Room - For more info contact Lynette McIntosh 760-873-5634 WEDNESDAY BIBLE STUDY - - Wednesday mornings, 9:30 a.m. Patterson Room - For more information contact Ellen Siegal 760-920-1380 WEDNESDAY SEWING GROUP - - Wednesday mornings, 11:00 a.m. Patterson Room - For more information contact Pat Noles 760-873-4519 PASSION BIBLE STUDY AND LUNCH— - Thursdays at 12:00-1:00 p.m. Hillis Hall - For more information contact Jennifer Montin 760-937-

4249 WOW BIBLE STUDY - - Thursday, 9:00 a.m. Patterson Room - For more information contact Kris Langley 760-872-4546 RECOVERY BIBLE STUDY—Celebrate Recovery Materials - Thursday, 5:00 p.m. Patterson Room - For more information contact Lynette McIntosh at 760-

873-5634 MEN’S BREAKFAST AND BIBLE STUDY - -We meet at 8 a.m. each Saturday in the Patterson Room for Bible Study and fellowship. - For more information contact Peter Thomsen at 760-258- 1189

MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES

In the life of the church, there are many ideas for serving others. Session would like to hear your ideas. Perhaps the Holy Spirit is leading you to help in one of the following ministries: 1. Bishop Care Center: We

usually go on the 4th Monday of each month to visit the

residents and host a sing-along time. 2. Bible Studies: We have many Bible Studies from which to choose. Check the calendar for times and places or call the church office (760) 872-2261. 3. Would you like to help with the Children’s Ministries of Kid’s Club Sunday School, occasional help in the Nursery on Sunday or either of our Youth Group nights? 4. Prepare food for our monthly Share Your Blessings dinner or for the fellowship table?

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WOMENS RETREAT..."BISHOP POINT"...MARCH 2-4, 2018

"GOLIATH MUST FALL"

Our dedicated retreat committee began in September of 2017, praying, seeking God and planning for our annual Zephyr Point Re-treat! Our weekend in March 2-3-4, 2018, came around very quickly just after the holidays were behind us. Plans were complete and 35 women and one brave guy were registered to attend! Our John Wag-oner had agreed to come with wife Betty and bring his guitar and amp! He graciously agreed to join Kelliann as part our worship team!

We were also blessed to have 5 people flying in to the Reno airport from various desti-nations to join us in Tahoe! We had several ladies driving to Zephyr Point from out of the Bishop area too!

SO NOW...READY-SET-GO!! LET’S DRIVE TO TAHOE! AND THEN THE REST IS HISTORY!!!! OUR BIGGEST WINTER STORM OF 2018 DECIDED TO MOVE INTO THE SIERRAS! By Wednesday, February 28, we were forced to make a heartbreaking and difficult decision...CANCEL OUR PLANS TO DRIVE TO ZEPHYR POINT! Over the next 2 days, Highway 395 was closed through Bridgeport due to winter snowfall! The Lake Tahoe basin was covered with almost 3 feet of snowfall, starting on Thurs-day and continued over the next 3 days!

Our Retreat Committee rolled up their sleeves and sprang into action!! In just a mat-ter of hours we emailed everyone to advise them of our cancellation to Tahoe (Most of the airline tickets were able to be cancelled and refunded!). Then, we all began work-ing tirelessly....and we all put together new plans to turn First Presbyterian Church

into "BISHOP POINT CONFERENCE CENTER" We completely transformed the main sanctuary rearranging all tables and chairs and etc. We set up our skit theatre with props and costumes, arranged our worship equipment on the stage, got an awesome weekend meal plan put together (Sonja blessed our dessert table with 6 delicious homemade pies!).

In a matter of just hours we were ready! By 4:30 p.m. Friday afternoon we welcomed our 30 ladies and one guitar guy (John Wagoner!) for an incredible "GOLIATH MUST

FALL" retreat extravaganza!! WITH THE LORDS LEADING AND HIS PLANS ...WE WERE ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER THE MOST AMAZING 2 DAY RETREAT EVENT AT F.P.C....and we never even had to leave Bishop!! WHAT A MIGHTY GOD WE SERVE!! By 9:45 p.m. Saturday evening, our retreat weekend was wrapped up...the sanctuary was cleaned, and vacuumed....all the chairs were put back together and ready for Sunday morning services!! SO MANY THANKS TO SO MANY OF YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HELPING HANDS AND GENEROUS HEARTS...and once again..."WHAT A MIGHTY GOD WE SERVE!" Love, thanks and many blessings to our incredible church family...from the Women's Retreat Committee...Lynette McIntosh, Kris Lang-ley, Marilee Knight, Bonnie Ipsen, Christy Morton, Rebecca Britton, Susan Jensen, Diane Jackson and Liesa Comeau.

P.S....Just a fun note ...John almost wore his guitar out playing on our retreat worship team...he strummed his guitar so hard he actually made sawdust on it!! We were raising the roof worshipping the Lord together!! WHAT AN AMAZING TIME!

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This is the time of the year when the Retreat Committee makes a contract with Zephyr Point Pres-byterian Conference Center for our next retreat. Because of the weather this year and last year the committee made the difficult decision not to go to Zephyr Point any longer. It was becoming more and more difficult for some of our ladies to get there (driving from Bishop and other places) and more and more exhausting as well. So, we made the decision to end our relationship with Zephyr Point and make our own conference center here in Bishop. Below is the reply Lynette McIntosh gave Christie Laremore at the conference center:

From: windowfair6464@yahoo.com Date: March 28, 2018 at 2:27:32 PM PDT To: Conference <conference@ZephyrPoint.org> Subject: Re: Zephyr Point 2019 Dates - FPC Bishop

Christie... It is with great regrets...our Bishop First Presbyterian Woman's Retreat will no longer be coming to Zephyr Point for our annual women's retreat. Our committee has made the decision to no longer make the trip to Zeph-yr for several reasons...we are all getting too old for all of the work it takes to put on our retreat...our husbands included! Our numbers have been slowly declining over the past 5 years. So many of our ladies cannot make the 4 hour drive up to Tahoe for the same reasons. The March snowstorms over the last two years have been another factor in our decision...no one wants to take anymore chances on the crazy weather! We have also discussed changing the dates to another week-end...and that didn't work either. We were able to put on a great women's retreat in Bishop over the snow storm, March 2-3-4 weekend at our church...we called our change of weather location..."BISHOP POINT!" WE ALL HEARD FROM THE LORD THAT OUR FUTURE RETREATS WERE TO BE IN BISHOP! We have had so many amazing Zephyr Point Retreats over the past 20 years...it breaks all of our hearts to let go of our Tahoe weekend...but now is the time. We love you all and will miss the Zephyr family greatly...love and be blessed by the Lord…

Lynette McIntosh and the FPC Women's Retreat Committee

(It is the hope of the Retreat Committee that this will mean a new beginning for our retreats for our Women’s Ministries here at First Presbyterian Bishop. We are already thinking about exciting things we can do here in Bishop and the many possibilities that will be made available to include more women from this area. )

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Session News - March 2018

There will be a brief Congregation Meeting for nomination, voting and confirmation of Lynette McIntosh for the continuing position of Elder at the April 8 Worship Service. To Mexico With Love will be holding a fundraising meal following worship at our church on June 17. This will include an invitation to area churches that support this ministry. Summer Youth camps are coming up with information being put together by the first of April. We continue to rejoice in the ongoing recovery of Pastor Peter. He still will be on antibiotics for a time so please do not forget to keep him prayer. March Financials: Budgeted: $41,890 Received: $36,678

I (Lynette) JUST received this card in the mail to all of us from one of the gals that attended the retreat...her note said .... "I want to thank you and all the ladies that worked so hard to put our retreat together. I was exhausted by the end of Sat. and wanted to head home, but I did not. Was I thankful for staying. I'm excited about the idea of literally dying to self. It is the cherry on top of the sundae! God uses all of you gals to open our hearts and minds to better understand the Word of God!"

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→Don’t forget to check out - rightnow Media Bible studies, children’s entertainment, Christian education, conferences, etc.

Our church has this resource available for all the church.

Here is the website: https://www.rightnowmedia.org

Be looking for an invitation in your email inbox to enroll.

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TO MEXICO WITH LOVE The up-coming trips to Mexico are: April 19-22, 2018 Anyone can come that has a passport and $100 for gas and a bed. More information about the type of trip (working or ministry) will be coming. For more information call: Ron Graves - 1-760-277-1415

Breakfast Feeding Program

School Children and the Elderly of

Valle de Las Palmas B.C.

This is a new ministry that To Mexico With Love is doing and to make it pos-sible we get to participate by donating needed items such as:

Cold cereal Canned fruit

Pancake mix Syrup Raisins

Peanut butter Jelly Cream of Wheat/Instant Oatmeal

Dry or canned milk Napkins

Hot chocolate mix Boxed/canned juice Plastic bowls, plates, cups, spoons & forks

Donations will be picked up after Sunday, April 15

For more information contact Ron Graves at: 1-760-277-1415

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LIBRARY FOR APRIL

New books in the Library that may interest you.

- Where Liacs Still Bloom” - by Jane Kirkpatrick. This novel is based on the

life of Hulda Klager a German immigrant and farm wife. She begins a hobby to

create an easy peel apple for her pies and it becomes a driving force in her life. Conflicts

come with her family and community as she challenges the early twentieth century ex-

pectations for a simple housewife.

A big thank you to all who donate books to the library! There are several new

books in our library, so take a look, there may be something to interest you!!

Enjoy - Anne Sutherland, Librarian

May Anniversaries: Ron & Cheryl Stone May 4

Robin & Matt Fisher May 6

Frank & Amy Stamey May 16

John & Betty Wagoner May 24

May Birthdays David Rowe May 2

Jennifer Beery May 8

Wayne Hutton May 8

Jack Sutherland May 10

Ted Rickford May 11

Laura Whiteside May 11

Peter Thomsen May 12

Danica Garcia May 14

Bodie Garcia May 16

Ridge Ray May 21

Zachariah Downard May 26

Dustin Hebress May 26

Cheryl Stone May 27

Larisa Craig May 28

April Anniversaries: There are no anniversaries this month...

April Birthdays David Cano April 1

Jerry Coleman April 2

Darlene Walkup April 2

Emily Hembree April 4

Christy Morton April 4

Penny Haye April 5

Harriet Stone April 6

Jenny Rowe April 10

Betty Johnson April 12

Greg Drake April 12

Ken Haye April 13

Cheryl Adams April 16

Joy Niewald April 16

Paula Weller April 18

Tyler Hembree April 19

Marilee Knight April 19

Dan Pool April 19

Betty Wagoner April 19

Bonnie Jahn April 25

Nancy Coleman April 26

Heidi Rickford April 29

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The big winner for March is Pat Noles!! She will receive the $20 dollar prize!! The correct conclusion to the Word Search was:

“Hear my prayer O Lord, listen to my cry.” Do the search, turn in your answer to the office or email us, and we will draw a

winner from the correct entries on April 26.

Love, Bonnie Jahn & Marilee Knight

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